# First look: How agents manage WordPress

Channel: The Next New Thing
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4k67VOKaEU
Duration: 16 min
Language: English
Words: 3438
Transcript page: https://viewrankai.com/tools/youtube-transcript/U4k67VOKaEU

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[0:00] WordPress sucks for AI, but today that changes. You see, WordPress should actually be perfect for agents, right? I mean, it's open source, so your agent knows exactly how it works. There are loads of plugins built for it, so you don't have to build and maintain every aspect of what you create, and it runs 40% of websites, so the world has an interest in maintaining it. But, [music] until recently, you couldn't have Claude, Codex, Grok, and others maintain your WordPress site. It changes now. WP Vibe makes WordPress an agent-first experience. I have the founder here to show you how it works. Let's get into it. Presented by Zapier, the AI

[0:35] automation company. John, what am I looking at here? All right. So, first of all, you're looking at a website that's been completely built with wpvibe.ai and WordPress. So, this is it right here, and as you can see here, we've got a static background image. Let's do something cool. Let's make this a video background. So, I'm going to show you how easy it is. Hey Claude, can you make the background image on the header a

[0:57] video background? Show me what you got. All right, here it is. You can see a nice slow drone footage, it appears, and it's pulling out. It looks really cool, I think. I do, too. So, this was one prompt. Amazing. I love that you're even doing it in the in the browser version of Claude. Why aren't you doing it in

[1:19] terminal? Yeah, so I found that most people actually prefer the browser version. It's just more comfortable to them, and it's not as techy as the terminal. A terminal can sometimes feel really intimidating, and the browser is just super simple, easy to use. Let's see how to add it into the terminal, to the browser, to any experience, and then I want to see a landing page, because landing pages are

[1:38] what bring me business. All right, very cool. So, the first thing you'll do is you'll just go to uh both ChatGPT and Claude have directories, and we're in their official directories. You simply type WP Vibe, search it, and there's a connect button there. You can click connect, it'll take you to our website, you sign up for an account, which is absolutely free, and then you connect your website. It's all AI walks you through the entire process. It's simply a one-click process. So, it's

[2:06] super easy to do and anybody can do it. Hermes, etc. that don't have you in the directory? How do I add it? Yeah, so absolutely. You just go to wpvibe.ai and we have docs there where you can go in and it'll give you our MCP URL and you just tell Grockbot it actually So, I tried this the other day there. I said, "Hey, can you actually set this up for me?" And I just gave it this URL right here with

[2:31] That's what I would do. Yep. And and it sets it up. That's Okay, I want to see a landing page. Let's create something from scratch. All right, very cool here. So, let's go back to our chat window here say All right, so let's create a test landing page here. So, um maybe like a winter escape landing page. Uh let's go

[2:48] ahead and create that and surprise me. Really make it awesome and show me what you got, Claude. All right, so we're going to do that and um I'm also going to tell it to give me the URL afterwards. So, again, depending on the model you use, it'll have different behavior, but I'll tell it to give me the URL. And go ahead and give

[3:04] me the URL so we can check it out. All right, so what we're doing here is we're building a winter escape uh landing page and I didn't give it much detail. So, what's going to happen here is it's going to kind of fill in the gaps with the detail and that's one thing you need to understand when working with AI. Again, the less details you give it, the more it'll kind of improvise. So, we'll see what it comes up with here, but if we want to tweak it in the fir uh if we want to tweak it as and iterate on

[3:31] it, we can as we move forward here. All right, looks like the landing page is done. All right, so let's go ahead and open this up and let's see what it looks like here. All right, so I'm going to drag it over here and boom, here it is. And I think this is pretty cool. Trade the frost for the Caribbean. Claim

[3:48] your winter escape. Uh-huh. What's wrong? I don't know. I was I was I was dragging there while you were reading it. Go ahead. No, you're good. You're good. I see it. Okay. I got the I like that it has the fourth night free March through January. Um I like the little counter on the bottom. Okay, you know what I might tell it to do? I might tell it to have a countdown. Oh, it looks like there's

[4:08] some spaces that are empty. Yeah. Yeah, I'll have to look and see let's let's refresh here and see what it Okay. This what what's coming to me is let's have a countdown to create some kind of urgency. And then the second thing I would do is I would say um get rid of everything else. I don't need the navigation on top with the guest guide to loom etc. I don't need even Did it put anything below that fourth night

[4:32] free January March? No. So, what you can do is just iterate with it. So, what have happened here is it might have not closed a tag. So, the thing when you're using AI it can make mistakes here. So, let's go ahead and do that. So, we want to do that. a screenshot, give it to it and say it looks like there's nothing underneath the No, it it's got a screenshot tool built into it. So, our WP Vibe can take its

[4:53] own screenshots. Oh, all right. So, let's go ahead and say um all right, this is cool, but there's nothing below the the moving the marquee banner. So, go ahead and remove the header so it's a true landing page. Let's set up a countdown here and just let's just countdown to Christmas this year. And then uh check below the marquee and see

