Is AI Going To Kill WordPress?
Ask around right now whether AI is going to kill WordPress, and you’ll get wildly different answers depending on who you ask. Somewhere out there is a LinkedIn post you’ve probably already seen, arguing WordPress is basically dead — that nobody in their right mind would start a new site on it today when tools like Lovable, Bolt, and v0 will just build you one from a sentence. It’s a compelling claim. It’s also not the whole story. I’ve spent years writing about WordPress, and lately I’ve spent just as much time working with AI tools — including a fair bit of my own vibe-coding — so this question isn’t academic for me. My answer, if you want it up front: WordPress isn’t dying. What I think is happening is that it’s assimilating AI. Maybe slower than the loudest voices might like, but it’s assimilating it. The way I see it, AI isn’t really a competitor to WordPress — it’s closer to a utility. Like electricity, or li...