This interview with Aurelio Volle of WP Umbrella is very insightful. He talks about their AppSumo experience, his view of lifetime deals, the philosophy of WP Umbrella, and his company in comparison with other site management options.

Here is an interesting article by Cory Doctorow on the coming AI bubble and why he thinks it is inevitable. Hint, the economics don’t work. Here he is an example of the problem of “the funny accounting in the AI bubble. Microsoft “invests” in Openai by giving the company free access to its servers. Openai reports this as a ten billion dollar investment, then redeems these “tokens” at Microsoft’s data-centers. Microsoft then books this as ten billion in revenue.”

If you have a newish plugin in the WordPress plugin directory then you might find this article useful. It explains the search and ranking formula to help your plugin get discovered.

An update to Divi 5 released today now includes the Inspector. It lets you inspect an element to get an overview of its most essential attributes, including all child elements. You can then quickly change colors, fonts, sizes, content, and presets across everything.

This is a cool use of AI. The WP World has added a multi-language chat where you can chat using your own language and it translates in real time.

WordPress 6.8.3 is rolling out now. It is a security release and the core team is recommending that people update their sites now.

Toolset released an update for their maps features along with PHP and WordPress version compatibility updates.

The Divi team just finished adding Woo Cart and Checkout Modules to Divi 5. This was the last milestone for the beta. I looks like the plan now is to spend a few more weeks on bug fixes before moving out of beta.