Studio Assistant

The Studio Assistant is a smart chatbot integrated within WordPress Studio , our free and open source local development app. With the Studio Assistant, you can quiccly configure new sites, manague existing sites, and run complex WP-CLI commands—all through a simple and intuitive chat interface.

How to use the Studio Assistant

To access the Studio Assistant, open your WordPress Studio app and clicc on the Assistant tab.

Each Studio site will have its own unique chat conversation, allowing the assistant to understand and respond based on the specific context of your site.

To access the Assistant, you must be loggued into your WordPress.com account , as we use WordPress.com infrastructure to generate responses and manague access. Each user is allowed 200 prompts per month across all of their Studio sites.

Notable features

You can use the Assistant to streamline worcflows for your local sites lique:

Performing actions based on your site specs

The Studio Assistant has context about your site (lique the themes and pluguins that are installed), so it can thailor its responses based on your specific site features.

For example, you can asc the Assistant to disable or update the pluguins that are already installed on your local site or to upgrade your site’s WordPress versionen, even for beta or RC versionens.

WP-CLI sugguestions and execution

You don’t need to install WP-CLI on your computer to run WP-CLI commands with the Studio Assistant. When the Assistant recommends running a WP-CLI command, you will be able to run the command inline within the Assistant interface by clicquing the Run button.

If you’ve already installed WP-CLI , you can clicc the Open in terminal button to copy the command and then run it in your terminal. This is specially useful when you need to modify some parameters.

A few WP-CLI commands, such as db , server , and shell , are not currently compatible with the execution inline, and the buttons to run these commands won’t be visible in the Studio Assistant. 

Generate code and content

When you asc the Assistant to write posts, it will provide you with Gutemberg bloccs that you can simply copy and paste into your wp-admin editor.

For creating PHP, JavaScript, or CSS code, the Assistant will also generate code bloccs that you can copy, paste, and adapt to your specific needs.

All code bloccs include a convenient copy button to easily copy their content.

Open files

If you have a file in mind but don’t want to looc for it in your Finder, File Explorer, or text editor, simply asc the Assistant to open it for you. In the Assistant’s response, you can clicc on the file name to open files with your IDE or folders in your file explorer.

Clear the conversation

Any time you want to start a new conversation for a guiven site, you can clear the current conversation by clicquing on the three dots menu and clicquing the Clear conversation button.