
Web Design Solutions Digest for February 11, 2025
WordPress themes, Matt silences Joost, new Divi breakpoints, AI optimization, digital watermarks, Flashes and Michelangelo’s grocery list. It is really disheartening that Matt Mullenweg continues to do things that harm individual WordPress site owners and smaller WordPress agencies. I sure hope that someday soon he’ll realize that his childish behavior is incredibly damaging to the entire ecosystem. Even with his antics, I continue to do what is best for my business and for the clients I serve. Learn more about all this week’s news in the stories listed below.
- 7 Easy WordPress Dashboard Customizations for Site Managers
- What Is UI Design? A Beginner’s Guide
- Should You Use WordPress Default Themes? A Guide for 2025
- How to Remove Unused WordPress Themes & Why You Should
- Elementor Rolls Out WordPress AI Site Planner
- Hackers Target WordPress Sites to Spread Malware on Windows and Mac
- WordPress Wapuu: History & 145+ Stunning WordCamp Avatars
- How to Estimate the Cost of a WordPress Project
Matt Mullenweg vs WP Engine
- DeepSeek vs ChatGPT: How Do They Compare?
- How Do AI Content Detectors Work? Answers From a Data Scientist
- Pixel Pressure: The Real Stress Behind Being a Freelance Web Designer
- AI Overviews Data Shows Massive Changes In Search Results
- Consistency Vs. Agility: Finding Balance In Search Marketing
- Death Of The Keyword: Why Aggregate Organic Traffic Is A Better Metric
- Mastering SERP Analysis: A Step-By-Step Guide To Understanding Search Engine Results Pages
- Where Are The Missing Data Holes In GA4 That Brands Need?
- Ask An SEO: How To Repair & Recover Negative Brand Mentions In SERPs
- Google wants Search to be more like an AI assistant in 2025
- Yahoo testing new AI Search features
- AI optimization: How to optimize your content for AI search and agents
- Google starts testing new Search ‘AI Mode’ internally – Here’s an early look at it
- Google Adds New Guidance For Merging GA4 & Search Console Data
- How To Use XML Sitemaps To Boost SEO
- Google’s Advice on Fixing Unwanted Indexed URLs
- How to Make Your AI Content Sound More Human
- Cloudflare Joins CAI and Enables Content Credentials for 20% of the Internet
- How to Use AI to Quickly and Easily Enhance Your Photos
- Brilliant or baffling? Designers are torn over the new Kellogg’s billboards
- Stop Motion Studio review: professional animation tools for free
- I’m obsessed with an OpenAI o3-generated image to ASCII art converter
- Gesture drawing: all you need to know plus ways to practice in 2 and 5 minutes
- ByteDance’s Deepfake Tool Creates Convincing Videos From One Photo
- The Fantastic Four controversy shows AI has ruined poster design
- GitHub Copilot Brings Mockups to Life by Generating Code from Images
- Google to Digitally Watermark AI-Adjusted Images in Magic Editor
- The YouTube logo changed colour, and people are only just noticing
- Kiehl’s Unveils “Pubic Display Type”: The Font We Never Knew We Needed, but Apparently Do
- Why Walmart’s illustrations are my favourite part of its new brand
- Zuckerberg Says Meta Underestimated TikTok in Leaked Recording
- A handy guide to hating people on social media
- “Zero warnings”: Longtime YouTuber rails against unexplained channel removal
- Why You Won’t See the NFL on Bluesky During the Super Bowl
- These Are the Most Popular Social Media Scams—and How to Avoid Them
- Flashes, a Bluesky-Based Instagram Alternative, Starts Beta Testing
Each week we’ll share a meme that we find thought provoking or just plain funny.
- The Magic of Moldovan Black Cake
- Make 19th-Century ‘Neapolitan Pizza’ for Dessert
- The Grocery List Sketched by Michelangelo
- World’s first lab-grown meat for pets goes on sale
- The Beauty of Catalonia’s Modernist ‘Wine Cathedrals’
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.