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.

Google Search Completes Rollout of Link Spam Update

Google announced today that it has completed its rollout of the link spam update, which […]

August 25, 2021

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Get Your Free Tickets to WordCamp US Online 2021

WordCamp US 2021 will be held online this year on October 1. The free, one-day […]

August 20, 2021

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Jeremy Keith Resigns from AMP Advisory Committee: “It Has Become Clear to Me that AMP Remains a Google Product”

Jeremy Keith, a web developer and contributor to the web standards movement, has resigned from […]

August 20, 2021

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WordPress.org Experiments with Rejecting Plugin Submissions with the “WP” Prefix to Mitigate Potential Trademark Abuse

Many in the WordPress developer community were surprised to learn that WordPress.org is rejecting plugins […]

August 18, 2021

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New Boilerplate Speeds Up Building “Nearly Headless” WordPress Themes

Alex Standiford, a WordPress developer at AffiliateWP, has released a boilerplate for what he is […]

August 17, 2021

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Wordfence and WPScan Publish Mid-Year WordPress Security Report

WPScan is on track to post a record-breaking year for WordPress plugin vulnerabilities submitted to […]

August 13, 2021

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Google Site Kit Plugin Ships Hot Fix for Critical Error That Caused Broken Websites

Google published an update to its Site Kit plugin for WordPress this afternoon with a […]

August 11, 2021

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Elastic Hits Back at OpenSearch, Making Client Libraries Incompatible with Amazon-led Open Source Fork

After Elastic, makers of the search and analytic engine Elasticsearch, re-licensed its core product so that […]

August 11, 2021

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Automattic Invests $30M in Titan, a Business Email Startup

Automattic has invested $30 million in Titan, a professional email suite aimed at businesses and […]

August 10, 2021

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Gutenberg 11.2 Expands Color Support for Search and Pullquote Blocks, Introduces Experimental Flex Layout for Group Block

Gutenberg 11.2.0 was released today with expanded color support for the Search and Pullquote blocks. […]

August 5, 2021

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PublishPress Adopts Organize Series Plugin

PublishPress, makers of the PublishPress and PublishPress Blocks plugins, have adopted the Organize Series plugin […]

July 30, 2021

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Refined.blog: A Curated List of RSS Feeds for Software Engineering Blogs

In one of the most apropos uses of a .blog domain, Refined.blog is a new […]

July 29, 2021

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WordCamp US Online Set for October 1, 2021, as Community Team Weighs Proposal for Returning to In-Person WordCamps

WordCamp US will be held online this year on October 1, 2021. Organizers are planning […]

July 27, 2021

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Colorado Becomes First State to Require State and Local Government Websites to Meet Accessibility Standards

Today marks the 31st anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), a civil rights […]

July 26, 2021

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WooCommerce 5.5.2 Fixes Performance Issues Found After Forced Security Update

WooCommerce has shipped version 5.5.2 as a follow-up to the forced security update that patched […]

July 23, 2021

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