WooCommerce 10.5 now disables the Add to Cart button on variable products by default to prevent race conditions. If you’ve dequeued the core variation scripts but kept the default templates, your buttons will remain disabled. Learn how to refactor your custom JavaScript to fix this and ensure a smooth checkout experience.
Stop relying on unreliable LLM-as-judge methods. Learn how to detect LLM hallucinations using geometric Displacement Consistency (DC). By analyzing the vector displacement between queries and responses in embedding space, developers can identify fabricated information with high precision without external documents or additional model calls. Perfect for WordPress AI integrations.
WordPress 7.0 is officially dropping support for PHP 7.2 and 7.3 in April 2026. This move raises the minimum requirement to PHP 7.4, impacting site performance and security. Senior developer Ahmad Wael breaks down why this technical debt cleanup is necessary and how to prepare your plugins for the shift.
WooCommerce 10.5 introduces a game-changing experimental feature: Product Object Caching. This in-memory cache prevents redundant database loads during a single request, offering up to 13% speed improvements for variable products. Ahmad Wael breaks down how it works, the performance benchmarks, and the critical “gotchas” for developers using direct SQL updates.
Scaling Large Language Models often leads to massive memory bottlenecks in the final Cross-Entropy layer. Ahmad Wael explains how Fused Kernels, built with Triton, can slash VRAM usage by 84% using tiling and online softmax. Learn how to eliminate the logit bottleneck and avoid the dreaded OOM errors in production.
WordPress has launched a centralized hub for WordPress Education programs, consolidating Campus Connect, Credits, and Student Clubs. This long-overdue update simplifies the contributor pipeline, providing clear entry points for students and mentors. For senior devs and agencies, this represents a structured path for fostering new talent within the open-source ecosystem.
WordPress 7.0 is dropping support for PHP 7.2 and 7.3, raising the minimum requirement to 7.4.0. With the 6.9.1 maintenance release scheduled for February 2026 and Core Rep nominations open, developers must act now. Learn how to audit your legacy infrastructure and prepare for these critical WordPress Core Updates.
While Calendar-Based Time Intelligence simplifies many DAX calculations, it isn’t a complete replacement for custom logic, especially in complex enterprise models. Ahmad Wael explores the performance trade-offs between standard functions and optimized custom patterns like Row Ranks for moving averages in Power BI.
Stop chasing pixels in 2026. Rigid “Pixel Perfect” design is a toxic holdover from print that creates brittle, inaccessible codebases. Learn how Ahmad Wael shifts the focus to Design Intent, fluid systems, and CSS tokens to build robust WordPress sites that adapt to any viewport without breaking.
I shipped a component that felt perfect, but a screen reader user couldn’t trigger it. I’d violated the first rule of ARIA by being too clever. Learn why semantic HTML beats custom roles every time and how to avoid the common mistakes that break accessibility in modern WordPress development.