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TalkToYourBlog Theme Editor

Optional companion for TalkToYourBlog: lets an AI app create and edit its own, independent WordPress themes -- never an existing theme.

by Michal Futera · github.com/talktoyourblog-com/theme-editor · website

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Install

Download source zip No release zip yet

This is the repository archive. It installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow.

Install straight from GitHub with WP-CLI:

wp plugin install https://github.com/talktoyourblog-com/theme-editor/archive/refs/heads/main.zip
No built-in updater. New versions won't appear under Dashboard → Updates. Install new releases yourself, or let Git Updater track the repository.
Readme github.com/talktoyourblog-com/theme-editor ↗
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TalkToYourBlog Theme Editor

Lets an AI app build its own, independent WordPress themes — never an existing one.

Part of TalkToYourBlog — manage your WordPress blog by talking to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Grok and other AI apps.

What this is

TalkToYourBlog connects an AI app to a WordPress site over WordPress's own REST API — no plugin required for that. What the REST API can't reach is theme code: PHP, CSS and JS files. This optional companion plugin adds exactly that, through nine WordPress Abilities (the same wp-abilities/v1 mechanism plugins like Rank Math or AIOSEO use).

On purpose, it never hands the AI an existing theme — not even the active one. It can only create brand-new, independent themes of its own, each prefixed ai- (e.g. ai-landing-page), living as its own folder directly under wp-content/themes.

  • create-theme — a new ai-* theme, seeded with a minimal but complete, working classic theme (style.css, functions.php, header.php, footer.php, index.php, plus a starting screenshot.png), so it shows up under Appearance → Themes and already renders.
  • list-themes / list-files / get-file — see what exists and read it back, with a content hash so a later edit can detect it changed in between.
  • update-file — create or edit a PHP/CSS/JS file, refused if the new content fails a syntax check.
  • upload-image — JPG/PNG/GIF/WebP from base64, bytes checked against the claimed extension; SVG is refused since it's markup, not a picture.
  • delete-file — text files are snapshotted first, so a deletion can be undone.
  • list-revisions / restore-revision — every earlier version of a file, one call away.

Themes are never activated automatically. A site admin always does that from Appearance → Themes, same as any theme installed by hand.

Why it's safe to install

Every file path is resolved and checked against the themes directory, then against an ai-* folder it must start inside — .., an absolute path, a symlink pointing elsewhere, or a folder name that doesn't start with ai- is refused before anything is touched. The plugin cannot read, write or delete a single byte of any theme it didn't create itself, including the one currently active.

Install

Download the latest release, upload the zip from Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin, and activate it. There's no settings screen — the abilities register themselves and become callable by anything authenticated to the site with the edit_themes capability (administrators, by default).

Full documentation

See readme.txt for the complete FAQ, privacy notes and changelog (same format WordPress.org plugin pages use).

Made by TalkToYourBlog · also see Plugin Editor and Event Calendar