AI Assistants Send Wrong Links: Fix Your WordPress 404
AI assistants invent plausible URLs. Find them in GA4, stop core's loose 404 guess, and show related results with keyword search plus the AI Client.
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Add Abilities to Your Plugin: A Working Example
Register an ability with the WordPress Abilities API: a tested example, the permission callback mistake shown with real output, and what to return.
WordPress 7.2 for Plugin Authors: What to Check Now
WordPress 7.2 turns off the NO_BACKSLASH_ESCAPES SQL mode on its own connection. What it does (tested), which plugins to check, and the beta schedule.
Four Ways to Connect an AI Agent to WordPress, and How to Pick One
WordPress MCP compared: the official MCP Adapter, Elementor MCP, unofficial servers and the Abilities REST API, plus a rule for choosing.
Give AI a Job, Not the Keys: How to Scope AI on Your WordPress Site
A five-step way to scope what AI can do on your WordPress site: one written job, a limited user, plan before action, staging first, and an undo. Includes what WooCommerce and common plugins allow today.
How Much Traffic Do You Actually Get From AI?
How to measure the traffic AI assistants send you with GA4, server logs and Search Console, how to read it, and how to improve it and win visitors back from outside Google.
Three WordPress Changes Developers Should Know This Month: a Trac MCP Server, the Ipsum Default Theme, and What DataViews Really Costs
WordPress core Trac now has an MCP server, Ipsum is the proposed 7.2 default theme, and @wordpress/dataviews adds about 2.2 MB when fully bundled. What each means for developers, with the build measured.
WordPress 7.1.2 Path Traversal: Who Is Exposed, What to Do
WordPress 7.1.2 patches an unauthenticated path traversal in page template resolution that can become remote code execution. Which themes and servers are exposed, how to prove a site is patched, and how to update safely, including Composer and Docker.
It Works on a Fresh Install: The Upgrade Path Nobody Tests
WordPress suppresses activation hooks on every update, deliberately. The class of plugin bug that produces, why every test environment hides it, and where to put the work instead.
Firefox Is the Last Browser Where uBlock Origin Works
Edge is moving to Manifest V3 and Firefox is the only major browser left supporting uBlock Origin. The technical change, the strongest case for it, the case against, and the adjacency with Chrome's agent APIs.
Agents Read the Accessibility Tree, Not Your CSS
Chrome opened a WebMCP origin trial and shipped Lighthouse agentic audits. Safari shipped an MCP server. The line buried in Chrome's docs that matters most: agents use the accessibility tree as their primary data model.
Deciding Which Abilities an AI Client Can See in WP 7.1
WordPress 7.1 adds a unified public exposure flag and a shared filtering pipeline to wp_get_abilities(). The resolution order, the two callbacks, the two global filters, the REST metadata trap, and why filtering is discovery and not authorisation.
WordPress Can Now Hand Its Schemas to an AI Client
WordPress 7.1 adds wp_prepare_json_schema_for_client(), turning internal schemas into portable draft-04 output. What it strips, the two profiles, and the Abilities API changes that ship alongside it.
jQuery UI 1.14.2 in WordPress 7.1: What Actually Breaks
WordPress 7.1 ships jQuery UI 1.14.2 and four functions disappear. What moved, the compatibility flag core flips for you, and a 20 minute audit.
An AI Agent Can Call Your Abilities. Now You Can Intercept It.
WordPress 7.1 adds four filters around the Abilities API execution pipeline, so you can short-circuit a call, enrich its input, override the permission result, or transform what comes back. What each one is, where it fires, and the patterns that matter once an AI agent is the caller.
React 19 Is Not in WordPress 7.1 After All: What Changed and What to Test Instead
WordPress 7.1 was going to move the block editor to React 19. It is not. Core enabled it in Gutenberg, hit interop problems with plugins and reverted, so 7.1 ships on React 18.3. What happened, what it means if you already migrated, and the change that is now the real compatibility risk.
The WordPress Block Bindings API: Connect Blocks to Dynamic Data Without Custom Code
Displaying dynamic data used to mean building a custom block just to output one value. The Block Bindings API connects core blocks to post meta and custom data sources - no custom block, no shortcode. How it works, with real code.
The WordPress Interactivity API: Add Front-End Interactivity to Blocks Without a Framework
Making a block interactive used to mean jQuery or bundling your own React. The Interactivity API is WordPress's standard, framework-free way to add front-end interactivity to server-rendered blocks - with directives and a store. How it works, with real code.
WordPress 7.1 Beta Is Here: What Plugin and Theme Developers Should Test Now
WordPress 7.1 Beta 1 landed July 15, with the final release August 19. What is in it - AI tooling, collaboration, responsive design, media, and an enforced iframed editor - and exactly how to test your plugins and themes before release day.
The AI Coding Bottleneck Nobody Talks About: Verification, Not Generation
AI won the code-generation race, and it was the wrong race. The real 2026 bottleneck is verification: reading, trusting, and being sure AI code is correct and secure. Why generation scales and review does not, and how that changes the way teams should work.