An AI chat over your WooCommerce orders will hand you confident numbers that don’t match Analytics. Let the model pick the question and let your code answer it. Here’s how I’d wire that with one REST endpoint and a strict args schema.
A beginner’s notebook ETL pipeline gets the shape right: pull, clean, save. Here’s how I’d move it into WordPress, with proper wp_remote_get error handling, a better place to load the data, and a schedule that actually runs.
A Towards Data Science post walks data scientists through calling REST APIs from Python, which is fine in a notebook. In a WordPress plugin the same call needs wp_remote_get, error checks, a transient and a key kept out of the code. This is the version I ship.
WordPress.com launched Jetpack Podcast, which publishes audio next to your blog and newsletter. Here’s why owning the RSS feed is the real win, plus how to extend that feed with a couple of PHP hooks.
WordPress.com’s Posts to Podcast feature turns blog posts into AI-generated audio from the dashboard. I look at how it stores the files, the media bloat risk, and how to manage the assets with WP-CLI and a theme hook.
Tightening the prompt won’t make an LLM integration reliable in production. Here’s the control layer I put between WordPress and the model: input guards, a circuit breaker, response validation and retries.
Hannah Shamji’s four levels of customer understanding, read from a developer’s side. What users say is the weakest signal, what they do is better, and the reason behind it is what you actually need to fix.
WordPress 7.1 is planned for August 19, 2026, with a smaller release squad that leans on the Make Team Reps. Here is the schedule, how to test the alpha with WP-CLI, and which lead roles are open.
A spinner tells users nothing when an AI agent takes 20 seconds to think. These are the patterns I use instead: specific status updates, a thinking toggle, checklists that handle partial success, and a saved audit trail.
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.