Building my own WordPress theme and taking control of the stack
A lightweight theme built for my own plugin has improved performance and prompted a wider question about the software I pay for.
An ongoing WordPress plugin experiment in combining external sources, language models and site-management tools to automate publishing and maintenance.

I started this project to explore how much of a WordPress website could be managed by an LLM agent. The long-term goal is a site that can collect information from external sources, turn useful material into articles and look after its own publishing and maintenance.
The plugin began with internal-link suggestions and grew into a wider set of editorial and management tools. It now includes an Idea Journal, source ingestion, staged drafting, publishing controls, semantic search and internal linking, along with an MCP interface for external agents. Much of the work has been experimental: building a feature, seeing what the operational problems look like and refining the workflow.
Content creation is only part of the project. Automated internal linking has become one of the most interesting areas: vector matching and language models help find relevant relationships and adapt surrounding text so links fit naturally. The system records direct changes so they can be undone. I am still assessing its effect on a site's performance.
Some experiments have not stayed in the plugin. The video builder could render without a GPU, but saturated the server CPU and affected other sites, so I removed it and started extracting the work into a separate project. The broader goal remains ongoing rather than a claim that the site can operate without oversight.
Current status
Project history
A lightweight theme built for my own plugin has improved performance and prompted a wider question about the software I pay for.
Interlinker Journalist brings the theme and plugin together, with dedicated Q&A templates and a faster uncached page.
The latest work adds independent queues, form migration, Q&A notifications and a configurable MCP dashboard.
The most valuable result of this experiment may be managing existing content, not just generating more of it.
A new intent-matching layer, related-content tools and operational dashboards support a more autonomous site.
An experiment in scene-based rendering, generated speech and lyric alignment turned WordPress into a remote video workspace.
The plugin now brings community questions, search data, SEO metadata and structured collections into the same WordPress toolkit.
The automated publishing workflow gains controls for pausing collection, setting aside ideas and inspecting runs.
MCP extension hooks, an auto-publisher and a short-lived research integration marked the next iteration.
The Idea Journal connects sources, an outline, section writing and post assembly in a staged drafting workflow.
The plugin gains a place to track sources and ideas, plus a staged interface for agents to build post plans.
Watchlists bring scheduled source retrieval and several matching signals into the Idea Journal.