WordPress 7.1, Woo to FluentCart, gradients for Divi, branded searches, SEO priorities, Figma, YouTube counts and hot sodas. Last week I ran into an issue where someone was trying to do something fraudulent on one of my Web sites. I wanted a way to prevent it in the future so I ask Google for a setting to modify. Such a setting didn’t exist, but Google offered to write a code snippet to do what I desired. A minute later, I was pasting that snippet onto the site. My use of AI is fairly limited right now, but this was a perfect example of where it was extremely helpful. With WordCamp US taking place, there is a lot in this week’s news so make sure to check out all of the stories we’ve included.
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- 600,000 WordPress Sites Affected by Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability in Forminator Forms WordPress Plugin
- WordPress 7.0.4 Patches Author-Level RCE via Malicious File Upload
- Official WordPress Browser Extension Now Available on Chrome and Mac App Store
- Porkbun vs GoDaddy: Setting the Record Straight
- Introducing PWA & Signed Update -FluentCommunity 2.8.0
- Critical Unauthenticated File Upload to RCE in Elementor Pro Plugin
- Critical Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability Patched in Elementor Pro WordPress Plugin
- FluentCart 1.6.2 – Bring your WooCommerce store to FluentCart
- WordPress 7.1 “Mary Lou” Launches at WordCamp US With Responsive Styling, Improved Media Handling, and New Blocks
- WP Rocket Releases Fix for WordPress 7.1 Fatal Error, Faces Backlash Over Six-Week-Old Bug Report
- WordCamp US 2026 Wraps in Phoenix With a Hackathon, WordPress 7.1, and Matt Mullenweg’s Push for Simplicity
- State of the Community Survey Finds Three in Four Feel Worse About WordPress, but 90% Agree on What Matters
- PressConf Heads to Europe for the First Time, Announces Four-Day Barcelona Conference in October
- Homework from WordCamp
- Introducing Beaver Builder AI: Build WordPress Websites With AI
- 100,000 WordPress Sites Affected by Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Pods WordPress Plugin
- 7 Creative Gradients For Divi 5 (Free Download!)
- Part 8 Of Mastering Flexbox: Controlling Spacing With Gap (Not Margin)
- Is AI Going To Kill WordPress?
- Part 9 Of Mastering Flexbox: Creating Responsive Columns Without CSS Grid
- How To Stack, Nest, Mix, And Match Presets In Divi 5
- 7 Variable Font Combinations (New Feature)
- 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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- AI Assistants Are Choosing Local Businesses For Your Customers
- Anthropic Reveals What The Watermark Is And How It Can Be Defeated
- Cloudflare: Machine Traffic Could Hit 1,000x Human Traffic In 5 Years
- What We Can Learn From Evolving ChatGPT Fan-Out Queries
- How to avoid Claude watermarking your content
- Google updates Branded Searches conversion measurement
- What 9 months of AI Overview data and 51,000+ tracked events reveal
- Replacing creative jobs with AI could have a hidden cost, a new report warns
- Slop antibodies: The link between AI slop, watermarking, and commodity content
- AI can knock on the door. Your CRM marketing platform is still the house.
- Decision Coverage: Why AI Recommends Some Brands And Not Others
- Creating and Promoting Were Never the Same Decision
- Google’s Generated Interfaces Could Compete With Tool Pages
- How to build an E-E-A-T checker with Claude Code
- How to measure the true value of creators and review content
- How To Audit Publisher Websites In 2026
- AI Mode Queries Are 3X Longer – Why Your Page Should Lead With The Answer
- Google Search pauses AI-generated images within AI Overviews
- The AI visibility index: Which brands are vanishing from AI search?
- Inside ChatGPT’s retrieval stack: The index, cache, and pages it actually reads
- Build your SEO strategy as if search engines don’t exist
- Google Search Console now connects social content to search demand
- Local 5.0: The next evolution of local SEO is here
- How To Track Google AI Mode Traffic In Search Console
- Business websites dominate Gemini local AI search citations: Study
- JavaScript links can make your pages invisible to AI search
- Technical SEO for AI search: 4 fundamentals that matter
- Prompt Injections Just Proved Something SEO Has Known For 25 Years
- Google Expands Generative UI Beyond AI Mode Into AI Overviews
- Content Effort: The Google Ranking Feature Nobody Talks About
- Google Discover lets you customize your feed using conversational search
- 3 phases to build authority and earn AI citations
- SEO priorities for 2027: Your guide to search success
- The Keyword Universe Was Always Smaller Than We Thought
- Duane Forrester: AI is rewriting SEO, but the mission is the same
- Google Answers If Some Sites Can Ignore GEO And Just Focus On SEO
- Figma is the New Dreamweaver: How Modern Prototyping Tools are Trapping Us in 2018
- While you were angry at Instagram, Jif quietly debuted a perfect new logo
- Why are we still treating Canva like a dirty little secret?
- These clever Coyote Vs Acme ads are stopping traffic
- Never Use AI to Edit These 7 Types of Photos
- Move over Duolingo, there’s a new brand mascot in town
- The easy way to make epic fantasy art using Blender and Photoshop
- YouTube Measures Creator Video on Branded Search Lift, But The Attribution Gap Still Exists
- Social Media Marketing: To What End?
- YouTube public view counts will likely get higher starting next week
- US states take on Meta in pivotal trial over child social media addiction claims
- YouTube Changes How It Counts Views On Long-Form & Live
- Reddit Tests AI-Generated Videos to Read Aloud Popular Posts
- Clicks Are Down 42%, LinkedIn Reach Down 47% But You’re Raging At The Wrong Target
- Reddit’s ChatGPT Search citations fell 86% in four days: Report
- YouTube Offers Creators Millions to Not Work With Netflix
- Why Reddit’s ChatGPT Citation Drop Isn’t Fully Explained
- Meta’s new social media app swaps photos and reels for your own AI-generated video games
- LinkedIn Says Users Love Its Anti-AI-Slop Button
- TikTok will pay $400 million to settle Justice Department lawsuit over child privacy
- When India Kicked Out Coca-Cola, Local Sodas Thrived
- Remembering America’s Golden Age of Hot Sodas
- The Food That First Made Anthony Bourdain Want to Become a Chef
- Let the Sounds of Sizzling Bacon Gently Lull You to Sleep
- There’s nothing fishy about these protein bars, honestly
- The Sweet Second Life of Creole Cream Cheese
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