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In a surprise tweet overnight (at least here in the US timezone), somewhere in Australia Elliot Condon announced the acquisition of his iconic WordPress plugin, Advanced Custom Fields by the Delicious Brains software company.
WordPress News: @dlici
Post Status founder Brian Krogsgard has sold the remaining half of his ownership of the WordPress media brand to his partner, Cory Miller.
Kicking off his his farewell post, A New Era for Post Status, Brian states:
“It has been an extreme privilege
WP User Avatar, a plugin that was acquired by Collins Agbongama with over 400k active installs, took a hard pivot in it’s latest 3.0 version. The WordPress tavern reports what the plugin looked and functioned like, before becoming ProfilePress, it’s new n
Liquid Web continues to expand it’s nexus of acquisitions with it’s latest grab of GiveWP. From GiveWP’s own blog post:
The future of GiveWP remains a top priority.Every team member is critical to our success.Leadership of the team and product are stay
I had the chance to sit down with Devon Walker and Matt Cromwell of GiveWP to talk about their sale to Liquid Web.
GiveWP has been the dominant WordPress donation plugin over the last few years. This move makes sense for Liquid Web as they continue to
We have a quick run down this week…let’s Do the Woo! (Hi, Bob)
WooCommerce has invested in one-click checkout platform, PeachPay. According to PeachPay’s PR post:
Cart abandonment is a significant problem for eCommerce businesses – in 2021, the glo
Let’s start with the good news, before we get into the…not so good news.
Matt Mullenweg announced that CC Search is joining the WordPress project stating that the WordPress community has long advocated for a repository with GPL-compatible images. I thi
Full Site Editing; we’re almost there
We’re almost there with Full Site Editing in WordPress core. During the meeting that was happening the same day our last episode went live, the team made the decisions for WordPress and the parts of Full Site Editi
Welcome to the first official episode of The WP Minute and I’m officially slapping the “beta” tag on to this thing.
I’m still working out how I produce the show and fill in these posts, for now, here are the links mentioned in today’s episode.
Kad
If you want to know why I started another podcast in the WordPress space — well — look no further. I’ll cover how I came up with this crazy idea and what I might be introducing next for the show.