I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how much of my life has been shaped by WordPress and open source.
The work I do, the people I’ve met, and a big part of the life I’ve been able to build all trace back to communities that decided to share their code, their ideas, and their time. WordPress, PHP, Linux, MySQL, all the plugins and frameworks we stand on – none of this was guaranteed. People chose to give.
At the same time, we’re now in this wild AI moment where the explosion of knowledge has mostly come from open communities, but the access to that knowledge is increasingly being consolidated and gated – paywalled models, closed APIs, and infra costs that put real experimentation out of reach for a lot of smaller teams and solo builders.
That’s been bothering me for a while. S…
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how much of my life has been shaped by WordPress and open source.
The work I do, the people I’ve met, and a big part of the life I’ve been able to build all trace back to communities that decided to share their code, their ideas, and their time. WordPress, PHP, Linux, MySQL, all the plugins and frameworks we stand on – none of this was guaranteed. People chose to give.
At the same time, we’re now in this wild AI moment where the explosion of knowledge has mostly come from open communities, but the access to that knowledge is increasingly being consolidated and gated – paywalled models, closed APIs, and infra costs that put real experimentation out of reach for a lot of smaller teams and solo builders.
That’s been bothering me for a while. So as my own small way of giving back, I’ve been working on a plugin that tries to push things in the other direction – making it easier and cheaper for regular WordPress sites to build serious AI-powered systems without needing a separate backend, micro-services, or a DevOps team.
The plugin is called: Open Operator System (NV oOS)
In short, is a modular AI framework for WordPress that connects your site’s data with OpenAI’s GPT models, Gemini, Anthropic, Hugging Face and Ollama (Local). It allows you to create and manage AI Assistants that can interact with users, access WordPress data, and perform custom tool functions.
The goal is simple: Let small and medium-sized WordPress sites run real-time AI orchestration without separate Node/Python infrastructure.
On top of that, it adds:
Mesh compute pooling – so resources can be shared more intelligently Federated discovery documents – so systems can find and talk to each other A root-gated security core – so all of this can run securely on standard WordPress hosting, not some fancy custom stack
All of this is aimed at one thing:
Making it possible for more of us – especially the smaller players, the independent devs, the agencies, the “I run this from my shared hosting account” folks – to keep building powerful, open, AI-enabled systems without insane complexity or cost.
I mostly wanted to share this as a thank you to the WordPress and open source communities that made my journey possible in the first place. This plugin is, in a way, me trying to send some of that value back into the ecosystem that gave me so much.
If you’re curious, want to play with it, or just want to tell me I’m mad for trying to run orchestration inside WordPress 😄, hit reply and I’ll send you the link, docs, and would really appreciate your feedback.
❤️ VJ
P.S. If you know someone in the WP / open source world who cares about keeping this stuff accessible and sustainable, feel free to forward this to them.
GitHub Repo: https://github.com/nvdigitalsolutions/mcp-ai-wpoos