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.

New Plugin Adds Featured Audio to WordPress Posts and Pages

This week Nick Halsey published his new Featured Audio plugin to the WordPress Plugin Directory. […]

July 14, 2016

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BuddyPress 2.7 Development Kicks Off, Project Shifts Focus to Developers and Site Builders

Development for the BuddyPress 2.7 release cycle kicked off this week led by @mercime. Contributors […]

July 14, 2016

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Codeable.io Buys Back Shares From Early Investors, Partners with WooCommerce

Codeable.io, an outsourcing marketplace for WordPress projects, announced a new partnership with Automattic today, along […]

July 13, 2016

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WP Safe Updates Plugin: Test WordPress Plugin Updates in a Sandbox Before Applying

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” This is a common mindset among WordPress users […]

July 12, 2016

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Set a Highlight Color for WordPress Content with Live Preview in the Customizer

In a recent interview on the WordPress Weekly podcast, when asked about his comments at […]

July 11, 2016

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WordCamp Europe 2017 Will Host the Next WordPress Community Summit

The WordPress community team announced today that the next Community Summit will be held in […]

July 11, 2016

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WordPress 4.6 to Standardize Metadata Registration

WordPress 4.6 will introduce some exciting updates that give plugin and theme authors a standardized […]

July 8, 2016

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WordPress Stats Page Redesigned, Adds New Data on Installs by Language

Last year the WordPress Stats page was updated to provide more sophisticated methods of collecting […]

July 8, 2016

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WordPress Plugin Directory Cracks Down on Incentivized Reviews, Despite Lack of Official Guideline

Last week, Dan Cameron, creator of Sprout Invoices, received an email from the WordPress.org plugin […]

July 7, 2016

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Jetpack 4.1 Adds Telegram and WhatsApp Sharing Buttons, Introduces Untappd Menu Shortcode

Jetpack 4.1 was released today with performance improvements that make calls to the database more […]

July 6, 2016

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WordCamp Europe 2016 Videos Uploaded to WordPress.tv, Coloring Book Now Available for Download

During the week following WordCamp Europe 2016, session videos from the event started trickling onto […]

July 6, 2016

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Bulgarian Government Now Requires Custom Software to be Open Source

The Bulgarian government has just passed an amendment to its Electronic Governance Act that mandates […]

July 5, 2016

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WooThemes.com Domain Redirected as WooCommerce Takes Front Seat

When Adii Pienaar, Magnus Jepson, and Mark Forrester created WooThemes in 2008, they never envisioned […]

July 5, 2016

Sarah Gooding
Responsive Design Should Be Required for WordPress.org Themes, Says Matt Mullenweg

During Matt Mullenweg’s Q&A session at WordCamp Europe, an unidentified Google employee asked about making […]

July 1, 2016

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WordPress Theme Review Team Works to Address Bottlenecks in Review Process

The WordPress Theme Review Team published an action plan today, summarizing the team’s consensus on […]

July 1, 2016

Sarah Gooding