What managed WordPress hosting fixes in an agency stack
Most agencies build their own stack and end up debugging Nginx instead of shipping. What plugin bloat really costs, and what Encircle Technologies changed when they moved to managed hosting.
Tag: APIs
Causal inference and the accuracy trap in ML
A readmission model with 94% accuracy made things worse because it found a correlation, not a cause. Where Pearl’s ladder of causation comes in, and how DoWhy’s four steps keep you honest.
Why NumPy and Pandas give different variance results
Same ten numbers, two different variances. NumPy defaults to the population formula and Pandas to the sample one. Here is what ddof does and how to set it so your pipeline and your prototype finally agree.
How JavaScript destructuring cleans up WordPress code
Manually reassigning object properties is a habit worth dropping. Array and object patterns, nested REST API responses, and rest properties, with the WordPress and WooCommerce cases where each one saves you lines.
Pattern overrides in WP 7.0 now work with custom blocks
WordPress 7.0 lets any block that supports Block Bindings take part in Pattern Overrides, not just the old Core list. You opt a custom block in with the block_bindings_supported_attributes filter.
Personalized restaurant ranking without the popularity trap
Popularity sorting puts the same big chain at the top of every shelf. A lightweight two-tower embedding setup, with a frozen TinyBERT on the item side, ranks restaurants by what the user is browsing for.
Where to cache in a RAG pipeline besides the prompt
Prompt caching gets all the attention while the expensive work happens before the model sees a token. Five places to cache in a RAG pipeline, from query embeddings to full query-response pairs, with a transients example for WordPress.
When self-hosting an LLM beats paying per token
The API bill is the usual reason teams look at their own hardware, and privacy is the better one. Which benchmarks to trust for agents, how far you can quantize before logic breaks, what a single A100 on GCP costs, and serving Qwen 3.5-27B with vLLM.
What the plugin directory MCP server gives your IDE
WordPress.org now runs an MCP server for the plugin directory, so an AI assistant can validate readme.txt, check where a submission sits in the queue and read the guidelines from the source. The review team still holds you responsible for the code.
You can now run the WordPress Plugin Directory locally
The Plugin Directory now ships a wp-env setup, so you can boot a local copy instead of guessing how its backend behaves. Here is what works inside it, and where it stops short of the live site.