Day 7: Week 1 Review — Your Toolkit Map

📅 Day 7 of 30 · Week 1: Get the Stack · ⏱ 10 minutes

Week 1 Checkpoint

You’ve spent the first week getting your hands on every tool in the WordPress AI stack. Before we start connecting them together in Week 2, let’s review what you’ve set up and make sure nothing’s missing.

Your Toolkit Map

Here’s what you should have access to after Week 1:

✅ Accounts & Access

  • WordPress.com account (Day 0)
  • Claude.ai account — Pro or Team (Day 0)
  • GitHub account (Day 0)

✅ Tools Installed

  • Studio CLI (wp-studio) (Day 2)
  • Claude Desktop with MCP (Day 4)

✅ Tools Explored

  • WordPress Playground (Day 1)
  • Telex (Day 3)
  • WordPress AI Experiments plugin features (Day 5)
  • Abilities API concepts (Day 6)

✅ Skills Gained

  • Spin up WordPress in a browser (Playground)
  • Create local WordPress sites (Studio CLI)
  • Generate blocks and themes from descriptions (Telex)
  • Connect Claude to WordPress (MCP)

Save These Artifacts

  • Your toolkit map: accounts, tools, and where each one fits
  • A working local Studio site or Playground sandbox
  • One Telex-built block idea your team could actually use
  • A safe MCP test draft, not a production publish

How the Tools Connect

Here’s the mental model for how these tools work together:

┌──────────────────────────────────────────┐
│              AI Agents                    │
│  (Claude Desktop, Studio Code, AI tools)  │
└───────────┬──────────────────────────────┘
            │ MCP Protocol
            ▼
┌──────────────────────────────────────────┐
│           WordPress Site                  │
│  ┌─────────────────────────────────┐     │
│  │      Abilities API (Core)       │     │
│  │  - Content management           │     │
│  │  - Custom abilities (plugins)   │     │
│  └─────────────────────────────────┘     │
│  ┌──────────┐ ┌──────────┐ ┌──────────┐ │
│  │ WordPress AI plugin │ │  Telex   │ │  Plugins │ │
│  │    AI    │ │  blocks  │ │  & themes│ │
│  └──────────┘ └──────────┘ └──────────┘ │
└──────────────────────────────────────────┘
            │
            ▼
┌──────────────────────────────────────────┐
│        Local Development                  │
│   Studio CLI  ·  Playground               │
└──────────────────────────────────────────┘

Troubleshooting Checklist

If anything from this week didn’t work, now is the time to fix it:

  • Studio CLI won’t install? Check that Node.js 18+ is installed: node --version
  • MCP connection failing? Verify the mcp-adapter plugin is active and your Claude Desktop config points to the correct site URL
  • Telex not generating? Try a simpler prompt first — “Create a simple callout block with a title and text” — to verify the tool works before attempting complex designs
  • WordPress AI plugin features not showing? WordPress AI Experiments plugin requires a WordPress site with WordPress AI plugin enabled. Visit WordPress.com or Pressable for hosting options.

What’s Coming in Week 2

In Week 2, you’ll stop exploring tools individually and start connecting them into workflows:

  • Day 8: Teach Claude about your specific publication using MCP
  • Day 9: Auto-generate SEO metadata for your content
  • Day 10: Draft a newsletter from your latest coverage
  • Day 11: Create multi-piece content packages
  • Day 12: Build editorial-specific blocks with Telex
  • Day 13: Combine analytics + AI for data-driven editorial decisions

✅ Key Takeaway: Week 1 was about breadth — touching every tool once. Week 2 is about depth — combining tools into real workflows that save your team time every day.

← Day 6: Abilities API · Day 8: Teach Claude Your Publication →