For Elementor users – Imran Siddiq shares his thoughts on how to approach the transition from Elementor 3 to atomic elements in version 4.

Here is an interesting take on the impact of AI for agencies and freelancers. Jake Goldman is the founder of 10up and a partner at Fueled. He argues that today we can do more faster with AI and our pricing will need to reflect that. Over time competition will force prices down or deliverables up.

In this article Kim Coleman, one of the founders of Paid Membership Pro, acknowledges the changes taking place in the WordPress ecosystem and embraces focusing on solutions, rather than plugins.

Joost makes the points that leadership is jumping around following trends while letting the technical debt pile up. WordPress doesn’t have an architect. EmDash isn’t the be all, end all, or the next thing, but that it is a signal.

In this article Roger Montti shares his assessment of the new CMS from Cloudflare.

As the article notes, Wix and Squarespace were always held up as the competition, but the real threat seems to be AI with no CMS used.

Paul Charlton hits a sensitive nerve in this video. Taking a look at the comments, a lot of people agree with him. There are a lot of misrepresentations of AI.

This article argues that the designer focus on the home page is misplaced today as more and more people are entering the sites through shared landing pages, targeted search, and AI links. While I think the author goes too far and think that the home page is still very important, there is some truth to the argument and some of the article suggestions are worth considering.