404 Media summarizes the trademark issue between Matt Mullenweg / Automattic and Kevin Geary / Automatic.CSS. Automattic has asked that the Automatic.CSS product name be changed.

Katie Keith answers the question if lifetime licenses really cost more to support by digging into real data from Barn2’s sales and support history.

A new free plugin from Joost de Valk for easily creating a brand assets page. It includes some nice touches.

This is an interesting survey of web designer pricing.

Matt Cromwell has some advice for product developers to help navigate the changing WordPress landscape and the integration of AI.

Adam Preiser and the OttoKit team have setup a community space as well as a course on automation and using OttoKit. A cool feature of this is that they used SureDash to set this up, which is a nice way to showcase what you can do with the tools. I love it when companies use their own tools like this.

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.

And the solution to AI bots scraping your data and Google now providing answers and not links to your site is … tollbooths. I’m not sure how much money Tollbit is collecting, but it looks like Cloudflare is going to do it also.

The SEO game-like strategy hoops isn’t dead, it has just moved to email.