Awesome Motive, the company behind OptinMonster, WPForms, MonsterInsights, and other popular WordPress plugins, has acquired Sandhills Development. The deal includes all of the company’s WordPress products and services: Easy Digital Downloads, AffiliateWP, WP Simple Pay, Sugar Calendar, WP Simple Pay, and the Payouts Service. The majority of the development team will be joining Awesome Motive to continue supporting the products.…
Pippin Williamson, founder of Easy Digital Downloads, published an apology on the company’s blog today admitting that it made a mistake in its pricing model for extension passes. In mid-June, the company introduced a new set of pricing options or passes. The passes come with a single license that provide access to a group of…
There’s a lot of great WordPress content published in the community but not all of it is featured on the Tavern. This post is an assortment of items related to WordPress that caught my eye but didn’t make it into a full post. Matt Mullenweg’s Father Passes Away Losing a loved one is tough, especially…
The team behind AffiliateWP is celebrating its second anniversary today. The plugin and its suite of add-ons has rapidly become one of the most successful products in the WordPress ecosystem under the leadership of Pippin Williamson and his team. Williamson, who is known for his yearly transparency reports, shared that AffiliateWP was the fastest of…
Easy Digital Downloads 2.3 is available for download and includes new features along with performance improvements. One of the highlights is the new customer management interface. The improved interface lets you quickly browse customer data in an intuitive fashion. There’s also some new API’s that allow developers to interact with customer data behind the scenes.…