WordPress and AI: five questions. On Sunday 22 November, 17 of the 24 sessions at WordCamp Bengaluru are about WordPress and AI, in two halls running side by side. This post sorts them under five questions, with one thing to try before Sunday for each, and the two clashes worth deciding early.
01 How does an agent work inside WordPress?
02 Can you trust what AI writes, and what it does?
03 What will it cost, and what will it earn?
04 Is it paying off for teams like yours?
05 Will people still find your content?
General Admission is ₹800 for both days, lunch included.
Sunday 22 NovSJBHS, Museum Road
17 of 24 sessions.
This year’s theme is WordPress and AI, and on Sunday 22 November it takes most of the day.
From 10:00, Xavier Hall and Concert Hall run side by side, and in five slots both have an AI session at once. So start from your question. Here are five that developers, freelancers and agency teams keep asking, the sessions that take each one on, and one thing to try before Sunday.
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01How does an agent work inside WordPress?10:00 X · 11:30 C02Can you trust what AI writes, and what it does?10:30 X · 13:00 C · 14:30 X · 15:30 X03What will it cost, and what will it earn?09:15 X · 15:00 C · 15:15 C04Is it paying off for teams like yours?10:15 C · 10:45 C · 11:30 X05Will people still find your content?12:30 C · 12:45 C · 14:30 C · 15:30 C · 15:45 C
XXavier HallCConcert Hall
The day
Every Sunday session, coloured by its question.
Xavier Halltalks, both panelsConcert Halllightning talks, the workshop
09:1510:0010:3011:0011:3012:0012:3013:0013:1514:3015:0015:3016:00Room changeCoffeeGroup photo, then lunch03Tokens to Dollars09:1509:15 to 09:45 · Xavier Hall · Talk, 30 minTokens to Dollars: Building Tools that AutoSell
Gulshan Iyer01How an AI agent works10:0010:00 to 10:30 · Xavier Hall · Talk, 30 minHow an AI agent works in WordPress
Anurag Bhandari·WordPress Has Entered the Chat10:0010:00 to 10:15 · Concert Hall · Lightning, 15 minWordPress Has Entered the Chat
Karthik Srinivasan04Beyond Traditional WordPress10:1510:15 to 10:30 · Concert Hall · Lightning, 15 minBeyond Traditional WordPress: Building for the Modern Web in the Age of AI
Raghunath J02Beyond the Boilerplate10:3010:30 to 11:00 · Xavier Hall · Talk, 30 minBeyond the Boilerplate: Building High-Quality WordPress Plugins with AI
Nirbhay Singh Rao·Structural Churn10:3010:30 to 10:45 · Concert Hall · Lightning, 15 minThe Structural Churn and The Walkaway
Raja Mohammed04From Code to Boardroom10:4510:45 to 11:00 · Concert Hall · Lightning, 15 minFrom Code to Boardroom: The Real Business Impact of AI in WordPress Teams
Kakshak Kalaria04Operationalising AI11:3011:30 to 12:00 · Xavier Hall · Talk, 30 minOperationalising AI after the easy gains
Joel Abreo01WordPress and MCP11:3011:30 to 12:30 · Concert Hall · Workshop, 60 minConnecting WordPress and MCP
Deepak Gupta, Sourabh Matolia, Nagesh Pai·Same Work, Different Response12:0012:00 to 12:30 · Xavier Hall · Talk, 30 minSame Work, Same Quality, Different Response
Ajay M Aravind·What Clients Pay For12:3012:30 to 13:15 · Xavier Hall · Panel, 45 minWhat Clients Actually Pay For Now
Farhana Parveen, Sahithya B A, Anupma Singh, Smriti Mishra05Editorial to AI Discovery12:3012:30 to 12:45 · Concert Hall · Lightning, 15 minFrom Editorial Workflow to AI Discovery: Making WordPress Content Machine-Readable and Findable
Preetika Thakur05Blog to Short Videos12:4512:45 to 13:00 · Concert Hall · Lightning, 15 minAI Agents to Turn Your WordPress Blog into Short Videos
