Firefox Nightly has a flag for @custom-media, the at-rule that lets you alias a media query behind a name and reuse it. Notes on what it fixes, how Open Props packages ready-made queries, and how to write the syntax today with postcss-custom-media.
WP-Bench is the official WordPress AI benchmark. It runs model-written code inside a real WordPress runtime instead of asking a human whether the code looks right. How to run it, and what it still gets wrong.
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.
Gutenberg 22.4 merged 402 pull requests. The ones worth your time: pattern overrides for any block attribute that supports block bindings, and font library access for classic and hybrid themes.
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.
WordPress 7.0 has its release squad: a small one, led by Matias Ventura and working through the Make Team Reps. What that structure says about the cycle, why .0 releases are hardest on legacy code, and how to test your hooks against the alphas now.
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.
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.
WooCommerce 10.5 ships an experimental in-memory cache for product objects, so a single request stops rebuilding the same object over and over. The benchmarks, plus the stale data trap waiting for anyone who updates products with direct SQL.
WordPress 7.0 raises the minimum PHP version to 7.4.0 when it lands in April 2026, so sites still on 7.2 or 7.3 need a plan. Also covers the 6.9.1 maintenance release on February 3 and the open core rep nominations.