ASWP – Studio Assistant: Your Smart Companion for Local WordPress Development

Meet Your New Development Best Friend: The Studio Assistant

The Studio Assistant, a smart chatbot integrated into the free and open-source local development app Studio, is now available for all Studio users. It assists you in building WordPress websites effortlessly.

The Assistant leverages WordPress.com’s infrastructure and knowledge base to provide helpful responses using Retrieval Augmented Generation, ensuring you get tailored WordPress responses every time. It’s designed to help you quickly configure new sites, manage existing sites, and execute complex WP-CLI commands, all through a simple and intuitive chat interface.

Your Handy Development Companion

The Studio Assistant empowers you with numerous features that simplify local development. You can interact with the Assistant in any language and receive responses in the same language. It allows you to open site files with just one click, eliminating manual searching through site files. The Assistant uses context about your specific site, including themes and plugins, to give tailored responses and suggestions.

Ask and Discover

Let’s say you’re seeking an SEO plugin but aren’t sure about your options. Ask the Assistant, and it’ll provide specific recommendations. The Assistant can also write content and code blocks for you. When you ask it to write posts or code, it will generate Gutenberg blocks or code that you can easily copy and paste.

Tailored to Your Site

The Studio Assistant is trained on WordPress-specific documentation and has access to site-specific context. This allows it to provide site-specific information and recommendations. You can even run WP-CLI commands with just one click, eliminating the need to install WP-CLI and run commands manually. Simply click ‘Run’, and the recommended commands will execute for you. This feature streamlines your workflow and allows you to execute commands without needing to understand their technical details.

Elevate Your Expertise

Beyond its ease of use, the Studio Assistant helps you learn as you go. It provides helpful output explaining what the suggested commands do, enhancing your development skills and knowledge. Hoang Hxn, a user with early access to the feature, describes it as a ‘great tutor’ that has helped him learn WordPress ‘100 times faster’. He praises the Assistant’s ability to respond in his native language, Vietnamese, and to provide both complex and beginner-friendly explanations. He also appreciates the ability to quickly execute CLI commands and create sample posts and pages, even for basic questions like ‘what is the purpose of WordPress plugins?’

Ready to Get Started with the Studio Assistant?

To start leveraging the Studio Assistant’s powerful capabilities, follow these simple steps:

1. Download and install Studio for free on Windows and Mac.
2. Login with your WordPress.com account (free or paid).
3. Create a new Studio site.
4. Click on the Assistant tab.
5. Start chatting.

Let Us Know What You Think!

We are excited to share the Studio Assistant with you. We welcome your feedback and would love to hear about the tasks you plan to automate with this powerful tool. Remember, Studio is a free, open-source tool, and we encourage you to share your feedback on GitHub. Explore other Issues and create your own here. You can also delve into the Studio documentation for more tips on using the Assistant. This is a summary of the original article available at: https://wordpress.com/blog/2024/10/29/studio-assistant/

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