WordPress now makes up well over 1/3 of all internet sites. That’s a lot of websites. However, when we say “WordPress,” that could actually mean more than one thing. The base WordPress software is the same. But when you decide between WordPress.org vs...
Camille Cunningham Camille is content manager at Yoast. She writes and optimizes blog posts and enjoys creating content that helps people master SEO. A bit of a scandal involving hospitals and the noindex tag, a postponed deadline for your Core Web Vitals and a whole...
For much of WordPress’s history, the foundational elements of building a theme have been slow to change. Every so often, developers would get a new feature, such as child themes, featured images, nav menus, and template parts. Each of these was epic in its own way....
WP Tavern #2 - Anne McCarthy on How Full Site Editing Will Impact WordPress Play Episode Pause Episode Mute/Unmute Episode Rewind 10 Seconds 1x Fast Forward 30 seconds 00:00 / 00:45:45 Subscribe Share About this episode. So the podcast today features Anne McCarthy....
Joost de Valk: Hey everyone, welcome to yet another episode of the Yoast SEO podcast. Today, we are joined by an industry friend, Kevin Indig, the director of SEO for Shopify. Is that the correct title Kevin? Because you only just moved there. Kevin Indig:...
Edwin Toonen Edwin is a strategic content specialist. Before joining Yoast, he spent years honing his skill at The Netherlands’ leading web design magazine. Have you been in the SEO industry for a couple of years? Then you’ve probably noticed that keyword density (or...
WordPress contributors are proposing the project take an active position on Google’s Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC). This particular mechanism is Google’s alternative to third-party cookies that doesn’t require collecting users’ browsing history. The GitHub...
Patchstack, which recently rebranded from WebARX, released its 2020 security whitepaper. The report identified a total of 582 security vulnerabilities. However, only 22 of the issues came from WordPress itself. Third-party plugins and themes accounted for the...
Camille Cunningham Camille is content manager at Yoast. She writes and optimizes blog posts and enjoys creating content that helps people master SEO. The web, and our online habits with it, are never at a standstill. One result of our fast-paced online behavior is...
Ads are a great way to make money with your WordPress website. There are lots of ad platforms available and ads can be placed just about anywhere on a website. The number of options can become overwhelming as there is a lot to manage when handling ads. In this...
I simply do not understand it. For at least the better part of a decade, theme authors have asked for the tools to create more complex layouts with WordPress. They have asked for the ability to allow end-users to more easily recreate their demos. They have wanted...
The Jetpack team has been quietly testing a new plugin called Jetpack Boost, which addresses website owners’ performance and SEO concerns. Version 1.0 was released today, one month after the final pre-release came out in March. Boost is a separate plugin under the...
There are many reasons to include multiple user accounts on your website. For example, you may have a team of people working together to manage various aspects of your site, such as content creation, sales, technical support, and more. Additionally, enabling front-end...
The dreaded HTTP error 404. No site owner wants to have them, and no visitor wants to see them. But the 404 page is a reality for each and every WordPress website out there. Making sure that your 404 page isn’t a dead-end and doesn’t stop your user’s journey across...
The latest release of the Gutenberg plugin (10.4) brings block widgets into the Customizer. When customizing widget-enabled areas, a new block inserter icon is now available for dropping blocks into sidebars. This is the first iteration of block management in the...
WordPress’ flexibility sometimes means that its settings can be a bit overwhelming. This is especially true of the General Settings page, which houses a long list of seemingly unrelated options. However, the features here are more straightforward than they may first...
Sometimes a theme’s description is so moving that one must install, activate, and test the project. I often rail against the obviously keyword-stuffed text in the free WordPress theme directory. But, I am pleasantly surprised from time to time. Enō is an elegant,...
One of the most-visited pages on a website is the About Me page. When a new visitor arrives on a site and likes the content, they tend to want to know who created it so they can put a face to the name. In addition to having a great About page, having an author bio...
Today, Josepha Haden Chomphosy announced the results of yesterday’s “go/no-go” demo and decision on whether Full Site Editing (FSE) would land in WordPress 5.8. The site editor and global styles are not landing in the next release. However, several other features...
Zerodium, one of the most well-known security vulnerability brokers, announced that it is tripling payouts for remote code execution exploits on default WordPress installations. Payouts are typically $100K but have been temporarily increased to $300K. The company...
Edwin Toonen Edwin is a strategic content specialist. Before joining Yoast, he spent years honing his skill at The Netherlands’ leading web design magazine. Here’s the thing: your site should be mobile-friendly. This should be your number one priority. If you want to...