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Five years ago, I met Taco Verdonschot for the first time. He applied for a job at Yoast. He brought a cake to his job interview. So smart! He was the first developer we ever hired and probably the worst one we had. And although Taco wasn’t much of a developer, I knew right from
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What Is Database Management? Very simply put, database management is knowing how to access, configure, debug, and manage your database. For some website owners, this isn’t really a concern. Even developers rarely need to poke around with the database, and for many of us, it’s just a piece of software that someone configured once and, as
At the moment, members of team Yoast are enjoying WordCamp Europe in Belgrade, and we want to celebrate that awesome event together with all of you! Which is why we’re having a sale during WordCamp Europe: you can now save 10% on any Yoast product or Academy course! And there is even a 15% discount on
By Mark Zeni – 1 minute read SEO is one of those things that most business owners loathe. Trying to rank on Google is stressful, ranking factors can be confusing, and without in-depth SEO knowledge, it can often seem impossible. And if you don’t have the advertising budget of
Powering over 30% of all the websites existing over the Internet, WordPress has certainly come a long way since its release on 27 May 2003, by Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little. It’s 2018 and WordPress remains to grow, steadily yet magnificently. Talking of the steady growth, the last decade has seen a surge in the
It doesn’t matter if you’re just getting started with content marketing or you’re a seasoned pro — your website is almost certain to be the linchpin of the overall strategy. And that means your site needs to be easy to use and easy to update. Creating great content takes long enough as is. You don’t
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With all the hullabaloo around the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we are seeing several custom GDPR frameworks being built for WordPress, each of which has its own strengths. However, with the release of version 4.9.6, there are now powerful new tools built right into the core of WordPress to handle GDPR compliance that nobody
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Being part of the blog team at Yoast I spend much time writing, correcting and editing content in the editor. Of course, I’ve heard about Gutenberg (it’s quite the thing here at Yoast) and glanced over it, but I didn’t take the time to do much with it myself. When the Gut Guys asked me
In our major Yoast SEO 7.0 update, there was a bug concerning attachment URL’s. We quickly resolved the bug, but some people have suffered anyhow (because they updated before our patch). This post serves both as a warning and an apology. We want to ask all of you to check whether your settings for the
