WordPress plugins, WP Tavern, Google Analytics, ROI of creators, SEO funnels, Affinity Photo, Canva, YouTube algorithm and hot dogs. It is not uncommon for Web designers to be approached by a scammer who claims to want to pay a healthy price for a new site. Of course those scams are really easy to spot. I recently learned I had conversations with a scammer about a site, but it never moved forward and I’m thankful for that. While I don’t think it is possible to have the perfect process, I do feel I have a good process that weeds out those types of problems. There is a lot of other news this week and you’ll find the headlines below.

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• Read Tech News Digest for July 12, 2024 on Graphics Unleashed!

• Is WordPress Good? A Comprehensive Review for 2024
• What is a WordPress Plugin? A Beginner’s Guide for 2024
• $3,094 Bounty Awarded and 150,000 WordPress Sites Protected Against Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability Patched in Modern Events Calendar WordPress Plugin
• CMS market share
• Jetpack Social: Unlimited Sharing, Threads Support and More
• 7,000 WordPress Sites Affected by Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in ProfileGrid WordPress Plugin
• Top 7 WordPress Plugins for 2024: Enhance Your Site’s Performance
• Should the WP Tavern re-position itself?

• Best No Code Website Builder in 2024 (Top 11 Compared)
• How to Become a Successful Freelance Web Designer (2024)
• The Right Kind of Stubborn
• The ROI of creators: An inspiring influence marketing case study
• Best Web Page Design Tools for Modern Creators -2024
• Court ordered penalties for 15 teens who created naked AI images of classmates
• 11 Copyscape Alternatives To Check Plagiarism

• Google Experts Warn That AI May Distort Reality, While AI Overviews Repel Mobile Users
• Nearly 60% of Google searches end without a click in 2024
• 3 Types Of PR & SEO Funnels That Will Maximize Conversions
• Google Says These Are Not Good Signals
• Google’s Response To Experts Outranked By Redditors

• You Can Now Test Drive Affinity Photo Free for 6 Months, No Strings Attached
• These Incredible Moon Mission Photos Are Actually Lego Scenes
• Canva CEO: Adobe Has Been in a ‘One Horse Race’ for Too Long
• The 7 best movie poster designs of 2024 (so far)
• Paramount’s potential new logo is the opposite of a glow-up
• The messy Nirvana logo battle has finally come to an end
• Photographer Uses the Sun as a Ball for Epic Shoot With Soccer Star
• New Game of Thrones cover designs use a traditional art technique to stunning effect
• Coca-Cola’s Olympic packaging embraces the power of the hug

• Elon Musk’s X Stalls at 250M Daily Users While Threads Plays Catch-Up
• Elon Musk escapes paying $500 million to former Twitter employees
• One year in, is Threads winning the battle to take over from Twitter?
• How false nostalgia inspired noplace, a Myspace-like app for Gen Z
• X Is Testing a ‘Dislike’ Button Again
• Elon Musk calls for “criminal prosecution” of X ad boycott perpetrators
• Verified Blue Checkmarks on X Are Useless and ‘Deceive Users,’ EU Finds
• 20 Confirmed Facts About YouTube’s Algorithm

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

• 7 Discontinued Canned Foods That We’ll Probably Never See Again
• I Found the Best Way to Make Hot Dogs This Summer and It’s Not on the Grill

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