Latest WP Engine Automattic drama, Divi menu modules & command center, WebMCP, social discovery, AI caricature and pizza. It is less than ten days until Divi 5 officially launches and more new features keep getting added. Based on recent posts, we can expect many more new features all throughout the year and I’m really excited at how fast it is improving. Make sure to look through all of this week’s news, including a bunch of videos, to learn about everything new.
For those of you in the world of Web design, I invite you to join our new Divi Unleashed Facebook group.
- Automattic Partners With University of Illinois Chicago on Program Aimed at Hands-On AI Learning
- Why I Choose Gutenberg Over Elementor
- Hack the Planet Nobody Rips Out the Plumbing
- How to Block AI Crawler Bots on WordPress to Reduce Bandwidth (2026 Guide)
- How To Stop Spam Orders on Your WooCommerce Website
- 800,000 WordPress Sites Affected by Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability in WPvivid Backup WordPress Plugin
- WP Engine Complaint Adds Unredacted Allegations About Mullenweg Plan
- Automattic Planned to “Steal Every Single WP Site” From Hosts That Refused Trademark Deals, WP Engine Alleges in Latest Complaint
- The WP Community Collective President Resigns Over Board’s “Tolerance for Risk and Discomfort”
- Inside WordCamp Asia 2026: Planning for 3,000+ Attendees and a Live WordPress 7.0 Release
- Matt Mullenweg: Global Sponsors’ Products Should Be “Fair Game” For WordCamp Talks
- Mullenweg Calls for Markdown Endpoints on WordPress.org as He Pushes “Web OS” Vision
- Elementor version 4 is ready for production sites!
- Great minds think alike? My WordPress take on Markdown for Agents
- Framer vs. WordPress vs. Webflow: Who Actually Wins in 2026?
- How To Create Responsive Max-Widths And Content Wraps With clamp() In Divi 5
- Everything You Need To Know About Divi 5’s New Preset Manager
- How To Build A Grid Gallery In Divi 5
- Building A Dark Mode Color Palette With Divi 5’s Relative Colors
- How To Create Off-Canvas Popups In Divi 5
- How To Build A Simple Navigation Menu With Divi 5 (Including HTML Structure)
- Three marketing truths for turbulent times
- What repeated ChatGPT runs reveal about brand visibility
- Google previews WebMCP, a new protocol for AI agent interactions
- E-E-A-T Audit: 220+ Markers That Measure Experience, Expertise, Authority, and Trust
- It’s time to stop judging rebrands so quickly
- Google AI Mode doesn’t favor above-the-fold content: Study
- What Google and Microsoft patents teach us about GEO
- Why GA4 alone can’t measure the real impact of AI SEO
- Why Google Indexing is Slow (And What You Can Do About It)
- New Data Shows Googlebot’s 2 MB Crawl Limit Is Enough
- Should I Optimize My Content Differently For Each Platform? – Ask An SEO
- Bing Webmaster Tools Adds AI Citation Performance Data
- Bing Webmaster Tools officially adds AI Performance report
- Yext’s Visibility Brief: Your guide to brand visibility in AI search
- Why governance maturity is a competitive advantage for SEO
- How SEO leaders can explain agentic AI to ecommerce executives
- Hidden HTTP Page Can Cause Site Name Problems In Google
- From Performance SEO To Demand SEO
- How to Choose the Best Prompts to Monitor Your AI Search Visibility
- Anonymized Queries Make Up Nearly Half of Google Search Console Traffic
- ChatGPT Has 12% of Google’s Search Volume but Google Sends 190x More Traffic to Websites
- Local SEO sprints: A 90-day plan for service businesses in 2026
- If SEO is rocket science, AI SEO is astrophysics
- How social discovery shapes AI search visibility in beauty
- Your local rankings look fine. So why are calls disappearing?
- Cloudflare’s New Markdown for AI Bots: What You Need To Know
- Google’s Search Relations Team Debates If You Still Need A Website
- New Super Bowl logo, same old conspiracy theory
- From Article to Short-Form Video That Holds Attention
- How Photoshop filters helped me make the concept art for Spectre Divide
- Taylor Swift takes legal action against cursive logo
- BMW’s new Alpina logo oozes luxury
- Blender update adds a time-saving feature 3D artists dreamed of
- Why the AI caricature trend makes so many creatives uncomfortable
- This viral AI caricature trend is everywhere – here’s how to make one in ChatGPT
I used ChatGPT to create my own caricature and the result shows that I’m better at multitasking than I knew
- Reddit says 80 million people now use its search weekly
- Russia Blocks WhatsApp in Latest Messaging App Crackdown
- How a Frozen Pizza Brand Became Norway’s Unofficial National Dish
- The Politics of Smuggling Pizza-Making Videos Into North Korea
- Remembering When ‘The New York Times’ Explained Pizza
- The Greek-Canadian Origins of the Hawaiian Pizza
- How a Mexican General’s Exile in Staten Island Led to Modern Chewing Gum
- RFK Jr. food pyramid site links to Grok, which says you shouldn’t trust RFK Jr.
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