Now available in the WP.com plugin store: Yoast SEO — and thousands of other plugins
Yoast SEO is now available at WP.com along with 975 other SEO-related plugins. That’s quite a historic shift, but I haven’t seen anyone reacting to it at all.

Yoast SEO is now available at WP.com along with 975 other SEO-related plugins. That’s quite a historic shift, but I haven’t seen anyone reacting to it at all.
The first Post Status Publish and WordCamp US 2016 were both last week. Brian Richards and I took some pictures, and here they are.
An excellent business-related discussion in Post Status Slack: Patrick Garman (CEO of Mindsize) asks in our #business Slack channel, “How much cash do you keep on hand in the business?” 💵 The consensus was three months, although Cory Miller always “could sleep at night” with a 6-month reserve if revenue completely stopped. Some, like Carl…
Lara Littlefield’s is the latest story on HeroPress, and it is a moving one. Lara has been using WordPress since the very beginning and today runs SimmerWP, which looks like a really neat tool for managing recipes. Lara really opens up with her story and has lots of great advice. I really appreciated her take on faking…
Mannie Schumpert has done a nice job offering some practical examples using map_meta_cap. Mannie also took all of the examples from Andrew Nacin’s excellent WCSF talk from last year. If you are dealing with roles and permissions, the things from this talk are really important to understand. As he notes, “instead of modifying your database…
WordFence — a security plugin to boot — has an XSS vulnerability that was recently patched. VaultPress posted more about it, but if you run this plugin, you need to update.
In an interview on Silicon Prairie News, Flywheel hosting has announced that they received funding for their WordPress hosting startup. It’s worth noting that Silicon Prairie News and Flywheel share a co-founder, so the article seems very much like self-promotion. They didn’t even note how much they raised. Nevertheless, Flywheel is definitely targeting a specific…