A plugin showing a green arrow is not proof that a variant won. This post walks through a 2×2 chi-square test in PHP: expected counts, degrees of freedom, the 3.84 cutoff at p=0.05, and the four assumptions that break the result.
WordPress 7.0 Beta 1 puts real-time collaboration in core, adds a provider-agnostic WP AI Client on top of the Abilities API, and moves image resizing into the browser. Final release is set for April 9, 2026.
Core has to decide whether the WP AI Client merges into WordPress 7.0 before Beta 1 on February 19, 2026. My read on the Abilities API friction in ticket #64596 and what a provider-agnostic client changes in plugin code.
Notes on PyTorch distributed operations: what NCCL is doing under the hood, why synchronous and asynchronous do not mean what you would guess, and how a missing wait call hangs a rank forever.
WooCommerce core devs Greg Bell and Lance Willet are running an open office hours session on testing on March 4, 2026. What to test before you ship, and what to ask them on Slack.
Stephanie Kirmer, a staff ML engineer, on why the job leans on sociology as much as modeling, how code assistants took over the boilerplate, and why $200 billion of AI investment looks out of proportion to what the tech does today.
Notes from the recent AI Contributor meeting: a single Connectors screen for external service credentials, nested namespaces for Abilities, and whether any of it is ready in time for the WordPress 7.0 Beta 1 deadline.
From April 14, WooCommerce 10.7 ships with HPOS sync on read disabled. Custom code that edits orders through update_post_meta or raw SQL stops reaching the HPOS tables, so it needs moving to the CRUD API. There is a filter to buy time, but only that.
WooCommerce 10.5 moves the analytics import onto a schedule and processes orders in batches of 100. Notes on the new experimental caching flags, the wp_options autoload update, and what I would test on staging before shipping it.
Nine things I check when a WordPress site is not turning up in AI search: answer-first writing, topical clusters, JSON-LD schema, explicit authorship, and a robots.txt that is not quietly blocking GPTBot.