Setup guide

Get started with WingMind AI

Install, connect, tell it about your site and send your first prompt. Most people are done in about five minutes.

Needs WordPress 6.6 or later and PHP 8.0 or later. Works with block and classic themes.

Step 1

Install the plugin

In wp-admin, go to Plugins → Add New, search for WingMind AI and click Install Now, then Activate. Prefer a zip? Download it from WordPress.org and use Upload Plugin.

The Add Plugins screen in WordPress with the plugin zip ready to install

Step 2

Connect the AI

The setup wizard opens when you first launch WingMind. Pick one:

  • Managed: click Subscribe, pay through Stripe, then click Connect this site on the confirmation page. Or paste the activation code into the wizard.
  • Your own key: choose Manually set up API keys, pick Anthropic Claude or Google Gemini and paste your key. Administrators can also save a personal key under their profile.
  • Your own agent: skip the key and follow the MCP Relay setup.

Already subscribed on another site? Add this one from the Manage sites page and share your allowance across up to five sites.

Step 1 of the setup wizard with the managed subscription, Subscribe button and activation code field

Step 3

Tell it about your site

WingMind reads your site and drafts a short description of who you are and what the site is for. Check it, fix anything it got wrong, and continue. This context goes with every request.

Next, choose your spelling and language, design style, block shapes and copywriting tone. You can change all of it, and add your own house rules, under Settings → WingMind AI.

Step 2 of the setup wizard, with an AI-drafted site description ready to review

Step 4

Send your first prompt

Open Dashboard → WingMind AI or click the WingMind tab at the top right of any admin screen. In the editor, open the WingMind sidebar from the toolbar.

New to it? Start in Ask mode, which can’t change anything, then switch to Agent when you’re ready. Try one of these:

Review my homepage and suggest five improvements.

Draft a new version of my homepage with an SEO-friendly layout.

The WingMind AI fullscreen agent ready for a first prompt

Where to next?

Agent modes

What Ask, Agent, Site Editor and Plan can each do, and when to use them.

Read the guide →

Audit log & rollback

How every change is recorded, and how to undo one in a click.

Read the guide →

Every feature

Block actions, publish helpers, integrations, models and skills.

Take the tour →

Stuck on activation? Contact our team and we’ll sort it out.