Yoast SEO 11.1 is officially out.…
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…
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 announcement, Bill Erickson posted about using Yoast SEO Structured Data with Genesis. He dives into…
Marieke van de Rakt, the new…
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 we can create an atmosphere at conferences that is friendly for all people, regardless of…
Congrats to Marieke van de Rakt…
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 de Valk as Joost starts “focusing mostly on software development” as the new Chief Product…
Joost de Valk has written an “After…
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 release.” He says that although you might not have the best experience with Yoast and…
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Interview with Matt Mullenweg on Gutenberg, WordPress, and the future
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…
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 its Gutenberg SEO Sidebar, which is included in the recently released Yoast SEO 8.0 plugin….
An insightful post from Vasilis Baimas…
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 the community.”
Recently a bug surfaced in Yoast…
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, then I would suggest reading the official announcement on their blog and following the provided…
Brian Jackson over at Kinsta has…
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 step-by-step walkthrough.
Network effects and WordPress — Draft podcast
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…
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. As Mark points out, this is a good reminder that paying attention to dynamic processes…
GoDaddy has ranked the most popular…
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 popular analytics plugin. The top three most popular WordPress themes were Divi, Zerif, and Sydney.
The WordPress product market is completely different now
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
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…
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 that requires a certain PHP version then this might be worth checking out.
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