WPForms, Novamira, tooltips, Loop Filter Modules, AI in marketing, technical SEO, Instagram logo, Meta lawsuits and ice cream. Last week was the first meeting where I was leading the Divi Chicago Meetup and we learned all about typography in Divi 5. Next month we have Peter Wilkinson of Divi Engine showing us all about looping. I encourage all of you to join us for this free hour of learning and sharing. WordCamp US 2026 is underway right now in Phoenix and that means lots of WordPress news is happening. Check out all of this week’s Web news below.
For those of you in the world of Web design, I invite you to join our new Divi Unleashed Facebook group.
- Sybre Waaijer claims WPForms Lite 2.0.0 added a backdoor
- WPForms Lite Accused Of Adding Backdoor. I Tested It And Was Surprised
- WordPress 7.0.3 Released With Fixes for 12 Security Vulnerabilities, Including a Pre-Auth XSS With PHP Code Execution Potential
- Any Plugin Can Edit the WordPress Add New Screen
- What 3,400 WordPress Plugin Reviews Tell You About What Makes a Great Plugin
- Automattic Fires Back At WP Engine’s Motion For Sanctions
- When a PNG Isn’t a PNG: WordPress Patches an Author-Level Imagick RCE
- Third WordPress Security Release in Four Weeks Patches Author-Level RCE via Imagick
- Matt Mullenweg’s Messages Went Missing Amid a Failed Backup and Two Lost Devices, Court Filing Reveals
- Automattic Fires Back at WP Engine’s Sanctions Motion, Says Hosting Company Can’t Identify a Single Missing Message
- Novamira Review: I Planned a Quick Walkthrough and Fell Down a Rabbit Hole Instead
- Accessibility Team Initiative “Permanently Delayed” as Matt Mullenweg Declares Team Has “Overstepped Its Authority”
- WordCamp US 2026 Confirms Keynote Speakers From PayPal, Disney, Waymo, and a Matt Mullenweg Fireside Chat
- 40,000 WordPress Sites affected by Authentication Bypass Vulnerability in User Profile Builder WordPress Plugin
- Infinite Uploads Now Optimizes Your Images to AVIF and WebP
- 8 Circular Element Designs For Divi 5 (Free Download!)
- Divi Product Highlight: Accessibility Bundle
- The Ultimate Guide To Using Images In Divi 5
- How To Create Magazine-Style Blog Pages With Consistent Image Crops
- How To Use Text Stroke, Text Fill, And Variable Fonts Together In Divi 5
- Creating Color Variations From Brand Colors In Divi 5
- How To Create Tooltips With Divi 5
- Divi 5.9 Release Notes
- Loop Filter Modules for Divi 5
- Divi 5.10 Release Notes
- Four New Modules for Divi 5 (Charts, Gravity Forms, Imagely & Payment Button)
- Divi 5.11 Release Notes
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- We have normalized stealing content and it needs to stop
- How to Create a Blog: A Beginner’s Guide
- DMCA as a weapon: How to fight fraudulent takedown claims
- The web’s newest weapon against AI scrapers is a font
- Anthropic adds AI text watermarking to Claude models worldwide
- Cloudflare Gives AI Agents Wallets That Pay For What They Access
- 37 Proven Ways to Use AI in Marketing
- The Ghost Site Resurrector: How Junior Designers Can Turn Digital Abandonment into Cash
- Technical SEO testing: How to build a stronger experiment
- Why the traditional link building model no longer works for AI search
- How customers build confidence across the search journey
- Google’s classic Search button is gone in a new AI-first homepage
- Google tests advertiser list above mobile Search ads
- 300 French newspapers file complaint over Google AI Overviews
- How to decide whether a keyword deserves its own page
- A 5-layer framework for measuring AI search performance
- ChatGPT’s Search Index Serves Small Sites Too, Data Shows
- The Metric Most SEOs Are Still Not Measuring In The Age Of AI
- Judge lets SEO sabotage lawsuit over toxic backlinks move forward
- Query templates: Expanding the scope of topical authority
- How Do I Know If AI Overviews Are Taking Clicks From My Site And What Can I Do About It? – Ask An SEO
- How to Create Health & YMYL Content That Performs in AI Search
- How Search Engines Rank Content: Understanding TF-IDF and BM25
- Only 1.1% of news publisher visits come directly from AI: Study
- Link building works better when you think beyond links
- Your B2B SEO can win the click and lose the consideration
- Most AI visibility gains are just technical debt repayment
- Why SEO uncertainty is creating opportunities for challengers
- ChatGPT Already Knows Who It’ll Recommend Before It Searches
- Gemini 3.7 Flash rolling out in Google Search
- Buc-ee’s infamous logo design lawsuits are coming back to bite it
- The new 7UP rebrand is bound to be contentious
- The AI Detection False Economy: Fueling FOW (Fear of Writing)
- Insta360 X6 Review: A Tiny Dynamo for 360-Degree Recording
***** Get Insta360 X6, 8K 360 Camera at Amazon ***** - Instagram just redesigned its logo for the worst possible reason
- The new Instagram logo is the perfect embodiment of AI slop
- Other brands are throwing shade at the new Instagram logo
- Meta Ordered to Pay $567 Million in New Mexico Child Safety Case
- YouTube Updates Partner Program Terms & Shorts Payout Rules
- WhatsApp Previews On-Device ‘Scam Alert’ That Retains Message Encryption
- Google updates YouTube and Discover Feed ad requirements
- Sports Photographer Has Instagram Account Wrongfully Banned by Meta Over ‘Sexualization of Children’
- YouTube’s new policy is bad news for animators
- X open sources its ranking algorithm, letting users see if they’ve been ‘shadowbanned’
- Reddit Preserved The Part Of The Internet We Broke
- Meta Faces Landmark Trial That Could Reshape its Platforms and Cost $1.4 Trillion
- These Stuffed, Fluffy Bagels Are Taking China by Storm
- 6 Foods Families Really Ate During the Middle Ages
- Salt & Straw Wants You to Create Your Own Ice Cream Flavors
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