We’re excited to announce a new course on VIP Learn: AI WordPress Developer Tools and Workflow.
AI agents are becoming part of the everyday WordPress development toolkit, but using them well takes more than prompting; it takes the right tools, conventions, and workflow. This course is designed to help developers go from foundational AI concepts to hands-on, agent-assisted WordPress development.
What is VIP Learn?
VIP Learn offers free, online courses for WordPress developers with intermediate to advanced experience who want to build and maintain enterprise-grade applications.
These courses are designed to help you grow as a professional engineer—developing the skills, architectural judgment, and platform-specific knowledge needed to work effectively at scale. Through guided instruction and real-world scenarios, VIP Learn equips you to apply enterprise best practices and deliver high-performance WordPress solutions with confidence.
What can I expect from this course?
This course takes you from understanding core AI concepts to using Claude Code in daily development work to rolling out AI-assisted workflows across your team.
- The shared vocabulary behind modern AI tools, including how LLMs work and where you’ll encounter them in practice
- What to consider before sending real data to a hosted API, and when an LLM is the right tool versus a plain script
- The Claude Code terminal agent and Claude Desktop’s different modes
- Project-level conventions like CLAUDE.md for guiding Claude’s behavior
- MCP (Model Context Protocol) for connecting Claude to external systems, including how to build your own MCP servers
- The Claude IDE-integrated agent and the Chrome extension for wp-admin work
- Reusable Skills for repeatable Claude workflows
- A hands-on example: using Claude to spin up a local WordPress site, install plugins, and author a plugin
- How to plan AI-assisted work as a team
- The GitHub issue-to-pull-request pattern, including what makes an issue agent-ready
- Execution-to-merge practices that keep AI-assisted work reviewable, based on a model already in use by VIP customers
Get started
The course is available now on VIP Learn. Take the course to start building AI-assisted WordPress development into your workflow.