Category: Software reviews

We put the same three hard questions to six hosting AI assistants. Asked to name a better rival with no list, not one would, and one assistant just quit the chat.

Extendify launched Code, a white-label agentic AI app builder hosts can resell via WHMCS, turning vibe coding into a shelf product for the hosting industry.

WooCommerce 10.9 ships seven agent-callable abilities into core via MCP; what was a roadmap in May is now in the installed base.

WordPress 7.0 ships today. PHP 7.4 is now the minimum. AI integration lands in core. Real-time collaboration was pulled from the build on May 8.

AdminBolt is currently the only self-hosted control panel to ship a working in-panel AI assistant, with WhatsApp as a mobile extension.

Extendify's Launch AI builds a finished WordPress site before the customer's first login. AutoLaunch delivers it via the hosting provider's own signup flow. Version 3.0 reduces creation to a single prompt.

Automattic launched Studio Code in public beta, a CLI agent built on Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.6 that builds, configures, and publishes WordPress sites from natural language commands, running on top of MCP write capabilities launched in March 2026.

Cloudflare released EmDash on April 1, a real open-source CMS built on Workers, D1, and Astro that sandboxes plugins in isolated v8 Workers, directly targeting the plugin security model that underlies most WordPress vulnerabilities.

WordPress.org launched my.WordPress.net - a fully functional WordPress instance running entirely in the browser via WebAssembly. No server, no signup, no cost. It includes a built-in AI assistant and positions WordPress as a zero-friction personal workspace.

WordPress 7.0 introduces AI Connectors - a centralized system for connecting plugins to OpenAI, Gemini, and Claude - alongside real-time collaborative editing and an admin redesign. The release ships infrastructure, not features: AI capabilities come via plugins, not core.