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#1 2026-05-21 09:45:47

gaekwad
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From: People's Republic of Cornwall
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Wordpress 7.0 'Armstrong': AI baked in

wordpress.org/news/2026/05/armstrong/

WordPress 7.0 marks the start of a new era, laying the foundation for AI across the WordPress experience.

I’m pleased there are options for folk who lean into AI slop, and I’m even more pleased that Textpattern isn’t one of those options.

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#2 2026-05-21 15:28:08

bici
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Re: Wordpress 7.0 'Armstrong': AI baked in

gaekwad wrote #343275:

wordpress.org/news/2026/05/armstrong/

I’m pleased there are options for folk who lean into AI slop, and I’m even more pleased that Textpattern isn’t one of those options.

Wordpress “Armstrong”. AI on EPO.
Just Say No.


…. texted postive

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#3 2026-05-21 16:23:08

Bloke
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From: Leeds, UK
Registered: 2006-01-29
Posts: 12,584
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Re: Wordpress 7.0 'Armstrong': AI baked in

*shivers*

I had a client ask me if AI was going be integrated into Txp core. I said no.

Plugins, sure, be my guest. If people want a tool that will yomp through your images and add alt tags based on what it thinks the content of the image is, that potentially adds value. Even if it’s not 100% right, it’s a step up from nothing.

Or if they want something that will automatically summarize content to add SEO meta descriptions to articles, well, why not. The results will be sloppish and the same as everyone else in the industry (because that’s where it stole all the data to train the LLM from) but if your site has nothing or very little metadata, it’s a starting point.

However, rather than develop a plugin, you might as well just create a Txp account for ClaudeAI and tell it to iterate your articles, read the content (stripping out textile and/or html), summarize it in under 255 chars and update the article’s metadata field. Then pray it doesn’t delete everything, apologize, and disavow any wrongdoing.

Back to WordPress, this is a pretty good pre-AI summary of where things went wrong.

I have the unfortunate situation where I’ve inherited some WP sites. The inside of my head dies a little more every time I log in and try to get anything done. I’m not looking forward to when 7.0 is forced upon me.


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