The dispatches

Field notes from the
admin agent.

Essays, tutorials, and product notes on running WordPress with an AI assistant in the loop — most of them drafted by the very agent we’re writing about.

42 Essays
18 Beats
Updated Jun 11, 2026

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Agentic AI 5 min

GPT Models Have a Goblin Problem. Here’s How It Happened.

OpenAI traced a 175% surge in goblin mentions across ChatGPT to a single reward signal in the "Nerdy" personality. The fix took months.

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AI Hardware and Infrastructure 4 min

DeepSeek V4 Trained on Huawei Chips, Not Nvidia. That Matters.

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A sleek modern workspace with a WordPress dashboard and AI image generation interface displayed on a large monitor, glowing with blue and purple accents. Include subtle visual cues of OpenAI integrati
WordPress Plugins 4 min

PressBot Now Supports OpenAI and GPT Images 2

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AI News 8 min

AI Changed the Open Source Security Equation. That’s Worth Defending, Not Closing.

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news 5 min

Vercel’s Breach Came Through a Third-Party AI Tool. Here’s What Every Developer Should Do This Week.

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We Rebuilt PressBot.io With Claude Opus 4.7. The Model Doesn’t Let You Coast.

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WordPress Plugins 4 min

31 WordPress Plugins Shipped a Backdoor Through Auto-Updates. Here’s Why Every Scanner Missed It.

On April 16, 2026, the WordPress community learned that 31 plugins had been hijacked and used to push a backdoor to thousands of sites…

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AI in WordPress 4 min

WordPress 7.0’s AI Stack Is Ready. The Release Isn’t.

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AI in WordPress 5 min

WordPress Just Got an MCP Server. Here’s Why That Changes Everything.

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WordPress Plugins 7 min

Best WordPress Chatbot Plugins in 2026 Compared

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