Web Developer Services Market 2023 Size and Forecast to 2031 Market Watch reports on a new report by Industry Research. -(Powered by Absolute Reports) on the state of the web developer market. It also talks about how COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine have impacted the industry and what they predict for the future. The…
Equalize Digital Receives Pre-Seed Investment from Emilia Capital Equalize Digital recently received a pre-seed investment from venture capital firm Emilia Capital. (Partners Joost de Valk and Marieke van de Rakt from Yoast fame) The investment will help accelerate their mission to make the web development process more efficient, secure, and cost-effective. With the new funding,…
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.
WordPress Founders Invest in Atarim • Gridpane and Automattic Team Up to Serve Agencies • Salary Transparency — Why Not? • Learning Together in Post Status Slack: Adobe’s Figma Acquisition and PayPal vs. Stripe
This was a neat post from Joost de Valk back in July where he did some thinking out loud about the challenges of naming in Schema.org image standards to distinguish between featured and poster images on social networks: I’ve been playing a lot with Schema and Social images recently and one thing has become clear:…
Joost de Valk, founder of Yoast SEO, posted his 7th CMS Market Share Analysis, based on data from W3Techs and BuiltWith. Here are some key points from Joost’s post: WordPress is the #1 CMS with a 43% market share, roughly the same as in December 2021. Shopify currently holds 4.2% market share, which is down…
Misogyny is alive and well in WordPress, but it doesn’t have to be. If we work together, we can make it an even safer space for all.
A lot of interesting things surfaced in the open conversations with Matt and Josepha at WCEU. I also learned a lot from Pablo Postigo, Feliz Arntz, Shane Pearlman, Jonathan Wold, Nora Ferrerio, Milana Cap.
Is the WordPress market share beginning to shrink? How do we assess market share? What metrics matter? It’s time we asked these questions.
📆 Upcoming Events Headless webinar: What is headless and why does everyone seem to want it?: On July 20th, Joost de Valk (founder of Yoast) and Miriam Schwab (CEO and co-founder of Strattic) will be holding a free webinar focused on the future of Headless CMSs. This will be useful if you have heard about…
Joost de Valk shows how the new Algolia implementation in Yoast SEO Premium can improve site search results. 🔎
What should be included in the 2021 HTTP Archive Web Almanac’s chapter on CMSes? Joost de Valk would love to hear your thoughts about this — because he is authoring that chapter! The 2020 version is still available online.
Third Time’s the Charm Chris Lema shares why he’s fully committed to Gutenberg now. First and foremost, the answer is “speed.” 🐎 But it’s also “the way page builders allow you to do all the magic they do” without any cruft. Builders produce “a lot of extra container structure.” And Google decided they didn’t like…
Joost de Valk has started a conversation about developers testing their work with other developers’ plugins in Post Status Slack. Joost wants to take on what he calls an “integration problem:” “Every integration with another plugin we [at Yoast] add forces us to test the basic features of that plugin, with our plugin running, to…
As Joost de Valk joyfully observed, Yoast has crossed the 300 million downloads milestone on WordPress.org. 😲
There’s been a lot of discussion around Josepha Haden‘s post about the “Big Picture Goals” for 2021. Check up on the discussion there in the comments if you haven’t seen it yet. To recap the intentionally broad and incomplete focal points, they are: Full Site Editing: This goal targets giving users the ability to edit…
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