Category: AI Search
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Do the slow work after the page is sent: WordPress’s shutdown hook
Logging, counters and analytics do not need to happen while your visitor waits. How the WordPress shutdown hook (and fastcgi_finish_request) moves that work out of the critical path – with real code, and the cases where you should not do it.
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Don’t paste your passwords into Claude (do this instead)
I gave an AI agent admin access to a live WordPress site without ever showing it my password. What worked, what broke, and the one time the AI refused – a practical guide to credential hygiene with AI agents.
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Is AI Search plugin close to Production-Ready?
Remember when I first wrote about building an AI-powered WordPress search with embeddings? Back then, I was excited about the concept, but I was aware there was a thin line between a proof-of-concept and something you’d want to run on a real site. Well, a few months and several user complaints later, I’ve learned a…