WooCommerce.com now runs its production store on Nightly WC Core. An AI-assisted pipeline handles patch replays and diff reviews, and the setup has already caught a dropped 15GB index before it could ship in 10.8.
Felix Arntz and James are stepping back as Core AI Team Reps, and Jason Adams takes over. The handover lands as the Abilities API matures and the WP AI Client heads into core for WordPress 7.0.
Using Claude for data science now goes well past chat prompts. Three skills I’d pick up: throwaway interactive dashboards for EDA, Claude Cowork for Jira and reporting chores, and Claude Code for tracing broken dbt pipelines.
The WordPress AI plugin 1.0.0 adds Request Logging and Connector Approvals, which give site owners real control over which plugins use AI and what they spend. Here is what changed and what developers should do about it.
The latest WordPress.com sprint brought Jetpack Podcast, the WordPress Workspace Mac app with an AI agent, and a Blueprints Gallery in Studio. The common thread is local-first development and less repeated setup work.
A production recommender on Amazon EKS lives or dies on infrastructure, not the model. Here’s how I set up a multistage system with NVIDIA Triton, cut feature lookup latency with an in-memory cache, and scale GPU nodes with HPA and Karpenter.
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.