Elementor cuts, WordPress percentage, password protection, meta descriptions, technical SEO, new logos, Threads and Presidential pie. We’re in the dog days of summer with a US holiday and the world focused on futbol. So the news this week was a little slower than most of the year. You’ll find the latest news in the stories we’ve included below.
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- Elementor cuts 100 jobs, 30% of workforce, as AI reshapes website building
- The State of WordPress Themes — An Analysis of 14,800 WordPress.org Themes (June 2026)
- Who’s Left to Build WordPress?
- FluentCart 1.5.2 – More Ways to Get Paid, More Ways to Build
- New WordPress Plugin Safely And Easily Connects AI To Your Website
- WordPress Drops to 41.5% Market Share, but Three Datasets Tell Different Stories About What’s Going On
- Elementor Cuts 30% of Its Workforce, Frames Layoffs as AI-Driven Reset
- How to build a WordPress plugin with AI (Cursor + WordPress Studio)
- 4 Accordions & Toggles + Nested Elements Designs For Divi 5 (Free Download)
- How To Crop Images In Divi 5
- Exploring Divi 5’s New Gradient Options & Variables
- How To Style Forms In Divi 5 (New Field Options)
- Exploring Divi 5’s New Contact Form 7 Module
- Comparing The Font Scale Types In Divi 5’s Variable Generator
- How To Customize WordPress Password Protected Pages With Divi Layouts
- How To Password Protect An Entire Divi Website
- I’m driven by desperation (and proud of it)
- How ChatGPT Actually Picks Sources (I Read The Network Traffic, Not The Outputs)
- The Absolute Best Way To Write Meta Descriptions
- Habitual Publisher Traffic Is Collapsing
- Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5 Is “Near-Opus Intelligence” For All Plans
- Trump’s plan to redesign every .gov website leads to AI-designed horrors
- Google’s DMCA Crisis Is Disrupting The Web. It Will Only Get Worse.
- How Startups and Digital Goliaths Deploy AI to Grow Traffic & Revenue
- Why proprietary data is your most defensible AI citation asset
- Why AI deliverables should be judged by outcomes, not effort
- AI Content Didn’t Stop Working, Your Metrics Did
- Why proving technical SEO ROI is so difficult
- How to safely implement high-impact technical SEO changes
- Multi-Location Search Visibility: Winning In Google & AI
- Google makes recipes in AI Mode more publisher friendly
- Google Puts Recipe Links At Top Of AI Mode Responses
- The new SEO stack: What replaces your old toolset
- Why AI search is forcing global SEO teams to rethink ownership
- Google Data Shows AI Search Users Moved Past Keywords, Your Content Hasn’t
- How to Use Reddit for SEO (The Right Way)
- Google Ends Cache-Served AMP Pages In Search
- Lighthouse Fails Your Llms.txt Without Markdown Links
- AI Search Is Nothing Without SEO & It Knows It
- Google’s Mueller Flags A Case On Why LCP Fixes Miss the Target
- Cloudflare’s AI Crawler Rules Can Block Googlebot
- Google Answers Question About LLMs-Author.txt For SEO
- Google’s Open Knowledge Format Could Work For Websites, Too
- Fake DMCA Complaints Keep Erasing Real Pages From Google – What To Watch For
- This new logo design breaks so many rules, but I love it
- The world’s oldest football club just modernised its logo design, and fans are furious
- Steph Curry’s new logo is the ultimate game of spot the difference
- Instagram Wants to Expand ‘Your Algorithm’ That Curates Your Feed
- Threads, Meta’s ‘Twitter Killer,’ Finds Its People
If you see some important news that you feel we should share with our readers, please let us know and we’ll consider including it in our next post.
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