WordPress financials, flexbox footer, NotebookLM rebrand, Google AI mode, social media signals, optical illusion font and Meta AI fail. After more than a month of exciting games, the World Cup has finished for another four years. Stadiums were wrapped in signage. Television was filled with ads developed for the tournament. There was a lot of branding and marketing on display and we can all observe and learn something from it. Below you’ll find a number of stories in this week’s news and there is a lot for us all to learn.
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- WordPress Foundation Releases 2025 Financials as WPCS Posts $372,088 Operating Deficit
- Community Feedback Halts Plans to Phase Out the Classic Block
- SureRank 1.9.2: FluentCart SEO Support, Comment-Link SEO, and Key Fixes
- Beaver Builder 2.11: Popup Module, Maintenance Mode, and Settings Snapshots
- What I Ask My Store Every Morning (Before My Coffee Gets Cold)
- What Is ‘Error Establishing a Database Connection’ & How To Fix It in WordPress
- WordPress 7.1 Beta 1 Ships With Responsive Styling, Media Overhaul, and Persistent Toolbar
- WordCamp US 2026 Plays Catch-Up for Second Year Running as Ticket Sales Lag and Community Waits for Schedule
- Matt Mullenweg Vetoes Plan to Merge Knowledge Post Type and Guidelines in Core, Says AI Features Need Real-World Adoption First
- PSA: WordPress Core Patched Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Chain
- Cloudflare WAF protects WordPress applications from two high-severity vulnerabilities
- FluentCart 1.5.4 – new blocks, steadier rails
- 7 Chopped Text Designs For Divi 5 (Free Download!)
- Exploring Divi 5’s New Tooltip Module
- Leveraging Divi 5’s New Image Group Presets (No Need For Photoshop!)
- How To Build A Multi-Level Preset System In Divi 5
- How To Build A Flexbox Footer In Divi 5
- 5 Best WordPress Page Builders in 2026 (Expert Picks)
- The best speaking career advice I ever received
- How to close the identity gap between your brand, search, AI, and buyers
- ‘It works unlimited hours’: New AI super-assistant sits on your desk, has a ‘mind and voice’ – and handles everything from email to coding
- Google NotebookLM Rebrand May Expose Your Site To More AI Scraping
- 6 SEO priorities for AI shopping
- Scaled AI Content Often Fails & Google’s Crawl Economics Explain Why
- How to be visible on ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI search tools
- Google AI Overviews will let you create image
- Why standard SEO advice fails for travel websites
- How AI search gives old negative content new life
- Google Says No SEO Penalty For Year-Long A/B Tests?
- How Google May ‘Understand’ Unique Content
- Google’s Mueller On First Link Priority & Link Obfuscation
- Google is AI Mode’s No. 2 most-cited domain: Report
- EU expected to rule Google favored its own services in search
- AI SEO: Writing That’s Specific May Get Cited More
- Google Is Using Social Media Signals To Mask AI Search Click Loss
- How Do I Split Pages Between Brand Building & Converting? – Ask An SEO
- EU orders Google to share search data with rivals starting in 2027
- Google AI Mode adds Instacart, Canva and YouTube Music integrations
- Google Explains SEO Connection Of Site Quality To Non-Indexed Pages
- Google says AI Search features send billions of clicks to websites each week
- Google Downplays Search Console “Error” Reports. Says Many Aren’t Real Problems
- Why Your Pages Are Stuck In Crawled-Currently Not Indexed & What To Do About It
- When To Use Search Console’s ‘Validate Fix,’ According To Google
- This optical illusion font was created to baffle AI, and it actually works (for now)
- 3D artists are so blown away by Blender’s latest update, it’s hard to believe it’s free software
- 10 Creative Ways to Write with AI (Without Losing Your Soul)
- 4 types of content decay and how to fix each one
- This opera company’s bold rebrand aims to prove Timothée Chalamet wrong
- Bison Throws Grandpa 8 Feet Into the Air After He Stops for a Photo
- Facebook’s Design Didn’t Evolve — It Regressed
- WhatsApp’s New Era
- TikTok Targets AI-Generated Spam Accounts In High-Risk Topics
- Your next customer may discover your brand on TikTok before Google
- How Twitter changed my life and career forever
- Meta’s “regret” over its scrapped AI tool is like a burglar apologising for the mess
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