Vibe coding plugins, Divi design system, brand tax, rank on ChatGPT, 49 MB Web page, Facebook payouts and Guinness pour fail. I had to help a new client last week with some severe issues with their Web site. Their hosting company had upsold them on a security package they didn’t need and it included a firewall that blocked basic functionality on the Web site. When I say basic, they were unable to edit any pages on the site. Even worse, the hosting originally claimed the firewall didn’t exist. We finally got the firewall turned off and payment for it has been cancelled going forward. The site works great now and the client will save money by not paying for something they never needed. This is just one more example of why it can be good to work with a Web professional to handle your site. You’ll definitely save yourself stress and you might even save money. Make sure to check out all of this week’s news in the stories below.

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• WP Engine Acquires WPackagist, Drawing Mixed Reactions from the Community
• Vibe Coding Plugins? Validate With Official WordPress Plugin Checker
• WordPress 7.0 RC1 Delayed to March 24 Over Real-Time Collaboration, Client-Side Media, and Package Size Concerns
• Roots Launches WP Composer as Open Source Alternative to WPackagist
• Nick Hamze’s Featured Plugins Experiment Delivers 26,000 Installs in First Two Weeks
• Volunteers Sought to Help Build Twenty Twenty-Seven, WordPress’s Next Default Theme
• AI for Nearly a Billion
• Simple Share Buttons – Lightweight social sharing for WordPress
• Introducing Mesh
• Do you need a CMS?

• 7 organic content investments that drive ecommerce ROI
• What incrementality really means in affiliate marketing
• A technique to visualize your keynote speeches
• The Brand Tax: How Google Profits From Demand You Already Own
• Accessibility can’t stop at the shelf: An $18 trillion lesson for marketers
• How nonprofits can build a digital presence that actually drives impact
• Local content playbook: From service pages to jobs-to-be-done pages
• The Content Moat Is Dead. The Context Moat Is What Survives
• Walmart: ChatGPT checkout converted 3x worse than website
• Google Business Profile tests AI-generated replies to reviews
• Accessibility can’t stop at the shelf: An $18 trillion lesson for marketers
• Cloudflare CEO: Bots could overtake human web usage by 2027
• Mark Zuckerberg Is Building an AI Agent to Help Him Be CEO

• Why entity authority is the foundation of AI search visibility
• Google expands Personal Intelligence to AI Mode, Gemini, Chrome
• Yahoo CEO: Google AI Mode is the biggest threat to web traffic
• 5 competitive gates hidden inside ‘rank and display’
• How Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol could reshape search conversions
• Google Explains Why HTTPS Migration May Negatively Impact SEO
• Authentic Human Conversation™
• How To Use AI To Streamline Time-Consuming SEO Tasks
• SEO Test Shows It’s Trivial To Rank Misinformation On Google
• Search Referral Traffic Down 60% For Small Publishers, Data Shows
• Organic search is fundamentally disrupted. Here’s what to do about it.
• Where to focus technical SEO when you can’t do it all
• Google: 404 Crawling Means Google Is Open To More Of Your Content
• How to Rank on ChatGPT: What Actually Works (Based on Data)
• What Is Content Decay? (And How to Fix It Before It Tanks Your Traffic)
• Keyword Intent: What It Is and How to Use It in Your SEO Strategy
• The death of internal authority.
• Organic search is fundamentally disrupted. Here’s what to do about it.
• What patents reveal about the foundations of AI search
• Multi-location SEO strategy: Stop competing with your own content
• Your SEO maturity score doesn’t measure what you think it does
• Google AI Mode Goes Personal, Crawl Limits Clarified – SEO Pulse
• Google Expands UCP With Cart, Catalog, Onboarding
• Google confirms AI headline rewrites test in Search results
• Google tightens rules on out-of-stock product pages

• How Aspect Ratios Define Perception, Rhythm, and Flow
• Wild new handwriting font is ‘Comic Sans on steroids’
• Affinity’s First Free Update Adds New Features and Camera RAW Profiles
• Firefox teases new logo without iconic fox
• I Used Vibe Coding to Build My Own Zillow in Just a Few Hours
• AI Content Wasn’t Good Enough. Now It Is.
• The Great Transition: Why the Design World is Re-Evaluating Figma
• The 49MB Web Page
• You Can Now Train Adobe’s AI on Your Own Unique Photographic Style
• Sprite rebrands and brings back the Lymon
• Can Adobe’s new custom Firefly models finally tame AI?
• This rebrand combines maps and fingerprints into something special

• LinkedIn updates feed algorithm with LLM-powered ranking and retrieval
• Instagram Begins Testing Clickable Links in Post Captions
• Why social search visibility is the next evolution of discoverability
• Meta will pay Instagram, TikTok and YouTube creators with big followings to post on Facebook
• Facebook’s Meta rebrand is looking stupider by the day
• Google Messages Finally Lets You Share Your Live Location
• Facebook Will Pay Creators $3K Per Month to Post Videos
• Reddit Could Soon Require Face ID to Prove You’re Not a Bot
• Court Finds Musk Misled Investors When He Bought Twitter

• Canadian Bar Annoys Ireland With Its ‘Sacrilegious’ Guinness Pour
• 6 of Anthony Bourdain’s Favorite Restaurants in the World
• Meet the Feminist Resistance Fighter Who Created the Modern Kitchen
• The Forgotten Cookbooks That Fueled Women’s Suffrage

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