This past February, I made a pledge: read and write about AI every day. Most mornings I found myself reading articles, exploring blog posts, and jotting down notes, often with AI tools helping me along the way.
Then I came across Bridget Pauli-Hack’s website. I’ve known Bridget through the WordPress community for a while, and watching her document her AI experiments so openly gave me the nudge I needed. It made me think, why keep my own exploration to myself? Someone else might be on the same uncertain path and find it useful.
Around the same time, I started noticing how fast AI tools are appearing inside WordPress. The WordPress.com blog has been publishing helpful tutorials for designers and content creators, and with WordPress 7.0 on the horizon, it feels like we’re standing at a real turning point. The timing was too good to ignore.
So I’ve decided to dedicate the rest of 2026 to exploring AI in WordPress, from generating content ideas to improving design workflows. It reminds me of when I first dove into JavaScript, React, Gatsby, and block themes. That same feeling of being a beginner again, curious and a little overwhelmed, but knowing something important is happening.
Learning AI feels essential now. Not because of hype, but because staying curious and relevant in a fast-moving field requires it. If we wait to explore it, we’ll spend years catching up later.
This post is the beginning of that journey. I’m not here to master everything. I just want to experiment, stay curious, and document honestly what I find. Consider this my learning log, open to anyone who wants to follow along.