WordPress 7.0 developer features are officially on the horizon. Senior developer Ahmad Wael breaks down the latest Gutenberg 22.3 updates, including responsive grid improvements, the new dedicated Font Library screen, and the evolution of PHP-only block registration. Learn why these changes matter for your production sites and how to prepare for the future of WP.
Technical debt in AI development is a growing crisis in the WordPress community. While AI can generate code in seconds, it often produces fragile “God functions” that ignore core architectural standards. Ahmad Wael explains why senior engineering guardrails and modular refactoring are essential to keep your site from becoming a house of cards.
Join the January WooCommerce Developer Office Hours on Slack this Jan 21, 2026. This open forum is a rare chance for developers to skip the marketing fluff and discuss holiday sales wins, technical bugs, and 2026 roadmap ideas with the community. Perfect for troubleshooting complex WooCommerce hooks and post-holiday technical debt.
Stop hardcoding API keys and fragile logic. Learn how AWS Bedrock provides a managed gateway for foundation models like Claude and Llama. Senior WordPress developer Ahmad Wael breaks down Boto3 implementations, the necessity of inference profiles, and how to offload AI compute from your web server for better performance.
Stop manually calculating HEX codes for your WordPress themes. In this guide, Ahmad Wael explains how CSS Relative Colour and the OKLCH color space allow you to build dynamic, maintainable, and animatable design systems. Learn how to use the ‘from’ keyword and @property to create professional, systemic color architectures.
Stop crashing your WordPress server by running massive historical queries through basic SQL. Senior dev Ahmad Wael explains why Historical Data Analysis requires an OLAP architecture and MDX queries to handle millions of rows efficiently, using a 500-million-row climate study as a blueprint for enterprise-level performance.
WordPress Playground had a massive 2025, evolving from a simple browser demo into a powerful development tool. With a 42% speed increase and 99% plugin compatibility, it is now a reliable sandbox for testing, teaching, and prototyping. Learn how updates to Blueprints and database support are changing the WordPress development workflow.
Ahmad Wael breaks down the technical cause of Transformer high-norm artifacts in ViTs and LLMs. Learn how the Softmax ‘trash can’ effect creates attention sinks that kill performance in dense vision tasks, and discover the latest 2025 research-driven fixes including registers, surgery neurons, and sigmoidal gating to stabilize your models.
Stop building reporting tools that gather dust. Learn why Human-Centered Data Analytics is the key to turning raw metrics into actionable business decisions. As a senior developer, I explain how to move past “trashboards” and start building data systems with the end-user in mind to drive real impact and trust.
Explaining the critical fixes for special characters in the WooCommerce 10.5 REST API. If you have struggled with non-ASCII attribute names (Persian, Arabic, Chinese) failing to save or map correctly, this update is for you. Learn how to audit your existing workarounds and ensure your product variation syncs are stable.