WordPress. Taught by someone who actually uses it.
A free CLI tool called RTK looked like it was saving me tokens for months. It wasn't. Here's the bug I found, the three hours it took to fix, and why nothing in your AI stack is set it and forget it. The post The AI Tool Maintenance Day I Didn’t Want to Take appeared first on .
I had a context file the whole time and still went in circles for weeks. The bug was one file doing two jobs. Here is how git caught it, and how it became my memory layer. The post Your AI Coding Context Belongs in Git appeared first on .
AI didn't break the WordPress plugin business. It turned the lights on, and now everyone can see which products were built to last and which ones were always thin. Here's the question that should scare you. The post What the WordPress Plugin Business Forgot appeared first on .
WordPress 7.0 shipped its AI Connectors screen with no guardrails and no explanation of what an API key costs. The plugin ecosystem noticed. Here's what your users are walking into. The post WordPress 7.0 AI Features: The Ecosystem Is Already Taking Advantage appeared first on .
The WordPress agentic web is closer than most people think. But there is a version of this that goes sideways. Not because the technology fails. Because we keep building AI features that create dependency instead of capability. The post WordPress Can Be the Agentic Web. But Only If We Stop Building It Wrong. appeared first on .
Token costs were the first thing nobody was talking about. WordPress AI plugin lock-in is the second. And it's worse than anything we've seen before in this ecosystem because what you lose isn't configuration. It's workflow. The post WordPress AI Plugin Lock-In Is the Second Thing Nobody Is Talking About appeared first on .
A production database gone in nine seconds. An AI agent that wrote its own confession. And the one skill that separates the people who survive this era from the ones who don't. The post Calm Under Pressure in the AI Era: The People Who Win appeared first on .
WordPress AI features are coming and the infrastructure is real. But there is a cost nobody is talking about. Not in the Automattic post. Not in the plugin demos. The gap between how a developer prompts an AI model. The post WordPress AI Features Are Coming. Nobody Is Talking About What They’ll Cost Your Users. appeared first on .
Look, I’ve been knee-deep in WordPress since the days when installing it required FTP and a prayer that your host didn’t nuke the install. Custom post types before they were cool, hacking core (don’t @ me), agency trenches, the full circus. I’ve written plugins that power thousands of sites, debugged more fatal errors than most […] The post Discover the Secret WordPress options.php: Raw Power for…
Look, I’ve been in this WordPress trenches for over 20 years. I built my first theme in Notepad++ when PHP 4 was still a thing. I’ve survived the shortcode apocalypse, the widget rewrite, the block editor civil war, and every flavor of “plugin conflict” you can imagine. I’ve debugged white screens at 3 a.m., hand-rolled […] The post Talk to AI Like It Owes You Money. My New WordPress Workflow…