A store was throwing random 500 errors at checkout because a deleted flash-sale product was still sitting in customer carts. WooCommerce 10.3.6 fixes that class of crash, along with a PHP 8.4 failure in the Helper updater.
A law firm got a WordPress site out of an AI builder in ten minutes, then came back two weeks later with a broken contact form and no search traffic. How I treat AI output as scaffolding instead of a finished build.
A client’s admin was three AI plugins deep, each with its own API key and settings page. The AI Experiments plugin v0.1.0 offers a registry and a base class instead, so features get built once against a standard API.
I wired a client’s store straight into one AI provider and regretted it two weeks later. The Abilities API and the WP AI Client give you a way to register tools and send prompts in WordPress without hardcoding a model.
Notes puts editorial comments on the editor canvas, the Abilities API replaces scattered capability checks for automated workflows, and classic themes finally load block styles on demand.
A 60-site multisite network taught me that bring-your-own-API-key doesn’t scale. Managed hosts should register AI providers through the WP AI Client, the same way they already hand you MySQL and an object cache.
A client’s WooCommerce store was slow because five plugins were each calling their own LLM API on every save. That is the problem the Ai_Client in WordPress 7.0 and the new Abilities layer are meant to solve.
A client wanted a sparkle button by Friday. What WordPress 6.9 actually shipped matters more: the Abilities API and the MCP adapter, which give AI agents a defined way to talk to a site.
The November 2025 core committers check-in set the direction for WordPress 7.0: PHP 7.4 as the minimum, AI models running in the browser instead of on your server, and a reworked WP Admin.
A wrapper around a few REST endpoints wasn’t enough to keep an AI agent alive through a timeout. Version 0.3.0 of the WordPress MCP Adapter covers what I had to hand-roll: HttpTransport, WP_Error responses, prefixed hooks and one event stream.