The latest update on Divi 5 shares that they are now in bug fix mode preparing for the first beta in about a month. They hope to launch before the end of the year. The fix list is very long, so they are busy.

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.

Need a catch-up on AI and terms like “agentic” and “MCP”? This post from Elementor reviews the basics with easy to understand explanations.

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

We are starting to get some insights into the thinking behind and direction of Oxygen 6. Totally developer focused.

Often we want to “zebra stripe” every other row in a loop, or vary the layout left or right. This quick 3 minutes tutorial shows how to do this using the Bricks selector detector.

Patchstack released a mid-year vulnerability report. There is some self-congratulation of their success as Patchstack now reports far more CVE’s than others in the WordPress space, but also now they apparently file more security issues than Microsoft. An interesting insight is that more than half of the vulnerabilities reported so far this year can be exploited without needing to hack credentials or have site access.

WordPress users on dot com now have enhanced code editors available for post, site, and the additional CSS input boxes. It is not certain if these features will be added to the dot org version of WordPress, though usually they are.

The Perplexity Comet web browser looks amazing. This video demos some of the uses. I imagine all browsers will soon be capable of this.