Speculative loading, Jetpack stats, Divi AI Layouts, blogging, hyphens, BMW Logo, Papyrus, TikTok Notes, empanadas and cheeseburgers. Along with this week’s news, I dive a little deeper into a controversial business move and provide a humorous look at a polarizing font. Check it all out below!

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A common business practice in the world of WordPress is to have a free version of a plugin that includes some valuable features. For those who want more, more features are available in a premium version at a cost. Lately something has happened with the Jetpack plugin that has upset many users, including myself. Jetpack has always included a traffic stats feature for free. Over the years they have added features to Jetpack that were only available at a cost. But the traffic stats remained free. Now they have stated that the stats feature will have a cost for any “business” sites and the minimum cost is $10 a month.

I think many users would have been OK if the basic stats features were still free and a far expanded feature set had a cost. But in this case, a feature that had been free now has a fairly high cost. This has led to a large number of one-star reviews of Jetpack in the past few days. While I have yet to uninstall Jetpack on the sites I manage, I will install it rather than pay for it. Below you’ll find information on the change and a link to see the negative reviews the change has brought.

I will be interested to see if the new policy remains or if the public pressure will return at least the basic stats for free.

• Changes to Jetpack Stats for Commercial Sites
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• Adobe Premiere Pro’s new AI tools blew my mind. Watch them in action for yourself
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• Picsart Launches ‘Smart Background’ Editing for Product Photography
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• Meta AI’s Keystroke Tracking Offers Loophole to Dodge Its Image Censors
• Microsoft’s New AI Tool Can Create Realistic Deepfakes Using Just a Photo
• Ryan Gosling is still traumatised by the Avatar logo design
  

• Threads is testing real-time search results
• WhatsApp’s latest update proves the internet hates change
• TikTok Notes starts rolling out as a new rival to Instagram

Each week we’ll share a meme that we find thought provoking or just plain funny.

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• You’re Making Cheeseburgers Wrong. This Speedy Method Leaves Almost No Mess Behind

If you see some important news that you feel we should share with our readers, please let us know and we’ll consider including it in our next post.

Photo by Amélie Mourichon on Unsplash