WordPress 7.0 changes, FluentCart updates, Divi 5 course, AI Website mistakes, GEO metrics, 7-Eleven, RIP social media and feeding Aztecs. I made the decision when FluentCart was released for it to be a major part of our business and an important tool for eCommerce sites we build for clients. So loyal readers have noted we include details on FluentCart updates along with other news. I recently completed migration of two of our own sites to FluentCart and I’ll write a post about that process in the near future. We still have two more sites to migrate and those will come in the months ahead. Make sure to check out all of this week’s news below.
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- Themeum Merges Droip Into Kirki, Sparking Debate
- Attackers Actively Exploiting Critical Vulnerability in Breeze Cache Plugin
- WordPress Loses Marketshare. Is Astro Eroding Their User Base?
- Authenticated Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability Patched in Slider Revolution 7 WordPress Plugin
- Your managed WordPress might be blocking AI bots and you can’t see it
- Matt Mullenweg Assembles Trusted Group to Overhaul WordPress.org and Five for the Future
- Matt Mullenweg Pulls Real-Time Collaboration From WordPress 7.0, Blames WP Engine Litigation
- WP Engine Accuses Audrey of Failing to Produce Documents in Discovery Fight
- Court Rejects Developer’s Contempt Motion Against Automattic and Mullenweg
- WordPress Accessibility Team Overhauls Theme Guidelines for the First Time in 14 Years
- The agency case for open source
- What’s new in WordPress 7.0: AI integration, new blocks, and much more
- What I’d Build If I Had to Start Over in WordPress Today
- FluentCart 1.3.26 -Square Payment Gateway, Smarter Discounts, and a Cleaner Checkout
- FluentCart 1.3.27 – licensing gets a workspace
- How To Build Custom Sidebar Navigation With Divi 5 Interactions
- Part 1: What To Prepare Before Building Your Divi 5 Website
- Part 2: Exploring Every Aspect Of The Divi 5 Interface
- Part 3: Creating A Divi 5 Global Design System With Design Variables
- Part 4: Mastering Divi 5 Presets For Faster, More Consistent Web Design
- How To Create A Mega Menu In Divi 5
- Why Divi 5 Might Be the Most Important WordPress Update in Years
- Human Renaissance in the Agentic Age: Insights from The Uprising Retreat
- AI is working. Your data is what’s broken.
- Web Bot Auth, Google’s new experimental method to validate authentic bots
- The 10-gate AI search pipeline: Find where your content fails
- The Whole Point Was The Mess
- How To Design URL Structures For AI Retrieval, Not Just Rankings
- The ROI Problem With AI Traffic Nobody Is Measuring Correctly
- 7 Common AI Website Mistakes That Are Easy To Avoid
- AI Keyword Research: How It Works and 9 Prompts to Start
- Agentic AI vs. Generative AI: What’s the Difference, and Why Does It Matter?
- Google AdSense removes browser back button trigger for vignette ads
- Cloudflare to Slash 1,100 Jobs Due to AI-Driven Restructuring Plan
- Don’t Learn the Hard Way: 7 Website Hosting Basics You Can’t Afford to Ignore
- Google fixes Search Console’s year-long data logging issue – well, kind of…
- Why brand authority beats topical authority in AI search
- 7 tools for doing AEO right now
- Why AI visibility starts before search and ends with citations
- Google Says A New Wave Of AI Users Is Transforming Search
- Google On Keyword Fragmentation And User Needs In AI Search
- Google Adds More Links & Link Context To AI Search
- AI Just Handed PR Its Best Opportunity In SEO & Most Teams Are Missing It
- Google updates links within AI Overviews & AI Mode
- Microsoft: AI answers need a smarter search index
- Google Search AI Mode Gets ‘Expert Advice’ From Reddit and Social Media
- Google’s Quality Threshold Is Quietly Killing Scaled AI Content
- Google Answers If Preferred Sources Overrides Low Quality Signals
- AI SEO punishes lazy marketing strategies
- How to use Google and LLM insights to improve international SEO
- 8 GEO metrics to track in 2026
- 5 JavaScript SEO lessons from top ecommerce sites
- New AI Search Links, Core Update Winners And Losers – SEO Pulse
- Google’s Mueller Flags SEO Gaps In AI Vibe Coding
- Google to no longer support FAQ rich results
- SEO’s new goal in 2026: Recognition, not rankings
- How to run prompt-level SEO experiments for AI search
- Why intent alignment matters more than perfect technical SEO
- Google Adds More AI Search Links, Still No Click Data For SEOs
- Airport logo falls victim to Trump’s goldwashing Presidential plague
- Why AI brands are obsessed with serif fonts
- Autodesk’s free new tool offers an easy way in to 3D modelling
- Why this world-class visual artist prefers liquid nitrogen to AI
- 4Creative’s “perpetually unfinished” logo doesn’t care for conventionality
- The Curious Story Behind the 7-Eleven Logo
- Tesla’s mysterious new logo design has sparked some surprising theories
- From Vine to Friendster, why is retro social media coming back?
- Reddit Makes Its Mobile Site Harder to Use to Drive App Downloads, Logins
- RIP social media. What comes next is messy.
- How to Feed a Megacity Like the Aztecs
- 6 Discontinued Movie Theater Snacks We Still Think About During the Trailers
- 6 Old-School Mall Food Court Restaurants You Forgot About
- Nostradamus Wrote Prophecies; He Also Made Jelly
- The Sweet Second Life of Creole Cream Cheese
If you see some important news that you feel we should share with our readers, please let us know and we’ll consider including it in our next post.



















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