WordPress 7.0.3, email popup, loop filter modules, discoverability, AI visibility, beaver logos, Reddit and Georgian winemakers. Last night I led my first Divi Chicago meetup meetings and one of the reasons that the group needed a new leader was that the previous leader passed away earlier this year. Joan Margau did a wonderful job lining up interesting meetings and growing the group and I can only hope that I do half as well as she did. The last few meetings without her just haven’t been the same. For those of you who aren’t already part of Divi Chicago, I encourage you to join Divi Chicago and enjoy future meetings. There is no cost and our meetings are an hour each month. There was a lot in this week’s news so make sure you check out all of the stories I’ve included.

For those of you in the world of Web design, I invite you to join our new Divi Unleashed Facebook group.

• WooCommerce Social Login WordPress Plugin Enables Full Site Takeover
• A leftover WPManageNinja server allowed tampered plugin updates to reach customer sites
• The Easiest way for Non-Techies to Move from Wix to WordPress Using ChatGPT
• WordPress 7.1 Accessibility Change May Break Some Plugins
• WordPress 7.0.3 Released: 12 Vulnerabilities Found and Fixed
• WordPress 7.0.3 Patches 12 Vulnerabilities as Bug Bounty Reports Climb to 450 a Month
• Patchstack Challenges WordPress.org to Fast-Track Security Fixes Under Protect the Shire
• WordPress 7.1 Release Candidate 1 Ships With Field Guide and 145 Fixes Ahead of WordCamp US Launch
• DocsBot Launches Free AI Sidekick for WordCamp US 2026 Attendees, Builds It a Physical Body Too
• WPManageNinja Discloses Supply Chain Attack After Forgotten Server Delivers Tampered Plugin Updates
• ACF 6.8.7 Security Release
• WordPress Security Release 7.0.3 Fixes High Severity XSS Vulnerability
• PSA: Supply Chain Compromise in BdThemes Ecosystem via Poisoned API Response
• Novamira Pro 1.8.0: your AI now has expertise on Weglot

• Three paths to a personal branding content strategy, one truth
• Open Knowledge Format v0.2 Adds A Trust Layer – No AI Agent Reads It Yet
• Economist Steve Hanke says AI won’t destroy most jobs because it costs more than hiring humans
• How to measure your brand’s visibility in Gemini
• The future of performance marketing isn’t more vendors. It’s making your stack work harder.
• The 2-Second Rule: How to make your website feel like magic in 2026
• Does topical focus make your brand more visible?
• AI Referrals Are Recreating The Oldest Mistake In Conversion Optimization
• The Future Of Discoverability
• I Helped Scale Google Ads To Billions – Here’s How I’d Build An AI Search Strategy Today
• How business context changes AI recommendations
• What six perspectives reveal about demand generation in AI search
• AI’s Impact Is Outrunning Measurement: The Trust And Attribution Gap Facing Brands

• Keyword research meets prompt research: A smarter way to prioritize topics
• GEO for people who have to hit revenue targets
• What Top Stories Inside AI Overviews Means For Publishers And Brands In 2026 And Beyond
• Report That Cloudflare AI Bot Blocking Prevents Googlebot From Indexing Sites
• Google Now Reports AI Search Impressions. Here’s How To Read Them
• Google Search testing forcing searchers to sign in to get more search results
• Should multilingual websites add English pages for AI visibility?
• How to launch a news publication that earns visibility in Google
• How to de-risk your SEO strategy when Google keeps changing the model behind your rankings
• 10 SEO use cases for auditing your accessibility tree for AI search
• Google Chief Scientist Who Helped Build Modern Search And AI Steps Away
• Bing Top Source Search Feature
• SEO vs GEO is the wrong question
• ChatGPT’s Inline Citations Surge AI Referral Traffic to Websites
• How to spot an emerging category in search data
• Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment
• Your rankings aren’t telling you what your customers see
• You can’t demand the click if you won’t give the link
• Common Crawl Published A Manual For Being Visible To AI, I Automated It
• AI Search Only Feels New If Your SEO Was Shallow

• No, Vermont’s new logo design isn’t Comic Sans
• Pepsi shades Coca-Cola in parody rebrand
• No beaver logo is safe from Buc-ee’s legal wrath
• Berlin Museum breaks the rules of branding with EIGHTY-ONE different logos
• Burger King’s viral pregnancy test stunt was a bold move, but it worked
• Want a free Photoshop alternative on Linux? How to get Affinity today: 2 ways
• Did Coca-Cola need a redesign? Design experts weigh in on the new look
• The hardest part of content hasn’t gotten any easier
• You can use 70+ Adobe tools without leaving ChatGPT now – here’s how
• This Photographer Built An App to Capture Perfect Solar Eclipse Photos
• Lightroom’s Masking Just Got Much Better
• Pixar co-founder’s new AI role is reigniting animation’s biggest debate
• Adobe Is Coming for Canva With Expanded ChatGPT Integration

• LinkedIn Feed Full of AI Posts? Now You Can Report That It ‘Seems Like AI Slop’
• Snapchat Clamps Down On AI-Generated Videos
• Reddit Wants To Be The Destination, Not Just The Source Behind Search & AI
• Reddit CEO Intends To Show More Reviews And Recommendations
• Hank Green found the AI problem that YouTube labels can’t catch

• How Georgia’s Winemakers Went Underground to Survive Soviet Occupation

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