Accounting and bookkeeping are two of the most intimidating words that come to mind for any business owner. With them come taxes and invoices and payroll and…much more. That’s why so many online bookkeeping systems have sprung up over the years, from Wave to...
Edwin Toonen Edwin is a strategic content specialist. Before joining Yoast, he spent years honing his skill at The Netherlands’ leading web design magazine. In Yoast SEO 9.0, we launched an innovative new way to analyze your English language text using word forms. In...
WordPress is a dinosaur. If you are a PHP programmer and have had the opportunity to work outside of WordPress in the past 10 years, there are likely one or two or a few dozen things that frustrate you when diving back into the project’s 16-year-old codebase. At a...
Joost de Valk Joost de Valk is the founder and Chief Product Officer of Yoast. He's a digital marketer, developer and an Open Source fanatic. At Yoast, we pride ourselves on our branding. I would go as far as saying that it has attributed a lot to our success. I also...
With websites becoming more complex, it only makes sense that WordPress users would need a means of displaying third-party content on their own pages. Fortunately, there’s a HTML element called an iFrame to help you do this.In this post, we’ll explain what an iFrame...
COVID-19 awareness icons added to Font Awesome.On Monday, the Font Awesome team launched a new set of icons to promote awareness around COVID-19. The solid icons available in the Font Awesome 5.13 update are all available for free and are open-source. The regular,...
Edwin Toonen Edwin is a strategic content specialist. Before joining Yoast, he spent years honing his skill at The Netherlands’ leading web design magazine. The outbreak of COVID-19 led to a wave of canceled or postponed events. Some events made the switch from an...
WordPress redirection refers to a technique that sends users from a web page to a different location. For example, you can redirect your users to another page if the existing page is unavailable. Another popular reason to use redirects is to redirect users after they...
Version 7.8 of the Gutenberg plugin landed yesterday. The team continues to improve the editor with the refreshed interface work that began in version 7.7. The most useful feature with this update of the plugin is the inclusion of the Patterns API for plugin and theme...
There is a popular saying, which has been used in several memes, among my developer and remote-working friend groups. It goes something like the following: Government and Doctors: Practice physical distancing during this pandemic. Remote Workers: I’ve been preparing...
Yoast, the company behind the popular Yoast SEO plugin, launched its free block editor training course today. The course is available to anyone by signing up for Yoast Academy, which also includes multiple other free and paid courses. Users can learn everything from...
Marieke van de Rakt Marieke van de Rakt is the founder of Yoast SEO Academy and CEO of Yoast. Her favorite SEO topics are SEO copywriting and site structure. At Yoast, we are huge fans of the block editor. Admittedly -not right from the start-, but we’re now...
Book sales section from a custom theme.It was about a year ago. I was happily designing a theme for aspiring novelists. I wanted to get ahead of the competition and market a theme specifically to writers who would be attempting the National Novel Writing Month 2019...
WP Tavern homepage design.It has been a bit of a slow news week in the land of WordPress with the COVID-19 pandemic reaching across the globe. Most people are hunkering down or getting accustomed to a change in their daily lives. For some people, that has meant...
The Gutenberg project and its eventual full-site editing feature is coming upon a major issue that will need to be solved. Block-based themes of the future are currently on a path toward a template system that will comprise of plain HTML files. While that will work...
Meta Box released its MB Views add-on plugin last week. The new extension allows developers to build custom templates from the comfort of their WordPress admin. The goal is to provide an easy-to-use interface for outputting custom fields without editing theme files,...
Dijana Muzhdeka Dijana is an e-learning content developer at Yoast. She enjoys creating materials that help people learn. When you roll out the red carpet on a new website, you might be expecting visitors to start coming eagerly. In reality, before people start...
One of the worst feelings as a website user is to click a link and be brought to a 404 error page. The 404 is one of the most harmless error codes on the internet, as it simply indicates the requested page is missing. However, it can also be one of the most...
GitHub announced yesterday that it had acquired the popular JavaScript package service npm for an undisclosed amount. npm, Inc. was the company behind the Node package manager, npm Registry, and npm CLI. The company is shuttering its doors, but the future of the npm...
Edwin Toonen Edwin is a strategic content specialist. Before joining Yoast, he spent years honing his skill at The Netherlands’ leading web design magazine. Our current string of releases focusing on improving our code is continuing with Yoast SEO 13.3. In this...
Last week, version 7.7 of the Gutenberg plugin shipped to users. In what is one of the more visually-striking updates in a while, the design team presented a refreshed UI. Users will also get their first chance to test the upcoming block patterns feature. Some users...