In December, ChatGPT crossed the 1 million user mark, and there are many creative questions and applications for the chatbot powered by AI on Twitter. The language model, created by OpenAI, is powered by GPT-3.5, a set of models trained on pre-Q4 2021 text and code. The model has a dialogue format that allows ChatGPT to “answer follow-up questions, admit errors, refute incorrect premises and reject inappropriate requests.”
While some predict the end of search engines and sound the death knell for human-generated writing, others are fascinated by the potential of AI systems to fundamentally change the creation process. WordPress developer Johnathon Williams brought this close when he asked ChatGPT to create a WordPress plugin.
Normally, creating a plugin requires a certain level of technical skill. Williams showed that ChatGPT, with a little expert guidance, can dramatically reduce the time it takes to expand WordPress.
Williams installed the plugin and found that it worked on the first try. Although he did not save the job from this first attempt, he published a yeast on GitHub of the generated code.
On a second attempt to create another plugin, he used the following command:
Create a custom WordPress plugin called “Big Daddy Media” that deletes images older than one year from the media library. OOP. Custom admin screen. one button delete. log the full URL of all deleted media files.
Williams said that although he had mixed results with his prompts, he got the best results by asking ChatGPT to generate entire features rather than specific filters or actions.
Open AI’s ChatGPT can generate an entire WordPress plugin based on a simple description.
Watch it work: pic.twitter.com/LZQbxFq0aP
– Johnathon Williams (@johnofhousejohn) December 6, 2022
Naturally, we were also curious and passed on a simple assignment to create a WordPress dashboard plugin with the best-selling products: Create a custom WordPress plugin called “Top orders” that displays WooCommerce’s best-selling products in the WordPress dashboard. With the result below:
Theoretically, with additional training on plugin best practices and common architecture, ChatGPT could be used by people at all levels to extend WordPress in creative ways.
“Very soon, describing the WordPress plugin you need to ChatGPT will lead to the generation of a new plugin faster than searching for an existing plugin in the plugin directory,” Williams said. “Of course, this will not apply to all types of plugins. But for relatively simple plugins that perform established tricks … however very soon should probably read ‘now’.”
Ps. this blog post was written through ChatGPT:)
