The ShadowRealm API is a TC39 proposal for running JavaScript in a fully isolated environment on the same thread. For WordPress and WooCommerce work, it means third-party scripts can no longer pollute the global scope or break core functionality.
WordPress AI 0.9.0 adds a comment moderation experiment, bulk alt-text generation over WP-CLI, and per-feature model controls. Here is what each one does and how to test it before the 1.0.0 release.
WordPress 7.0 ships the WordPress AI Client, a standardized PHP API for generative AI in plugins. This guide builds a provider-agnostic image generation tool for the Media Library using the prompt builder, support checks, and a REST endpoint.
Price hikes often get blamed for churn that is really about a finished project. This covers flagging project milestones in WooCommerce Subscriptions and using DiD and Shapley values to tell a price shock apart from value exhaustion.
Rare event forecasting breaks most models because they optimize for accuracy instead of impact. Here is how a multi-head Transformer, the Generalized Pareto Distribution, and the True Skill Statistic model the tail, with solar flares as the running example.
Run C code in the browser with WebAssembly, no local toolchain required. This walkthrough uses GitHub Codespaces and Emscripten to compile and run your first WASM app, then wires it to JavaScript.
WordPress 7.0 RTC has been pulled from the release. Race conditions and TTFB regressions from bypassed persistent caching drove the call, and RC3 now moves back toward a beta state while the core team focuses on stability.
How I stopped re-explaining my projects to Claude every session. I keep a persistent knowledge base built from CLAUDE.md rules and a custom skill, and a nightly cron job keeps it current.
In WooCommerce 10.8 the REST API stops silently turning non-order IDs, like subscriptions, into plain orders. It now returns a 400 instead. Here is what breaks and how to route subscription requests correctly.
Not every task needs to run in real time. Here is how I decide between batch and stream for a WordPress data processing strategy, and how Action Scheduler keeps heavy WooCommerce work off the checkout path.