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It's the WP minute. This episode is brought to you by search WP, improve WordPress search by visiting search wp.com. More on that in a minute. You know, the drill, everything I mentioned here will be linked up in the newsletter and the blog posts. Check out the WP minute.com for the links. Great news for the castle steam and private podcasting. Disclaimer, I work and employed by Casos. Castle's a leader in podcast hosting and analytics has successfully closed an investment round of $756,000. With investments by automatic Yoast along with individual investors, castles will use this additional capital to fuel its advance in private podcasting market. A quote from Craig Hewitt. On both the individual and corporate investor side, I think the investors see the vision that we have for the private podcasting market. Can mean for castles and want to help us achieve that potential. He would said. Search WP finds a new home. Another disclaimer, search WP is one of the prominent advertisers on this show. Jonathan Christopher tweeted that his product search WP has been acquired by automotive quote from side-pocket in the announcement, post quote, as he wanted to pursue the next chapter of his life. We started discussing the future of search WP plugin, Given our experience, running a suite of popular WordPress plugins. Search WP was a perfect fit. For our family of products, he continues to go on. A WordPress search plugin that a beginner non-techie and small business search owner can easily set up in less than 10 minutes to grow their business. I sat down with a team and we have a crystal clear 12 month plan. A lot of exciting things are coming. You're way in the coming months. Also check out the interview with Jonathan Christopher in this article, finding an awesome home for search WP only on the WP minute. Full site editing testing called number eight, compared to previous calls for testing for the full site editing outreach program. This round is intentionally targeting a more developer centric audience. Compared to site builders or end users. In order to bring high impact feedback for theme dot Jason, a new tool for extenders. You can read more about what to expect with upcoming efforts on make.wordpress.org. In some event news word sesh live is coming up. July 23rd. You can go and check out the speaker sessions that you don't want to miss. In the grab bag. Many of you are familiar with Troy Dean, but guess what? In this update, he's not part of an acquisition, but a name change in a rebrand. Trading states the WP elevation name was changed to agency Mavericks to embrace the essence of a community and brand apart. Our Maverick spirit. Uh, look for an upcoming interview with Troy Dean on the WP minute. To honor ooze while tapa the WordPress bear in our Facebook group announced last week that a word camp scholarship in honor of whose wealth. Papa who passed away from COVID-19 complications. The WordPress Bernard community decided on this scholarship to honor his memory. And finally face-to-face word camps in 2021. The WordPress community team is removing the barrier to organize in-person meetups events for fully vaccinated people. This is great news, and we are very lucky to be able to move forward with scheduled events. Over on the Matt report, I interviewed Jason Coleman of paid memberships pro on his journey to 100,000 active installs. That's it for today's episode. If you enjoyed, please share it on your social media. Leave us a review on apple podcasts or pod chaser. Don't forget to share, share, share this episode with others. Jump on the mailing [email protected].
