Show HN: An AI-Powered WordPress Site Plugin Builder

Hi HN,

I built steem.dev, a new AI vibe-coding tool that generates fully functional WordPress plugins from natural language prompts. Instead of searching for the right plugin, hiring a developer, or fighting with overbuilt tools like Elementor add-ons, Yoast extensions, WooCommerce tweaks, image compressors, custom dashboards, or random code snippets copied from forums, you just tell steem what you want and it builds the plugin for you.

The idea came from my own workflow. Every time I needed a small tweak or a one-off feature, I found myself opening Gemini or Claude, prompting for code, pasting it into a plugin skeleton, fixing the hooks, debugging naming collisions, adding sanitization, reorganizing files, and trying again. The LLMs were powerful, but the process around them was messy and repetitive. I realized I was still doing all the boring engineering work by hand.

So I built steem.dev. You describe the feature. Steem generates the plugin with proper WordPress structure, correct hooks, security escapes, activation logic, admin pages if needed, AJAX endpoints, REST endpoints, blocks, widgets, or whatever the feature requires. It validates the code, packages it, and you download a ready-to-install zip. No manual setup, no boilerplate, no debugging hallucinated APIs.

Examples of things people have already built with it: a custom post type dashboard widget with analytics, a WooCommerce checkout fee rule, a lightweight SEO field manager, a role-based content lock plugin, a cron-driven RSS importer, a keyword highlighter, and even a full image offloading plugin. All from prompts.

Steem is not a marketplace of prebuilt plugins. It is closer to a personal developer that instantly builds exactly what you want, every time, without any technical knowledge. It is opinionated about correct WordPress architecture, avoids insecure patterns, and prevents the usual mistakes that come from copy-pasting random code.

My goal is to make WordPress development feel like talking to an engineer instead of writing PHP. The tool is free to try, and I would love feedback from people who work with WP, LLM coding tools, or plugin ecosystems. Does this model make sense? What kinds of plugins should I showcase as examples? How deep should the generated architecture go? And if you have thoughts on safety, sandboxing, or plugin validation, I am all ears.

Happy to answer any questions.