In the News 

Everyone in the WordPress world is talking about the acquisition of Yoast to NewFold Digital. Yoast SEO, the well-known plugin for WordPress with over 12 million active installs, is the flagship product of Yoast. 

I interviewed Joost de

In the News 

Titan, a professional e-mail service, raised $30 million from Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com. This investment deal takes the company’s valuation to $300m. Titan will use the funds, the single largest investment made by Aut

Joe Casabona is filling in for Matt this week, who’s on assignment. 

In the News 

Jeff Chandler has opened up subscriptions to WP Mainline. Subscribing to this site will eventually get you the most recent content about WordPress. At the moment you w

Now that WordPress 5.8 is here, what’s next? 

Many people have been using WordPress 5.8 since the release last week. Joe Casabona does a great review on his YouTube channel which covers improvements in the block editor, embedded pdfs and table improvem

A lot of WordPress News this Week

After months of talking about the release of WordPress 5.8, it has finally arrived. Matt Mullenweg announced that “Tatum”, our latest and greatest release now available for download or update is in your dashboard. This

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Automattic purchases Pocket Casts, a popular podcast app that was facing an uncertain future.

A quote from the creators of the app:

“As part of Automattic, Pocket Casts will continue to provide you with the features needed to enjoy your favorite po

Great News for the Castos Team in private podcasting

Castos, a leader in podcast hosting and analytics, has successfully closed an investment round of $756,000. With investments by Automattic, Yoast SEO, along with individual investors, Castos will use

Gutenberg, WordPress 3.8 Release, WooCommerce & Jetpack

WordPress 5.8 is still marching along with modifications for release in July. Eighteen bugs and fixes were applied from Release 3 concentrating on polishing existing default themes, fixing bug

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