The core team confirmed at Dev Chat that WordPress 7.0 drops PHP 7.2 and 7.3 support. Notes on what that leaves for the 22% of sites still running 7.4, plus where the 6.9.1 maintenance release fits in.
The z-score is fine for a single spike and falls apart on trends. Why the T-statistic is the right measure for slope significance, with PHP you can drop into a custom reporting engine.
WooCommerce 10.5 swaps per-order analytics jobs for batched scheduled imports, which is the fix for bloated ActionScheduler tables. Also inside: experimental product object caching, a new shipping tax filter, and the add to cart fix.
A vendor changed a CSV delimiter at 2 AM and my nightly import died. Here is the try, heal, retry loop I built with Pandas, Pydantic and Tenacity so the pipeline handles that class of error itself.
Prompt engineering has stopped being the interesting part of LLM work. This is about context engineering, caching structured context in transients, and checking that the model’s reasoning holds up.
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.