AI Provider for Hugging Face

This plugin registers Hugging Face as an AI provider for the WordPress AI Client introduced in WordPress 7.0. It enables text and image generation through Hugging Face’s Inference API using popular open-source models.

Features:

Registers Hugging Face on the Settings > Connectors admin screen

Supports API key management (environment variable, PHP constant, or database)

Text generation via wp_ai_client_prompt()

Image generation via wp_ai_client_prompt()->generate_image()

Dynamically fetches top 20 popular models from HuggingFace (updated every 12 hours)

Multi-provider support — automatically routes to the best available inference provider (hf-inference, fal-ai, replicate, together, nscale, wavespeed)

Add custom models from the Settings > Hugging Face admin page

Extensible model lists via hugging_face_ai_provider_models and hugging_face_ai_provider_image_models filters

Configurable base URL for self-hosted TGI instances

Clear, actionable error messages for common API issues

Usage:

$result = wp_ai_client_prompt( 'Summarize the benefits of caching.' ) ->using_temperature( 0.7 ) ->generate_text();

// Generate an image $image = wp_ai_client_prompt( 'A futuristic WordPress logo in neon colors' ) ->generate_image();