The latest WordPress.com sprint brought Jetpack Podcast, the WordPress Workspace Mac app with an AI agent, and a Blueprints Gallery in Studio. The common thread is local-first development and less repeated setup work.
Stack Overflow’s question volume has collapsed and developers now ask AI instead. I look at why AI-generated code quality is turning into a security and maintenance problem for WordPress sites, with a WooCommerce example.
WordPress.com has a beta of the Easy Site Editor, a chat panel that edits your site through MCP. It’s fast for small changes, but developers should watch how it handles layout control and block restrictions.
A static RAG pipeline goes stale fast. Here’s why grounding LLMs with live search results works better for real-time facts, and how to wire a search API into your WordPress backend with PHP and transients.
A demo that works one time in ten is a liability, not a feature. Here is why LLMs hallucinate, why their confidence scores lie, and how I validate AI output in WordPress before it ever reaches a user.
I stopped hand-reviewing every line my coding agents write. What I do instead: fine-grained permissions in settings.json, a strict deny list for destructive commands, and a second agent that reviews the first one’s work.
I spent months trying to make Claude Code my main tool, but since GPT-5.5 I’ve moved complex WordPress refactoring back to OpenAI Codex. Here’s my setup: reasoning levels, Playwright MCP, and a worktree alias.
WordPress 7.0 brings a central Connectors hub and a Connector Approval flow for AI credentials. Here’s what the May 2026 plan means in practice: custom tables for request logging, the AI Plugin 1.0.0 release, and what the approval flow does and doesn’t protect.
Chunk-and-embed RAG loses the hierarchy that gives a 200-page contract its meaning. How the Proxy-Pointer framework indexes structural breadcrumbs instead of raw text, and how the two-stage retrieval works in Python.
I stopped hand-holding Claude Code and gave it a nightly review instead: a self-reflection skill, a 2 AM cron job, and a rules file it edits itself. This is the setup I run on real WordPress work.