The experimental WordPress AI development tool, Telexit has already been put into real use, just months after its debut in September. In the company’s annual report “State of the Wordevent on Tuesday in San Francisco, WordPress Project co-founder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg shared several examples where Telex had been used in a working WordPress store to do things like create price comparisons, price calculators and pull real-time hours of operation and a map link to a retail store, among examples.
Telex, which Mullenweg previously described as “v0 or Lovable, but specifically for WordPress,” is essentially the publishing platform’s attempt to create its own vibe coding tool for the age of artificial intelligence. The software allows developers to create Gutenberg blocks—the modular pieces of text, images, columns, and more—that make up a WordPress site.
While the software is still classified as an experiment, Mullenweg was able to show off several real-world examples created by community creator Nick Hamze.
In the first example, Mullenweg showed a price comparison tool built with Telex, noting that these kinds of rich, interactive web components used to be something a developer had to create, but now could be created in seconds.
In another demo, a developer used Telex to add real-time store hours, a phone number, and a link to get directions to the header block of his WordPress site.
Telex was also used to create a carousel of partner logos on a business website, a custom pricing tool, a Google Calendar integration, and a grid for posts on a WordPress homepage where each post’s card on the site was the same height.
“Again, things that you had to hire developers to do, custom software like this would have cost thousands, tens of thousands of dollars to build, even just a few years ago. Now we can do it in a browser for pennies,” Mullenweg said. “It’s kind of crazy.”
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Another developer, Tammie Lister, used Telex to create a new Gutenberg block every day in Octobercreating things like a playable, ASCII version of Tetris and a trick-or-treat blocks for Halloween.
The Telex demos were discussed alongside other AI-focused initiatives in WordPress, including architectural developments such as the Abilities API and the MCP adapter. The first defines what WordPress can do in a way that AI systems can interpret, the company he explainedwhile the latter exposes these capabilities so that any MCP-compatible tool can understand and use them.
“This adapter pattern means WordPress can participate in AI workflows without duplicating logic or building separate integrations for each AI platform,” Mullenweg told event attendees. “So you can now connect a WordPress installation with popular tools like Claude, Copilot and many other platforms that support MCP.”
Additionally, he noted that developers are already using AI in their daily workflows through tools like Cursor, Claude Code, and other next-generation CLIs. That, Mullenweg said, “means you can refactor projects, search codebases, automate tasks, [and] run scripts with WP CLI along with AI agent.”
Mullenweg said that, in 2026, WordPress will introduce some benchmarks and evaluations that AI models can use to test WordPress tasks, such as changing plugins, editing text, or even manipulating the WordPress interface using browser agents.
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