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WordPress Development Tools — Draft Podcast

Katie Richards

April 23, 2016

This week, Joe and Brian discuss the tools they use for web and WordPress development. They go from productivity apps that help them accomplish their work to IDEs to build tools to version control.

Yoast Google Analytics plugin acquired by Awesome Motive

Brian Krogsgard

April 15, 2016

AwesomeMotive -- the company lead by Syed Balkhi -- has acquired Yoast's Google Analytics plugin, which boasts over one million active installs of the free plugin, plus a commercial version that was generating revenue that was at least low six…

If you use Yoast SEO for…

March 26, 2016

If you use Yoast SEO for WordPress, you might be interested to know that Yoast has made free Yoast SEO plugin tutorials for every tab on every page of the Yoast SEO configuration pages.

Yoast SEO 3.1 partially rolls back snippet editor, introduces primary category feature

Brian Krogsgard

March 1, 2016

Yoast SEO 3.1 partially rolls back the snippet editor design, after 3.0 feedback made it clear that users preferred the old way. The new editor is much improved from 3.0, but they also include the real time feedback feature the…

Yoast SEO 3.1 has a release…

February 12, 2016

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…

Apparently some WordPress recipe plugins that…

February 9, 2016

Apparently some WordPress recipe plugins that provide rich snippets are causing some sites to get hit with algorithmic SEO penalties. This is far from my area of expertise, but worth looking into if you're working with a lot of food…

One year of the Post Status Club

Brian Krogsgard

January 22, 2016

Business

I'd like to share some details with you about the first full year of the Post Status Club. I like transparency, so I figured I'd lay out exactly what happened over the year, what went well, what didn't, and how…

Envato is getting into hosting WordPress websites with Pressed partnership

Brian Krogsgard

December 22, 2015

BusinessHosting

Envato has been testing a pitch for hosting since December 1st, and plans to roll it out on a broader scale in the new year. Two theme shops are running the hosting pitch now, Qode and Select-Themes. Buyers can see…

Partner deals, and Black Friday deals

Brian Krogsgard

November 26, 2015

Howdy! So, Post Status site partners offer deals to you, members, year round! I figured, to remind you, I'd share them here before Black Friday. If you're in the buying mood, use these if they match up well. Gravity Forms:…

Dave Warfel has a pretty in-depth…

November 25, 2015

Dave Warfel has a pretty in-depth post about the issues some folks had with the Yoast SEO 3.0 update, and gives the whole thing a fair analysis.

Yoast SEO 3.0 is in the…

November 11, 2015

Yoast SEO 3.0 is in the release candidate stage, and there are quite a few new features. It's worth testing if you run a complicated install or are just curious what's going on. Here's a link to the changelog, but…

Benefits for importing old archives, versus separate sites

Brian Krogsgard

November 2, 2015

Running large, long running publications can come with significant challenges. I think one of the shining examples of WordPress in action on the web today is WIRED. In their latest engineering update, Kathleen Vignos shares that they've moved more than…

Yoast to expand to Drupal with SEO product

Brian Krogsgard

September 9, 2015

Business

It makes sense, given Yoast SEO's recent API changes and adjustment to a real-time Javascript driven SEO analysis, that they can now create a cross platform SEO product. And today they announced that Yoast SEO for Drupal 7 will be available…

Coordinated plugin updates to address security vulnerability in many popular WordPress plugins

Brian Krogsgard

April 20, 2015

PlanetSecurity

A coordinated plugin update occurred this morning between many popular WordPress plugins to address a common security vulnerability that allows for XSS cross-site scripting attacks.

A few follow-ups on recent news

Brian Krogsgard

March 19, 2015

There are a few items from the last few days I'd like to follow up on, so figured I'd just lump them in here together. First off, Jetpack had a bit of a rocky update to 3.4. Version 3.4.1 came…

Yoast SEO vulnerability, disclosure, and forced upgrade

Brian Krogsgard

March 11, 2015

Security

Yoast released a new version of the WordPress SEO plugin in the last 24 hours, which fixes a blind SQL injection vulnerability. According to a post mortem by Joost de Valk, the bug wasn't caught in security audits, but was…

WordPress Development Tools — Draft Podcast

Yoast Google Analytics plugin acquired by Awesome Motive

If you use Yoast SEO for…

Yoast SEO 3.1 partially rolls back snippet editor, introduces primary category feature

Yoast SEO 3.1 has a release…

Apparently some WordPress recipe plugins that…

Envato is getting into hosting WordPress websites with Pressed partnership

Partner deals, and Black Friday deals

Dave Warfel has a pretty in-depth…

Yoast SEO 3.0 is in the…

Benefits for importing old archives, versus separate sites

Yoast to expand to Drupal with SEO product

Coordinated plugin updates to address security vulnerability in many popular WordPress plugins

A few follow-ups on recent news

Yoast SEO vulnerability, disclosure, and forced upgrade

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