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Snaps from WordCamp Kathmandu 🥰 #WordPress #WCKTM

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AI-generated headshots, made-up names, and false credentials count as deception, not just bad practice. If you manage several WordPress sites, audit authorship as well as content quality. Who is named as the author? Is a real person behind it? Does the bio match the content?

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It also names what to avoid, which is covering trending topics you have no expertise in and generating articles at volume with no clear audience. The fake author point is the one I keep coming back to.

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But "we used AI to scale" no longer works as a reason. Your reason has to make sense for the reader. The rest repeats what Google has said before: first-hand experience, original research, real authorship.

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WordPress marketers, take notes. Google updated its helpful content guidelines, and one change matters if you use AI to write for your sites. Google now advises you to disclose when AI substantially generates your content, and to explain why automation was useful for that piece. It is not a ban.

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"So half the job of marketing is actually marketing marketing to people that don’t understand marketing." funny but true. 🤪

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beehiiv’s data on owned audiences, signs of a big Google update, broken XML sitemaps, Google’s new main content rules, and how AI agents fail on real web pages. New issue of HighDegree* Marketing is out. Read here ➞ serplabseo.com/email-reach-...

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WordPress 7.1.3 Maintenance and Security Release

The fixes are also backported to older branches, down to 4.7. Only the latest version is actively supported though, so any site stuck on something old needs a real upgrade. Official Blog → wordpress.org/news/2026/10...

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This security and maintenance release features 7 security fixes and 4 bug fixes. Because this is a security release, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately. You can download WordP…

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If you manage @wordpress.org sites, check auto-updates today, update whatever is behind, and confirm the version on every client site. That's ten minutes per site if you keep a list, and a bad afternoon if you don't.

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The ones I'd care about on user sites are a stored XSS in the comments admin, a second-order SQL injection in the WXR export, comments on private posts visible to logged-out visitors, and Author role users being able to sticky posts.

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WordPress 7.1.3 is out. It's a security release, so don't leave it for next week. It has 7 security fixes and 4 bug fixes.

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I did what I had first done on Fluent Support; I implemented my same marketing playbook, systems, and ultimately my marketing philosophy -- boring marketing. It took some time, but here we are. We are only 20% of the way to reaching my goal. Still miles to go 🚀 3/3

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There was no clear direction, system, or goal behind content marketing. We had a good marketing team with lots of potential, but they had no one to guide them. 2/3

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Fluent Forms is now powering 800,000 websites! 😊 When I first became the product marketing lead of @fluentforms.bsky.social, it was slowly growing, but the marketing was a mess. 1/3

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If your content was built on volume over quality, fix it now. Not after the update. Before. Because recovery takes months once it hits. Go read Lily's full breakdown → www.lilyraynyc.substack.com/p/prediction-the-next-massive-google/

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Four spam updates in 2026 alone. All of 2025 had one. The gaps between updates keep shrinking. Lily has been through this cycle before. She called the March 2024 update before it hit. Her read this time is the same.

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Google is now calling that deception, and their automated systems are watching. Gary Illyes said it out loud at a Google event in Barcelona. Scaled AI content is now a bigger problem than link spam.

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They also added new language: producing large amounts of AI content without human oversight counts as "little to no effort." They also called out fake authors directly. AI-generated headshots, made-up names, false credentials.

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Google has been dropping hints. And if you have been in this space long enough, you know what happens next. In the last two weeks, Google rewrote its AI content guidance and said it is now "critical" to manually review all AI-generated content before publishing.

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NiSHAT @rednishat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

WordPress SaaS marketers, take notes! The next massive Google update is around the corner. @lilyray.nyc just dropped a piece that every WordPress site owner, agency, marketers and solopreneur needs to read right now.

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My WordCamp Kathmandu 2026 experience, from my first official Contributor Day and Trac tickets to the @wordpress.org education talks and the people I met. Read Here → wpmore.net/wordcamp-kat... #WordPress

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My WordCamp Kathmandu 2026 experience – WP More

My WordCamp Kathmandu 2026 experience, from my first official Contributor Day and Trac tickets to the WordPress education talks and the people I met.

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NiSHAT @rednishat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ― Kurt Vonnegut via the 5-Bullet Friday newsletter from @tferriss

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NiSHAT @rednishat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

He also says the team listens to users and keeps improving the plugin based on real feedback. Someone asks, we build it, and they tell us it was worth the wait. Thank you, Joe. Apple Pay and Google Pay for Stripe forms are live now in the free plugin.

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NiSHAT @rednishat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Fluent Forms 6.2.15 went live yesterday, and this review came in today. Joe has used @fluentforms.bsky.social for a while and was waiting for Google Pay and Apple Pay support. He had asked for it himself, and he calls it a big missing piece for his payment forms.

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NiSHAT @rednishat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Fluent Forms 6.2.15 adds Apple Pay and Google Pay for Stripe forms, plus an Export button on the Entries page (CSV, Excel, ODS, JSON). Both are in the free plugin. Update from Plugins. Explore here → fluentforms.com/fluent-forms... #WordPress @fluentforms.bsky.social

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What's Happening in #WordPress this Week (30 September)

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In this AI era 😉 Having fun is the new moat.

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Build Forms That Feel Like Conversations! Explore Fluent Forms Conversational Forms → fluentforms.com/conversation...

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