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.

Revisions Extended Plugin Lets Users Schedule Updates to Published Posts

WordPress has long had the ability to schedule content to be published in the future, […]

July 22, 2021

Sarah Gooding
Stockfish Contributors Sue ChessBase for GPL Violations

A legal reckoning is brewing in the world of open source chess engines. Stockfish, a […]

July 22, 2021

Sarah Gooding
BuddyPress 9.0.0 Transforms Legacy Widgets Into Blocks

BuddyPress 9.0 was released one day before WordPress 5.8. As all major BuddyPress releases are […]

July 20, 2021

Sarah Gooding
Makers of TinyMCE Acquire Setka

Tiny, the makers of TinyMCE, have acquired Setka, a content design and editing platform, for […]

July 20, 2021

Sarah Gooding
Automattic Acquires Pocket Casts

Automattic has acquired Pocket Casts, a popular podcast listening, search, and discovery app for Android […]

July 16, 2021

Sarah Gooding
Google Concludes FLoC Origin Trial, Does Not Intend to Share Feedback from Participants

Google quietly concluded its FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts) origin trial this week. The trial […]

July 15, 2021

Sarah Gooding
WooCommerce Patches Critical Vulnerability, Sending Forced Security Update from WordPress.org

WooCommerce has patched an unspecified, critical vulnerability identified on July 13, 2021, by a security […]

July 14, 2021

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InstaWP Launches New Service for Disposable WordPress Testing Sites

Competition in the sandboxing products space is heating with the entrance of InstaWP, a new […]

July 14, 2021

Sarah Gooding
UK State of Open Report Finds 97% of UK Businesses Surveyed Use Open Source Software

OpenUK, a WordPress-powered not-for-profit company, has released its State of the Open report with data […]

July 13, 2021

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WordPress.org Meta Team Fixes Search Snippet Issue with Download Page Promoting WordPress.com

Yesterday evening Chris Klosowski, Sandhills Development Partner and Director of Technology, tweeted out a problem […]

July 9, 2021

Sarah Gooding
Awesome Motive Acquires SearchWP

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

July 8, 2021

Sarah Gooding
WordPress 5.8 Adds Support for New Emoji Introduced in Twemoji 13.1.0

In the upcoming 5.8 release, WordPress is updating its version of Twemoji, Twitter’s open source […]

July 7, 2021

Sarah Gooding
Castos Picks Up $756K in Funding from Automattic and Yoast SEO to Expand Services in the Private Podcasting Market

Castos, a WordPress-powered podcast hosting provider, announced a $756K pre-seed fundraising round today from Automattic, […]

July 2, 2021

Sarah Gooding
WordPress Green Lights In-Person Meetup Events for Vaccinated Attendees

After considerable discussion, the WordPress Community Team is lifting the requirements of the in-person meetup […]

July 1, 2021

Sarah Gooding
Gatsby WP Themes Launches New Marketplace

The Gatsby WP Themes project has launched a new marketplace for developers who are building […]

July 1, 2021

Sarah Gooding