A client’s migration left the cart broken and half the images 404ing. Here is the checklist I run instead: match the environments, handle serialized URLs properly, serve a 503 during the move, then crawl the whole site.
A WooCommerce store’s next-product links kept reloading the same page after an update. The cause was the WordPress 6.9 tiebreaker in get_adjacent_post(), plus a filter that only swapped the date out of the SQL.
A client updated to WordPress 6.9 the day it shipped and broke their landing page. Here is why I hold major core updates until the first maintenance release, and the filter I use to keep them in staging.
I wired a client’s store straight into one AI provider and regretted it two weeks later. The Abilities API and the WP AI Client give you a way to register tools and send prompts in WordPress without hardcoding a model.
A marketing team could not find a campaign page in Appearance > Menus. WordPress 6.9 narrowed the menu search to post titles, and one filter on wp_ajax_menu_quick_search_args brings the old behavior back.
A client’s launch caught on with a subreddit and their $5 shared plan started killing PHP workers, four hours of downtime at the worst moment. No caching code fixes a server with no workers left.
Notes puts editorial comments on the editor canvas, the Abilities API replaces scattered capability checks for automated workflows, and classic themes finally load block styles on demand.
A Make WordPress Core proposal would allow the PHP short echo tag for single statements. Here is why the old objection stopped applying at PHP 5.4, and how to keep the rule strict in your own phpcs.xml.
A 60-site multisite network taught me that bring-your-own-API-key doesn’t scale. Managed hosts should register AI providers through the WP AI Client, the same way they already hand you MySQL and an object cache.
A client’s WooCommerce store was slow because five plugins were each calling their own LLM API on every save. That is the problem the Ai_Client in WordPress 7.0 and the new Abilities layer are meant to solve.