Site reviews: new setup, new pricing!
Today we’ll be releasing a renewed setup for our site reviews. For the past year, we have been limiting the slots for our site review orders to a fixed number per week. The demand for the service is overwhelming, and we would like to thank all customers for the trust you have in our expertise.…
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Yoast Research: get to know your audience!
In our latest newsletter, we asked our readers to fill out a survey. We have never done such a thing at Yoast.com before. In this post, I will enlighten you with the purpose of our survey. Yoast Research Since the beginning of this year, Thijs and myself have been doing research. One day a week…
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Our themes don’t have sliders… Because sliders suck.
Last Tuesday we released our first three themes, and this will be the first post in a series that will explain what themes should and should not have. These posts will also explain why we made certain choices regarding our themes. With the release came a storm of reactions, some downright negative, but most of…
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WordPress Themes by Yoast
It’s done! The WordPress Themes by Yoast are now finally available. This project has been over a year in the making. When Mijke joined Yoast in September 2012, we decided it’d be a good plan to use her design skills and our knowledge about optimizing WordPress sites to make themes that actually help people easily build…
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Yoast looking for a junior dev
We’re expanding again. We’re looking for a junior / medior developer to help grow our rapidly expanding WordPress plugin & theme business, as well as support our consultancy & site review team with tools to automate frequent tasks. What we’re looking for If you’re a developer with a junior to medior level knowledge of: HTML…
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Yoast acquires WPForce.com
Last week we’ve acquired WordPress news site WPForce.com. Jonathan Dingman, who used to run the site, got too busy with his job and personal life to be able to keep running the site and was looking to sell it. We acquired it and will start to slowly bring it into our system. We’ve got some plans…
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New plugin: Post Connector
If you’re an advanced WordPress user, you’ll have “abused” taxonomies quite often to relate post types to each other. Now you might think “abused? but that’s what they’re for, right?” Well… Not entirely. Sometimes you just want to relate posts directly to posts. There are loads of reasons why you’d want to do this, for…
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WordPress SEO Premium 1.0
We’re very proud to bring this release to you today: WordPress SEO premium 1.0 is here. This premium version adds a redirect module to the WordPress SEO plugin that allows you to manage your redirects from within your WordPress installation. It also allows you to retrieve your site’s crawl errors from Google Webmaster Tools and…
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Best of 2013: No 1 – 6 Top WordPress Backup Plugin Recommendations
Plugins to Back up your WordPress Database Files – We look at 6 Top WordPress Backup Recommendations
Post from Jackie Hole on State of Digital
Best of 2013: No 1 – 6 Top WordPress Backup Plugin Recommendations
A major update to our Local SEO plugin
Today we’re releasing a major update to our Local SEO plugin, bringing it to version 1.2. This new version has functionality that quite a few of you requested, most important of them is a new store locator option. Store locator When you’re a brand that’s sold in several stores throughout a country, continent or even…
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Why I Hate WordPress Websites!
Do you hate WordPress? Are you getting constantly frustrated with picking up a WordPress site which someone else has developed? Well this post is to something you can point those developers to.
Post from Neil Walker on State of Digital
Why I Hate WordPress Websites!
Yoast is looking for a senior WordPress developer
We’re growing at Yoast, our plugins are doing extremely well and we’ve got lots more in the works. What’s becoming clear though is that we are in dire need of an addition to our team: we need a senior WordPress developer. So, if you’re that guy or girl who: can easily develop a WordPress plugin…
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Migrating from Shared to Dedicated Hosting
If you are moving from shared to dedicated hosting, this post from Dan Taylor is just what you need
Post from Guestpost on State of Digital
Migrating from Shared to Dedicated Hosting
Why you should avoid HostGator
Today I got a tweet from a user of WordPress SEO who had their site disabled by HostGator, without any prior notice. They said that while they had a cache plugin running, their caching wasn’t working, and HostGator blamed it on two plugins, our own WordPress SEO plugin and WordFence. Why would these plugins prevent caching? They…
Why you should avoid HostGator is a post by Joost de Valk on Yoast – The Art & Science of Website Optimization.
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Victory of the Commons
Note from Joost: This is the write up of the presentation I gave today at WordCamp Europe and an earlier version in Dutch at Drupaljam. I created this presentation together with Marieke, who also wrote this post based on it. Introduction At Yoast we make money using the open source platform WordPress. For some people…
Victory of the Commons is a post by Marieke van de Rakt on Yoast – The Art & Science of Website Optimization.
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Plugin to the Future
In our previous post Joost explained why it is impossible to test compatibility of our plugin updates with other plugins. Joost showed us the enormous number of plugins our users have installed on their websites next to one of our plugins. The number of 83,000 plugins intrigued me immensely. In the past years the number…
Plugin to the Future is a post by Marieke van de Rakt on Yoast – The Art & Science of Website Optimization.
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The honest Truth about Plugin Testing
After my post about content analysis with the WordPress SEO plugin, which covered the recent updates to that plugin, I got some comments that we should test better, especially because the commenter had issues with a certain slider plugin. I laughed when I read that comment, but then it dawned on me that most in…
The honest Truth about Plugin Testing is a post by Joost de Valk on Yoast – The Art & Science of Website Optimization.
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New license options
In response to a growing demand from people who wanted “bigger” licenses, we’ve added a couple of license options for our plugins. All of them now have a 50 site and a 100 site license option too, at a discount. We’ve also added a Complete SEO bundle that contains our Premium SEO, Local SEO, Video SEO,…
New license options is a post by Joost de Valk on Yoast – The Art & Science of Website Optimization.
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WordPress SEO Premium: (pre)-release
We’ve been working hard here at Yoast to offer you a Premium version of our WordPress SEO plugin with some really cool new features. But they’re not done yet. So we didn’t want to release WordPress SEO premium just yet either. However: more and more people are asking us for paid support on the plugin. So…
WordPress SEO Premium: (pre)-release is a post by Joost de Valk on Yoast – The Art & Science of Website Optimization.
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Content Analysis with the WordPress SEO plugin
We’ve been rather busy with the WordPress SEO plugin the last few days. We did a release yesterday and a quick follow up today to fix a few collisions with other plugins. Loads of cool small fixes in there, but one in particular that I think is worth highlighting as it’s something other plugin developers…
Content Analysis with the WordPress SEO plugin is a post by Joost de Valk on Yoast – Tweaking Websites.
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