My personal website was recently migrated from an Alibaba Cloud-based serverless architecture to WordPress.com. While the migration went smoothly with few issues, it left a few broken links across my blog posts. The affected links were internal links referencing other blog posts I previously authored which became invalid as the URL slug from my previous site differed from those generated by WordPress.


Manually finding, fixing and verifying all 18 broken links across the 11 affected blog posts would’ve been tiresome, time-consuming and error-prone. As the lazy person that I usually am, I decided to turn to AI to help me complete this task π
Fortunately, WordPress has been introducing AI capabilities to both the core open source project and managed WordPress.com sites through the AI Building Blocks for WordPress initiative since 2025, with the feature set maturing to production readiness in 2026 following the official release of WordPress 7.0.
This article gives an overview of the Abilities API serving as a foundation for WordPress’s AI-integrated features as well as how I used the WordPress.com MCP integration to automatically discover and fix the broken links across my 37 blog posts arising from the migration.
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