A qubit can’t be copied or measured without damage, so quantum error correction checks properties instead of states. That is the same trick as wp core verify-checksums. Here is what web developers can take from it.
WordPress.org now holds new plugin releases for up to 24 hours before auto-updates ship them, so an AI reviewer can scan the diff first. That changes which plugins you should trust with automatic updates, and which ones still need a human.
WordPress 7.1 wants your browser to resize uploads with libvips in WebAssembly, and the server to just store them. The gates are narrow, the fallback is silent, and media plugins that hook PHP have real testing to do before this ships.
WooCommerce 10.9 puts color swatches in core behind a feature flag, but only block themes see them, and only inside the Add to Cart + Options block. Here is how I check a store, enable it, and move swatch data off an old plugin.
The CSS @function at-rule is here, and the loud take is that it replaces Sass. It doesn’t, quite: the function body follows the cascade, ordering matters, and unsupported browsers drop your declaration. Here’s how I’d use it on a theme today.
Fine-tuning a forecasting model on sales history alone bought less than a point of WAPE in the source runs. Feeding it known-future covariates first cut error from 8.4 to 2.8 percent. The adapter is the small lever here; the inputs are the big one.
WordCamp Europe 2026 wrapped in Kraków with 2,458 attendees, CERN’s flagship site now on WordPress, and AI plumbing landing in core with 7.0. What I’d copy from CERN’s platform, what the AI client means for client sites, and the question I left with.
On-policy learning improves the behavior you are already running, off-policy learning lets you behave one way and learn about another. That choice decides whether you can train on your store’s logged data or need fresh traffic, and why the winning variant from a noisy test usually looks worse after you ship it.
Antoine Villepreux removed the last JavaScript from a CSS pie chart on CSS-Tricks. The trick worth taking isn’t the missing script, it’s putting the values on the parent and computing slice offsets there. Here’s how I’d do the same loop in PHP so every browser gets the chart.
The case for letting a framework generate and score your prompts, and the part nobody mentions for WordPress: the optimization runs offline, and the prompt ships into your plugin as a plain PHP constant. Notes on when that’s worth the setup and when it isn’t.