A Chronicle of Recent WordPress Acquisitions – WP Tavern
Over the previous 4 months, some thrilling developments have been bustling within the dynamic mergers and acquisitions enviornment of WordPress. To catch everybody up let’s seize a beverage of selection and take a stroll down the calendar of reminiscences.
Within the final 4 months, the WordPress mergers and acquisitions scene has been extra buzzing than a bee at a flower conference. So, why don’t all of us seize our most well-liked sips – be it espresso, tea, or one thing a bit extra sparkly – and meander down reminiscence lane? Consider it as an informal promenade via the backyard of digital deal-making, the place each flip reveals one other plot twist in our ongoing tech saga.
Most just lately, on February fifteenth, OptinMonster announced its acquisition of Beacon Lead Magnet Creator. Per the press launch from OptinMonster “Beacon makes it simple for anybody to create and ship skilled lead magnets, while not having a author, graphic designer or developer.” This transfer provides one other layer to OptinMonster’s sturdy toolkit, reinforcing its place as a go-to useful resource for companies looking for to optimize their lead-generation methods. Moreover, the founders of Beacon.by, brothers Kevin & Eion McGrath shall be shifting on to different ventures.
Stepping again two weeks lands us on the date of January twenty eighth when Andrew Wilder at NerdPress.net shared the information that they acquired the Optimize Database After Deleting Revisions Plugin. As Andrew states. “It’s a instrument we’ve lengthy relied on — putting in it on all our shoppers’ websites….and fewer than a day after releasing our first replace (patching minor safety vulnerabilities), the plugin has already been downloaded practically 23,000 instances”.
Rolling again the calendar yet one more seven weeks we see the calendar reveals the date of December 6, 2023, and we as soon as once more hear from Andrew Wilder of NerdPress.web. This time the information is a little more celebratory because it’s about their first acquisition ever! They acquired the social media sharing plugin Grow Social from Mediavine. A part of the settlement within the acquisition was to rename the plugin to clear up any confusion between Mediavines properties “Develop Social” and “Develop”, which they’ve by rebranding the plugin Hubbub. Kudos to Andrew and NerdPress for persistently increasing their choices and enriching the WordPress group.
Lastly, our journey down reminiscence lane involves a cease two months earlier on Oct 5, 2023, when Jamie Madden announced on X/Twitter that his plugin License Server plugin was acquired by @peter_4sure through acquiredotcom
Because the WordPress world retains spinning on its axis of innovation, it appears our beloved trade is taking part in matchmaker, establishing mergers and acquisitions like they’re going out of favor. It’s like watching a rom-com the place everybody finally ends up fortunately ever after, besides right here, the glad {couples} are plugins, platforms, and companies tying the knot. So, increase your digital glasses to the lovebirds… right here’s to them discovering their soulmates within the huge sea of code and content material. Could these digital unions spark a renaissance in our WordPress universe, bringing us new options, sooner websites, and perhaps, simply perhaps, fewer “Error establishing a database connection”
