Aditya Sharma

Category

AI

13 pieces Filed under /ai

What AI agents actually do when you point them at a real WordPress site with ten years of plugins on it. Measured runs, named sources, and the failure modes nobody screenshots.

  1. 01 Automating WordPress maintenance with agents: what is worth automating and what is not wp plugin verify-checksums exits zero after skipping every commercial plugin on the site. That gap defines which maintenance tasks an agent should own. AI 11 min
  2. 02 The WordPress REST API as an agent surface: what you can and cannot automate Route by route from core source: which capability each endpoint needs, why core has no plugin update route, and the constant that turns soft deletes hard. AI 11 min
  3. 03 The Abilities API in WordPress core: what it is and what ships with it Core registers exactly three abilities, all read-only. On 6.9 only two are reachable over REST, and the announcement post's endpoint path returns 404. AI 11 min
  4. 04 Theme.json: the parts that actually control your output A theme.json with no version key is discarded whole. That, the four-layer merge order and three selector shapes explain most files that will not apply. AI 11 min
  5. 05 Product Feeds in 2026: Google Merchant Center, and What AI Surfaces Read Content API for Shopping was sunset on 18 August 2026 and started returning 410 on 1 September. Here is the current spec, dated, and what is… AI 10 min
  6. 06 Building a Gutenberg block in 2026: the current, correct way What create-block generates now, why register_block_type left the bootstrap, and the 7.1 change that makes apiVersion 3 mean something else. AI 11 min
  7. 07 WooCommerce Performance: The Queries That Actually Cost You Admin product search runs five leading-wildcard LIKEs with no LIMIT. That is why a big catalogue slows wp-admin long before it slows the shop. AI 12 min
  8. 08 The WooCommerce REST API for Automation: What Is Safe to Script Setting 500 orders to completed sends 500 emails. Real endpoints, real limits, and the four writes that have no undo. AI 11 min
  9. 09 WooCommerce and AI Shopping Agents: What the Store Actually Exposes One unauthenticated curl returned 1,717 products from WooCommerce's own store. Here is every surface an agent can read, and which agentic claims are built. AI 10 min
  10. 10 block.json and the asset loading nobody configures WordPress ships a 140,761 byte block stylesheet and, since 6.9, stops sending it by default. Measured both ways, plus why viewScript is not script. AI 10 min

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