Telex, an experimental software creation from WordPress, has started to prove its potential in real-world applications. Telex makes it easy for developers to build Gutenberg blocks from scratch. These blocks are now the fundamental building blocks of WordPress websites, containing text, images, columns, and tons of other customizable interactive content. This new tool has already been utilized by Tammie Lister, who created a new Gutenberg block every day throughout October, demonstrating its versatility and ease of use.
Among Lister’s creations are fun blocks like a playable ASCII version of Tetris and a Halloween-themed trick-or-treat block. These examples are just a slice of how Telex can empower developers with creative freedom, while speeding up the Telex block creation process.
Matt Mullenweg, another co-founder of WordPress, has further articulated how Telex can be folded into real-world uses. He provided examples of how Telex improved an existing WordPress store by creating price aggregators and price calculators. As an example, Telex makes it really easy to get real-time business hours for retail storefronts. It offers convenient map links, demonstrating its usefulness to e-commerce as well as local businesses.
Mullenweg further elaborated on the transformative nature of Telex, stating, “Again, things that you used to have to, like, hire developers, do custom software like this would have cost thousands, tens of thousands of dollars to build, even just years ago. We’re now able to do in a browser for pennies.” This is a terrific demonstration of how Telex drives down costs for corporate communications while simultaneously democratizing access to powerful features.
T4America community creator Nick Hamze has produced a pretty amazing tool for comparing prices. This new and improved tool allows users to do more product comparisons faster and more efficiently. With Telex, users can establish complex, engaging web elements that connect to dynamic content fast in seconds rather than the detailed, custom development work it once took.
Telex is on the IndieWeb’s experimental tool tier. There’s no denying it has the potential to fundamentally change the way developers work with the WordPress interface ONCE IS DEAD. The software makes it really easy and fun to customize existing plugins. It allows text replacing with web-based agents, intensifying your development experience enhanced.
Looking to the future, WordPress is planning on requiring AI models to pass benchmarks by 2026. Unlike conventional UI scaling tests, these evaluations will exclusively stress “WordPress-y” tasks with Telex. This effort is a step towards demonstrating and encouraging a culture of ongoing improvement and iteration of possibilities within the WordPress ecosystem.
Mullenweg noted the significance of this development by stating, “means you can refactor projects, search code bases, automate tasks, [and] run scripts with WP CLI alongside the AI agent.” Such capabilities hint at a future where Telex doesn’t just make it easier to create blocks, but fits naturally into widespread development workflows.