WordPress 7.0 reworks DataViews and DataForm. The Field API gains a format property and adaptiveSelect, DataForm gets a native details layout with built-in validation, and groupByField becomes a groupBy object that breaks 6.9 view configs without warning.
WordPress 7.0 ships a native Breadcrumbs block, so the plugin can go. Two filters, block_core_breadcrumbs_items and block_core_breadcrumbs_post_type_settings, let you rewrite the trail and pick which taxonomy path wins when a post sits in several terms.
Bookmarklets still solve small browser problems faster than installing an extension. How to wrap one in an IIFE, why you should URL-encode it, editing the CSSOM instead of injecting a style tag, and what Content Security Policy does to all of it.
Nested loops don’t scale for scheduling and resource allocation. This post shows how graph coloring, using Python’s GCol library and NetworkX, solves these NP-hard problems without turning your backend logic into a mess.
Popover API and Dialog API solve different problems: one is for light non-modal UI, the other for true modals that block the page. This post breaks down when to use each, with working code.
WordPress 7.0’s AI updates are heading into Beta 2. This post covers the pivot away from the Abilities API, the new Connector Screen, and the dependency issues in the AI Experiments plugin.
Context engineering means filling an AI model’s context window with your own domain knowledge, using structured graphs, deterministic tools, and persistent memory instead of simple RAG.
The Popover API gives WordPress developers a native, declarative way to build accessible tooltips and menus, without the JavaScript libraries and manual ARIA syncing tooltips used to require.
February was short but it made a few things obvious: solo work stalls ML projects, code is not documentation, and an MLOps stack that ignores the deployment environment never ships. Notes from a month of ML and backend work.
WooCommerce 10.5.3 patches a path validation bug in the Store API batch endpoint that let attackers skip nonce checks and gain admin access via CSRF. Don’t roll back to 10.5.2; update now and test your checkout.