Sarah Gooding

Sarah Gooding is the Editor of WP Tavern and works for Audrey Capital. When not writing about WordPress, she enjoys running, baking, reading, and knitting.

Web Annotations are Now a W3C Standard, Paving the Way for Decentralized Annotation Infrastructure

Web annotations became a W3C standard last week but the world hardly noticed. For years, […]

March 3, 2017

Sarah Gooding
WordPress.com Announces New Importer for Medium Posts

Medium started 2017 on uncertain footing, laying off a third of its staff in January […]

March 2, 2017

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HackerOne Launches Free Community Edition for Non-Commercial Open Source Projects

HackerOne, the vulnerability coordination and bug bounty platform, has launched a new Community Edition for […]

February 28, 2017

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Amazon S3 Outage Hits WordPress Businesses, Disrupting Services and Support

Amazon is currently experiencing “high error rates with S3 in US-EAST-1,” causing a massive outage […]

February 28, 2017

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Linus Torvalds Shares Lessons from 25 Years of Open Source Project Maintainership, Decries Tech Innovation Hype

Linux creator Linus Torvalds joined Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, on stage […]

February 27, 2017

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Learn How to Find and Exploit XSS Vulnerabilities with Google’s XSS Game

In 2016, Acunetix, a UK-based security firm, found that 33% of websites and web apps […]

February 25, 2017

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FOSSA Raises $2.2M to Automate Open Source License Compliance

Kevin Wang and his team at FOSSA have carved out a niche for themselves in […]

February 24, 2017

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Google’s New Perspective Project Filters Online Comments Based on Toxicity

Online harassment is a hot topic right now, as Twitter’s perennial battle with trolls heats […]

February 23, 2017

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WordPress Community Summit 2017 Set for June 13-14 in Paris

WordPress contributor teams are getting ready for the next Community Summit, which will be held […]

February 23, 2017

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Zerif Lite Returns to WordPress.org after 5-Month Suspension and 63% Decline in Revenue

In October 2016, Zerif Lite was suspended from the WordPress Themes Directory after failure to […]

February 22, 2017

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BuddyPress 2.8 Boosts Minimum PHP Requirement, Adds Twenty Seventeen Companion Stylesheet

BuddyPress 2.8 “San Matteo,” was released last week, led by long-time BuddyPress contributor Slava Abakumov. […]

February 20, 2017

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Composing a WordPress Development Environment with Docker

This post was contributed by guest author Peter Suhm. Peter is a web developer from […]

February 20, 2017

Sarah Gooding
Disqus Hits Sites with Unwanted Advertising, Plans to Charge Large Publishers a Monthly Fee to Remove Ads

When Disqus announced it would be releasing new, subscription-based versions later this year, users didn’t […]

February 17, 2017

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Open Source Leadership Summit to Live Stream Keynote Sessions February 14-16

The Linux Foundation’s Open Source Leadership Summit is happening in Lake Tahoe, CA, February 14-16, […]

February 14, 2017

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WordPress REST API Vulnerability Exploits Continue

It has been nearly two weeks since the WordPress security team disclosed an unauthenticated privilege […]

February 13, 2017

Sarah Gooding