WordPress 7.0 ships on May 20, 2026. Here is what the dry run and the 24-hour code freeze actually involve, and what I’d test (IIS, older PHP, multisite) before the release party in #core Slack.
Stack Overflow’s question volume has collapsed and developers now ask AI instead. I look at why AI-generated code quality is turning into a security and maintenance problem for WordPress sites, with a WooCommerce example.
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.
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.
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.
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.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.
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.
The Core AI team has new leadership, the Abilities API is in core, and the WP AI Client is headed for WordPress 7.0. Here’s why a shared infrastructure beats isolated AI plugins, and how to register your functions as Abilities.
A static RAG pipeline goes stale fast. Here’s why grounding LLMs with live search results works better for real-time facts, and how to wire a search API into your WordPress backend with PHP and transients.