Five for the Future Program Set To Adopt Official Definition for Pledges and Contributions

<img data-attachment-id=”135075″ data-permalink=”https://wptavern.com/five-for-the-future-program-set-to-adopt-official-definition-for-pledges-and-contributions/seedlings” data-orig-file=”https://149611589.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/seedlings.jpg” data-orig-size=”960,640″ data-comments-opened=”0″ data-image-meta=”{“aperture”:”0″,”credit”:””,”camera”:””,”caption”:””,”created_timestamp”:”0″,”copyright”:””,”focal_length”:”0″,”iso”:”0″,”shutter_speed”:”0″,”title”:””,”orientation”:”0″}” data-image-title=”seedlings” data-image-description=”” data-image-caption=” photo credit: Christian Joudrey ” data-medium-file=”https://149611589.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/seedlings-300×200.jpg” data-large-file=”https://149611589.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/seedlings-500×333.jpg” width=”500″ height=”333″ src=”https://149611589.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/seedlings-500×333.jpg” alt=”” class=”wp-image-135075″ />photo credit: Christian Joudrey View original post at WPTavern…

InstaWP Gets Seed Funding From Automattic

InstaWP has received an undisclosed amount of seed funding from Automattic. The service launched in July 2021 as a quick way to set up testing or disposable WordPress sites and users frequently commented on remarkable speed of the tool, which spins up a site in less than a second. Founder Vikas Singhal said the investment gives Automattic a percentage of future …

WP Engine Acquires 5 Plugins From Delicious Brains

Delicious Brains, a WordPress product company founded in 2012 by Brad Touesnard, has sold five of its plugins to WP Engine: Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), WP Migrate, WP Offload Media, WP Offload SES, and Better Search Replace. Over the past four years, WP Engine has been scooping up developer tools through acquisitions, including StudioPress and the Genesis Framework (2018), Flywheel and …

LottieFiles Releases Official WordPress Plugin

LottieFiles, a company that hosts thousands of Lottie animations and helps designers create and test their animations, has just released an official plugin for WordPress. The company recently raised $37M in a Series B round, passed three million users on its website, and is investing in making motion design more accessible. Lottie’s open source animation file format is used by …

WordPress Turns 19

Today marks 19 years since 19-year old Matt Mullenweg partnered with Mike Little to release the first version of WordPress based on the b2/cafelog software. The blog where he shared his thoughts on life and tech was starting to get more traffic and he wanted to ensure its future after the b2/cafelog’s main developer disappeared. Mullenweg had the vision for …

Community Team Removes Red Tape From Regional WordCamp Applications

<img data-attachment-id=”134860″ data-permalink=”https://wptavern.com/community-team-removes-red-tape-from-regional-wordcamp-applications/global-map” data-orig-file=”https://149611589.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/global-map.jpg” data-orig-size=”960,641″ data-comments-opened=”0″ data-image-meta=”{“aperture”:”0″,”credit”:””,”camera”:””,”caption”:””,”created_timestamp”:”0″,”copyright”:””,”focal_length”:”0″,”iso”:”0″,”shutter_speed”:”0″,”title”:””,”orientation”:”0″}” data-image-title=”global-map” data-image-description=”” data-image-caption=” photo credit: World Maps ” data-medium-file=”https://149611589.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/global-map-300×200.jpg” data-large-file=”https://149611589.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/global-map-500×334.jpg” width=”500″ height=”334″ src=”https://149611589.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/global-map-500×334.jpg” alt=”” class=”wp-image-134860″ />photo credit: World Maps View original post at WPTavern…