The Transients API is used to store information across page loads. Here is a good tutorial on the Transients API and how to use it.

Alex Denning of Ellipsis, an SEO strategy firm, shared their analysis of the Google document leak. They fed sections of the documentation to GPT-4o to get its summary and analysis. Some of the things I got from reading the article are:

• The leaked docs closely align with information that came out in the court case.
• Google assumes anything put into writing will get out.
• Google answered questions about ranking that were technically truthful, but were misleading.
• That content is very important, but that “Click is King.”

WooCommerce XSS vulnerability notice. It has been patched, so there is an update available.

Gravatar has expanded its offering to also include rich profile sharing, along the lines of LinkTree. It also have an API so that the profile info can be integrated into apps and websites.

Joost just released a new plugin, Progress Planner. Its purpose is to help website owners keep track of site-based work and to encourage it through gamification. There is a free version on WordPress org and a pro version is planned.

Here is part two of Vladimír Smitka’s series where he tested various Cloud panels for managing VPS. In this installment he looks at Enhance and FlyWP, which use Docker containers, and explains why they weren’t secure and explores some of the possible fixes.

This proposal on the Make blog using “Bits” as dynamic tokens as a replacement for shortcodes. Bits are placeholders for content and use an HTML comments syntax.

Image resources – These days there are sites with over a million images that you can use. Here is a new one: all of the images were created with AI and are public domain.

Automattic continues its courtship of agencies with a new program offing packages across its lineup of products. It is a 180 tun-around from several years ago when they were focused on competing with agencies.