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AI embeddings in WordPress and Query Loop block post ordering

Hey Reader! I’ve been diving deep into some exciting WordPress topics over the past month, and I wanted to share some key insights and updates with you. 🏹 Better search with AI embeddings in WordPress Curious about AI embeddings in WordPress? I put together a guide explaining how they can power better search results and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems. If you’re looking to enhance search functionalities in WP, this is worth checking out! (Tweet) Illustration of the content...

3 days ago • 1 min read

One-click deploy workflow for WordPress plugins and JSON schemas

Hey Reader! I hope you had a wonderful holiday season and are ready for an exciting year ahead. While publishing an update to the Native SSO plugin (still in development), I decided to record a video of the process in case you might find it useful. In the video, I demonstrate a GitHub workflow that: Prompts for a version to tag for release, Extracts the plugin directory from the monorepo using git subtree, Automatically generates the changelog, and Tags a version release in the distribution...

about 2 months ago • 1 min read

ACF vulnerability deep-dive, plugin-check plugin updates and WPackagist support

Hey Reader! On Monday I posted a few tweets, toots and threads that could be interesting to you as a developer. Below is a summary of them: After hearing about the ACF "fork" (more like takeover) due to an unresolved security issue, I immediately went looking at the changesets to find the actual issue (what could be so critical?). Turns out (see the Twitter thread) ACF now allows you to register custom post types and taxonomies from the WP admin and one of the settings to configure is the...

5 months ago • 1 min read