Sudip Bhattacharya02Making AI Reliable13:0013:00 to 13:15 · Concert Hall · Lightning, 15 minMaking AI Reliable for Editorial Workflows
Rishit Gupta02I Gave AI My WordPress14:3014:30 to 15:00 · Xavier Hall · Talk, 30 minI Gave AI My WordPress
Anindo Neel Dutta05Beyond Rankings14:3014:30 to 14:45 · Concert Hall · Lightning, 15 minBeyond Rankings: Making WordPress Content Discoverable in the AI Search Era
Abheesh Dokras·GST Myth14:4514:45 to 15:00 · Concert Hall · Lightning, 15 minGST MythPrahlad Kulkarni·Webflow to WordPress15:0015:00 to 15:30 · Xavier Hall · Talk, 30 minBuilding the Plane While Flying It: a zero downtime Webflow to WordPress migration
Amit Singh0324/7 Agents, Affordable15:0015:00 to 15:15 · Concert Hall · Lightning, 15 minOur secret sauce for keeping 24/7 AI agents affordable
Souptik Datta03Conversation to Conversion15:1515:15 to 15:30 · Concert Hall · Lightning, 15 minFrom Conversation to Conversion: Building Execution-First AI for B2B
Ravi Chillara02Agents in Production15:3015:30 to 16:15 · Xavier Hall · Panel, 45 minAgents in Production
Dhanendran Rajagopal, Animesh Dutta, Vedanshu Jain, Vikas Singhal05Can a Chatbot Help?15:3015:30 to 15:45 · Concert Hall · Lightning, 15 minYour Website Has Answers. Can a Chatbot Help People Find Them?
Abhay Kulkarni05AI as a Contributor15:4515:45 to 16:00 · Concert Hall · Lightning, 15 minAI as a Contributor: Et tu, Brute?
Dr Rahul D Arora·Regional Content16:0016:00 to 16:15 · Concert Hall · Lightning, 15 minRegional Content Is the New Global Content
Subhasis Chatterjee16:15 · Coffee, then quiz, raffle, close
Five questions
And the sessions that take each one on.
01
How does an agent work inside WordPress?
WordPress has been building the parts. Since 6.9, plugins can describe what they do through the Abilities API, so other software can find those actions and call them. WordPress 7.0 arrived in May with an AI client in core and a Connectors screen for linking AI providers.
What’s harder to find is a clear picture of how those parts fit together, and that is what these two sessions draw.
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If one of your sites runs 7.0, open Settings → Connectors and see what’s already there.
Xavier HallTalk, 30 minStar this session: How an AI agent works in WordPress
How an AI agent works in WordPress
An agent is a goal, a set of tools and a loop, and the tools are often REST routes and hooks you already wrote. The live demo turns a six-screen WooCommerce refund into one typed sentence. You don’t need an AI background.
Anurag Bhandari
Concert HallWorkshop, 60 minStar this session: Connecting WordPress and MCP
Connecting WordPress and MCP
The day’s only hands-on hour. Connect a WordPress site to an AI assistant over MCP, the open standard many AI tools use to reach other software. Give it plain-English jobs, like reading a setting or publishing a post, then switch one ability off and watch it refuse. You leave with a short checklist for your own or a client’s site.
Deepak Gupta, Sourabh Matolia, Nagesh Pai
02
Can you trust what AI writes, and what it does?
AI can write a working plugin in seconds, but working is not the same as safe. In Veracode’s 2025 test of more than 100 AI models, the code had a security flaw in 45% of the tasks, and failed to guard against cross-site scripting 86% of the time. In WordPress terms that usually means missing escaping and sanitizing.
With agents the stakes go up: once one can act on a live site, you have to decide which steps it takes alone and which wait for a person.
