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.

Early Results from NRKbeta’s Comment Quiz Plugin Show Readers Enjoy the Quiz but Rarely Leave a Comment

Earlier this year, NRKbeta, the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation’s media and technology site, open sourced its […]

August 11, 2017

Sarah Gooding
WordPress 4.9 to Focus on Code Editing and Customization Improvements, Targeted for November 14

WordPress core contributors have set a tentative schedule for the upcoming 4.9 release, which will […]

August 11, 2017

Sarah Gooding
User Tracking to be Removed from Gutenberg in Upcoming 0.8.0 Release

The opt-in user tracking that was added to Gutenberg 0.7.0 will be pulled from the […]

August 10, 2017

Sarah Gooding
WooCommerce Forks select2, Releases selectWoo as a Drop-In Replacement with Improved Accessibility

The WooCommerce development team has forked select2 to create a more accessible, drop-in replacement library […]

August 9, 2017

Sarah Gooding
WordPress Foundation to Sponsor Open Source Educational Events

The WordPress Foundation is sponsoring a new series of workshops and training events that will […]

August 9, 2017

Sarah Gooding
Gutenberg Development Team Confirms Meta Box API Will Not be Formally Deprecated

The discussion surrounding how Gutenberg will handle meta boxes heated up over the weekend after […]

August 8, 2017

Sarah Gooding
Gutenberg 0.7.0 Adds Opt-In Usage Tracking

Gutenberg 0.7.0 was released just before the weekend with improvements to the writing flow and […]

August 7, 2017

Sarah Gooding
Publishers Are Moving Back to WordPress After Short Experiments with Medium

The Awl, ThinkProgress, Film School Rejects, and several other publishers have moved back to WordPress […]

August 4, 2017

Sarah Gooding
WordPress Polyglots Team Fuels International Community Growth with 3rd Global Translation Day

The 3rd Global WordPress Translation Day has been set for September 30, 2017. The success […]

August 2, 2017

Sarah Gooding
Jetpack 5.2 Brings Major Improvements to the Contact Form Module

Jetpack’s Contact Form module hasn’t seen too many changes since its first release (version 1.3) […]

August 1, 2017

Sarah Gooding
New Dobby Plugin Captures and Hides Unwanted WordPress Admin Notices

With the right combination of plugins and events, the WordPress admin area can quickly become […]

August 1, 2017

Sarah Gooding
Gutenberg 0.6.0 Changes Text/Paragraph Block Behavior, Adds New Cover Text and Read More Blocks

Gutenberg 0.6.0 was released over the weekend with significant changes to the way paragraphs are […]

July 31, 2017

Sarah Gooding
Dmitry Mayorov Discusses the Challenges of Organizing WordCamp Moscow and the Future of WordPress Themes

While at WordCamp Europe I had the opportunity to meet Russian designer and developer Dmitry […]

July 28, 2017

Sarah Gooding
Customize Snapshots 0.6.0 Adds the Ability to Name and Merge Changesets

Contributors to the Customize Snapshots feature plugin are steadily building a UI for managing Customizer […]

July 27, 2017

Sarah Gooding
.blog Passes 100,000 Registrations, 66.5% of Purchased Domains are in Use

The .blog domain extension, managed by Automattic subsidiary Knock Knock WHOIS There (KKWT), opened registration […]

July 27, 2017

Sarah Gooding