Russell Aaron WP Pro Support

WordPress 7.0 shipped its AI Connectors screen with no guardrails and no explanation of what an API key costs. The plugin ecosystem noticed. Here’s what your users are walking into.

The WordPress agentic web is closer than most people think. But there is a version of this that goes sideways. Not because the technology fails. Because we keep building AI features that create dependency instead of capability.

Token costs were the first thing nobody was talking about. WordPress AI plugin lock-in is the second. And it’s worse than anything we’ve seen before in this ecosystem because what you lose isn’t configuration. It’s workflow.