The team at Yoast is looking to add to their WordPress core contributions, and have three projects specifically they would love help on. They are also interested in hiring a full time developer contributor for core work, if you think you’re the right fit. It’s a great opportunity. And you might get “Yoastified”, aka get a sweet cartoon of yourself.
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 among the changes are real-time content analysis, and a whole new UX to the SEO…
James Farmer’s WordPress story goes all the way back to his launch of the first hosted WordPress multisite blogging platform — just a few days ahead of WordPress.com. Edublogs currently hosts millions of students’ and educators’ blogs. James talks about successes and failures, his views on Gutenberg, how he stays competitive with Squarespace, and how he thinks the WordPress business community should respond to the loss of active install growth data at WordPress.org.
WordPress Turns 20 Resource Hub We are calling all WordPressers! It’s been 20 incredible years of coding, creating, and dreaming. WP has grown from a blog platform to power an ever-growing percentage of the world’s websites — let that sink in for a moment! If you’ve experienced any wonderful moments or memories since 2003 –…
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.
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 later in September. Drupal has a smaller community overall but I bet one that will…
I don’t often do hiring news, but I may as well do a second while I’m at it. Aaron Jorbin has joined Happytables as CTO after a time at Condé Nast. Aaron’s hiring is one of a couple of managerial moves that will further separate Happytables from Human Made, and they are in the middle of…
