Everyone is talking about AI and how it is revolutionizing the world, but we often fail to see the impact of these changes on our everyday life. Let’s try to separate wishful thinking and speculation from reality and see how using AI helps you better manage your WordPress website today.
5 things you can confidently use AI for today:
1. Create and update content.
One of the biggest challenges for any website owner is generating, writing, and updating the content. AI is a great resource to interact with while writing blog posts, editing text content on your site for readability, keyword placement, wordcount, etc. Try it next time you need to get over writer’s block, or want to edit some paragraphs on the site for better keyword placement.
2. Ask Questions
Large Language Models have studied the online documentations for the entire WordPress code base, and most of the major plugins. If you have a question about specific configuration or an error message, AI is a great first destination for quick answers.
3. Generating Code Snippets
If you are a programming enthusiast, you will enjoy working with AI for creating small code snippets designed to add specific functionality to your WordPress website. The code writing abilities of AI have also greatly improved the efficiency of many code developers. All code snippets need to be tested and well understood before they are applied to the site. Not all AI generated code works, and some might include security vulnerabilities.
4. Creating Images
Using AI enhanced images has become an extremely easy and rewarding way to revitalize your website, marketing presentation, or sales materials.
5. Chat Bot Help
If your company website includes large amounts of customer facing documentation, you might consider hiring Watermelon to install local Large Language Model instance trained on your specific set of pdf and html documents. Coupled with a chat bot, these can greatly improve your customer engagement making it easier for your site visitors to find answers.
3 things we do not recommend using AI for:
1. Building your entire website from scratch.
This feature is becoming more and more popular with many hosting services or third party vendors. AI generated websites are great if you need throw-away, low quality code, cookie-cutter code fast. They will quickly become a nightmare if you are trying to customize, optimize and maintain the code base.
2. Installing every plugin with an AI module.
Many plugin developers, and almost all of the large page builders, advertise AI features associated with their plugins. Unless you know exactly what the functionality is doing, what parts of your codebase it is accessing, and you know how to turn them off, we would advise to proceed with great caution.
3, Blindly trusting AI.
Regardless if you are writing an article with the help of AI, looking for code snippets, or asking questions, do not assume that any of the generated answers are correct. AI hallucinations are real and you are ultimately responsible for verifying that the content on your website is correct.
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