PHP2SHELL, Slots & Components, Icon Manager, listicles, clutterscore, rank trackers, JPEG XL and ancient Roman dinner of death. The folks at Nexcess are trying to destroy their business. They bought up several prominent WordPress plugins. Where each could be purchased separately in the past, now your price will go way up and they force all of them on you. I currently have one client who needs one feature found in one of those plugins. The price they pay for that one feature is already too expensive and now they will be expected to pay three times as much going forward? No, we’ll either find a way to forego that one feature or we’ll find another solution. One such alternative for The Events Calendar Pro is described in this week’s news. I’m sure more alternatives will arise in the near future.
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- Critical PHP Core Security Flaws Affect Websites, Including WordPress
- Why It’s Urgent to Update PHP on Your WordPress Site: Two Critical PHP Vulnerabilities and What Our Testing Found
- UpdraftPlus WordPress Plugin Security Breach Enables Backdoor Attacks
- Automattic begins layoffs following board upheaval and executive departures
- Attacks on PHP2Shell Continue, But No Known Compromises as a Result Yet
- Exploit Claims Surface Ahead of Critical PHP Security Release as WordPress Community and Hosts Scramble
- PHP Patches Critical PHP2Shell Vulnerabilities as Hosts Across the WordPress Ecosystem Race to Protect Customers
- WordPress AI Team Moves to Make MCP a Default Part of WordPress, With 7.3 Floated as a Target
- New Benchmarks Find AI Agents Overlook WordPress and Can’t Complete Tasks via the Official MCP Adapter
- Attacker Uses Stolen UpdraftCentral Keys to Backdoor WordPress Sites After TeamUpdraft Breach
- PHP Warns of Another Unpatched RCE Risk Two Days After Emergency PHP2Shell Patches
- PHP2Shell: Haven’t patched yet? Take these steps now to mitigate
- Stay on the Free The Events Calendar. Get Recurring Events Without Pro.
- 7 UI Hero Sections For Divi 5 (Free Download!)
- What Makes Divi 5 Presets Unique (And Better Than The Competition)
- Exploring Components In Divi 5
- How To Build A Bento Grid Hero With Divi 5’s CSS Grid Editor
- Exploring Slots For Components In Divi 5
- How To Create A Responsive Image Mosaic With Divi 5’s CSS Grid Editor
- The Best Way To Build A Website With AI In 2026 Is Inside A Visual Builder
- Divi 5.14 Release Notes
- Introducing Components and Slots for Divi 5
- Divi 5.15 Release Notes
- Introducing Multi-Select And Bulk Editing For Divi 5
- Introducing The Icon Manager For Divi 5
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- Impactful new perspectives on the future of AI and marketing
- Content pruning case study: Cutting 33% of pages that drove just 3% of clicks
- Google Images & Discover Previews Don’t Support JPEG XL
- Why Reddit Belongs In Your PR Strategy
- How to Automate Content Creation: A Follow-Along Guide
- Google Merchant Center’s 6 conversational attributes explained
- When should ecommerce filters become indexable pages?
- How to write listicles that earn trust and help readers decide
- Why the For You Page deserves SEO attention
- AI and local search: The new rules of visibility in 2027
- What Personal AI Agents Like Meta Muse And OpenAI Dots Mean For SEO
- Search Share Fell To 12% For North American Publishers: Chartbeat
- How to prioritize SEO content updates and new opportunities
- Generative Engine Optimization (GEO): What It Is & How to Do It
- Google Crawls Raw And Encoded Bracket URLs Separately
- How to build an AI-powered SEO outreach workflow
- Google’s clutterScore: The hidden SEO risk bloggers can’t afford to ignore
- Google has updated its document on how to block Google Search
- Why Google reviews will power up your local SEO in 2027
- Google AI Overviews: Everything you need to know
- Does AI drive more direct traffic?
- Google’s Illyes: Robots.txt Covers Crawling, Not AI Training
- Why the order of technical SEO fixes matters
- Build something so valuable that Google looks stupid for not ranking it
- How Rank Trackers Say They Handle Suspect Google Results
- Getting Indexed No Longer Means Getting Visited
- Category vs. product pages: Which does Google favor?
- Some Brands On ChatGPT’s Cited Pages Still Got Few Mentions
- Google Explains 503s, Robots.txt Limits & Bracket URLs – SEO Pulse
- GEO Is A Distraction: Here’s Where The Real Opportunity Is
- Sunlife’s new logo design is “optimised for a digital world”, but does it take minimalism too far?
- JPEG XL, Welcome to the Web!
- Olivia Rodrigo just showed creatives how to deal with false design allegations in style
- Canva Releases AI Image Generator That Wasn’t Trained on Photographs
- Can Free AI Clones Really Replace Photoshop? I Put LightCraft and PhotoCraft to the Test
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