Automattic wins a freedom of speech case in Turkish Constitutional Court. I wasn’t aware that they were very active in response to take-down orders. (lol, the article is by “Clicky Steve”)

Hardcore SEO – There were recently some Google document leaks about its indexing and ranking systems. As some have suspected, Google representatives have mislead the public related to ranking factors. This article takes a pretty deep look into the leaded information and is not for the light of heart. Nevertheless, it is interesting and revealing.

Dynamic Content for Elementor has released version 3.0. The major new feature is support for Dynamic Shortcodes. Users of Dynamic Content for Elementor now get a special Elementor version of Dynamic Shortcodes included free with their license. Dynamic Shortcodes are more powerful and flexible than the previous token system. Details are available here in the release announcement.

WooCommerce 9.0 Beta is scheduled for release tomorrow. This summary article lists the forthcoming changes.

Developers have manually styled the HTML checkbox to make it look like a switch. Now a new attribute for the checkbox is proposed that will render a checkbox as a switch. Interesting, but not ready for prime time.

The Greyd WP theme was added to the WP theme directory. Funny, sad, or clever, the theme patterns that are included in the theme all advertise Greyd. The list of patterns are at the bottom of the listing.

A small maintenance release, 6.5.4, is planned for June 5th. It is to help address the issue on plugin activation that was introduced in 6.5 where nothing happens after clicking “activate” (except the button goes gray). It will provide a redirect hook.

The WordPress plugin directory raised the ceiling that shows the number of active installs from 5+ million to 10+ million. Elementor, Contract Form 7, Yoast SEO, and the Classic Editor are now in the 10+ million club.

Despite the marketing hype that Google wants to help you find information on the net, Roger Montti reports that the direction is to fill the first screen of search with AI Overviews and ads. It looks like Google is intending to use our Search Engine Optimized content in its AI search summary to offer more value to advertisers.