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Cody Landefeld has put together a…

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Dan Knauss
Cody Landefeld has put together a handy SEO guide for WooCommerce users. Cody advises you to start with the Yoast WooCommerce SEO Plugin, but there are many tips about speed and security too. đź›’

Matteo Duò has some good thoughts…

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Matteo Duò has some good thoughts on advertising and cross-selling on WordPress.org and the wp-admin dashboard. Yoast and JetPack are mentioned of course, along with Matteo's view of the guidelines in place now and how they affect new developers.

For Black Friday, Yoast released an…

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For Black Friday, Yoast released an update that placed an animated banner on the dashboards of all WordPress admin pages where it was installed. This resulted in some negative feedback and discussions about ad policies from plugin companies. Yoast was…

This month the “People of WordPress”…

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This month the "People of WordPress" spot honors Kim Parsell, who was also known as #wpmom before she passed in 2015. If you are relatively new to the WordPress scene, take a moment to read about Kim and get to…

The 10th Yoastcon is happening on…

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The 10th Yoastcon is happening on April 24, 2020, in the Netherlands. It appears this SEO conference led by Yoast will be free. (Ticket information is forthcoming.) 🎟️ In the past, this event has been recorded and live-streamed, but that…

Yoast released its first “digital story”…

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Yoast released its first "digital story" — "Diversity, inequality, and prejudice; a sociological exploration." Omar Reiss explains: With these stories, we want to explore the possibilities the WordPress block editor has to offer for storytelling and creating rich interactive experiences.

Joost de Valk publicly announced he…

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Joost de Valk publicly announced he is stepping down from his role as Marketing Lead, a position he held for about six months. Joost will return to Yoast in the role of Chief Product Officer. Joost gave more than one…

Yoast SEO 11.3 is out with…

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Yoast SEO 11.3 is out with some bug fixes and enhancements. As soon as WordPress 5.3 comes out, Yoast will go back to supporting the two most recent versions — starting with WordPress 5.2 and 5.3.

Many US government sites use Drupal,…

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Many US government sites use Drupal, but the State Department appears to have switched to WordPress. It uses the Underscores theme, along with the Yoast and Gravity Forms plugins.

Yoast SEO 11.1 is officially out.…

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Yoast SEO 11.1 is officially out. This release features schema improvements for videos and images along with better language support for German.

Yoast has announced an improved “Schema.org…

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Yoast has announced an improved "Schema.org implementation" as a key feature of their upcoming 11.0 version. Edwin Toonen writes, "Yoast SEO will now output a lot more structured data about your website and how its pages fit together." After this…

Marieke van de Rakt, the new…

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Dan Knauss

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…

Congrats to Marieke van de Rakt…

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Congrats to Marieke van de Rakt who is the new CEO of Yoast! Marieke is the founder of Yoast Academy as well as the former Chief Strategy Officer at Yoast. In this new role, Marieke is replacing Yoast founder Joost…

Joost de Valk has written an “After…

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Joost de Valk has written an "After WCUS WordPress & Gutenberg FAQ" addressing some questions posed to him and the Yoast team at WordCamp US. In short, he is on board with Gutenberg but "annoyed with the communication failure around the…
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