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
The workshop took place on Friday, 18 September. If you were there, register and you are on the list for the slides, the repository and what comes next.
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 the workshop I show how I work on a current, real project for the Invictus gym: planning, local development and the procedure by which the AI tool checks and deploys code to the server. We rely on serious tools: the terminal, git and Docker. The workflow rests on three things: DDEV, which gives every project a local environment that faithfully reproduces 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 helps with planning, estimation and keeping a record of the work, runs checks, and spins up subagents that work in parallel.
The key difference from “chat” vibe-coding is the environment: an agent that sees the whole codebase, works where it is allowed to make mistakes, under version control, with a plan and acceptance criteria in place before anything goes further.
We go through one full loop, live, on the participants’ machines: environment → task with acceptance criteria → plan → the agent works and checks → review → code on the server. Everyone leaves with a local WordPress environment in DDEV, a project under git, an agent set up to plan and work on their own code, and a repository to use as their own starting point.
Who it is for
Experienced WordPress developers who want to bring AI into their work seriously and systematically. Familiarity with git and the command line is assumed; experience with Docker or DDEV is not required.
Three ways to follow
- Work on your own laptop (a WordCamp ticket, registration here, preparation before you come)
- Watch, then repeat at home from the guides
- Just listen
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.
Guides for macOS, Windows (WSL2) and Linux are in the repository; run ddev start once at home so the images download before the workshop.
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Ask during the workshop; questions appear on the screen in the order they arrive.
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