WordPress 7.0 will include a new section for connecting to artificial intelligence providers.

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Hello, I’m Alicia Ireland, and you’re listening to WPpodcast, bringing the weekly news from the WordPress Community.

In this episode, you’ll find the information from February 16 to 22, 2026.

Just 24 hours before the expected release of the first beta version of WordPress 7.0, Matt Mullenweg, co founder of WordPress, suggested a new section in Settings called Connectors, similar to Claude’s connections panel, where with a couple of clicks you can connect to AI providers. This is mainly meant to remove the friction of every plugin asking for API keys or similar and storing them in plain text in the database.

Shortly after, a review process started on how to build this system and include it, if possible, in Beta 2, although it is more likely to land in Beta 3.

The three existing plugins from the AI team have moved from being external projects to being able to integrate directly into WordPress core, with the idea that Connectors will have the usual extensibility via hooks and filters, making it easy to add new ones.

The ones that are confirmed for this first phase are Anthropic, meaning Claude, Google with Gemini, and OpenAI with ChatGPT, although OpenRouter and Grok could also make it in.

So, when WordPress 7.0 Beta 1 was expected to ship, it did not happen. It arrived 24 hours later. Around that time, there was