WordPress Core AI leadership changes on the road to 7.0
Felix Arntz and James are stepping back as Core AI Team Reps, and Jason Adams takes over. The handover lands as the Abilities API matures and the WP AI Client heads into core for WordPress 7.0.
Category: Development
3 Claude skills worth learning as a data scientist in 2026
Using Claude for data science now goes well past chat prompts. Three skills I’d pick up: throwaway interactive dashboards for EDA, Claude Cowork for Jira and reporting chores, and Claude Code for tracing broken dbt pipelines.
WordPress AI plugin 1.0.0 is really about governance
The WordPress AI plugin 1.0.0 adds Request Logging and Connector Approvals, which give site owners real control over which plugins use AI and what they spend. Here is what changed and what developers should do about it.
Mastering React Performance: Proven Tips for Faster Apps
Improve your web application’s speed and user experience with our comprehensive guide on React performance optimization. Learn essential techniques like component memoization, profiling, and efficient list rendering to ensure your apps run smoothly on all devices. This article provides actionable steps and code examples to help you optimize your React code like a professional developer today.
WordPress.com adds a Mac AI workspace and Studio Blueprints
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.
CSS sibling-index() replaces your nth-child stagger hacks
Staggered animations used to mean a pile of nth-child rules or an SCSS loop. CSS sibling-index() and sibling-count() handle it in the stylesheet, however many items the grid has, with no JavaScript.
Building a multimodal recommender system on Amazon EKS
A production recommender on Amazon EKS lives or dies on infrastructure, not the model. Here’s how I set up a multistage system with NVIDIA Triton, cut feature lookup latency with an in-memory cache, and scale GPU nodes with HPA and Karpenter.
WordPress 7.0 release process: code freeze, dry run and testing
WordPress 7.0 ships on May 20, 2026. Here is what the dry run and the 24-hour code freeze actually involve, and what I’d test (IIS, older PHP, multisite) before the release party in #core Slack.
AI-generated code quality and the logical debt it leaves behind
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.
The Essential Plugin attack and how WordPress.com cleaned it up
The Essential Plugin attack backdoored more than 30 trusted plugins after the portfolio changed hands. I walk through how the wpos-analytics module worked, why unserialize() on remote data is so dangerous, and how WordPress.com cleaned up 2,200+ affected sites.