WordPress’s vibe-coding experiment, Telex, has already been put to real-world use

WordPress’s experimental AI development tool, Telex, has already seen real-world application just months after its September launch. During WordPress’s annual “State of the Word” event on Tuesday in San Francisco, WordPress Project Cofounder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg showcased several examples of Telex being used inside an active WordPress development shop. These included generating price comparison tools, custom price calculators, and automatically pulling real-time store hours and map directions into a retail site’s header.

Telex — which Mullenweg previously referred to as a “v0 or Lovable, but specifically for WordPress” — acts as WordPress’s own attempt at creating a vibe-coding tool tailored for the AI era. The software enables developers to quickly generate Gutenberg blocks, the modular components (text, images, layouts, columns, etc.) used to build WordPress websites.

Even though Telex is still considered experimental, Mullenweg demonstrated multiple real-world projects developed by community creator Nick Hamze.

In one example, he revealed a pricing comparison tool made with Telex, noting that such rich, interactive elements previously required custom coding—and could now be built in seconds.

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Another demonstration showed Telex being used to insert live business hours, a phone number, and a directions link directly into a site’s header block.

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Additional use cases included a partner-logo carousel, a custom pricing widget, an integrated Google Calendar block, and a uniform-height grid layout for WordPress homepage posts.

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“These are things that used to require hiring developers or commissioning custom software — tools that cost thousands or tens of thousands of dollars to build even a few years ago,” Mullenweg said. “We’re now able to create them in a browser for pennies. It’s kind of insane.”

Developer Tammie Lister also created one new Gutenberg block every day throughout October using Telex, including a playable ASCII Tetris block and a Halloween trick-or-treat block.

Updates accompanied the Telex demonstration on other AI-focused WordPress efforts, including architectural systems such as the Abilities API and the MCP adapter. According to the company, the Abilities API defines WordPress capabilities in a format AI systems can understand, while the MCP adapter exposes these abilities to any MCP-compatible AI tool.

“This adapter pattern allows WordPress to participate in AI workflows without duplicating logic or building separate integrations for every AI platform,” Mullenweg explained. “You can now connect WordPress installations to tools like Claude, Copilot, and many other platforms that support MCP.”

He also emphasised that developers are already incorporating AI into their workflows using tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, and advanced CLIs, allowing them to refactor codebases, automate tasks, perform deep code searches, and run WP-CLI scripts with an AI agent.

Mullenweg concluded by announcing that in 2026, WordPress will introduce evaluation benchmarks that AI models can use to test themselves on WordPress tasks—such as editing text, modifying plugins, or interacting with the WordPress interface through browser-based agents.