Five FluentCart updates, bulk editing in Divi, human experience, ranking PDFs, Michelangelos handwriting and leftover bread. When FluentCart released a year ago, I made the decision to go all in and switch all of my own shopping carts over and to also recommend it to clients. There were some features missing at first and many of those have been addressed. There are still things I’d like to see, but it has come a long way in only a year. I’m looking forward to what comes next and continuing to improve the shopping experience on my sites. Check out all of this week’s news in the included stories below.

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• Wordfence Argus Discovers Critical Vulnerability in Ghostscript, the Program That Turns Uploaded PDFs into Thumbnails on Your Server
• FluentCart 1.8.0 – Dynamic Pricing that follows your conditions
• All In One SEO WordPress Plugin Vulnerable To Two Exploits
• FluentCart 1.9.0 – One page, from offer to order.
• Automattic interim CFO resigns just weeks after boardroom shakeup
• WordPress maker Automattic applies for 16 top level domains including .matt
• WordPress 7.1.3 Released With Seven Security Fixes, Including XSS and SQL Injection Fixes, and Four Bug Fixes
• Five Reasons our Plugin Sales Fell, and What We Can Do About Each One
• Custom Taxonomies: Why We Refused to Build a Venues Feature
• FluentCart 2.0: Multi Currency for our first birthday
• FluentCart 2.1.0 – Reports that add up
• Coywolf Pack EmDash SEO Plugin Makes Sites Absurdly Fast
• 600,000 WordPress Sites Affected by SQL Injection Vulnerability in Backuply WordPress Plugin
• FluentCart 2.2.0 – RTL stores and complete receipts
• Matt Mullenweg Orders Accessibility Revert, Tells Core Committer to “Contribute Your Talents to Another Project”
• Hands-On With Beaver Builder AI: Design Systems, Claude, and a Very Late Night
• Automattic’s New Lawyers Lose Bid for More Time in Legal Fight With WP Engine

• I Was Wrong About AI and Brand Trust. Here’s What Actually Wins.
• ChatGPT’s Most-Cited Sites Tilt Toward Primary Sources, Data Shows
• Lost In Translation: How Language Changes Which Brand AI Recommends
• Google Ads Introduces Channel Prioritization And Budget Allocation
• Your brand can win the mention and lose the citation
• How ChatGPT Does Query Fan-Out (15 Million Queries Studied)
• Human experience is your content’s biggest differentiator
• Google Ask Maps: How to make your business easier to recommend
• The New Rules Of Journalist Outreach, Based On Millions Of Emails

• How to audit off-page AI search visibility and build a 90-day plan
• AI search is helping people ask bigger questions. Is your brand ready?
• I Don’t Trust Google’s AI Overviews, So I Found 6 Ways to Fix Them
• Google Says Why Site Migrations Can Exceed 4 Months
• The global consistency paradox: Building local E-E-A-T for AI search
• Your SEO recommendations have an expiry date
• Why gated content is the enemy of AI search
• Why SEO Isn’t Enough Anymore – And Why That’s A Good Thing
• Google Explains How They Rank PDFs And What It Means For SEO/GEO
• Analysis: Google Is Poisoning Search Results For Rank Trackers
• Bing Webmaster Tools AI performance report new Topics Portfolio
• Google Launches A Video Series For Odd Technical SEO Questions
• AI Overviews Currently Appear for 83% of Branded Searches
• SEO for Static Sites: 8 Problems to Watch For
• Link Building & Outreach for AI Search
• Make every page count before publishing more for SEO
• How entity confusion can hurt your brand’s AI visibility
• Google Puts Inline Links Higher In More AI Search Responses
• Google updates AI Mode and AI Overview with more links, context, carousels, and information on creators
• Canonicalization and SEO: A guide for 2027
• What 714 suppression campaigns show about pushing down negative results

• I tried those free AI-coded Adobe Creative Cloud clones, and they have some big problems
• Someone made a free Photoshop clone – so I had to try it on Linux
• How Michelangelo’s handwriting became a Microsoft font
• The chaotic Apple HomeView advert is stressful viewing
• Read the Tree Leaves, With an Artist’s Invented Tree Font

• Twitter is Back. Shhh… Magic Dance!
• WhatsApp adds a guest option for joining calls without an account

• 7 Ways the World Transforms Leftover Bread Into Delicious Dishes and Drinks

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