Building a WordPress plugin was never part of Grant Fritchey’s comfort zone — but that’s the whole point of this series. In Part 5 of his AI-driven app build, Grant uses Microsoft CoPilot and GitHub Copilot to generate a working WordPress plugin for dbRosetta almost entirely through prompts. By the end, there’s a live, searchable web page – but also a growing list of lessons about what AI can – and can’t – do on its own.
Once again, this part of the series takes me into unfamiliar territory. I’ve never built a PHP plugin or a WordPress page…but

