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Marieke van de Rakt, the new CEO of Yoast, wrote about the recent drama surrounding some old tweets from Yoast founder Joost de Valk.
“Yoast has a female-friendly atmosphere,” Marieke writes, describing her vision for events like YoastCon: “I am hopeful we can create an atmosphere at conferences that is friendly for all people, regardless of their gender.”
Yoast SEO 3.1 has a release candidate out, and they are taking a lot of the feedback they got in 3.0 into consideration. The biggest changes are a rollback on the snippet preview (though it’s still more than it was prior to 3.0), as well as a “primary category” option. They really want folks to…
Calculating a true related posts algorithm in WordPress is often associated with poor performance, but Yoast is introducing a different way in an upcoming release of the commercial version of the Yoast SEO plugin. The method they are using is to utilize the existing browser-based content analysis tool they already have in Yoast SEO, but for internal linking purposes. They’ve found…
A new way to keep up with that fast-moving project we all rely on, PHP. • Making wordpress/wordpress-develop usable in GitHub Codespaces. • Help count WordPress contributors and sponsors • Directory Serve is our cool tool of the week — a way to serve files to and from your phone.
WordCamps: The Next Generation The official WordPress Community blog recently published a post titled “The Next Generation of WordCamps,” outlining the future of in-person WordPress conferences in the post-pandemic world. The successful transition of WordCamps from in-person to virtual during the pandemic has paved the way for hybrid event formats featuring both virtual and in-person…
In reaction to as-yet-unpublicized details about the abuse of active install data in the WordPress.org plugin repository, the charts displaying that data have been removed from plugin pages in a move expected to be temporary. Important (and some familiar) questions are emerging as this story unfolds: how to balance the values of openness, security, and privacy as well as cooperation and competition at WordPress.org — still the central hub for WordPress plugin businesses.
Today I’m acknowledging all of your hard work and efforts to be where you are and have achieved what you have achieved.
