Matt at Automattic or not, Divi charts, components & slots, website QA checklist, ampersand, social scammers and pumpkin pie. The last week has been filled with Automattic as Matt Mullenweg was sidelined and then supposedly returned. Given all of the drama Matt has caused over the past two years, I really wish he would step aside for a period of time. Unfortunately that doesn’t seem like it will happen and I fear he will continue to do more damage than help WordPress as a whole. Check out all of this week’s news to learn all about it.
- WordCamp US 2026: PHP conversation
- Replacing Dashicons in the admin bar and menu
- All-in-One WP Migration Patches High-Severity SQL Injection Vulnerability
- Novamira Pro 1.9.0: your AI now has expertise on Blocksy
- BdThemes plugins supply-chain hack creates rogue WordPress admins
- Automattic’s board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence
- Introducing Product Videos – FluentCart 1.6.4
- Matt Mullenweg tells (trolls?) Automattic staff, saying he’s back in control after CEO ouster
- Automattic Board Forces Matt Mullenweg on Leave, Names CFO Mark Davies as Interim CEO
- Matt Mullenweg Swears for the First Time in 42 Years and Posts Hiring Call to Move “My Stuff” Off Automattic Servers
- WordPress.org Can Now Automatically Block High-Risk Plugin Updates Before They Ship
- Automattic Fires Back at WP Engine Customer Class Action, Claims Small Business Owners Caused Their Own Losses
- Every WordPress Media Library Hits the Same Wall (Most Agencies Just Don’t See It Coming)
- Matt Mullenweg reportedly returns as Automattic CEO two days after getting booted
- AI in WordPress
- Matt Mullenweg Apparently Back In Charge At Automattic
- 9 Creative Team Sections For Divi 5 (Free Download!)
- Exploring Divi 5’s Instagram Module
- 6 Expressive Google Variable Fonts For Bold Divi 5 Headlines
- 7 Variable Font Designs For Divi 5 (Free Download!)
- How To Design Cool Asymmetrical Layouts With The New Grid Editor
- Exploring Divi 5’s New Charts Module
- Supreme Testimonials for Divi: Collect, Approve and Reuse Real Reviews
- Is humanity in the business world overrated?
- USA TODAY overhauls audience strategy, citing search pressure
- The big winners and losers in U.S. website traffic over the past year
- ChatGPT May Soon Learn Your Writing Style From Your Slack or Gmail
- Brands Are Tracking AI Visibility, But Are They Measuring The Right Things?
- Meta Just Launched an AI That Uses Websites for You. That Could Be a Big Deal for Web Designers
- The AI hours nobody on your marketing team is counting
- How to use Claude to run a stronger CRO audit
- Google Adds Post View Counts To Business Profiles
- Everyone Is Quoting The Same Number And Getting Different Answers
- The Ultimate Website QA Checklist
- How to sell GEO to your clients (and actually deliver it)
- Gmail’s POP fetching is ending. Here is what to do.
- Your Biggest AI Search Risk Is Conflicting Information About Your Brand
- AI Overviews may be affecting Shopping ad CTR and impressions
- The AI Citation Mistake: Optimizing For Google, Not For Sources
- Google Says Old Low-Value Pages May Affect Site Recovery
- Google’s top ranking factors, according to 131 SEO professionals
- Jessica Bowman: SEO can’t win AI visibility alone
- 4 risks hiding in your branded search results
- Google DeepMind Develops New AI Search Ranking Model
- When SEO best practices become SEO dogma
- The dehumanization of SEO: Displaced by code, ignored by communication
- What Wikipedia Reveals About AI Overviews And Web Traffic
- Google Analytics launches customizable Dashboards
- Google Admits Search Console Reporting For AI Search Is Inadequate
- How To Connect AI Search Visibility To Local Leads
- Instagram’s New Logo Has a Legibility Problem
- The Ampersand Is Nearly 2,000 Years Old — And Designers Still Can’t Agree How It Should Look
- This artist designed a poker deck inspired by the crisp textures and geometric shapes of Cubism and Futurism
- This free app could become the Blender of texture painting software
- ON1 Photo RAW 2027 Promises Much Better Image Quality
- I hate to say it, but the backlash to this beer company’s rebrand is justified
- This bakery’s clever branding was inspired by the irregular air pockets formed in dough
- Scammers Are Extorting Instagram Users With Bogus Copyright Strikes
- Muse, the band, lost its social media handles to Muse, Meta’s new AI agent
- Australia Plans New Law to Let Users Switch Off Social Media Algorithms
- YouTube Gives You Feedback On Shorts Before Publishing
- TikTok Is Quietly Putting Web Apps Inside Its App
- Instagram now lets you add tagged photos to your profile grid
- Instagram will demote AI-generated influencers if they don’t clearly label their account
- Your Social Media Is a Scammer’s Cheat Sheet. Here’s How to Lock It Down
- What Did People Really Eat in Medieval Taverns?
- Meet the Man on a Quest to Document Every Apple in North America
- This Obscure Heirloom Pumpkin Makes a Fantastic Pie
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