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.

ESLint Maintainers Share Challenges of Funding Open Source Utilities through Sponsorship

ESLint, one of the most popular JavaScript linting utilities, quickly eclipsed more established early competitors, […]

October 22, 2020

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Loginizer Plugin Gets Forced Security Update for Vulnerabilities Affecting 1 Million Users

WordPress.org has pushed out a forced security update for the Loginizer plugin, which is active […]

October 21, 2020

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WooCommerce Tests New Instagram Shopping Checkout Feature, Now in Closed Beta

Instagram’s checkout feature, which allows users to purchase products without leaving the app, has become […]

October 20, 2020

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Stripe Acquires Paystack for $200M+

The big news in the world of e-commerce today is Stripe’s acquisition of Paystack, a […]

October 15, 2020

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WooCommerce 4.6 Makes New Home Screen the Default for New and Existing Stores

WooCommerce 4.6 was released today. The minor release dropped during WooSesh, a global, virtual conference […]

October 14, 2020

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Google Podcasts Manager Adds More Data from Search: Impressions, Top-Discovered Episodes, and Search Terms

Google announced an expansion of listener engagement metrics today for those using its Podcast Manager. […]

October 13, 2020

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WordCamp Austin 2020 Finds Success with VR Experience for Sessions and Networking

WordCamp Austin 2020 attendees are raving about their experiences attending the virtual event last Friday. […]

October 12, 2020

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WordPress 5.6 to Introduce Application Passwords for REST API Authentication

In 2015, WordPress 4.4 introduced a REST API, but one thing that has severely limited […]

October 9, 2020

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Navigation Screen Sidelined for WordPress 5.6, Full-Site Editing Edges Closer to Public Beta

The new block-based navigation screen is once again delayed after it was originally slated for […]

October 8, 2020

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Cloudflare Launches Automatic Platform Optimization for WordPress

Just a day after launching its new privacy-first web analytics product last week, Cloudflare announced […]

October 8, 2020

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Jetpack 9.0 Introduces Loom Block, Twitter Threads Feature, and Facebook and Instagram oEmbeds

Jetpack’s highly anticipated 9.0 release has landed, introducing some of the new features the team […]

October 6, 2020

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Virtual Jamstack Conf to Feature Fireside Chat with Matt Mullenweg and Matt Biilmann, October 6

The greater Jamstack community is coming together on October 6-7, 2020, for a virtual conference. […]

October 5, 2020

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Cloudflare Launches New Web Analytics Product Focusing on Privacy

In pursuit of “democratizing web analytics,” Cloudflare announced it is launching privacy-first analytics as a […]

October 2, 2020

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Jetpack 9.0 to Introduce New Feature for Publishing WordPress Posts to Twitter as Threads

Jetpack 9.0, coming on October 6, will debut a new feature that allows users to […]

September 30, 2020

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Coming in Jetpack 9.0: Shortcode Embeds Module Updated to Handle Facebook and Instagram oEmbeds

Facebook and Instagram are dropping unauthenticated oEmbed support on October 24. WordPress will be removing both Facebook and […]

September 29, 2020

Sarah Gooding