Writing about AI-generated WordPress plugins
Deep-dives, benchmarks and honest post-mortems from building WordPress and WooCommerce plugins with AI coding agents. One article per topic, no fluff.
How I built a WordPress plugin in 2 minutes with AI (and what it got wrong)
A live test of generating a real WooCommerce plugin using an AI coding agent in under two minutes, the good, the bad, and the parts I still had to fix by hand.
WooCommerce custom shortcode: hand-coded vs AI-generated comparison
Line-by-line comparison of a custom WooCommerce product grid shortcode written by hand versus generated by an AI agent. Performance, security, readability benchmarked.
5 plugins that would have saved me 40 hours this year (we generated them all with AI)
Five small-but-painful WordPress problems I kept solving the slow way. Each one is now a generated plugin I reuse across sites. Here is what they do and what they cost to make.
Claude Opus vs GPT-4 for writing WordPress plugins: full test
Head-to-head test: I asked Claude Opus and GPT-4 to build the same three WordPress plugins. Winner announced on code quality, security defaults, and WP standards compliance.