Today, Ahmad Awais launched WP Continuous Deployment, a continuous deployment pipeline for updating plugins hosted on WordPress.org via GitHub actions. It is a Node.js-based CLI script that simplifies the process of keeping plugins updated. Developers only need to...
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. Branding is an essential aspect of your marketing strategy. If you develop an awesome branding strategy,...
Perhaps one of the most important aspects of running a successful WordPress website is maintaining page speed for your users. Caching plugins are one of the top ways to do so. And WP Rocket is near the top of the shortlist of most recommended plugins to handle this...
WordPress log files are one of the most important aspects of the entire WP ecosystem that you may have never heard of. Or at least, may have never thought of. Log files are essentially records of everything that your website and server has done over its life (or a...
In collaboration with the core design and editor teams, the WordPress theme review team will begin hosting biweekly (fortnightly) meetings on the future of themes. The meetings will be held every other Wednesday on the #themereview WordPress Slack channel at 16:00...
It seems to be the week for dropping news of WordPress feature plugins. Felix Arntz, WordPress core committer and developer programs engineer at Google, announced a plan to push a lazy loading feature to the platform. If testing goes well, this feature could land in...
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Edwin Toonen Edwin is a strategic content specialist. Before joining Yoast, he spent years honing his skill at The Netherlands’ leading web design magazine. On-SERP SEO is the process of fully optimizing the first page of a search engine to maximize the visibility of...
Thierry Muller, a Developer Relations Program Manager at Google, and several contributors posted an update on the XML sitemaps feature that may land in WordPress this year. After seven months of development, the team has made the XML Sitemaps feature plugin available...
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. The structure of the texts on your site is important for SEO. If your content is clearly structured, your...
In December of 2019, Nick Hamze, the owner of Sorta Brilliant, quietly launched Block Garden with a proposal for plugin authors to build block-based plugins off concepts, called seeds, from his site. He has since written extensively on the block editor and has shared...
Swift Control expanded panel on the site front end.David Vongries, creator of the Page Builder Framework theme, launched the Swift Control plugin last week. The plugin is billed as a replacement for the core WordPress toolbar (admin bar). It allows site owners to...
Siobhan Cunningham Siobhan is lead of the Social media team at Yoast. She enjoys writing and is interested in basically any type of digital communication. Social media is not to be ignored these days: it’s everywhere! So, when you’re working on building and growing...
It’s hard to have a successful website without visual content. Any page you visit likely includes some combination of photos, icons, or graphics. However, if you encounter the HTTP error when uploading images to WordPress, you may find yourself unable to incorporate...
Every website needs both web hosting and domain hosting. It’s common to get confused between the two. They are in fact two different things.Hosting services like Bluehost, Siteground, and GoDaddy offer both web hosting and domain hosting. When someone starts their...
On Tuesday, 10up released its Autoshare for Twitter plugin. The plugin is designed to automatically tweet blog posts as they are published. By default, it will send the post title, featured image, and link to Twitter. Users can also add a custom message. The plugin is...
The Gutenberg team announced version 7.3 of the plugin yesterday. This was the second release of the year, which included 159 contributions from 56 people. The major changes to the plugin include settings for changing the navigation block’s text and background colors,...
Finding that your WordPress site is showing an HTTP error 503 response code is extremely frustrating. Thankfully, this HTTP error response code is a temporary server-side error and is usually resolved pretty quickly.Nevertheless, there are some things you can do to...
GiveWP plugin users raised $106 million in donations in 2019. This is the first time donation amounts have crossed the $100 million threshold in a year. Matt Cromwell, GiveWP’s head of support and community outreach, made the announcement on Facebook last week. This...
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. Writing blog posts can be great fun. But, sometimes blogging can be quite a challenge as well. You may even...
GoDaddy launched its Go WordPress theme last week. It has been publicly available through its GitHub repository for several months, but the theme review team finally approved and set it live in the theme directory. Thus far, the theme has garnered 7,000 active...