The WordPress AI Client heads for Core 7.0
WordPress AI Client v0.4.0 rewrites the Google, Anthropic and OpenAI providers, adds PSR-14 events and a caching layer. What that means for plugin authors ahead of the February 19th Beta 1 for Core 7.0.
Author: Ahmad Wael
I'm a WordPress and WooCommerce developer with 15+ years of experience building custom e-commerce solutions and plugins. I specialize in PHP development, following WordPress coding standards to deliver clean, maintainable code. Currently, I'm exploring AI and e-commerce by building multi-agent systems and SaaS products that integrate technologies like Google Gemini API with WordPress platforms, approaching every project with a commitment to performance, security, and exceptional user experience.
WP-Bench: measuring how well AI models know WordPress
WordPress now has WP-Bench, a benchmark that tests AI models on Core APIs, security patterns and block development. It runs the generated code in a real WordPress runtime instead of grading answers on paper.
WordPress 7.0 developer features: what Gutenberg 22.3 shows
Gutenberg 22.3 is the first clear look at the WordPress 7.0 developer features: combined grid controls, a dedicated Fonts screen, and PHP-only block registration. Here is what each one changes on a production site.
Technical debt in AI development: the God function problem
AI can write a WooCommerce feature in seconds, and it usually writes it as one 150-line God function with a hard-coded API key. This is what that debt costs and how to refactor it into something maintainable.
WooCommerce developer office hours, January 21: open forum
The January WooCommerce developer office hours land on Slack on January 21, 2026, with no agenda. It is an hour for holiday war stories, stubborn bugs, and whatever people want to see on the 2026 roadmap.
CSS scroll-driven animations instead of 50KB of JavaScript
Notes from the Web Directions Dev Summit in Sydney, where the argument was that CSS scroll-driven animations make most JS scroll libraries pointless. Includes the CSS, and why prefers-reduced-motion is not optional.
AWS Bedrock instead of direct API calls for WordPress AI
Hardcoded API keys hold up until the first model deprecation. Here is how I use AWS Bedrock as the gateway instead: Boto3 calls, inference profiles, IAM permissions, and a triage assistant that runs on Lambda rather than inside the WordPress request cycle.
How I actually use Claude Code as a WordPress dev
Chatting with an LLM in a browser tab is a bottleneck. This is the Claude Code setup I use instead: slash commands for the prompts I repeat, an AGENTS.md file for project memory, and plan mode before any code gets written.
How Infini-attention keeps long context from eating memory
Longer context windows cost server memory, not just compute. Infini-attention replaces the growing KV cache with a fixed-size compressive memory matrix updated by a Delta Rule, which cut memory use by 114x in Google’s tests.
Why correlated features break Shapley value explanations
SHAP is treated as the default for model transparency, but correlated features dilute the signal through the Symmetry Axiom. Grouping features into concepts and picking them iteratively gives explanations you can act on.