Interview with Matt Mullenweg on Gutenberg, WordPress, and the future
Brian Krogsgard
I am joined by Matt Mullenweg to discuss decision making, Gutenberg, core WordPress processes, Automattic's business, and more.
There are signs that Gutenberg is being considered…
Dan Knauss
There are signs that Gutenberg is being considered for adoption on some level in Drupal. There is already a demo of Gutenberg in Drupal, and there is a talk dedicated to the subject at the upcoming Drupal Europe conference. Yoast recently showed off…
An insightful post from Vasilis Baimas…
Brian Krogsgard
An insightful post from Vasilis Baimas on his experiences contributing at WordCamp Europe 2018, particularly working on features for the Yoast plugin. "WordPress relies on people like you to come those ideas true.... every enhancement and each improvement depends on…
Recently a bug surfaced in Yoast…
Brian Krogsgard
Recently a bug surfaced in Yoast SEO that effected search rankings for some. It only effected users that updated from an earlier version of Yoast SEO to Yoast SEO 7.0-7.0.2 (specifically those versions). If you think this pertains to you,…
Brian Jackson over at Kinsta has…
Brian Krogsgard
Brian Jackson over at Kinsta has a complete guide for anyone who needs to set up Yoast SEO on a WordPress site. It goes into great detail, and the screenshots are very helpful — perfect for a client who needs a…
Network effects and WordPress — Draft podcast
Katie Richards
In this episode, Brian and Brian discuss the power of network effects and how they relate to WordPress’ increasing market share and maturity.
Mark Jaquith explains how he solved…
Brian Krogsgard
Mark Jaquith explains how he solved a problem with Yoast SEO sitemaps on large WordPress sites. Yoast’s dynamic generation of the sitemap was making his server time out, so he came up with a way to generate a static sitemap.…
GoDaddy has ranked the most popular…
Brian Krogsgard
GoDaddy has ranked the most popular WordPress plugins and themes installed on their servers in 2017. The top three plugins were Yoast SEO, Jetpack and Ninja Forms. The most popular eCommerce plugin was WooCommerce, and MonsterInsights took the crown as the most…
The WordPress product market is completely different now
Brian Krogsgard
Building a WordPress-based product business is a much different process than it used to be. People have to do something different and better than what has come before.
Teaching what you learn with Joe Casabona — Draft Podcast
Katie Richards
In this episode, Brian and Joe Casabona discuss learning WordPress, as well as teaching it, including the things they find most important to learn.
Something interesting on the Yoast Github…
Dan Knauss
Something interesting on the Yoast Github account: Whip, which is a WordPress package that "nudges users" to upgrade their software versions (starting with PHP). It supports all major PHP versions from 5.2 to 7.1. If you have a particular plugin…
What a “plugin aware” Calypso looks like
Brian Krogsgard
In my last note, I started talking about the plugin awareness stuff in Calypso and it morphed into a more broad editorial about Automattic's relationship with the WordPress community. But what does plugin awareness really mean in Calypso? After getting…
Calculating a true related posts algorithm…
Brian Krogsgard
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…
The art of being a self-employed web consultant — Draft podcast
Katie Richards
In this episode, Brian talks to Diane Kinney about web-based freelancing in the real world.
Also in big-plugin-release-land, Yoast SEO 3.3…
Brian Krogsgard
Also in big-plugin-release-land, Yoast SEO 3.3 includes a whole new tab for content analysis (for pairing with the traditional SEO analysis).
WordPress Development Tools — Draft Podcast
Katie Richards
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.
