WordPress core needs a standard API for encrypting values in the database (such as options and post/term/user meta). This would allow storing API secrets without the risk of exposing them to anyone with DB read access.
Here is a video overview of my latest email newsletter covering AI vector embeddings for WordPress in MySQL, Query Block ordering by custom menu order, focal point selector for all attachments, and native system fonts for block themes.
Curious about AI embeddings 💘 and how they apply to WordPress? I’ve put together a guide that explains their role in powering regular search and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems for even better search results or chat systems.
Block editor has this helpful focal point selector. Wouldn't it be great if you could set a default focus point for all images and then use it during resizing the intermediate sizes? I'm thinking of adding this to the Image Pilot plugin.
My fix for adding the custom page order sorting option to Query Loop block has been merged and should land in the WP core with the next Gutenberg sync. 🚀
The biggest opportunities in the LLM space are in these tailored integrations and interfaces for specific use-cases where the LLM becomes almost invisible.
On my flight home, I watched a university professor spend over 30 minutes grading a basic undergraduate business paper — still not finished by the time we landed.
An LLM could have handled 90% of the initial work in seconds, freeing the professor to focus on personalized feedback while the model learns and improves with each iteration.
The recent frontend updates to @github are making it unusable — on-page search is broken (always jumping to incorrect places), layout shifts everywhere, slow to scroll.
Ever wanted to mock the Cloudflare Image API locally? Here is a sample WordPress plugin that enables cdn-cgi/image/… routes locally and supports only image resizing.