PressConf, MainWP v6, Divi 5 Release, staying motivated, Google Discover, Canva acquisitions, Rediit AI slopfest and TikTok drop. Now that Divi 5 is official, I’ve migrated a couple more client sites to the new version. There are many more still to migrate and I expect I’ll have most migrated within a few more months. Some of those sites will receive some redesign as part of the process, while others are simply waiting for some third-party plugins to be updated. I strongly encourage everyone to go through the Pee-Aye Creative Trail Guide listed below so you are ready to move your own sites. For those who’d like assistance, check out the Divi Assistance that I provide. There is a lot of other news this week so check out all the stories below.
For those of you in the world of Web design, I invite you to join our new Divi Unleashed Facebook group.
- SudoWP Initiative Launched to Secure Abandoned WordPress Plugins
- Beaver Builder version 2.10.0.7
- Joost de Valk and Karim Marucchi Step Away from FAIR as Project Pivots to TYPO3
- WordPress 7.0 Beta 2 Ships With Connectors UI, Delivering on Mullenweg’s AI Vision
- PressConf Returns to Tempe with a New Mission: Challenge the WordPress Community
- WordPress, AI, plugins, future of software engineering
- Automattic Again Seeks to Dismiss WP Engine’s Latest Complaint, Moves to Drop WooCommerce From Case
- MainWP v6 – Our Greatest Collaboration Ever!
- Joost de Valk Exits Federated WordPress Repository Project
- FAIR, WordPress, and Knowing When to Stop
- Exploring Divi 5’s New Top Bar UI
- Buttons vs Links: When To Use Each In Divi 5 (With Practical Examples)
- How To Import & Export Design Variables In Divi 5
- How To Use Interactions, Canvases, And Portals Together (The Complete Workflow)
- Divi 4 To Divi 5 Trail Guide
If you’ve been using Divi 4, you’ll find that Divi 5 is a big change. Nelson Miller of Pee-Aye Creative has put together a series of tutorials that guide you in the transition.
- AI as Art Director: Can Machines Develop Taste?
- Do we begin to battle AI for human artistry?
- How to stay motivated during the winter months
- The AI writing tics that hurt engagement: A study
- 10 Ways to Reduce Cognitive Load Without Turning Your UI Into a Minimalist Ghost Town
- How to use AI response patterns to build better content
- 7 Things People Think Privacy Policies Do (But They Don’t)
- Google Search Console page indexing report missing data prior to December 15
- Google Discover Update: Early Data Shows Fewer Domains In US
- AI-SEO Is A Change Management Problem
- Local GEO & AI Search: A 90-Day Plan to Make Every Location AI-Ready
- Web Almanac Data Reveals CMS Plugins Are Setting Technical SEO Standards (Not SEOs)
- AAO: Why assistive agent optimization is the next evolution of SEO
- The perfect local business contact page built for Google and conversions
- How Google Discover qualifies, ranks, and filters content: Research
- What 13 months of data reveals about LLM traffic, growth, and conversions
- Anthropic clarifies how Claude bots crawl sites and how to block them
- How ChatGPT uses SEO to drive growth and revenue
- When Google Is No Longer A Verb: Search Becoming Infrastructure
- How Researchers Reverse-Engineered LLMs For A Ranking Experiment
- ChatGPT ecommerce traffic converts 31% higher than non-branded organic search
- Google Explains Why Its Crawler Ignores Your Resource Hints
- Google patent hints it could replace your landing pages with AI versions
- The 42 Fantastic Winners of the World Nature Photography Awards
- Welcoming MangoAI and Cavalry as we expand our AI capabilities and professional creative suite
- The Backrooms movie poster is a whole lotta nothing (and it’s perfect)
- Pokémon just dropped 1000+ new logos but there’s one clear winner
- Google reveals Nano Banana 2 AI image model, coming to Gemini today
- Is Canva’s new acquisition a secret blessing for motion designers?
- Viral AI advert with aged Elon Musk raises so many questions
- New Platforms Won’t Save Social Media: Here’s What’s Actually Shifting
- Discord Delays Global Age Verification Rollout After User Backlash
- YouTube Premium Lite Adds 2 Top-Requested Features
- Looks Like WhatsApp Is Finally Prepping a Way to Schedule Messages
- Reddit Is Quietly Becoming an AI Slopfest. Can Anyone Save It?
- The Algorithm That Powers Your X (Twitter) Post
- Gen Z Preference For TikTok Over Google Drops 50%, Data Shows
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