AI tools guess at your store because they cannot see it. MCP gives them real context: your files, your data, your WP-CLI. We talk it through at WooCommerce office hours on April 15, 2026, on Slack.
Pinecone and Chroma are a lot of machinery for a few hundred Markdown notes. The Google Memory Agent Pattern keeps structured memories in SQLite, consolidates them in the background, and loads them straight into a large context window.
Updating WooCommerce PayPal Payments to v4.0.0 sent a lot of store owners a pile of “payment gateway enabled” emails. Nobody was hacked: the update split hidden Alternative Payment Methods into separate gateways. Here is what changed and what to check in your settings.
How I set up Python for data migrations and site audits: Black and Ruff for formatting and linting, Mypy for data shapes, pre-commit hooks as a gate, and py-spy when something runs slow.
Automattic shipped two updates to WordPress Studio: a standalone CLI you install from npm, and phpMyAdmin access from the Overview tab. Here is how to turn both on and where each one fits next to the desktop app.
A read through the CSS Olfactive API draft: the scent-profile property, the whf potency unit, the prefers-reduced-pungency query, and why the missing hardware and browser support leave nothing to test yet.
How I pick features for credit scoring models in Python: Kruskal-Wallis for continuous variables, Cramer’s V for categorical ones, and Spearman rank correlation to catch redundant pairs before any training starts.
WordPress 7.0 ships real-time collaboration over HTTP polling, which is fine until traffic picks up. Here is how I swap in a WebSocket transport with Yjs and the sync.providers filter, and what the auth side has to look like.
Notes from the Dev Chat on WordPress 7.0: the AI Client and Connectors API, why the release cycle got extended, the left navigation rethink, and the argument over YouTube support in the Cover block.
WordPress 7.0 brings AI into core through the AI Client and the Abilities API. Here is what wp_ai_client_prompt() actually does, how to test it now, and what the Core AI team will work on during Contributor Day at WordCamp Asia 2026 in Mumbai.