Building ChatBots with WordPress

How I turned WordPress into a framework to build ChatBots

In the last 4 years, I have created, in custom PHP, about twenty Chat Bots for Telegram and Facebook Messenger. Being made without the use of CMS, every maintenance or update operation, even the simplest, required code-side changes taking away a lot of time.

Hence the idea of using a CMS to help me manage my ChatBots. In this talk we will see together how this idea was born and which WordPress tools helped me in this challenge.

Matteo Enna

Matteo speaks extensively in the Italian WordPress Community, and is excited for his first talk in Virginia! I started in 2015, and every year I have been a speaker at Linux Day. I have been a speaker at WordCamp Milan and since December 2019 I have been speaking at WordPress meetups in Cagliari (Sardinia in Italy).

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By Matteo Enna

Sardinian soul and a background as a Backend Developer. Today, I serve as a CTO at the intersection of Wine and Fintech, focusing on scaling architectures, particularly those rooted in GPL philosophy. I firmly believe in the WordPress community as the ultimate expression of Free Software: an ecosystem I am now enhancing by integrating AI agents to bridge the gap between traditional development and data-driven solutions. At WordCamp Torino, I’ll share how Open Source contribution has been the key to my evolution from developer to tech leader.