WordPress pulled Campus Connect, Credits, and Student Clubs into one education hub. Notes on what the 150-hour credit program means if you hire junior developers, or if you have been thinking about mentoring one.
WordPress 7.0 raises the minimum PHP version to 7.4.0 when it lands in April 2026, so sites still on 7.2 or 7.3 need a plan. Also covers the 6.9.1 maintenance release on February 3 and the open core rep nominations.
Built-in DAX time intelligence handles a standard Gregorian calendar fine, but custom fiscal years are another story. Where the built-in functions stop helping, and how a row rank column took one client’s moving average from 500ms to 110ms.
Matching a 1440px Figma file coordinate for coordinate produces CSS full of magic numbers that breaks on the first foldable phone or bumped font size. What to agree on with designers instead: tokens, fluid units, and rules about behavior.
I shipped a button that passed every automated audit and still could not be triggered with a screen reader. The cause was a role attribute I had added for styling, which is the exact thing the first rule of ARIA warns about.
The 2025 Web Almanac covers 17.2 million sites. Variable fonts and text-wrap are finally common, but median mobile page weight is up 202.8% since 2015 and two thirds of sites strip their focus outlines.
Healthcare treats data as an ontology rather than a row, which is why its knowledge graphs outlive the systems built on them. Layered ontologies, regulated vocabularies, and what web developers could borrow from both.
Version 0.2.0 of WordPress AI Experiments adds excerpt generation that authors can edit or reject, and an Abilities Explorer screen for testing every registered ability in the browser.
Keeping up with CSS is a filtering problem more than a reading problem. I traded years of RSS folders for the I Heart CSS squad on DailyDev, and this is what a curated feed does that a raw aggregator never did.
Cursor turns a four-hour refactor into a 20-minute one, but only with a plan. My four steps: spot the trigger, write a plan.md, let Claude execute with test scripts, then compare the output against the original.