[5:13] why all that's in why why that is empty. All right, cuz it's it actually says here added some stuff. So, we'll see what happens here. So, we'll let this iterate and go go with it and see what what what it comes up with. Okay, it's there. It's done. Let's take a look. What did it do? All right, so it removed the header, and then we've just got the landing page, and we've got a countdown here, and then

[5:37] we do have the rest of the landing page. Show me this. Show me this. Show me this. Yeah. even ask it to do [laughter] that. So, that's pretty cool there. Talk about some good marketing, all right? sucker for these for these sliders. I don't know what it is about that. Uh-huh. So, it did all this on its own and literally um I think it it cooked for a couple minutes here. So, we've got a landing page ready. Now, uh maybe we can add exit pop-up to catch people. What do you

[6:04] think? Yes, because those used to be very expensive, but very effective. There are whole agencies built around just creating exit pop-ups. Yes. All right, let's try that and see how it works here. Okay, so yep, this looks great. Let's add an exit pop-up. Maybe if they're exiting, offer them like a 10% coupon. All right, let's see what happens. All right, here we go. All right, so we're going to go ahead and refresh here and

[6:26] see what it looks like. And I'll have to There it is, right there. If you move your mouse up like you're going into the address bar and it immediately pops up and it says, "Hey, you get a 10% off." I like it. It even built in the copy code for me, which is pretty cool. So. Is there anything that you do with Zapier or anything that would make this

[6:44] a better experience with Zapier? We could We could do a custom automation. Yeah, it can use custom code to interact with Zapier if we want to tell it to do that. What would it do? Like, what's an example of something it might do? So, for example, our um our pop-up that we did, if we wanted to do a a lead magnet pop-up, we could create one and then just tell it to post use Zapier

[7:05] webhooks to post to Mailchimp. Oh, all right. I love that idea a lot. Okay, if you're into Zapier, we'll have a link to Zapier below. So far, everything that I'm expecting is here. It's working. I'm a little hesitant about going into a membership site, but you've got a membership plugin. Yes. see people who are using um Substack and other tools to create memberships saying, you know, maybe I want WordPress so I own the whole thing myself and I get to create and and I get to build on other people's plugins. What

[7:34] can we show about membership here? Sure, so let's go ahead and do that. So, I'm just going to I've never ran a membership site. So, let's go here. Hey Claude, um so let's pretend like I'm uh setting up a membership site here and I'm showing other people how to run an Airbnb. Uh I think I have a membership plugin installed. If not, install one,

[7:53] activate it, and create me a course. Maybe show me the outline first and go ahead and create it as well. All right, so let's see what it comes up with here and I'm going to tell it to make it a little bit short so we're not sitting here all day. And uh it doesn't have to be super long. We're all live demos, so make it long enough to where I

[8:12] can just show off this feature.

[8:20] All right, let's go here and we can watch it and see what it's doing. Now, it says yes, you do have MemberPress. Great, with the courses add-on. And uh LifterLMS installed. Okay, fantastic. It worked. So, this is it and it is a generic-looking page. You'd have to tell it to make it look a lot nicer, but all right. This is the course information um and it's got module one, one of two free modules, two pricing and booking, module three, five-star guest experience. And it's guessing what the content is. I would have to I would have to give it actual content, but it's guessing. Yeah, so what you definitely want to do is

[9:02] create an outline first, but I had told it I didn't know how to build a course, so it created the best one it could for me here, which is pretty cool. were to try to go access these pages without the membership, what would they see? Hopefully, they'll see uh it blocked off. Let's go up here. Uh so, we've got the course page here, so let's open this and see what it looks like. And I'm logged in, so I'd have to open this in a

[9:26] incognito window. yeah, open incognito. Let's see what it looks like. So, here it is here. And um Oh, I like the modules on the bottom. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, so um and then we've got the free lesson here and then the membership page. So, this might be the page we need to open in an incognito window. So, let

[9:44] me pull this over. Um, actually, it's set up here. It's It's asking me to join for free. So, this is what people would actually see here. So, they click the join for free. And then, you know, we see this, um, So, here's the enrollment here. Mhm. And just like this, like this on this page, you're like, "Hey, I see a comment on this page." We can tell it, "Hey, I see the comment on the page. Let's remove it." And it'll instantly remove

[10:10] it. So, pretty cool there. Hey, can you go ahead and remove the comment on this page? Everything else looks great.

