WordPress 7.0 Ships a Built-In AI Client — Here's How We're Already Using It
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WordPress 7.0 drops on April 9, 2026, and for the first time ever, WordPress Core ships with a built-in AI Client. Not a plugin. Not a SaaS bolt-on. A provider-agnostic PHP API baked into Core that lets any plugin talk to any AI model through one unified interface. We've been building PressArk — an AI co-pilot that lives inside your wp-admin dashboard — for the past year. When we saw the WordPress 7.0 AI Client proposal land, we immediately started thinking about what it means for plugins like