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I've written a couple of articles, and others have been contributing articles too, and this page lists them all. Want to contribute an article too? Get in touch!

Yoast.com uses MaxCDN. When I started using their service, the speed improvement was mind boggling. Before, I could only get the front page of this site to load in about 3-4 seconds, measured by Pingdom, (check your site here). Now, the front page loads in less than a second: You’ll want to know how I did [...]

Sometimes you can’t be bothered to do upgrades for a WordPress site yourself. You need to be 100% sure that it’s up, that critical updates are done immediately as they come available and that uptime is close to 100%. That’s when you need managed WordPress hosting (as opposed to cheaper but less guaranteed normal WordPress [...]

Search engines like Google have a problem. They call it “duplicate content”: your content is being shown on multiple pages locations on and off your site and they don’t know which location to show. Especially when people start linking to all the different versions of the content, the problem becomes bigger. This article is meant [...]

This series of articles is aimed at helping you develop a good website for your business using WordPress. Because it really takes you from start to finish, it’s split up into several parts: From goal to site structure Design & development of your site using WordPress as the CMS Getting your WordPress CMS site up [...]

What you ought to know to find the best WordPress hosting I have proudly hosted yoast.com on a VPS.net Cloud Server for over 2 years now. It is fast, affordable & has been rock solid – even as my traffic increased 20-fold over that period, growing to almost a million pageviews per month. Some sites will review [...]

It’s now almost a year after the world saw the first stable release of Magento, and there was still no “definitive guide” to Magento SEO. A lot has been written on the subject, in the Magento forum and some blog posts, but nothing that gives a complete overview of this subject. It’s time to let [...]

I always try to get the sites I build to validate, and be written in semantically correct markup. Sometimes a client demands certain things which might make it easier to just stop when the code works, and don’t bother to make it validate. I’ve found that every single time I’ve taken that route in the [...]

Unobtrusive and with alternating row colors Sections: example table quick start donate download Related pages: changelog tutorial Ramon Eijkemans pointed me to a script written by Stuart Langridge. This unobtrusive table sorting script was awesome, offering sort mechanisms for text, numbers, dates and currencies, by simply adding an external script to a page and a [...]

Internet Explorer is not known for it’s standard compliancy, and because of that, people have been using all sorts of CSS hacks to get around rendering problems in it. The IE team have been working hard to prevent a lot of these hacks with the release of IE7, so a lot of your presumably fixed [...]

The Definitive Guide To Higher Rankings For Your Blog I started writing my beginner’s guide to WordPress SEO a while back, and have since done a load of posts on the subject, an article in the Search Marketing Standard, newsletters, and presentations. It’s time to let all the info of all these different articles fall [...]