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Ask your usual AI tool for a small plugin with a settings form. Look for nonces, sanitizing and escaping, and bring what you find.
Xavier HallTalk, 30 minStar this session: Beyond the Boilerplate: Building High-Quality WordPress Plugins with AI
Beyond the Boilerplate: Building High-Quality WordPress Plugins with AI
The security mistakes AI makes in PHP, and how to make it use nonces, escaping and the WordPress Coding Standards, with a person still doing the review.
Nirbhay Singh Rao
Concert HallLightning, 15 minStar this session: Making AI Reliable for Editorial Workflows
Making AI Reliable for Editorial Workflows
The same question for content: guardrails that keep AI close to your brand guidelines, for teams building editorial tools.
Rishit Gupta
Xavier HallTalk, 30 minStar this session: I Gave AI My WordPress
I Gave AI My WordPress
An agent let loose on real content, with permissions, validation and human approval, built and then broken. Worth seeing before you give AI access to a live site.
Anindo Neel Dutta
Xavier HallPanel, 45 minStar this session: Agents in Production
Agents in Production
Agents after the demo. Which user should an agent act as? Which steps does a person have to approve? Can an instruction hidden in a blog comment steer it, and what may it touch on a store’s biggest sale day? Four people who run agents on real sites, stores and codebases.
Dhanendran Rajagopal, Animesh Dutta, Vedanshu Jain, Vikas Singhal
03
What will it cost, and what will it earn?
An agent that works around the clock also bills around the clock, and the most capable models cost the most. For a freelancer or an agency, that sum decides whether an AI feature is worth offering a client.
The other half of the sum is what it earns, and the three talks below cover both sides.
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Note what you spent on AI tools last month, yours or a client’s. It turns these talks into a comparison.
Xavier HallTalk, 30 minStar this session: Tokens to Dollars: Building Tools that AutoSell
Tokens to Dollars: Building Tools that AutoSell
One WordPress and AI system that picks up a lead at night, qualifies it, replies, follows up, and calls the owner in only when a person is needed. Built on a real B2B export workflow. First talk of the day, so be in your seat by 09:00.
Gulshan Iyer
Concert HallLightning, 15 minStar this session: Our secret sauce for keeping 24/7 AI agents affordable
Our secret sauce for keeping 24/7 AI agents affordable
A team running cloud agents nonstop, and the in-house router that sends each request to the right model rather than the priciest one. With their usage numbers.
Souptik Datta
Concert HallLightning, 15 minStar this session: From Conversation to Conversion: Building Execution-First AI for B2B
From Conversation to Conversion: Building Execution-First AI for B2B
For B2B commerce: a buyer asking about stock, pricing or an order wants the thing done rather than a conversation about it.
Ravi Chillara
04
Is it paying off for teams like yours?
Plenty of people say AI makes them faster at their own work. Fewer companies see it in the numbers. In McKinsey’s 2025 survey, 39% of respondents said AI had made any difference to their company’s profit, and most of those put it under 5%.
If you run an agency or lead a team, these three talks come at that gap from the architecture, from two years inside one team, and from where the work waits.
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Pick one task AI made faster for your team, then note where the work waits after it.
Concert HallLightning, 15 minStar this session: Beyond Traditional WordPress: Building for the Modern Web in the Age of AI
Beyond Traditional WordPress: Building for the Modern Web in the Age of AI
WordPress as a content platform behind APIs and custom front ends, and where AI fits in that architecture. For agencies and tech leads.
Raghunath J
Concert HallLightning, 15 minStar this session: From Code to Boardroom: The Real Business Impact of AI in WordPress Teams
From Code to Boardroom: The Real Business Impact of AI in WordPress Teams
Two years of AI in one WordPress engineering team, from developer to director: where the gains were real, where they were overstated, and three checks before you scale.
