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Awesome Motive, the company behind OptinMonster, WPForms, MonsterInsights, and other popular WordPress plugins, has acquired Sandhills Development. The deal includes … Continue reading Awesome Motive Acquires Sandhills Development →

GoDaddy Pro will kick off EXPAND 2021 – India on September 24, the second event of its kind this year. … Continue reading GoDaddy Pro To Host Second EXPAND 2021 Event on September 24 in India →

It’s no secret that companies are making loads of cash using open source technology. A 2021 survey of 1,250 IT … Continue reading Open Collective Launches New Way to Support Open Source through Public Stock Shares →

StellarWP announced today that it acquired LearnDash, a learning management system (LMS) for WordPress. The product allows educators to create … Continue reading StellarWP Acquires Learning Management System LearnDash →

The Five for the Future program, an initiative Matt Mullenweg proposed in 2014, may soon be addressing the problem of … Continue reading WordPress Contributor Teams Seek to Curb Spam Pledges in Five for the Future Program →

I have been secretly keeping tabs on Anders Norén over the past couple of weeks, awaiting the moment he pushed … Continue reading Tove: A Block-Based WordPress Theme by Anders Norén →

Gutenberg 11.5 landed earlier today. It is a hefty release that includes extensive changes to the Navigation block, a new … Continue reading Gutenberg 11.5 Adds Widget Grouping, Iterates on the Block Gap Feature, and Updates Nav Menus →

Gravity Forms has launched a new YouTube channel and podcast called INPUT, which will focus on sharing the stories and … Continue reading Gravity Forms Launches INPUT YouTube Channel and Podcast →

WP Engine has launched Faust.js, a new headless framework that is open source and designed to work in any Node … Continue reading WP Engine Launches Faust.js, a New Headless WordPress Framework →

Last week, Konstantin Kovshenin launched Sail, a CLI tool for deploying WordPress applications to the DigitalOcean cloud. The project is … Continue reading Konstantin Kovshenin Launches Sail, a CLI Tool for Deploying to Digital Ocean →

WordPress is restarting its in-person WordCamp program after more than six weeks of discussion on a proposal for how the … Continue reading WordPress Opens Applications for In-Person WordCamps →

Earlier today, Dion Hulse announced the results of a six-week survey on the WordPress.org theme upload process. The goal was … Continue reading Theme Author Survey Results: Uploading via ZIP Files Preferred, SVN Access Forthcoming →