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By: James LePage
Published: May 19, 2024

AgentWP Isn't Meant To Replace (Most) Plugins

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At the heart of AgentWP is a core philosophy we call "CMS symbiosis."

The idea is simple yet powerful: rather than reinventing the wheel, AgentWP enhances the WordPress experience by working in harmony with the systems that make it great—existing plugins, APIs, CLI tools, and more.

Embracing Integration Over Replacement

AgentWP isn't designed to replace most plugins. Instead, it aims to make you a better WordPress user by integrating seamlessly with your existing site, improving it, suggesting new solutions, and educating you along the way.

From the moment the plugin is installed and configured, AgentWP starts its work by indexing your site, determining the active plugins, and identifying the pages they add to the platform.

We learned this valuable lesson with our other product, CodeWP. Many users tried to use CodeWP to build fully-featured solutions—forms, learning management systems, eCommerce sites, and even entire page builders.

These complex requests often led to disappointing results. No matter how advanced AI gets, it will never be able to develop an alternative to a plugin like Gravity Forms, which has over ten years of active development, from a single prompt.

Instead of recreating existing plugins, AgentWP leverages them. It suggests the best plugins for your needs and uses what already makes WordPress awesome to fulfill its tasks.

Plugin Discovery

One of the key features of AgentWP is its ability to see all active plugins on your site. We maintain an extensive internal library of information on all public plugins, including what AgentWP can do with them, the pages they add, and their functionalities. This allows our AI to work seamlessly with these plugins.

When you're on a plugin page, AgentWP matches its internal information with real-time discovery to provide the best possible support.

This ensures that the AI can help you make the most of your plugins, enhancing their utility and your overall WordPress experience.

Tested Support for Popular Plugins

For popular plugins, we've gone a step further. We verify that AgentWP works well with them and build out internal workflows to ensure there's direct support. This means you can rely on AgentWP to enhance your experience with widely-used plugins, making your site management more efficient and effective.

Automated Support for Anything in WordPress

AgentWP's capabilities aren't limited to public plugins. It indexes everything on your site, including custom plugins, so it can support anything. Our AI acts as a real agent, capable of logic and reasoning, making it adaptable to your unique needs.

The more you use AgentWP on your site, the better it gets. It's a self-learning and self-improving system, continually refining its understanding and capabilities to serve you better.

Our Developer Program

To ensure AgentWP remains up-to-date and effective, we work closely with plugin developers. Our Developer Program allows developers to collaborate with us, ensuring that any changes and updates to their plugins are reflected in AgentWP's knowledge base.

This partnership helps maintain the high quality and relevance of the support AgentWP provides.

Conclusion

AgentWP's "CMS symbiosis" approach is all about enhancing the WordPress experience by integrating with and leveraging existing plugins and tools. It’s not about replacing what already works but about making it work better.

By working in harmony with the WordPress ecosystem, AgentWP empowers users to manage and maintain their sites effortlessly, providing a smarter, more efficient way to handle all your WordPress needs.

Join us in redefining the WordPress experience with AgentWP. Embrace the future of WordPress management and see how our AI can make your life easier and your site better.

By: James LePage
Founder, WPAI
Founder of WPAI. Based in Austin, Texas. WordPress vet for 8+ years. 2nd time founder, exited Isotropic Agency. I run, triathlon, climb, and mess with Corvettes.
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