Agencies keep running their own servers to protect margins, then spend their best hours keeping those servers alive. Ajit Bohra moved 80% of LUBUS projects onto WordPress.com for Agencies instead. Here is the workflow and what it takes off your plate.
A contact form can be technically perfect and still lose the lead if the submission just lands in an inbox. Normalizing data in the browser, guarding against double submits, and structuring the webhook payload so a CRM can read it.
Fourteen years of watching “this will kill development” trends come and go, and the pattern holds. AI in data science makes the boring parts faster, then stalls where the ambiguity, the trade-offs and the client relationship begin.
Buying every tool with an AI suffix is not a strategy. Splitting autonomous from augmented productivity, why a broken human process makes an agent hallucinate, and where the return on a 2026 AI budget actually sits.
WP Packages is a community-funded replacement for WPackagist from the Roots team. It speaks the Composer v2 metadata protocol, so a ten-plugin resolve takes 0.7 seconds instead of 12.3. Here is what changed and how to move your composer.json over.
Quantum computing with Python has moved from research papers to something you can simulate on a laptop. Bits versus qubits, what superposition and entanglement actually do, and a first circuit in IBM’s Qiskit.
WordPress 7.0 RC2 landed on March 26 and trunk is now 7.1-alpha. What that means for your test environments, the two-committer backport rule, the string freeze, and which tickets still make the 7.0 milestone.
WordPress 7.0 RC2 is out, with the final release set for April 9, 2026. How to install it with WP-CLI or Playground, and what to stress test first: real-time collaboration, pattern editing, and the Connectors AI endpoints.
Wrapping a model in DDP is the easy part. The rest of the pipeline is where distributed runs go wrong: process group setup, calling set_epoch on the sampler every epoch, and keeping checkpoint writes on rank 0.
An unplanned Beta 6 arrived on March 20, 2026 and pushed WordPress 7.0’s RC1 to March 24. The extra cycle covers the DataViews admin overhaul and the PHP 7.2/7.3 drop, and the release also brings the Connectors API for credential handling.