4 WordPress Plugins with AI Features You Need to Try

AI Is Quietly Taking Over Your Favorite WordPress Plugins

There's a good chance you already have at least one of these plugins installed on your WordPress site. Fluent Forms, TranslatePress, BetterDocs, and LearnDash have all been staples in the WordPress ecosystem for years — but what you might not realize is that each of them has been quietly rolling out AI-powered features that can dramatically speed up your workflow.

The common thread across all four plugins is the integration of AI through OpenAI's API. In most cases, you'll connect your own API key and unlock features that handle tasks like generating forms, translating entire websites, writing documentation, and outlining courses. These aren't gimmicks bolted on for marketing purposes — they're genuinely practical features that solve real pain points WordPress users deal with every day.

Cloudways Copilot: AI-Powered Hosting Management

Before diving into the plugins themselves, it's worth mentioning that AI is also making waves at the hosting level. Cloudways has launched Cloudways Copilot, a feature that brings AI-driven monitoring and diagnostics directly into your hosting environment. Instead of spending hours troubleshooting server issues or waiting on support tickets, Copilot monitors your web stack, disk space, and host health around the clock.

When it detects a problem, it diagnoses the root cause and provides step-by-step solutions — and for common issues, there's a one-click Smart Fix option that resolves things automatically. For agencies managing dozens or even hundreds of client sites, this kind of automation is a game-changer. One agency reportedly saved 15 hours in a single month while managing over 180 WordPress sites. Cloudways currently offers free Copilot credits and Smart Fixes each month, so it's worth testing out if you're already on the platform or considering a switch.

Fluent Forms: Generate Entire Forms with a Single Prompt

Fluent Forms has long been a favorite for WordPress form building, especially thanks to its generous lifetime deal pricing. But the feature that puts it on this list is AI Form Generation — and the best part is it works on the free version of the plugin.

The workflow is dead simple. When you create a new form, there's a "Create Using AI" option. Describe what you need — say, a job application form for a video editor — and the AI builds the entire form for you in seconds. You can also include specific questions you want covered, like what software the applicant uses, specific results they've achieved, and how many years of experience they have.

For anyone who has ever spent time dragging and dropping fields and typing out labels one by one, this is a massive time-saver. The generated forms are surprisingly thorough, and of course you can always tweak or add additional fields after the fact. If you connect your OpenAI API key, you'll get even more refined results, but even the default experience is impressive.

TranslatePress: One-Click AI Translation for Your Entire Site

Translating a WordPress website used to be one of the most tedious tasks you could take on. TranslatePress has completely changed that equation with their automatic AI translation feature. Once the plugin is installed and activated, you choose which languages you want to support, toggle the automatic translation switch, and your entire site — content, menus, and all — gets translated instantly.

The language selection is comprehensive, covering essentially every language you could need. A customizable language switcher appears on your site (as a badge, a menu item, or via shortcode), letting visitors toggle between languages with a single click. The design of the switcher is fully customizable with color options and placement controls, so it integrates cleanly with any theme.

What makes TranslatePress stand out is how hands-off the entire process is. There's no copying content into a translation tool and pasting it back. The plugin handles everything in place, and the translations apply across your entire site structure. For anyone serving an international audience or looking to expand their reach, this is one of the lowest-effort, highest-impact tools you can add to your WordPress stack.

BetterDocs: AI-Powered Knowledge Base Creation and Summaries

BetterDocs is a popular plugin for building knowledge bases directly inside WordPress, and a lot of SaaS companies and agencies already use it to power their documentation sites. What many users don't realize is that BetterDocs now includes a full AI Content Suite with three distinct features.

The first is Write With AI. After connecting your OpenAI API key under the BetterDocs AI Content Suite settings, you can generate entire support documents from a simple prompt. When adding a new doc, click the "Write With AI" button, enter a title and some target keywords, and the plugin generates a fully formatted article right inside the WordPress editor. No more copying from ChatGPT and wrestling with Gutenberg formatting — the output is clean and ready to publish.

The second feature — and arguably the standout — is the AI Doc Summarizer. This automatically generates a TLDR-style summary at the top of every document in your knowledge base. It works as a custom Gutenberg block, so you can also add it to regular posts if you want. The summary generates in real time on the first visit and is cached for subsequent readers. It's a small touch that significantly improves the reader experience, especially for longer technical documentation.

The third AI feature is an optional AI Chatbot (around $9/month) that indexes all your documentation and lets visitors interact with a conversational assistant on your site. It sits inside the existing BetterDocs search widget, so the interface is already familiar to your users.

LearnDash: Build Course Outlines with AI in Seconds

LearnDash is one of the most powerful course creation platforms available for WordPress, but building out a full course structure has always been a tedious, manual process. That's where their AI course outline feature comes in — and it's paired with another underused feature that imports courses directly from video playlists.

The playlist import feature lets you paste a YouTube, Vimeo, or Wistia playlist URL and automatically generate a complete course with individual lessons mapped to each video. It even pulls in the video descriptions. For anyone with existing video content sitting on YouTube, this transforms what would be hours of copy-paste work into a one-click operation.

The AI-powered option takes things further. Choose "Create Course Outline from AI," enter a course title and a brief description of what you want to teach, specify how many lessons you'd like, and the AI generates a structured outline with lesson titles and descriptions. In testing, a prompt about teaching WordPress essentials to beginners produced a well-organized 10-lesson outline covering everything from dashboard navigation to plugin best practices — arguably better structured than a manually created course.

The key value here isn't that the AI writes the course for you — it gives you a solid skeleton to build on. Instead of staring at a blank screen trying to figure out lesson order and scope, you get a thoughtful starting point that you can refine and fill with your own expertise.

Which AI-Powered Plugin Should You Try First?

All four of these plugins solve different problems, so the right starting point depends on your workflow. If you build forms regularly, Fluent Forms' AI generation is a no-brainer — especially since it works on the free version. If you serve (or want to serve) a multilingual audience, TranslatePress removes virtually all friction from the translation process. BetterDocs is essential for anyone maintaining documentation or a knowledge base, and the AI writing and summarization features make it significantly more efficient. And if you're in the course creation space, LearnDash's AI outlines and playlist imports can shave hours off your setup time.

The broader takeaway is worth paying attention to: the plugins you already own and use may have gained powerful new capabilities while you weren't looking. It's worth revisiting your existing toolkit before shopping for something new — the feature you need might already be one toggle switch away.

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