WordPress 7.0 quietly shipped three AI APIs that nobody outside the core community seems to be talking about. Here's a practical walkthrough of what's possible.
Why bother when ChatGPT exists?
ChatGPT is great. OpenClaw is slick. But neither of them is your infrastructure.
When an assistant runs on someone else's platform, the data flows through their servers, the pricing changes on their schedule, and the ToS updates on their lawyers' timeline. For personal tools, client projects, or anything touching sensitive workflows, that's a real constraint — not just philosophical FOSS posturing.
WordPress 7.0 changed the calculus. The new AI-native APIs make it genuinely practical to run production-grade conversational agents on a server you already own and pay for. The two open-source plugins covered here glue it all together.
