WordPress 7.0.1, WordCamp US 2026, global typography system, brand building, social post reporting, Lego billboards and school lunch desserts. Now that I’ve migrated quite a few sites to Divi 5 with good success, I am running into a few pages that have a glitch of some sort. Most are relatively easy to fix and that fix comes along with modifying the pages with Divi 5 specific features that make the site better in the long run. Occasionally I hit a bug that I need to report with Elegant Themes or a third party. I have a feeling these bugs will lessen as more times passes. We had a pretty full list of stories in this week’s news and you’ll find those stories below.

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• The Classic block stays in the inserter for WordPress 7.1
• WebHosting.com Acquired by WordPress Parent Automattic
• Woosa makes its WooCommerce dropshipping and marketplace plugins free for everyone
• FluentCommunity 2.7.0: A Space Media Gallery, FluentPlayer Lesson Controls and Smarter Moderation
• FluentCart 1.5.3 – A Store That Answers
• WP Engine Opposes WordPress Foundation’s Trademark Bids in the U.S. and Canada, Alleging Fraud and Bad Faith
• WordPress Community Support Recorded a $372,000 Deficit in 2025 Even as Event Attendance Rose 27%
• Are Declining Plugin Sales the Canary in WordPress’ Coalmine?
• WordPress 7.0.1 Now Available, Fixes 31 Bugs
• Inside WordCamp US 2026: Lead Organizers on Hitting ‘Reset,’ Adding a New Beginner Track, and Beating the Phoenix Heat
• Contributors Reverse Course on Plan to Begin Phasing Out the Classic Block
• WordPress 7.0.1 Maintenance Release Contains 31 Bug Fixes
• “I Think We’ve Been Hacked”: Key Strategies for WordPress Site Recovery

• The “100x Developer” Paradox: Is AI “Brain Fry” Killing the Craft?
• Moving Beyond UX: The Rise of the Agentic Experience (AX) Designer
• Focus on this one marketing priority to stand out in a noisy world
• Performance Marketing Meets AI: How To Build An Experimentation Framework That Scales
• The Web Is Growing A Second Layer – Almost A Third Head
• Building a brand worth finding: Signals that fuel discovery
• 5 Ways To Make Your Marketing Channels Work Together
• Reclaiming Brand Sovereignty In The AI Era
• 10 Ways to Build Radical TRUST in the Age of AI Junk
• How to build an AI-powered content gap analysis workflow
• 5 questions to ask AI vendors before buying a tool
• Why most original data never gets cited
• The future of performance marketing isn’t more vendors. It’s making your stack work harder.
• The Web Is Eating Itself And Your Metrics Look Fine
• Have we lost the joy of branding?
• Free AI Citations Won’t Last. I’ve Watched Google Fence Off A Wide Open Field Before
• The Agentic Web Is Splitting Into Two Bets: Identity And Capability
• Evergreen Content Is Over – The Individual Is The Only Strategy Left
• AI Agent Standards: What Do We Need To Know?
• The WebMCP Tools You Expose To Agents Can Be Used To Hijack Them
• Google Business Profiles Showing Empty Review Dashboards

• Google indexing report in Google Search Console fixed
• Google is investigating reports of reviews going missing and pausing reviews on local listings
• 6 SEO priorities to rethink for AI search
• Google On Using Markdown For AI SEO
• Google Search Console gains reporting on social and video platforms
• Google Search Console Adds Reports For Social Posts
• An Easy Digital PR Strategy For AI SEO
• You Can’t See How AI Ranks You, So Build What It Can Read
• How to make your SEO strategy more commercially aware
• Google’s New Merchant Listing Structured Data Improves SEO
• Self-Promotional Content Works—Until It Backfires (AI SEO Experiment)
• Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Explained: How AI Decides Which Pages to Search & Cite
• Ask YouTube AI search experience expands to U.S. desktop users
• 7 ways AI can turn Google Search Console data into action
• Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol: The SEO implications
• Link building for legitimacy: Building brand credibility in a competitive search environment
• Only 28% Of Americans Trust AI Search – And That Gap Is Your SEO Opening
• Google Says Canonical Re-Evaluation Can Take Up to Two Weeks

• Ingenious Lego billboards show that sometimes showing the product is all that’s needed
• Why typography is so vital to good branding
• Meta’s New Image Model Lets People Tag Your Insta ID in Prompts: How to Opt Out
• Meta’s New AI Image Generator Can Make Pictures From Anyone’s Public Instagram Page
• Taylor Swift used an ingenious design detail to stop her wedding invites leaking
• Koto’s new type foundry is redefining the rules of font design

• Why we’re all posting less on social media these days

• This Restaurant Has Wed Six Couples in Pools of Chocolate
• 5 School Lunch Desserts That Defined Cafeterias in the 2000s
• My Hunt for the Original McDonald’s French-Fry Recipe
• Why is Utah So Crazy About Fry Sauce?
• The Messy History of Emily Dickinson’s Black Cake Recipe
• The Legendary, Lavish Dinner Parties of South Dakota’s Divorce Colony

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