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Web Design Solutions Digest for April 23, 2024

by Foster D. Coburn III | Apr 23, 2024 | Web Design Solutions Digest

Speculative loading, Jetpack stats, Divi AI Layouts, blogging, hyphens, BMW Logo, Papyrus, TikTok Notes, empanadas and cheeseburgers. Along with this week’s news, I dive a little deeper into a controversial business move and provide a humorous look at a polarizing font. Check it all out below!

A common business practice in the world of WordPress is to have a free version of a plugin that includes some valuable features. For those who want more, more features are available in a premium version at a cost. Lately something has happened with the Jetpack plugin that has upset many users, including myself. Jetpack has always included a traffic stats feature for free. Over the years they have added features to Jetpack that were only available at a cost. But the traffic stats remained free. Now they have stated that the stats feature will have a cost for any “business” sites and the minimum cost is $10 a month.

I think many users would have been OK if the basic stats features were still free and a far expanded feature set had a cost. But in this case, a feature that had been free now has a fairly high cost. This has led to a large number of one-star reviews of Jetpack in the past few days. While I have yet to uninstall Jetpack on the sites I manage, I will install it rather than pay for it. Below you’ll find information on the change and a link to see the negative reviews the change has brought.

I will be interested to see if the new policy remains or if the public pressure will return at least the basic stats for free.

Each week we’ll share a meme that we find thought provoking or just plain funny.

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Web Design Solutions Digest for April 16, 2024

by Foster D. Coburn III | Apr 16, 2024 | Web Design Solutions Digest

Beaver Builder, WordPress 6.5, AI chatbot, authorship, future of SEO, Photoshop AI tricks, eclipse photos, logo quiz, blue checks and Fairy Butter. Any time there is a major update to WordPress, I’m very cautious about updating my sites. When 6.5 came out, I did not update. Instead I did my updates once 6.5.2 was released. A lot more happened in this week’s news so check out all the info below.

Each week we’ll share a meme that we find thought provoking or just plain funny.

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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Web Design Solutions Digest for April 9, 2024

by Foster D. Coburn III | Apr 9, 2024 | Web Design Solutions Digest

WordPress eCommerce, QR codes, Google Keyword Planner, mobile SEO, design tools, Adobe Firefly, blue checkmarks and orange cider. It was an eventful week in my neighborhood with two SpaceX launches passing overhead and the solar eclipse. In between all those events, there was a new version of WordPress and much more in this week’s news. Check out all the headlines below!

Each week we’ll share a meme that we find thought provoking or just plain funny.

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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Web Design Solutions Digest for April 2, 2024

by Foster D. Coburn III | Apr 2, 2024 | Web Design Solutions Digest

WordPress vulnerabilities, Divi questions, using images legally, Core Web Vitals, Canva & Affinity, Federation, space sandwich and purple tomatoes. Many in the world took a few days off during the past week for Easter and yet we still had a very full week of news. One of the biggest was that the release of WordPress 6.5 was delayed for a week. If things haven’t changed again, it should be released by the time you read this. Catch up on all the news with the headlines below.

Each week we’ll share a meme that we find thought provoking or just plain funny.

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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Web Design Solutions Digest for March 26, 2024

by Foster D. Coburn III | Mar 26, 2024 | Web Design Solutions Digest

WordPress 6.5, Reset Hub, creator economy, spammy backlinks, AI upscaling, Illustrator AI, Lego mugshots, X Premium, pasta shapes and Girl Scout cookies. Today is the day that the next major release of WordPress hits the streets so make sure you understand all it includes before updating your sites. Of course we also have a wide variety of AI tools explored in this week’s news. Get caught up on all the news with the headlines below.

Each week we’ll share a meme that we find thought provoking or just plain funny.

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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