Gutenberg 22.5 introduces significant refinements for WordPress developers, including native custom CSS support for individual blocks and aspect ratio controls for wide-aligned images. This update also improves the List View by displaying actual item content, making complex site navigation easier than ever. Learn why these architectural wins matter for your workflow.
WordPress 7.0 is bringing major changes for developers, including the long-awaited ‘always iframed’ editor and native viewport-based block visibility. From architectural shifts in Gutenberg 22.5 to the new WordPress Studio CLI updates, Senior Developer Ahmad Wael breaks down the features you need to know before the February 19th deadline.
The ‘Everything Prompt’ is dying. Google’s new Interactions API introduces persistent, stateful AI sessions and background agentic workflows. Learn why moving beyond ephemeral chat loops is essential for building reliable, high-performance WordPress integrations and how to manage long-running deep research tasks without timing out your server.
Stop building on borrowed land. Andrew Adetitun, founder of The King’s Monologue, used a WordPress AI website builder to transition from social media viral success to true ownership. Discover why owning your platform is the only real strategy for long-term business stability and how even developers are choosing speed over manual code.
A technical deep dive into the YOLOv2 architecture. Senior WordPress developer Ahmad Wael reviews the shift from YOLOv1, focusing on batch normalization, anchor boxes, and the Darknet-19 backbone. Includes a detailed PyTorch walkthrough for implementing the architecture from scratch to ensure production-grade performance and stability in AI-driven applications.
Building a strong online presence for a new business requires more than just launching a website. Learn the 11 pragmatic steps to success, from defining your core value proposition to securing your technical foundation with managed hosting and high-impact content. Ahmad Wael shares 14 years of WordPress insights to help you convert visitors into customers.
Agentic Coding moves beyond simple AI chat to provide context-aware solutions for WordPress development. Learn a senior developer’s 3-step workflow—Discover, Plan, and Execute—using tools like Claude Code to analyze logs, identify bottlenecks, and automate complex bug fixing without manual guesswork or broken site deployments.
Anthropic’s Claude Code is a productivity beast, but its monthly subscription cost can be a major bottleneck for independent developers. Learn how to use Ollama’s new Anthropic API compatibility to run Claude Code for free using local, open-source models like Qwen3-Coder. I’ll walk you through the setup and the environment variables you need.
Building a Python Turtle Etch A Sketch is more than a beginner’s exercise; it’s a deep dive into event-driven logic and coordinate systems. Learn how to manage object instances, handle keyboard events, and avoid common ‘junior’ mistakes like trailing lines, all while following a senior developer’s approach to clean, structured code.
The WordPress AI Client is officially proposed for the WordPress 7.0 core merge. In this update, Ahmad Wael breaks down why the shift toward provider-agnostic infrastructure, separate plugin repositories for OpenAI and Anthropic, and constant-based “kill switches” are the right pragmatic moves for the future of the platform.