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.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.
LLM-extracted themes are model outputs that only exist when a customer left text behind. Treat them as plain database columns and selection, timing and measurement error can flip the sign of your regression.
WordPress Studio 1.9.0 ships a Blueprints Gallery, so you can browse, preview and launch pre-configured local sites without hunting for JSON files. It works from the Studio CLI too.
When your data outgrows your laptop’s RAM, Pandas stops being enough. Here’s how PySpark spreads the work across a cluster, why lazy evaluation matters, and a first DataFrame to get you started.
WooCommerce is rebuilding the All Products screen on top of WordPress DataViews and DataForms. Here is what the proof of concept changes, where it still falls short on performance, and why extension authors should test it now.
The Core AI team has new leadership, the Abilities API is in core, and the WP AI Client is headed for WordPress 7.0. Here’s why a shared infrastructure beats isolated AI plugins, and how to register your functions as Abilities.