In this tutorial Paul Charlton walks-through the steps for enabling and configuring the new Bricks AI connection current in beta.

This will be of interest to those using WooCommerce who are ready for a change for the better. The FluentCart team has released FluentCart migrator to move stores from Woo to FluentCart.

This release improves AI abilities and allows for importing remote components via the Components Manager and when they are a template dependency. Media management is improved and there is a new File element for sharing files for download. Custom CSS in the class manager, conditional form actions, WooCommerce improvements and more fixes and features are making 2.4 look more like a 3.0.

WordPress 7.1 is available. I updated 12 sites without issue.

If you haven’t updated your Elementor Pro site to version 4.2.2 or greater then best to do so now. The vulnerability allows for a remote code execution, but requires Elementor Pro (not free) and a form widget with a file upload field. Details in the report.

The latest version of FluentCommunity allows your members to install your community as a Progressive Web App on their phone. The release notes provide the details. This looks to be a major feature that will make it easier for members to stay up to date with community posts.

The Pods team has released a security update and back ported it also to prior releases. They recommend updating ASAP.

The WordPress team just released an official browser extension for Chromium based browsers and Safari on Mac OS. I tried it out and it is very useful.

Roger Montti dug in with some research to try and understand how Claude’s watermark might work by looking at academic papers and related materials. My take-away is that it is not hidden images, text, or such, but rather the patterns and use of letters, words, and phrases somehow being a reflection of AI token usage. Hmm, “token usage” maybe being related to how AI selects words to use? In any event, it seems that it can largely survive editing and summation.