WordPress 7.0 Beta 5 adds a Command Palette shortcut to the admin bar and closes more than 101 bugs. What the shortcut does, how to register your own commands with the API, and why I update beta sites with WP-CLI.
Most like-for-like reporting gets solved in DAX and then runs slowly. This is the model I build instead: a bridge table with a store-month key, the comparison logic in SQL and Power Query, and a sales measure that is nothing but SUM.
Chaining agents multiplies errors instead of dividing work: DeepMind measured up to 17.2x amplification. Here is the math behind that, the three topologies that hold up in production, and the checklist I run before shipping an agentic system.
Moment.js is in maintenance mode and still costs you bundle size. The JS Temporal API is native, immutable and Stage 4, so this walks through creating dates, arithmetic, Intl formatting and a time zone refactor in a WooCommerce extension.
WordPress Studio added Xdebug support and a dedicated debug log toggle. Here is how I turn both on, the one-site-at-a-time catch, and the port your IDE has to listen on.
PythoC compiles a subset of Python into standalone native binaries through LLVM. My notes on the 40x Fibonacci run, the print() that produces nothing, and the cases where a native compiler is the wrong tool.
WordPress 7.0 moves width and height into block supports and adds dimensionSizes presets to theme.json. What goes in block.json, and which custom inspector controls you can finally delete.
Real test data is usually missing right when you need it. How I generate varied synthetic WooCommerce orders with an LLM, and the two ways it goes wrong: context rot, and only ever prompting for the happy path.
Pure semantic search stops finding part numbers and SKUs. Why I pair embeddings with a BM25 keyword index, what the k1 and b parameters change, and how rank fusion merges the two result sets.
WordPress 7.0 syncs the block editor through Yjs, and one classic meta box switches the whole thing off. Migrating meta to the REST API, swapping HTTP polling for WebSockets, and the block side effects that fire for every editor in the session.