Updating WordPress, WooSesh, search results page, content curation, parasite SEO, CorelDRAW, free font, character limit and golden lettuce. Summer has officially ended and fall has begun. That usually means a cool down in the weather, but often it means things online are warming up to prepare for holiday sales. Many of my WordPress friends were in Portland last week for WordCamp US which also led to news in the WordPress world. Check out all of this week’s news in the headlines below.

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• Read Tech News Digest for September 20, 2024 on Graphics Unleashed!

• Quickest and Easiest Way to Build a Website in 2024
• How to Update Your WordPress Themes
• How To Keep Your WordPress Website Up-to-Date
• 10 Best WordPress Site Monitoring Tools in 2024
• How Divi Dash Simplifies WordPress Theme and Plugin Updates
• How Much Does It Cost To Maintain A WordPress Website?
• WooSesh 2024 Scheduled for October 29 and 30
• Patchstack WordPress Security Wins $5M Funding, Adds Yoast Co-Founder to Board
• GPU Hosting and Open Source AI Will Revolutionize or Kill WordPress
• Experimental Health Dashboards to Track WordPress Team Progress and Stats
• WordPress.com Offers 1,000 Free Premium Websites to University Students
• Patchstack Secures $5M in Series A Funding
• I Spent 20 Hours Testing 60+ Niche WordPress Themes, and There Are Some Elephants in the Repo
• WordPress’ Big “Tragedy of the Commons” Problem
• Matt Mullenweg calls WP Engine a ‘cancer to WordPress’ and urges community to switch providers
• WordPress Co-Founder Mullenweg Sparks Backlash

• A Prediction: The Fourth Marketing Rebellion
• Why To Not Write A Book
• HubSpot Rolls Out AI-Powered Marketing Tools
• Gonzo Content: What Marketers Need to Learn From Hunter S. Thompson
• Content Curation: How to Build a Fandom by Talent-Scouting Great Content

• Google’s Martin Splitt: We Do Not Use Exif Data For Ranking
• Shift Happens: 7 Examples of Search Intent Shift (+ How To Identify It)
• I Got 129.7% More Traffic With Related Keywords
• Google Revamps Entire Crawler Documentation
• Forbes Marketplace: The Parasite SEO Company Trying to Devour Its Host

• The ultimate guide to kerning
• PayPal’s new logo is a bold redesign of a famous font
• CorelDRAW upgrades mean its still a viable alternative to Adobe
• Read Easier With our Free Font
• Samsung hijacks Apple’s iconic slogan in shady ad
• DJI Osmo Action 5 Pro Review
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• DJI launches the Action 5 Pro camera with subject tracking and improved video
• DxO PhotoLab Review
• I’ve been testing AI image generators for years – and I’m shocked by my new top pick

• 2 Years Later: ‘Character Limit’ Pulls Back the Curtain on Musk’s Twitter Takeover
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• Instagram Locks Down Access for Kids Under 16 With Default ‘Teen Accounts’
• Snapchat’s My Selfie Feature May Use Your Face in Ads. Here’s How to Stop It
• YouTube Hype gives smaller creators a place to shine
• Why Elon Musks’s ‘X’ Twitter rebrand is failing
• Scathing FTC Report Says Social Media Companies Engage in ‘Vast Surveillance’

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

• “Golden Lettuce” genetically engineered to pack 30 times more vitamins
• Do Colder or Warmer Places Eat More Spicy or Bland Food?
• The Ice Cream Cocktail Born in a Spectacular Victorian Food Hall

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.

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