Inside WordCamp Europe 2025: Unveiling Surprising Innovations and Secrets from Basel’s Biggest WordPress Event

The influx of AI plugins in the WordPress directory is also huge. A search for “AI” already turns up more than 1500 results. What’s helped is that the plugin review team has cut down the approval backlog. It’s now at about a week instead of six to eight months. As a consequence, plugin submissions have doubled since last year.
Generally, AI represents a major revolution. And we are just at the beginning. Matt called the current state of AI its “command-line phase.” Other ways of interacting with it are already on the way, including hardware versions such as wearables or materialized AI like robots and self-driving cars.