Ahmad Wael explores Telex, Automattic’s experimental AI tool designed to generate a WordPress theme using natural language prompts. Learn how to scaffold modern block themes, enhance prompts for better design briefs, and test your generated ZIP files in WordPress Playground without risking your live production site.
WordPress 7.0 introduces the Connectors API, a new framework to standardize how the CMS handles external service connections. Initially focused on AI providers, this API manages API keys and provider discovery. Learn the technical nuances of the registry lifecycle, security risks with unencrypted keys, and how to correctly override connector metadata.
Shadow AI isn’t a bug; it’s a feature of modern work. Learn why fighting “desire paths” in your organization fails and how to build a Shadow AI Governance strategy that prioritizes visibility over suppression. Ahmad Wael explains why locking down tools is killing your productivity and how to build secure, governed alternatives.
WordPress 7.0 introduces native viewport-based block visibility, allowing developers to show or hide blocks on mobile, tablet, or desktop. However, there is a critical distinction between CSS-based hiding and DOM exclusion that affects performance and server-side parsing. Learn how to refactor your code for the new metadata structure.
AI coding assistants are changing the way we build WordPress sites, but at what cost? Ahmad Wael critiques the shift toward ‘vibe coding’ and shows why relying on tools like Copilot for complex WooCommerce logic often leads to performance bottlenecks and technical debt. Learn how to refactor AI code for production stability.
Google just released Gemini Embeddings 2 Preview, a natively multimodal model that maps text, images, audio, and video into a single vector space. This shift simplifies RAG architectures for WordPress developers, though technical constraints on video and audio duration remain. Learn how to integrate this model using the WordPress HTTP API.
Writing code is no longer the bottleneck—reviewing it is. Learn how senior developers optimize reviewing Claude Code output using automated PR skills and HTML report hacks. Stop shipping “vibe code” and start using technical precision to catch logic errors, race conditions, and poor error handling before they hit production.
Stop adding “delight” that creates emotional whiplash. Learn the difference between Emotion in Flow and Emotion in Conflict by comparing anime narrative pacing to Marvel-style gags. Discover how to use Don Norman’s three levels of emotional design and microinteractions to build higher-conversion digital products that users actually trust.
WordPress 7.0 introduces native Custom CSS for individual block instances, finally eliminating the need for complex workarounds involving custom classes and Global Styles. This update uses hash-based scoped classes to ensure instance-specific styling remains clean, maintainable, and properly prioritized over default theme styles in the Block Editor.
Stop letting arbitrary p-values ruin your engineering intuition. Bayesian Thinking is the framework senior developers use to combine years of experience with new data to make better decisions. Learn how to update your priors, avoid the “mammogram trap,” and apply the PRIOR framework to your production site’s analytics and debugging today.