And the controversy continues! Checkout the new WordPress org login form. I hope you like pineapple on pizza.

Automattic announces the acquisition of WPAI. The WPAI team of James LePage, Greg Hunt, and Ovidiu Galatan will be joining Automattic and working on integrating AI into core.

Automattic acquires Harper. Harper is a Grammarly competitor with a privacy focus. The creator of Harper will be joining Automattic.

SolidWP has acquired the WP-SMTP plugin. The plugin has 80,000+ active installs. They have rebranded it as Solid Mail.

The popular plugin for turning WordPress into a social media site was acquired by Awesome Motive.

Here is an interesting development, MicroThemer now has deep integration with Gutenberg. Here is a video showing how it works.

AccessAlly is a WordPress LMS platform. They were purchased by CaseProof. CaseProof purchased WishList Member a year ago. CaseProof is a member of Syed Balkhi’s growth fund.

Acquisition – Barn2, developer of a number of WooCommerce plugins, sold of them 7 to Kestrel so that they could focus on the best performing ones.

The Updraft team has made another purchase, acquiring the WPGetAPI plugin, which allows you to connect to any REST API, format and display the returned data on your WordPress website.