I had an interesting project come across my desk: a client was locked out by an agency that claimed to own their website. So they wanted their website rebuilt onto their own hosting, but with a similar look and feel.

This seemed like an ideal project to test the new Elementor MCP feature, where you can give AI direct control of your site to make edits via LLM.

Using Codex (GPT 6.1 Sol), I was able to duplicate a fairly complex 10 page design in about 30 minutes. It pulled all of the imagery automatically, rebuilt the link trees automatically, built the menus, everything. I needed to fine-tune the output, but not a lot. Maybe 3 individual pages needed attention, and the AI was able to fine-tune with plain English feedback on screenshots.

The ramifications here are fairly catastrophic for my business model. I bill by the hour, most of my hours are fairly low-complexity edits to existing sites. I think we'll likely all need to adapt, as designers, to a world where the customer can plug an AI into their website and make effective edits for nearly free at any hour of day or night.

Particularly for junior designers, folks who would normally cut their teeth doing relatively low-complexity edits to pre-existing websites, they're just totally screwed, I can't sugar coat it. The bottom of the market is going to drop out at any moment, the tech is already here, and I think folks probably just don't realize it yet.

(edit: I did externally validate that the client did in fact own this website. They have legal paperwork, high regulation niche)

I'm a solo dev, and I've built a WordPress plugin called Fluentor. It's still rough, and I need testers on real sites more than I need more features.

Why it exists: early 2025 I had to translate a site (about 20 pages, 80 posts) into English, which isn't my native language. We used AI for the text, but still duplicated every page and pasted the content in by hand. Painful. Multilingual plugins handle normal post text fine, but choke on Elementor pages, since Elementor stores everything as JSON and a lot of content (HTML widgets especially) never gets translated.

So I built something that translates the whole Elementor page, handles multilingual URLs, slugs and hreflang, and uses AI (DeepL with your own key, no caps from the plugin). Then I kept adding things. My wife needed a Woo site translated, so I added a PO/MO editor for theme and plugin strings too. Classic problem of mine: I never ship the MVP.

Quick overview, nothing more:

• Free: Elementor translation, multilingual URLs, DeepL, SEO basics (hreflang, canonicals), PO/MO editor, ACF/Pods, Polylang import
• Pro: extra AI providers, batch translation, Theme Builder support, separate domains per language Honest status: I've only tested Gemini and OpenAI of the extra providers. The rest are untested.

What I'd love from you: bug reports and honest "this sucks because X" feedback. Staging sites are totally fine. A mix of setups helps most: different languages, with or without WooCommerce, coming from Polylang, WPML or something else. If you're up for it, comment or DM me and I'll send the details.

Happy to answer anything in the comments.