A client’s AI recommendation engine turned out to be raw curl calls dropped into single.php, pinned to a deprecated API version. Core’s PHP AI Client and Abilities API work is the standard that kind of build has been missing.
A client wanted their block plugin hosted under the WordPress GitHub organization and found the path opaque. Here are the actual criteria: community ownership, a sponsoring Make team, more than one maintainer, and what happens when maintenance stops.
A client’s store slowed to a crawl right after someone clicked update to WooCommerce 10.4. Here is what the release actually changes in the REST API, the Store API and the block editor, and which custom code you should review first.
A client’s booking plugin started throwing fatal errors after a theme update, because both files defined get_data(). Prefixing the function bought five minutes. Here is what proper PHP namespacing does instead.
A client’s plugin was rejected twice and the code was never the problem. The readme.txt was not in English, which the plugin review team requires, and that file is also the source text every translation is built from.
Plugins have always exposed their features however they liked, so integration meant writing a wrapper per plugin and repairing it after every update. The Abilities API in WordPress 6.9 replaces that with one registration format.
A client’s AI plugins each shipped their own settings screen and each asked for API keys they had already entered. The Core AI check-in from October 8th, 2025 covers both fixes: categories on the Abilities API, and one provider settings screen.
An off-the-shelf AI plugin left a client with a slow backend and alt text that had nothing to do with the images. The core AI discussions point somewhere better: content summaries, post titles and image descriptions behind one PHP AI Client.
A WooCommerce shop inherited custom plugins that broke on every update and dragged the admin down. The fix was not more hotfixes, it was the basics: prefixed functions, core hooks, sanitized input and capability checks.
A client wanted AI features on his WordPress site and every plugin used a different API. The new WordPress AI Client SDK gives plugins and themes one consistent, WP-native API for multiple providers.