Notes on the WordPress 7.0 AI integration roadmap: the WP AI Client merge proposal, the GatherPress demo built on the Abilities API, how the native client compares to the MCP adapter, and what has to land before the February 19 Beta 1 deadline.
WordPress.com now has an official Claude Connector built on MCP and OAuth 2.1. It gives Claude read-only access to site data like traffic, comments and content, with no custom REST bridge to maintain. Here is what it can do, how to switch it on, and where it stops.
Chart libraries are heavy for four bars. Here is a CSS Grid bar chart that uses sibling-index() and attr() to read its values straight off the markup, plus the PHP helper I use to render it in WordPress.
Part 2 of the SageMaker vs Azure ML series, this time on compute. Azure keeps clusters as persistent workspace assets while SageMaker spins them up per job and tears them down after, plus spot instances, checkpointing and container control.
A Pandas iterrows() loop over 3.5 million flight records took about 170 seconds. py-spy is a sampling profiler that shows where the time went without slowing the script down, and the vectorized NumPy rewrite does the same work in 0.56 seconds.
loc selects by label, iloc by position, and their slicing rules disagree: loc includes the stop value, iloc excludes it. Here is when I use each one, plus the duplicate-index case where loc quietly breaks a model.
Separate repos for the React frontend and the WordPress backend are why payloads drift out of sync. Notes on moving to a monorepo with Roots Bedrock, keeping an AGENTS.md map of endpoints for coding agents, and the stale REST cache that broke a checkout.
Pre-built agent toolboxes break the moment a client asks something you did not plan for. Here is the plan-code-execute setup I use instead, where the agent writes its own Python, plus the hallucinated CSV that taught me why the analyst step is mandatory.
The WordPress Foundation, UIC and Automattic are running a paid micro-credential pilot called AI Leaders: 80 students in Illinois and Louisiana, a $1,000 stipend, and real WordPress AI work instead of prompt-writing exercises. Here is what that changes for hiring.
WooCommerce 10.5 was due on February 3, 2026 and did not ship. Removing the AccessiblePrivateMethods trait looked risky enough in testing that the team left it in, with a status update set for February 4 at 12pm UTC.