I asked AI to help summarize me rambling on yesterday, but just to clarify;
- I have no experience developing anything like this.
- All of the code has been written and rewritten about 500 times through month-long iterations over hundreds of chats with various Paid and Free versions of AI
- As you can probably tell, I have become absolutely obsessed with trying to achieve this, and for someone who can crash a site with a comma or bracket in the wrong place, I’ve already blown my mind with what I’ve managed to achieve.
- Sadly, AI isn’t currently at the stage where it can fully process everything I want it to yet, so I’ve had to feed it the highly complex HivePress developers documention and used other AI tools to help correctly identify the hooks/meta keys, etc. in existing plugins to target and manipulate the data that’s intended.
- At various points throughout my development attempts, almost every intended function has appeared to work at one point or another, but having everything work seamlessly together has become a real challenge.
- As much the AI has helped, sadly the complex nature of HivePress’s custom ‘way of doing things’ has only made this much harder to anyone to wrap their heads around.
- I will continue in my quest to achieve this and link to any new versions that seem to make a giant leap forward, though linking to every version seems like a bit of a waste of time since it’s still very much in development, and because of my lack of skills/knowledge, I tend to make a step forward and three steps back at the same time.
Obviously, if I have the funds to finance this I would have hired a professional developer to ensure a seamless integration, but sadly I cannot do this at the moment.
I’m happy to share my work-in-progress in hopes that a more seasoned developer may be able to help perfect my attempts, or if the HivePress team are able to use all/some of my ideas that I’ve uncovered during my attempts, that would be cool.
Ultimately, I just need this plugin working! <3
I understand what I have set out to achieve is highly ambitous for someone with very little experience with this sort of thing, but the plugin is crucial, so I don’t have much choice.