WordPress AI, Divi 5 Caching, agentic web, SEO roadmaps, win back traffic, Pixelmator Pro, best logos, UpScrolled and American food traditions. Last week I experienced the highs and lows of migrating Web sites. First up was a migration that had numerous issues and long periods of downtime. It was a migration that affected me greatly, but one I didn’t even know about until it was in progress. After a couple of painful days, things finally got back to normal. Then I decided to migrate a number of my own sites and clients sites from one data center to another. The transition was done seamlessly in the very early morning hours with little to no downtime. The result is sites that perform even faster than before. I’m hopeful this week won’t have any major disruptions so I can focus on building sites. Check out this week’s news via all the stories and videos listed below.

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• AI Guidelines for WordPress
• WordPress Publishes AI Guidelines To Combat AI Slop
• Google’s Crawl Team Filed Bugs Against WordPress Plugins
• FluentCart 1.3.10: FSE Support, New Gutenberg Blocks, and more
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• Automattic Backs University of Illinois Chicago Program Set to Pay Students for WordPress-Based AI Training
• WP Engine Launches Newsroom, a Publishing Platform Built on Big Bite’s Newsroom Expertise
• WordPress AI Client Proposal Prompts Debate Ahead of Planned Core Merge in 7.0
• WordPress 6.9.1 Released with Fixes for 49 Bugs in Core and Block Editor
• Introducing Dynamic Inspector for Elementor: Debug Like You Build

• Are we ready for the agentic web?

• Human experience optimization: Why experience now shapes search visibility
• Advanced ways to use competitive research in SEO and AEO
• LinkedIn Shares What Works For AI Search Visibility
• Why SEO Roadmaps Break In January (And How To Build Ones That Survive The Year)
• Google: 75% of crawling issues come from two common URL mistakes
• Why most SEO failures are organizational, not technical
• The Real SEO Skill No One Teaches: Problem Deduction
• Google Updates Googlebot File Size Limit Docs
• Google may be cracking down on self-promotional ‘best of’ listicles
• Is Google Finally Cracking Down On Self-Promotional Listicles?
• Google Search Hits $63B, Details AI Mode Ad Tests
• Google’s Mueller Calls Markdown-For-Bots Idea ‘A Stupid Idea’
• The Real SEO Skill No One Teaches: Problem Deduction
• Introducing Yahoo Scout, a New AI Answer Engine
• Our approach to website controls for Search AI features
• How to Track AI Overviews: Mentions, Citations, Click Loss, and the Traffic Google Won’t Show You
• How to Choose the Best Prompts to Monitor Your AI Search Visibility
• Debunking The Myth That Search Is Dying
• Google says AI search is driving an ‘expansionary moment’
• Your local rankings look fine. So why are calls disappearing?
• Google Shows How To Check Passage Indexing
• Google Releases Core Update Targeting Discover Feed
• Google & Bing don’t recommend separate markdown pages for LLMs
• Why content that ranks can still fail AI retrieval
• Why Your SEO KPIs Are Failing Your Business (And How To Fix Them)
• 7 Insights From Washington Post’s Strategy To Win Back Traffic

• Pixelmator Pro Explained: A Deep Dive Into Apple’s Photoshop Alternative
• Laundry brand shakes up the shelf with gorgeous illustrations
• Kanal’s brand identity is marvellously abstract
• Fake ChatGPT billboard ad proves how scary things are getting
• An artist backlash just saved Adobe Animate
• ScotRail accidentally debuts ‘fascist’ logo
• Why Designers Secretly Love Constraints (Even When We Complain About Them)
• Debate: What is the best logo of all time?

• Dissecting the Internet’s Most Novel Creature
• TikTok Competitor UpScrolled Surges to 2.5 Million Users
• CEO of Would-Be TikTok Rival UpScrolled: We Won’t Censor Anybody

• When Groundhog Was on the Menu in Punxsutawney
• American Food Traditions That Started as Marketing Ploys
• The Beautiful Art of Greece’s ‘Embroidered’ Bread

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.