CodeLab, image compression, speculative prerendering, AI slop, AI search, RIP Publisher, Reddit colors and Lunar New Year. There are simple software upgrades and then there are complete rebuilds. Divi 5 has been a complete rebuild and it has taken more than three years to release. Along with blazing speed and numerous new features, it has maintained backwards compatibility. I won’t say you won’t have to rebuild anything, but it is likely that any required rebuilding would be minimal if any at all was required. I’ve already migrated a few sites to the beta versions and the process was seamless. Yes, I took a little extra time to implement some minor changes that I should have done long ago. Divi 5 officially releases on February 26 (two more days) and it is a true game changer. You’ll find the Divi 5 news and all the rest of this week’s news in the stories below.
For those of you in the world of Web design, I invite you to join our new Divi Unleashed Facebook group.
- WooCommerce May Gain Sidekick-Type AI Through Extensions
- CleanTalk WordPress Plugin Vulnerability Threatens Up To 200K Sites
- WP Engine’s New Filing Alleges Automattic Pressured Stripe and Planned to Target 10 Different Companies
- Bertha.ai Exits WordPress Repository After Compliance Review
- Crocoblock Introduces CodeLab: A Free Code Snippets Collection
- Infinite Uploads 3.1: Exclusions you control, performance and security updates
- Leadership at the Peak
- The Best Image Compression Tools for WordPress Websites
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- Automattic, Mullenweg Ask Court to Keep Details of WordPress.org Hosting Negotiations Private
- Checkout Summit Is Filling the WooCommerce Conference Event Gap Nobody Else Would
- Automattic Planned to “Steal Every Single WP Site” From Hosts That Refused Trademark Deals, WP Engine Alleges in Latest Complaint
- WP Engine Customers Refile Class Action After Judge Flags Pleading Gaps
- A New Direction for My Agency: Northbound
- Matt Cromwell on Redefining WordPress Product Growth in a Crowded Ecosystem
- Modules and Tools for Beaver Builder Power Users
- How to Create an Online Food Ordering Website with WordPress (2026 Guide)
- When To Use Header And Footer HTML Elements In Divi 5
- When To Use Figure and Figcaption HTML Elements In Divi 5
- Using Divi 5’s Flexbox Layout System For Responsive Web Design
- When To Use Section, Aside, And Main HTML Elements In Divi 5
- How To Create An Off Canvas Services Popup In Divi 5
- What creatives can learn from the Frida Baby controversy
- A step-by-step approach to AI adoption for your company
- Google Lost Two Antitrust Cases, But Stock Rose 65% – Here’s Why
- Perplexity joins anti-ad camp as AI companies battle over trust and revenue
- Google Offers AI Certificate Free For Eligible U.S. Small Businesses
- Shopify vs. Wix Stores: I Tested Both E-Commerce Platforms and Found a Clear Champ
- Why are brands no longer afraid of producing AI slop?
- Antitrust Filing Says Google Cannibalizes Publisher Traffic
- Google AI Shows A Site Is Offline Due To JS Content Delivery
- Google’s Search Relations Team Debates If You Still Need A Website
- Cloudflare’s Markdown for Agents AI feature has SEOs on alert
- Google Search Console AI-powered configuration rolling out
- Google’s Jeff Dean: AI Search relies on classic ranking and retrieval
- Airbnb says traffic from AI chatbots converts better than Google
- Why AI optimization is just long-tail SEO done right
- Rand Fishkin proved AI recommendations are inconsistent – here’s why and how to fix it
- How to create a persona GPT for SEO audience research
- Are Citations In AI Search Affected By Google Organic Visibility Changes?
- Google Says Links Will Be More Visible In AI Overviews
- 44% of ChatGPT citations come from the first third of content: Study
- AI search KPIs: Focus on inclusion, not position
- How to build AI confidence inside your SEO team
- 35-Year SEO Veteran: Great SEO Is Good GEO — But Not Everyone’s Been Doing Great SEO
- Why AI Misreads The Middle Of Your Best Pages
- ChatGPT Search Often Switches To English In Fan-Out Queries: Report
- Why Google Runs AI Mode On Flash, Explained By Google’s Chief Scientist
- Hover Pop Up Links Official In Google AI Overviews & AI Mode
- Google’s Ads Chief Details UCP Expansion, New AI Mode Ads
- Google ‘Results about you’ Search removal tool now covers Social Security & IDs, more
- 7 Steps for Tracking Your ChatGPT Visibility With Ahrefs
- Are Citations in AI Search Affected by Google Organic Visibility Changes?
- Google Analytics adds AI insights and cross-channel budgeting to Home page
- LLM consistency and recommendation share: The new SEO KPI
- Retire these 9 SEO metrics before they derail your 2026 strategy
- The authority era: How AI is reshaping what ranks in search
- How to vibe-code an SEO tool without losing control of your LLM
- AI agents in SEO: A practical workflow walkthrough
- 4 Sites That Recovered From Google’s December 2025 Core Update – What They Changed
- Agentic Commerce Optimization: A Technical Guide To Prepare For Google’s UCP
- SEO Fundamental: Google Explains Why It May Not Use A Sitemap
- New Titans logo leaks to fierce fan response
- How “Liquid Design” Broke the iPhone and Forced Apple’s Great Reset
- The new Apple event logo is giving me hope
- Microsoft Is Killing Publisher in October. Here’s What You Should Use Instead
- Samsung’s shameless AI ads aren’t going down well
- ‘We needed to show our eccentric side’: inside the Radio Times rebrand
- AI Can’t Make a Good Website for You. Trust Me, I Tried
- Pixel Nostalgia: Why We Miss the 90s Web (Even If It Was Ugly)
- “AI shouldn’t feel like it’s creating for you”: Inside Leonardo.Ai’s human-led branding
- Designers are warming up to the controversial Utah 2034 logo
- TikTok’s Chinese Parent Has an App to Replace Hollywood
- Hollywood is Freaking Out, But ByteDance Says it is Curbing AI Video Generator Seedance
- Reddit Changing Colors? It’s Intentional, But You Can Turn It Off
- Messenger Website Is Shutting Down in April: Here’s What Next for Users
- The Wondrous Wordplay of Lunar New Year Food
- A Sweet Spin on Lunar New Year Treats
- How a Monster-Repelling Cake Became a Lunar New Year Staple
- Remembering the Tansy, the Forgotten Easter Pancake of Centuries Past
- How Danish Cookies Became Hong Kong’s Favorite Lunar New Year Snack
- How a Special Diet Kept the Knights Templar Fighting Fit
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