[10:21] All right. So, it should do it there. All right. So, that's how simple it is to build a course. We have a course now and we can go ahead and start selling this to uh people who visit here. I have a few questions. The first question is, why WordPress? I thought WordPress is basically dead. I could just vibe code my own thing using Lovable, which gives you some infrastructure, or just go straight into cloud code and say, "I have a Cloudflare

[10:43] account. Start building for me in it." Why do I need WordPress? Yeah, so, WordPress runs on over 40% of the websites on the internet and it is not going where anywhere anytime soon. So, we wanted to give people a first-class experience with agents, WordPress, and AI. And WP Vibe is that tool that ties everything together here. And uh I talk to people every day who have built websites that have

[11:08] Yeah. And they're like, "WordPress is now fun again. I was able to create a website in just a couple hours. I was able to edit my website. I was able to do a full SEO audit on my website." We wanted to make it easy and simple for people to use WordPress. And when you're using AI, you

[11:24] don't even know you're using WordPress. So, it's why you know Here's one benefit of actually using WordPress. First of all, if I have it, which I do, I have a website that's going to be too much of a pain to move off of WordPress, fine. Now I have a better way to do it. The other thing that I can think of is there are so many little plugins for WordPress that have been developed, vetted, used over the years, and still used that if I wanted to recreate all of them with my own Vibe Coder version, I would just be wasting time. The best example I have of that is membership,

[11:51] and with membership, there's so much that goes into it, and I don't want to screw it up, especially if it's paid, that I like resting on the infrastructure of WordPress, which is open source. I'm not having to pay for it or anything, and being able to say, "Okay, take this plugin, use it, and can I actually have WordPress go find a plugin, plug it in, create it for me,

[12:08] and then build on top of it?" Yeah, absolutely. So, we support every plugin out there, and not only that, we support custom code. So, if you want to customize something that's not inside WordPress, we use a plugin called WP Code, and it creates custom code snippets for you that you can enable and disable on the fly. It's safe. It has error checking. It won't crash your site, and it does it all magically through Claude and WP Vibe here. So, anything you want to tweak, you can

[12:39] tweak, no problem. Okay, the other thing that I love about creating from scratch is Claude can look at my analytics and then adjust. So, for example, if Claude creates a landing page for for me without WordPress, it could then connect into my analytics package and say, "You know what? People are not acting on this page the way they should. I think I could tweak it. I think I could AB test it, and I'll rebuild the landing page and do it that

[13:00] way." Can this do it, too? Can it connect to Claude and make those adjustments? So, what it It does not have access to your analytics by default. We're actually looking in to adding that in, Google Analytics, Google Search Console. What you can do is add an MCP for those. So, what it would do is Claude would use the the Google Analytics MCP or Google Search Console MCP, look up that information, then use the WP Vibe MCP to

[13:28] make the changes on your website. But we are looking at that in. Yeah. I don't even want you to add it in. I would much rather have my own Honestly, it's great that you do, but I want my own agent to be able to manage it and interact. I want an agent that's smart enough to go and get the analytics and work on that and then can pass on to the builder agent um and say, "Now go make the change to the landing page." And you're saying I could do that because it's two different MCPs working together. Okay, one last question. What if I don't like you anymore? What if a

[13:55] year from now, a month from now, I decide I don't like you? All this stuff is changed on my site. Do I have to keep paying you because now you're part of my infrastructure? Absolutely not. So, everything we do on your site is not relying on us. So, essentially, we are the hands, your agent is the brains, and your website is the house. So, imagine that they're just working on a house. Once your house is built, it's built. It doesn't matter if your contract is poof, gone away. So,

[14:21] that's essentially the role we play. That kind of sucks for you as the SaaS maker because what I could do is I could say I need to get started quickly. I want a better home page. I want a better landing page. I want a better membership experience. It does it. I work with it for a month, maybe two to make sure everything's good, and then I cancel my

[14:35] subscription. Yeah, and that that may be. But, there's a lot of people out there that cancel and they come back to us because they see how easy it is, because it's not just building a website one and done. You know, people are are modifying their website. They're uh doing SEO ads on their website. They're creating blog posts. It's a living artifact. So, they're constantly using AI to do the maintenance on the website as well. So,

[15:01] it's not a one-done type of thing. All right. Uh we're going to have a link below to anyone who wants to sign up. Will you give them some kind of a discount even though you're not a sponsor or anything? Yeah, absolutely. So, if you want to sign up, we'll give you 15% off for a year to any of our plans here. And again, I think you don't even have Try it for free is

[15:21] the thing. You just try it for free. with a free membership? Absolutely, yes. You can do We don't block any features. The way we basically price it is if you get value out of it, the more you use it, we start to to to charge for it. So, we give basically 100 tool calls free a day and we have people that build entire websites for this. In fact, this website was uh built by a guy that called me today. He's in South Africa and he said, "Hey, I just want to thank you for building this tool." I asked ChatGPT how to build a website. It recommended your tool. I built this

[15:56] website in 2 hours and I had a newborn in my left hand when I built this website. And I love hearing stories like this cuz he's creating websites and he's create you know, he's selling this stuff here, which is just People didn't have this access, you know, even a year ago to do this kind of

[16:12] stuff. So, it's really, really cool. All right, we'll have a link below to it and if you like this video, I've got another one that I think you're going to love right here up on the screen. See you in that one.

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