Beta 1 is four weeks out. Notes from this week’s AI Contributor meeting: how the WP AI Client gets merged into core, the permission filter coming for AI prompts, and why WP Bench matters once you test models against real sites.
Where air quality data actually lives, from OpenAQ and the EPA feeds to Copernicus and NASA Earthdata, what NetCDF, COG and Parquet mean for a PHP stack, and a transient-based cache that keeps the fetch off every page load.
WooCommerce 10.5 adds an experimental REST API cache built on the RestApiCache trait. Notes on wrapping a controller callback, the ETag and 304 handling, why you need Redis or Memcached, and the Nginx header quirk that breaks it.
WordCamp Asia 2026 is set for Mumbai, April 9 to 11, at the Jio World Convention Centre, with more than 3,000 attendees expected. Notes on why the flagship event is worth the trip, what sponsorship pays for, and how the hallway track earns its keep.
WordPress.com switched its MCP server to OAuth 2.1 with PKCE, so AI agents no longer need long-lived tokens pasted into a config file. What the code verifier protects against, and what an authorized agent can do on your site.
Most WordPress sites keep their data as loose post meta rows. Healthcare got further by agreeing on shared ontologies before writing any code, and the same approach works in a WordPress codebase, from CPT design through JSON-LD output.
The WordPress Abilities API landed in 6.9 Beta 2, minus the JavaScript registration, which moved to a standalone NPM package in the Gutenberg repo. Notes on that split, the AI Experiments plugin, the WP AI Client 0.1.0 plan and the MCP Adapter refactor.
Site Editor changes live in the database, not in your theme files. This is the setup I use to pull those visual edits back into version control: WordPress Playground, the Create Block Theme plugin and a GitHub repo as the source of truth.
Low-tech logistics companies do not need AGI, they need to stop counting stock with a pen. Voice-driven inventory counts in n8n, damage reports generated from a photo, and a WordPress REST endpoint that takes the data in without breaking WooCommerce stock.
Google Trends hands you a 0-100 score, not search volume, and that score moves when the date window moves. Notes on the normalization and rounding problems, plus the overlapping-window stitching I use to rebuild a daily series a model can actually learn from.