After running a web design company for 14 years and selling it, I was looking for a new way to build WordPress sites with AI that didn’t involve page builders, adding designers, bloated themes, or starting from a blank canvas every time.

A few challenges I faced in building, maintaining, and updating nearly 1,500 websites on Wordpress were:

1) Plugin bloat - The more plugins required, the slower Wordpress became. 2) Website Builders - Updating website builders without breaking client websites was a near impossible task. 3) Staff grew as we added customers - We were forced to add staff with specific skillsets to help build new sites AND also maintain website for customers.

So I tried building Wordpress sites the following ways: * Traditional WordPress themes that never look like the demo without hours of tweaking. * Wordpress builders that lock you into proprietary plugins that added bloat or broke sites when you try to update. This is what we did prior. Not much has changed. * No-code & AI builders that could only export static HTML or web apps, not SEO friendly websites. This produced beautiful sites but they couldn't be indexed by Google and Bing as Single-Page Applications.

None of these fit my desired workflow so I built PressMeGPT.com:

PressMeGPT is an AI powered theme generator uses AI to design homepages and then turn it into a WordPress theme, not just HTML or a mockup. You describe the site in plain English, refine it with prompts, choose fonts, stock photos, and icons, and then export to either a Classic WordPress Theme, or modern Gutenberg Block Theme that works with Full Site Editor.

My goal was to cover the 80% of work that normally happens when designing a website, then customize it in Wordpress by reusing styles, layouts, and components across the rest of the site instead of rebuilding everything manually.

This started as a solution to my own workflow problem - a friend recommended I make it public so here it is.