WordCamp Belgrade 2026 · Workshop
WordPress, Docker and AI agents — hands-on
- Session
- WordPress, Docker and AI agents — hands-on
- When
- –
- Where
- Dom Omladine Beograda, Makedonska 22, Belgrade
- Language
- Serbian
30 seats
Working with AI tools is neither hype nor a luxury — it's a necessity if you want to strike the best balance between your own knowledge and experience while your AI collaborator does its share of the work.
In this session for advanced users, I'll show you how I work on a current, real project for the Invictus gym using AI tools, planning, local development, and a procedure by which the AI tool checks and deploys code to the server.
We rely on serious tools: the terminal, git and Docker. We go through a workflow that rests on three things: DDEV, which gives every project its own local environment faithfully reproducing production (the same PHP version, the same extensions, the same database); parallel work on several tasks through git worktree; and an AI agent that doesn't just "suggest" code but also helps with planning, estimation and keeping a record of the work, runs checks, and spins up subagents that work in parallel for you.
The key difference from "chat" vibe-coding lies precisely in the environment: an agent that sees the whole codebase (context) and works where it is allowed to make mistakes — under version control, with a plan and acceptance criteria in place before anything goes further. That is what makes this process a good practice, one you adapt to your team and your project.
The workshop follows the same flow, but on the participants' own machines, so they can follow along, ask questions and work themselves. Everyone leaves with hands-on experience, a working local WordPress environment, a project under version control, and an agent configured to plan and work on their own code. We set up the project, develop a theme and a plugin with the agent, and push the code to the server — in real time, with everything that entails. The preparation, the demo project itself and the resources will be available on GitHub, where anyone can see how to get ready, clone it, and use it as their own starting point ("scaffolding").
Who it is for
Developers already working with WordPress who want to bring AI into their work seriously and systematically, not experimentally. Familiarity with git and the command line is assumed; experience with Docker or DDEV isn't required, but makes it easier to follow. Those not yet using a local environment will get a complete working pattern — but the talk doesn't stop there.
Prerequisites
It is perfectly fine to just watch, follow along and ask.
All of these are mandatory if you want to work along on your own laptop. We will not have enough time to install it all in the workshop, so please follow the preparation guide on GitHub.
- Docker
- DDEV
- git
- A GitHub account
- An AI tool of your choice: Claude Code, Codex or Cursor
SSH access to your own hosting — optional, for the deploy part at the end.
Preparation guide and materials will be on GitHub by Friday 11 September.
Registration
Registration closes .
30 seats