Wordfence Argus, WordCamp US recaps, Divi 5 typography, AI workflow, SEO blind spot, AI flyers, Twitter and Haggis. I attended a Webinar last week where another Web designer demonstrated various small WordPress plugins built with AI. Most of them were to solve a very specific issue. While the plugins are released to the public, all are free because the designer doesn’t want to feel obligated to provide support. There was one specific plugin that could likely be of interest to a wider audience and I gave it a try. Immediately I found a few bugs and the designer quickly fixed them and was happy that I found the issues. I am purposely not sharing the link to it as I don’t want the designer to have to deal with a lot of support. Maybe one day the choice will be made to have a bigger audience for it and then I’ll gladly share. Check out all of this week’s news from the stories I’ve included below.

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• 400,000 WordPress Sites Affected by Account Takeover Vulnerability in TranslatePress WordPress Plugin
• Wordfence Argus Finds Complex 6 Step Critical RCE in Avada Theme with 1 Million Sales
• Wordfence Argus Finds Critical Authentication Bypass in WPMU DEV Dashboard Plugin
• WordPress Signs Open Weights AI Letter Alongside Automattic and GoDaddy
• WP Rocket Publishes WordPress 7.1 Fatal Error Post-Mortem, Estimates 10% of Sites Were Hit
• GiveWP Patches CVSS 10-Rated Vulnerability Allowing Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution
• Wordfence’s New AI Agent Chains Six Flaws Into a Critical Unauthenticated RCE in Popular Avada Theme
• Pods Ships Emergency Patches Across Six Major Versions After Critical Privilege Escalation Disclosure
• What I Took Home from WordCamp US
• Introducing the new Fluent UI for Admins – FluentBooking 2.3.0
• Rank Math WordPress Plugin Accused Of Secretly Taking Admin Access
• How To Add Google’s Preferred Sources Button To Your Website
• Free WordPress editorial workflow template
• How we made our plugin 30x times faster
• Topher Recaps WordCamp US, 2026

• I use AI. I am not a criminal.
• How to build an AI content workflow from the ground up
• Your Google Business Profile needs a business continuity plan
• How to build content briefs around audience situations
• Hackers Are Targeting Your Website. Here’s How to Stop Them
• Your Promo Code Field May Be Sending Revenue To Affiliates
• Cloudflare Says EmDash Version 1.0 Is Releasing Soon
• How To Advertise In Google AI Mode For Ecommerce
• .Org Sites Are 34% Likelier To Generate Ecommerce Revenue Than .Com
• Is top-of-funnel content still worth it in 2027?
• Judge Says Google/Publisher AI Situation “Seems Really Unfair”
• How To Become A Strategic Partner & Keep Clients Years Longer
• If an AI watermark scares you, your content may be the real issue
• WebMCP Connects AI Agents To Actions Inside Websites

• Google working on fix for broken favicons in Google Search
• Why International SEO Needs Machine-Recognizable E-E-A-T
• AI visibility has two jobs: Execute SEO and mobilize the organization
• How to turn an SEO backlog into a roadmap
• Google adds link carousels for developing topics in AI Mode
• The SEO blind spot is what happens after the click
• Has Google demoted listicles?
• ChatGPT Searches Individual Subreddits By Name
• What Is Information Gain in SEO? (and How To Add It to Your Content)
• ChatGPT Rebuilt Its Search Tool. I Read the New Language It Speaks.
• Reddit is the keyword research tool you’re probably not using
• Your images have a new job in AI search
• AI Is Changing Website Security. Here’s What SEO Teams Should Know
• Google Answers If Updates Come With Actionable SEO Signals
• Google Updates Site Reputation Abuse Policy: Removes Penalties In EEA
• Use Claude for SEO. Don’t let Claude do SEO.
• 7 ways to use AI for the SEO work that matters
• Link building in 2027: 13 ways to win or fail
• Google’s Mueller Shares Their Experience With Markdown For AI SEO

• Just How Good Are Moment’s T-Series II Lenses for iPhone?
• How does converting a video to 4K actually work?
• AI is killing folk graphic design, and the resulting “Lovecraftian horrors” are making people want to never eat out again
• The glaring design fail in the new iPhone Safari logo is proof that Apple’s lost its direction
• Calendly’s finally fixed its toilet bowl of a logo design
• Microsoft Paint and Photos apps add invisible watermark to AI-generated content — developer reverse engineers GUID embedding
• Adobe Brings ACR’s Powerful Non-Destructive Exposure Tools Into Photoshop Itself
• Graphic designers are trying to fix people’s terrible AI flyers

• The Infinite Scroll Was a Design Crime. Now Meta is Paying for It.
• Instagram adds feature that automatically trims clips for Reels
• Meta to Pay Up to $17.1 Billion in Landmark Settlement Over Social Media Addiction Claims
• Meta Settles Child Harm Lawsuit With 29 States for Nearly $17 Billion
• Meta will pay up to $18 billion to settle states’ lawsuit alleging harms to young users
• How to limit Instagram from using your data for AI and ads
• New Twitter launches, says Musk’s X gave up the name
• Meta’s $18B Social Media Addiction Settlement: Here’s What Will Change for Your Teens on Instagram, Facebook
• X claims it found a Chinese bot farm posting anti-AI data center sentiments
• The return of Twitter could be a happy ending after the worst rebrand of all time
• There’s a new Twitter in town, even though a judge has yet to rule on a trademark injunction

• How Edinburgh Made Haggis Cool Again
• Make Ancient Roman Brain and Rose Soufflé

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