Melina Reintjens After getting her Master’s in Art & Visual Culture, Melina worked in the cultural sector, editing and writing all kinds of texts. She enjoys applying her writing skills and eye for detail in the blog team at Yoast. Copywriting is a crucial element...
Google sits at the top of the internet food chain. The company influences (or dictates) a lot of what happens online. And their new image format, WebP, continues that trend. With page load speed being increasingly important (primarily because of Google Page Rank),...
10up announced the public availability of two GitHub Actions geared toward WordPress plugin developers yesterday. The first Action allows developers to deploy plugin updates directly to the WordPress.org plugin directory by tagging a release on GitHub. The second...
There have been a lot of updates lately for Divi, WordPress, and plugins. There’s almost always updates to themes and plugins when WordPress updates and it can sometimes take time for all of the updates to work together smoothly. The number of variables with all of...
Iris Guelen Iris Guelen is a Junior Web Editor at Yoast. She writes and optimizes blog posts and works on the Yoast newsletter. If you have a large website that contains a lot of content, it can be hard to keep an overview of the current (SEO) status of your website....
On November 13, the Gutenberg team launched version 6.9 with several features, most of which were aimed at developers. Users can now add custom image title attributes. Plugin developers can start diving into the new Block Patterns API. Plus, theme authors can begin...
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. Search engines like Google have a problem – it’s called ‘duplicate content’. Duplicate content means that similar content...
WordPress has evolved a lot since its early days. The last two years, in particular, have brought massive changes including the Block Editor. Other platforms, such as Movable Type, have stuck to their roots of accessibility and ease of use for bloggers. With that in...
With the right tools, you can easily transform your WordPress website into an online store. The problem is, most e-commerce plugins focus on enabling you to make sales rather than optimizing the entire conversion process. That means you could be leaving money on the...
After a multi-year hiatus, Elliot Richmond has relaunched his WordPress advent calendar and is looking for volunteers. The WP Snippets ’til Christmas site will host 24 days of WordPress code snippets starting on December 1 and lasting until December 24. With each...
Marieke van de Rakt Marieke van de Rakt is the founder of Yoast Academy and CEO of Yoast. Her favorite SEO topics are SEO copywriting and site structure. You’ve had this great idea. You’ve built this amazing website. And then, you want that website to attract...
On Tuesday, John James Jacoby announced that bbPress 2.6 was available to the public after a six-year wait in a post titled bbPress 2.6 — Better Great Than Never. The announcement landed with a whimper as it was overshadowed by the release of WordPress 5.3 on the same...
Michiel Heijmans Michiel is a partner at Yoast and our COO. Internet veteran. His main goal with most of his articles is to kick-start your site optimization. So much to do! Reviews or testimonials are mostly said to work on the basis of social proof. Social proof is...
Mark your calendars, folks. WordCamp US 2020 will start on a…Tuesday. On November 11, the WordCamp US team announced that next year’s event will happen during the middle of the week, from October 27 through October 29. This is a change from the usual three-day weekend...
Edwin Toonen Edwin is an experienced writer, editor & content manager. Before joining Yoast, he spent years honing his skill at The Netherlands’ leading web design magazine. These last couple of months here at Yoast SEO HQ have all been about building better...
WordPress 5.3 “Kirk,” named in honor American jazz musician Rahsaan Roland Kirk, is now available for download. The update includes a new default theme named Twenty Twenty, user interface improvements aimed at accessibility, and new block editor features. This release...
WordPress.com launched a new recurring payments feature its users today. The payments system will allow bloggers to earn money for their content directly from any page on their site. The feature is also available for self-hosted WordPress users who have the Jetpack...
Marieke van de Rakt Marieke van de Rakt is the founder of Yoast Academy and CEO of Yoast. Her favorite SEO topics are SEO copywriting and site structure. The Yoast SEO plugin helps you to easily optimize the text of your posts and pages. People use it to try and get...
Prefix everything. It is an adage that is old as the WordPress software itself. Prefixing has been a standard for WordPress developers for so long that it’s hard to imagine doing anything different. But, the time has come for something new. Well, it is long past due,...
Just about every technology blogger, content creator, or developer needs to sometimes display highlighted code snippets on their blog. That can be a headache in and of itself. However, highlighting a line or lines within that snippet can also be necessary, and that...
If you’re looking for a way to create a global header for your website that doesn’t take up a lot of space, you’re going to love this tutorial. We’ll show you how to create a fullscreen global header using Divi’s Theme Builder. While scrolling down the page, the only...
