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.

Human Made Releases Publication Checklist Plugin Designed for the Block Editor

Human Made has created a Publication Checklist plugin built specifically for the block editor. It […]

September 25, 2019

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WordPress 5.3 to Introduce New Admin Email Verification Screen

WordPress 5.3 is set to introduce an admin email verification screen that will be shown […]

September 24, 2019

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WordPress 5.3 Beta 1 Ready for Testing, Includes 12 Gutenberg Releases and New Twenty Twenty Default Theme

WordPress core contributors worked together today to package up 5.3 Beta 1 for release on […]

September 23, 2019

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Google Search Console Adds Breadcrumbs Report, Sends Out Warnings for Structured Data Errors

Google recently announced a new Breadcrumbs report available in the Search Console to inform site […]

September 23, 2019

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WordPress Community Contributors to Host Free Online Diversity Workshop Ahead of WordCamp US

WordCamp US will debut a new Community Track in November that will feature sessions and […]

September 19, 2019

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Automattic Raises $300M in Series D Investment Round, Valuation Jumps to $3 Billion

Automattic announced another round of funding today, a $300 million Series D investment from Salesforce […]

September 19, 2019

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Gutenberg 6.5 Adds Experimental Block Directory Search to Inserter and New Social Links Block

Gutenberg 6.5 was released today with a rough prototype that adds one-click search and installation […]

September 18, 2019

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EditorsKit Adds Nofollow Options for Links, Fixes Bug with Gutenberg Metaboxes Overlapping in Chrome

EditorsKit is becoming somewhat of a “hotfix” plugin for Gutenberg, especially with the additions to […]

September 18, 2019

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GPL Author Richard Stallman Resigns from Free Software Foundation

Richard Stallman, free software movement activist and originator of the “copyleft” concept, has resigned from […]

September 17, 2019

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New Attock WordPress Meetup Empowers Pakistani Women Freelancers and Business Owners

WordCamp Lahore is getting rebooted on November 30 – December 1, at the National University […]

September 16, 2019

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Adam Jacob Advocates for Building Healthy OSS Communities in “The War for the Soul of Open Source”

Chef co-founder and former CTO Adam Jacob gave a short presentation at O’Reilly Open Source […]

September 13, 2019

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Local Lightning Now in Public Beta with Major Performance Improvements

Flywheel put its new Local Lightning app into public beta this week. The app is […]

September 13, 2019

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WPHindi Plugin Instantly Converts Text from English to Hindi in the Block Editor

Hindi is one of the world’s top languages, with more than 520 million native and […]

September 12, 2019

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Richard Best Releases Free Audio and Ebook: “A Practical Guide to WordPress and the GPL”

If you’re itching to go deeper into the legal aspects of navigating WordPress’ relationship to […]

September 11, 2019

Sarah Gooding
Google Announces New Ways to Identify Nofollow Links, Progress on Related Gutenberg Ticket Is Currently Stalled

This week Google announced changes to the 15-year old nofollow attribute that was previously recommended […]

September 11, 2019

Sarah Gooding