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 Sandhills Development

Awesome Motive, the company behind OptinMonster, WPForms, MonsterInsights, and other popular WordPress plugins, has acquired […]

September 22, 2021

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Open Collective Launches New Way to Support Open Source through Public Stock Shares

It’s no secret that companies are making loads of cash using open source technology. A […]

September 20, 2021

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WordPress Contributor Teams Seek to Curb Spam Pledges in Five for the Future Program

The Five for the Future program, an initiative Matt Mullenweg proposed in 2014, may soon […]

September 17, 2021

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Gravity Forms Launches INPUT YouTube Channel and Podcast

Gravity Forms has launched a new YouTube channel and podcast called INPUT, which will focus […]

September 16, 2021

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WP Engine Launches Faust.js, a New Headless WordPress Framework

WP Engine has launched Faust.js, a new headless framework that is open source and designed […]

September 16, 2021

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WordPress Opens Applications for In-Person WordCamps

WordPress is restarting its in-person WordCamp program after more than six weeks of discussion on […]

September 13, 2021

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Pipe Wrench Publication Releases New Native Land Search Plugin for WordPress

Pipe Wrench, an online publication that dissects different topics through longform stories, reactions, interpretations, and […]

September 10, 2021

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Automattic Acquires Social Image Generator Plugin, Plans to Integrate with Jetpack

Automattic has acquired the Social Image Generator plugin, a commercial product that automatically creates social […]

September 9, 2021

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WordPress 5.9 Proposed Scope: Major Push Towards Full-Site Editing, Plus a New Default Theme

WordPress 5.9 is starting to take shape as Josepha Haden Chomphosy published a planning roundup […]

September 8, 2021

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Worldwide WordPress Virtual 5K Set for October 1-30, 2021

Automattic is organizing its 2nd annual Worldwide WordPress 5K during the month of October this […]

September 3, 2021

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Extendify Patches Vulnerabilities in the Redux Framework Plugin

Wordfence has published two vulnerabilities that affect users of the Redux Framework plugin, which has […]

September 2, 2021

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WordPress Translation Day 2021 Kicks Off September 1, Expanded to Month-Long Event

WordPress Translation Day kicked off today, and the event has been expanded to run from […]

September 1, 2021

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Gutenberg Contributors Get Organized to Move Block-Based Navigation Forward

The block-based Navigation editor screen got a status check last week as part of a Hallway Hangout meeting […]

September 1, 2021

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Automattic Acquires Frontity, Founders to Work Full-Time on Gutenberg

Automattic has acquired Frontity, the company behind an open source framework for building WordPress themes […]

August 30, 2021

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ACF 5.10 Introduces Block API v2 Support, Block Preloading, and Security Improvements

Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) has released version 5.10, the first major release since the plugin […]

August 27, 2021

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