Lately, the WordPress.com beta that turns Telegram into a blog
WordPress.com’s Lately beta lets you blog through Telegram. You message the WordPress Agent during the week, then edit and send a private letter to approved friends every Friday.
Category: Development
WordPress AI development after 7.0: Abilities, secrets and C2PA
WordPress 7.0 is out, and the AI work behind it keeps moving. Here is what the AI contributors are working on: scaling the Abilities API, a Secrets Management API, hook-based init, and keeping C2PA metadata in the media library.
Why LLM themes are not valid database observations
LLM-extracted themes are model outputs that only exist when a customer left text behind. Treat them as plain database columns and selection, timing and measurement error can flip the sign of your regression.
The Blueprints Gallery lands in WordPress Studio 1.9.0
WordPress Studio 1.9.0 ships a Blueprints Gallery, so you can browse, preview and launch pre-configured local sites without hunting for JSON files. It works from the Studio CLI too.
PySpark for beginners: scaling past what Pandas can hold
When your data outgrows your laptop’s RAM, Pandas stops being enough. Here’s how PySpark spreads the work across a cluster, why lazy evaluation matters, and a first DataFrame to get you started.
WordPress Easy Site Editor: handy AI shortcut or a dev headache?
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.
Gutenberg 23.2 brings real responsive design to the Site Editor
Gutenberg 23.2 adds experimental per-breakpoint block styles in Global Styles, motion design tokens, bottom-sheet modals on mobile, and fixes for race conditions in real-time collaboration.
WooCommerce catalog management is getting a native rebuild
WooCommerce is rebuilding the All Products screen on top of WordPress DataViews and DataForms. Here is what the proof of concept changes, where it still falls short on performance, and why extension authors should test it now.
Synthetic survey respondents: why the mean lies to you
Off-the-shelf LLMs make poor synthetic survey respondents because they collapse to the mean. Unlearning memorized statistics with gradient ascent brings back the spread you see in real populations.
Cross-document view transitions: the gotchas that break your UX
Cross-document view transitions give multi-page sites a native-app feel, but they fail silently. Here’s how to replace the deprecated meta tag, handle the 4-second timeout, and stop images from stretching mid-transition.