Protect the Shire, global text sizes, Web IQ, AI literacy, link intent, team photo, Instagram hack, noodle delivery and beer cans. I waited for a variety of Divi add-ons to release Divi 5 compatible versions and even a couple of bug fixes. Now that the tools I use are all updated, I’ve been migrating a number of sites to Divi 5. While there have been a few bumps in the road, the overall process has worked well. As I get sites migrated, I can start taking advantage of some of the new features. Learn what’s new with Divi and the rest of this week’s news in the stories below.

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• Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Patched in Kirki WordPress Plugin
• Matt Mullenweg Issues Emotional Plea as WP Engine Legal Battle Escalates on WordPress’ 23rd Anniversary
• SiteGround Faces Backlash After Automatically Installing AI Plugin on Customer Sites
• WordPress malware campaign hides payloads in Steam profiles
• 15,000 WordPress Sites Affected by Administrator Account Creation Vulnerability in WP Maps Pro WordPress Plugin
• Attackers Actively Exploiting Critical Vulnerability in Burst Statistics Plugin
• Attackers Actively Exploiting Critical Vulnerability in Everest Forms Pro Plugin
• Contributors Launch FSE-Style Outreach Program to Get Real-Time Collaboration Ready for WordPress 7.1
• Protect The Shire
• WordPress Announces Initiative To Secure All Plugins And Themes

• UX Hierarchy: How Users Actually Scan Pages in 2026
• What parents should know about AI and their kids
• How To Use Lighthouse To Test Your Website For Agentic Readiness
• Microsoft releases Web IQ, powered by Bing but designed for how AI-agents search
• Shopify outage disrupts stores, checkouts and admin access
• You Can Finally Measure Content Alignment. That’s The Dangerous Part
• Topical Authority: What It Is, How Google Measures It, and How to Build It
• I tested Claude SEO Agents so you don’t have to
• Inimitable Product is the New “Make Great Content”
• Google Analytics Is Adding Google Business Profile Data
• AI Literacy Is Not Prompt Literacy. Ann Handley Says It’s Judgment Literacy
• What Is A Migration Hangover Traffic Drop & How Do You Avoid It?
• The Dead Internet Is Here: Bot Traffic Tops Human Traffic for First Time
• Cloudflare: Bots now make up 57% of webpage requests
• Optimizing For Attention: How Eye Tracking Can Help Your International Strategy
• Your Next AI Visitor Will Know Who Sent It

• Link intent: How to combine great content with strategic outreach
• How a ‘client brain’ gives AI the context SEO work needs
• How to use schema markup to optimize for the agentic web
• Why Great Content No Longer Works: MIT Research Shows The Shift Reshaping SEO Strategy
• How ‘it’s just SEO’ took over the GEO conversation
• What Not To Automate With AI: The SEO Deskilling Trap
• The overlooked business value of SEO and affiliate alignment
• What to do now that AI Overviews turned search into reading sessions
• Google offers opt-out of “AI” search results for websites, promises it won’t affect regular search rankings
• Google CEO Sundar Pichai Is OK With AI Mode Replacing Classic Search
• Why Users Are Fleeing To AI-Free Search & What It Means For SEO
• Google introduces Search profiles within Google Discover
• Why so much SEO work no longer drives growth
• Google Launches Search Profiles For Creators With 100K Followers
• Google Must Let Websites Opt Out Of AI Search Features In UK
• Google’s New Guidance Claims Authority Over SEO, Tools, And AEO/GEO

• The Patagonia logo lawsuit controversy is every brand’s worst nightmare
• These slick FIFA World Cup posters are works of art
• DaVinci Resolve 21 Officially Released With New Photo Editing, AI Tools, and Much More
• Adobe Lightroom vs. Lightroom Classic: Here’s How to Know Which One You Actually Need
• Wendy’s new branding commits a cardinal design sin
• Louis Vuitton sues casino in high stakes logo dispute
• Why design keeps losing arguments it should be winning
• Starbucks’ catastrophic branding fail can’t all be blamed on AI
• Did Norway Just Take the Greatest World Cup Team Photo Ever?
  
  

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• The Newest Instagram “Exploit” is the Goofiest I’ve Seen
• Meta’s AI Chatbot Allegedly Helped Hackers Hijack Instagram Accounts

• Remembering Tokyo’s Golden Age of Noodle Delivery by Bicycle
• How to Make Ice-Cream Cocktails Like a True Wisconsinite
• The Archaeologist Who Collected 4,500 Beer Cans

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