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.

Awesome Motive Acquires WP Charitable Plugin

Awesome Motive, makers of popular plugins like OptinMonster, WPForms, and MonsterInsights, acquired WP Charitable this […]

June 24, 2022

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Matt Mullenweg Identifies GoDaddy as a “Parasitic Company” and an “Existential Threat to WordPress’ Future”

On Thursday Matt Mullenweg responded to an inquiry on Twitter from Jeff Matson, a Pagely […]

June 24, 2022

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Gutenberg 13.5 Adds Featured Image Placeholder Support for Cover Block, Cleaner Pasting to Other Apps

Gutenberg 13.5 is now available. The release comes two weeks after the plugin introduced support […]

June 23, 2022

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WordPress Appears In NYT Crossword

At the risk of spoiling the answer to a clue included in the image below, […]

June 22, 2022

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GitHub Makes Copilot Available to the Public for $10/month, Free for Students and Open Source Project Maintainers

GitHub has announced that Copilot, its new AI pair programming assistant, is now available to […]

June 22, 2022

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Elementor Lays Off 15% of Workforce, Citing Rising Inflation and Impending Recession

With inflation rising and the unemployment rate falling, economic forecasters are predicting an impending recession […]

June 21, 2022

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WordPress.org Strongly Urges Theme Authors to Switch to Locally Hosted Webfonts

In light of a recent German court case, which fined a website owner for violating […]

June 20, 2022

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WordPress.org Forces Security Update for Critical Ninja Forms Vulnerability

Late last week, Ninja Forms users received a forced security update from WordPress.org for a […]

June 20, 2022

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Athens to Host WordCamp Europe 2023

WordCamp Europe 2022 concluded last weekend in Porto, Portugal. The event sold 2,746 tickets and […]

June 10, 2022

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Gutenberg Editor Now In Testing On Tumblr and Day One Web Apps

One of the most thought-provoking statements to come out of WordCamp Europe 2022, was when […]

June 10, 2022

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WordPress 6.1 to Focus On Refining Full-Site Editing, Next Phase Collaboration and Multilingual Features Anticipated in 2023-2025

Gutenberg lead architect Matías Ventura has identified refinements to experiences introduced in 5.9 and 6.0 […]

June 9, 2022

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Elementor Acquires Strattic

Elementor, a popular website builder plugin that is active on more than five million websites, […]

June 8, 2022

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rtCamp Launches WordPress Plugin Compare Project

If you have been navigating the WordPress plugin ecosystem for years, you may instinctively know […]

June 6, 2022

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Five for the Future Program Set To Adopt Official Definition for Pledges and Contributions

WordPress’ Five for the Future program, an initiative that encourages organizations to contribute five percent […]

June 3, 2022

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InstaWP Gets Seed Funding From Automattic

InstaWP has received an undisclosed amount of seed funding from Automattic. The service launched in […]

June 3, 2022

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