WordPress has retired the “beta” label for PHP 8.3, 8.4 and 8.5 support, and 7.0 no longer runs on anything below PHP 7.4. Here is what changed and why it is time to stop treating PHP 8 as experimental.
WordPress.com launched Jetpack Podcast, which publishes audio next to your blog and newsletter. Here’s why owning the RSS feed is the real win, plus how to extend that feed with a couple of PHP hooks.
Naive RAG wrappers that just chunk PDFs into a vector store break on real contracts and reports. Here is the four-brick approach I use instead: structured parsing, question parsing with an expert dictionary, filtered retrieval, and typed generation.
WordPress.com’s Posts to Podcast feature turns blog posts into AI-generated audio from the dashboard. I look at how it stores the files, the media bloat risk, and how to manage the assets with WP-CLI and a theme hook.
Tightening the prompt won’t make an LLM integration reliable in production. Here’s the control layer I put between WordPress and the model: input guards, a circuit breaker, response validation and retries.
WooCommerce.com now runs its production store on Nightly WC Core. An AI-assisted pipeline handles patch replays and diff reviews, and the setup has already caught a dropped 15GB index before it could ship in 10.8.
Hannah Shamji’s four levels of customer understanding, read from a developer’s side. What users say is the weakest signal, what they do is better, and the reason behind it is what you actually need to fix.
WordPress 7.1 is planned for August 19, 2026, with a smaller release squad that leans on the Make Team Reps. Here is the schedule, how to test the alpha with WP-CLI, and which lead roles are open.
Most centering doesn’t need a flex or grid hack anymore. This post covers align-content on plain block elements, text-box trimming for text that actually looks centered, the safe keyword, and anchor-center for tooltips.
A spinner tells users nothing when an AI agent takes 20 seconds to think. These are the patterns I use instead: specific status updates, a thinking toggle, checklists that handle partial success, and a saved audit trail.