Text-to-Image for WordPress

Text-to-image is the moment AI generation actually clicks for most people: you type a sentence, you get a picture. The catch is that almost every text-to-image tool lives somewhere else — a separate web app, a Discord bot, a desktop install — and getting the result back onto your WordPress site is a manual round-trip of downloading, renaming and re-uploading. StudioUI removes that round-trip. It puts a text-to-image studio directly inside WordPress so a prompt becomes an image that lands in your media library, ready to use, without ever leaving your site.

This is the pillar page for everything text-to-image in StudioUI: how it works, which models you generate with, what a render costs, and how to move from free hosted credits to running it on your own keys or hardware.

What text-to-image looks like in WordPress

StudioUI adds a studio page to your site with a prompt box, a few controls, and a gallery. A logged-in user (or the public, if you choose) types a description, presses generate, and the finished image is rendered server-side and written straight into the WordPress media library. From there it behaves like any uploaded image — attach it to a post, a product, a Gutenberg block or a page builder. Text-to-image is one of five studios StudioUI ships (alongside video, GIF, music and chat companions), and they all share the same composer and history.

The controls that matter

The prompt — the description itself. Subject, setting, lighting and framing in one sentence beats a single noun every time.
The creativity dial — how literally the model follows your prompt versus how far it’s free to interpret. Lower for predictable, on-brief results; higher to explore.
Reference uploads — feed in an existing image to anchor style, composition or subject, which also turns text-to-image into image-to-image editing.
Model choice — pick between a fast model and a higher-fidelity one depending on whether you’re iterating or finishing.

The models and what a render costs

On hosted compute StudioUI’s image catalogue centres on FLUX and anime-tuned models. You pay per render in prepaid credits, and the live cost shows on the generate button before anyone commits:

Model	Credits per image
FLUX Turbo (fast)	50 credits
Standard / Anime	100 credits

Credits start at 0.1¢ each, so iterating through ten FLUX Turbo options to find the right one costs well under a dollar, not a designer’s invoice. If a render fails on our side, the credits are refunded automatically — a failed image never costs anything.

Free hosted to Pro: the path

There are two ways to run text-to-image, and you can start on the first and graduate to the second whenever it makes sense:

Free (hosted): install the plugin, connect your site with a one-time code, and generation runs on StudioUI’s GPUs billed per image in credits. No keys, no models to install, moderation applied automatically. This is the right starting point for almost everyone.
Pro ($149/yr): bring your own API keys (OpenAI, FLUX/BFL, fal.ai, Groq, Mistral and more) or point StudioUI at your own ComfyUI backend, and generate with no per-generation fees. Pro suits high volume, full model control, or private/self-hosted workflows. See self-hosting and bring-your-own-key.

Where to go next in this cluster

Text-to-image is the foundation for a lot of more specific jobs. If you have a concrete goal, these go deeper:

AI art generator — styles, genres and the creativity dial for artistic work.
AI logo generator — concepting logos and marks (ideation, not final vector art).
AI avatar generator — profile pictures and persona art.
FLUX on WordPress — the model behind most renders.
Blog images and product images — applied workflows.

FAQ

Do I need an API key or a GPU to start?

No. On the Free hosted tier you connect with a one-time code and pay per image in credits. Keys and self-hosting are optional Pro features for running without per-generation fees.

What resolution are the images?

The studio renders web-ready images suited to posts, products and social. For larger output you can run the result through the AI upscaler inside the same studio.

Can my visitors generate, or only admins?

Either. The studio is a page on your site, so you decide through normal WordPress permissions who can use it — admins only, logged-in members, or the public on a freemium page — and who pays in credits.

Who owns the generated images?

They render into your own media library on your own site. StudioUI is white-label, so your users never see our branding, and there’s no platform watermark on the output.

Can I charge members for text-to-image?

Yes. You buy credits wholesale and set your own retail price through standard WooCommerce; the margin is yours and StudioUI takes no cut. See selling AI images.

Add text-to-image to your site

Install StudioUI free, connect compute with a one-time code, and your site has a text-to-image studio in minutes — on your domain, at your prices.

Install free · See Pro — $149/yr