WordPress AI Tools vs AI Website Builders

About this event

Speaker Bio: • Brett Stone is the founder of Stone Digital (https://stonedigital.com.au/) a specialist web design and development agency based in Sydney. His agency specialises in building high-quality, custom websites with WordPress as its primary platform and CMS. Brett is actively involved in the WordPress community as a co-organiser of the WordPress Sydney Meetup and regularly attends flagship WordCamp conferences alongside his team. Presentation outline: • WordPress AI Tools: Brett shares his hands-on experience and perspective on emerging WordPress AI tools, including WordPress Core MCP, WPVibe.ai (http://WPVibe.ai) and ByMiles.ai (http://ByMiles.ai) • AI Website Builders: A practical review of AI-powered website builders such as Lovable, Base44 and Replit, exploring their capabilities, strengths and limitations. • Sydney Website Research: Insights from original research involving the analysis of 10,000+ websites across Sydney to investigate the adoption of AI-powered website-building tools including Lovable, v0, Base44 and Claude. • WordPress AI Tools vs AI Website Builders: Brett's overall perspective on how these two approaches compare, their respective use cases, and what they could mean for the future of web design and development. Running sheet: 6pm-6.30pm: Arrival, pizza and drinks, and informal networking 6.30pm-6:35pm: Welcome and introductions 6:35pm-7pm: Presentation 7pm-7.15pm: Q&A session 7.15pm Onwards: Networking