WordPress Launches AI Site Builder Amid Company Restructuring (theverge.com)
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- News link: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/04/09/1834225/wordpress-launches-ai-site-builder-amid-company-restructuring
- Source link: https://www.theverge.com/news/645993/wordpress-com-is-offering-a-new-ai-site-builder
While WordPress.com claims the builder creates "beautiful, functional websites in minutes," it currently cannot handle ecommerce sites or complex integrations. Users need a WordPress.com account for the free trial, but publishing requires a hosting plan starting at $18 monthly (less with annual subscriptions). The builder only works with new WordPress instances, not existing sites.
This launch comes as parent company Automattic recently cut 16% of its workforce and faces a lawsuit from hosting company WP Engine, which offers competing site-building tools.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/645993/wordpress-com-is-offering-a-new-ai-site-builder
Means two things (Score:2)
The Man with too many Ts is coming to terms with the fact that his legal mugging play is not going well.
Also, he realized he missed the boat on a crypto miner
The software scam space is tough, and he's used to being a big name in a small, more honest market. He's going to have to up his game to play in AI land and whatever comes next after mechanized glossolalia stops selling new hardware.
Wordpress is terrible, let's add AI to it. (Score:4, Insightful)
I'm guessing this is template manipulation based on prompt input? Wordpress itself is kinda a mess, I can't think adding AI to that is gonna help at all. More power to all the marketing execs obsessed with this colossal stain on the web though. It'll help them build shinnies by skipping their IT staff altogether. Which'll be fun to sort out when they come to IT to sort out the disaster later.
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WordPress isn't just "kinda a mess", it is a 20 year old master class in poor application design and writing terrible PHP.
It is only a matter of time before their "AI" forgets to enable all the security plugins make WP sites seem secure for more than 45 minutes.
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Wordpress is the premier platform for SEO spam and affiliate marketing (which also needs SEO spam). That's why virtually 100% of the plugins are marketing-related these days, rather than neat tools to make your blog more useful to use as a blogger who just wants to share their thoughts with the world. SEO spam is actually where generative AI saw its first major success. Wordpress the company is actually late to the game on this, like literally muliptle years late. They're almost certainly going to nuke the
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> Wordpress is the premier platform for SEO spam and affiliate marketing (which also needs SEO spam). That's why virtually 100% of the plugins are marketing-related these days, rather than neat tools to make your blog more useful to use as a blogger who just wants to share their thoughts with the world. SEO spam is actually where generative AI saw its first major success. Wordpress the company is actually late to the game on this, like literally muliptle years late. They're almost certainly going to nuke the plugin marketplace to make this work.
SEO is disgusting as it is currently used, and Wordpress does everything it can to make it more disgusting. SEO is where information goes to die, but buried, then glossed over with massive piles of words that mean absolutely nothing. Come to think of it, so is Wordpress.
Let me see (Score:2)
Disclaimer: It's not a major part of my job, but I do manage a couple web servers that run Wordpress.
So let me get this straight... the developer of a software platform with a history of significant security flaws is using "AI" - which itself is widely seen as producing buggy, exploitable code - to create an automated website builder?
Nah, I can't see any way this could go south.
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AI isn't really defined here, so there could be no code involved. Indeed, there could be no LLM involved either. But chances are it's just basically something that you give user friendly prompts to and it outputs some CSS and an initial page structure given Wordpress.com is primarily about building blogs or other types of website that's mostly static pages.
The web is cooked (Score:2)
We're at the end free services. Malicious consumption of any free resource is now assumed, with automated actors everywhere. Wordpress replaced building sites by hand, now WP will be replaced by AI tools. They better go there or be washed away in the current wave of generated garbage. The dead internet is here, last year. Automated traffic has overtaken meatbag traffic.
Get a freakin hobby, I recommend learning guitar, it's easy to learn, is good for your brain and emotional life, and can be awesome in the h
Garbage Platform (Score:2)
Stop using shitty WordPress. It's shit for a CMS. It's shit for blogs. It's shit for SEO. It basically has zero redeeming features. No one is forcing you to keep using it.
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> Stop using shitty WordPress. It's shit for a CMS. It's shit for blogs. It's shit for SEO. It basically has zero redeeming features. No one is forcing you to keep using it.
It has one redeeming characteristic, in that when all you need is something simple, it can just work.
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> It has one redeeming characteristic, in that when all you need is something simple, it can just work.
The same as most other major CMS/blog software. Wordpress is not unique in this aspect.
Do not use Wordpress.
Actually need an e-commerce site .... (Score:2)
I've been looking at my options for a while now, because all I really want is something basic to showcase my 3D printed items and asking prices for them. The fact this AI can't even handle e-commerce sites makes it a total non-starter for me, even putting security concerns and the rest of it aside.
The unfortunate thing I've seen with doing an e-commerce site is, most places assume you actually make decent money with one so they expect to get their cut by way of monthly fees and "unlocking" features at extra
Shitty company has shitty AI (Score:2)
Please clap.