Kakshak Kalaria
Xavier HallTalk, 30 minStar this session: Operationalising AI after the easy gains
Operationalising AI after the easy gains
Why faster people don’t add up to a faster team, using an old idea from manufacturing, and how to find your own bottleneck. For managers, leads and founders.
Joel Abreo
05
Will people still find your content?
More people now ask an AI tool instead of scrolling a page of links, and those tools lean on structure: headings, schema, entities, internal links.
Concert Hall takes it on in 15-minute talks, midday and afternoon.
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Ask an AI assistant a question your best page answers, and see whether it cites you.
Concert HallLightning, 15 minStar this session: From Editorial Workflow to AI Discovery: Making WordPress Content Machine-Readable and Findable
From Editorial Workflow to AI Discovery: Making WordPress Content Machine-Readable and Findable
Schema, entities, headings and internal links used on purpose, without the writing going generic.
Preetika Thakur
Concert HallLightning, 15 minStar this session: AI Agents to Turn Your WordPress Blog into Short Videos
AI Agents to Turn Your WordPress Blog into Short Videos
A chain of agents that turns an old post into a short video, script to publish. For sites with years of posts that got read once.
Sudip Bhattacharya
Concert HallLightning, 15 minStar this session: Beyond Rankings: Making WordPress Content Discoverable in the AI Search Era
Beyond Rankings: Making WordPress Content Discoverable in the AI Search Era
Search intent, topical authority and structured data, for classic search and AI search together.
Abheesh Dokras
Concert HallLightning, 15 minStar this session: Your Website Has Answers. Can a Chatbot Help People Find Them?
Your Website Has Answers. Can a Chatbot Help People Find Them?
A website chatbot that asks follow-up questions and walks visitors to the next step.
Abhay Kulkarni
Concert HallLightning, 15 minStar this session: AI as a Contributor: Et tu, Brute?
AI as a Contributor: Et tu, Brute?
A palliative medicine doctor’s WordPress blog, with AI as a partner that questions the argument rather than a writer. For anyone who writes to think.
Dr Rahul D Arora
Stay put from 12:30. Three content talks run back to back in Concert Hall, right up to 13:15, when everyone heads out for the group photo.
Two clashes
Worth deciding before you arrive.
Decide over coffee at 11:00
Xavier HallOperationalising AI after the easy gains30 min talk, Joel AbreoorConcert HallConnecting WordPress and MCP60 min workshop, runs to 12:30, hard to join late
Building? Take the workshop. Leading a team? Take the talk.
The panel runs to 16:15
Xavier HallAgents in Production45 min panel, four panelistsorConcert HallCan a Chatbot Help? then AI as a Contributortwo 15 min lightning talks, 15:30 and 15:45
The panel covers both of the lightning talks’ slots, so it is one hall or the other.
Three smaller ones: at 10:15, 10:45 and 14:30, a Concert Hall lightning talk overlaps a Xavier Hall talk. Every ☆ in this post saves to the same list as the schedule, so its Starred view shows your picks from here, ready to print.
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Seven sessions that aren’t about AI.
Pricing and scope now that AI builds faster, client value, churn, GST, a Webflow migration, regional content and WordPress as a brand. Your first WordCamp sorts the whole day into four routes, two of them with no code.
WordPress Has Entered the ChatStructural ChurnSame Work, Different ResponseWhat Clients Pay ForGST MythWebflow to WordPressRegional Content
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Every other Thursday, 22:30 IST.
The people building WordPress’s AI features meet in the #core-ai channel on WordPress Slack, and anyone can join the conversation. The AI team’s page has the details. Bring what you heard on Sunday.
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Coffee at 11:00 and 16:15. Lunch at 13:45.
That is when people find the speaker they just heard, or someone else who has been stuck on the same problem. Bring your question to those too.
Saturday 21 November is Contributor Day, with its own free sign-up. How the weekend works covers both days.
₹800General AdmissionBoth days, lunch included. Sunday 22 November, St Joseph’s Boys’ High School, Museum Road.
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