New design (and submitting for a contest)!

For all your lurkers in the RSS feed who haven’t come out in the last week, and I know there’s quite a few of you, there’s a new design waiting for you if you click the link! I’m also, with this post, submitting this design to the WP WebHost Best WordPress Design Award contest in [...]

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Why functionality in themes is not always good.

So you’ve switched over to a theme that comes with built-in functionality for titles and meta descriptions. Instead of using HeadSpace2, All in one SEO or another SEO plugin, you’re now using the theme’s built-in SEO functions and input boxes for title’s and meta descriptions. It just seems more logical doesn’t it? Loading one plugin [...]

Link dump: interesting reads from around the web

So last week I’ve started sharing a lot more of what I read on a day to day basis on Twitter, and I decided I had to share these links here on yoast.com as well. Below is a quite extensive list of links that I found interesting, ordered by topic. I’ll try to do these [...]

Site Analysis Case: Ronen Bekerman

When Ronen Bekerman ordered a site review for his 3D Architectural Visualization Rendering blog, I was immediately excited when I opened the URL. Not often do I get to do a site analysis on a site looking this good, this is dude in large part to the fact that few people have such a creative [...]

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Google Analytics for WordPress get’s a logo

I’ve just pushed out release 4.0.7 of my Google Analytics for WordPress plugin. It contains a few minor bug fixes, and a little something I’ve been wanting to do for a while: a proper logo. It was designed especially for the plugin by Level Level, a Dutch WordPress specialist I’ve had the pleasure of working [...]

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W3C Validation: why you should care, and why not

Every once in a while I get an email about W3C validation. The people emailing me either point me at the fact that my own site doesn’t validate correctly (thank Facebook for most of that), or they ask me whether I think W3C Validation is important. Most of them ask even more specifically: whether I [...]

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Part II of my WordPress CMS series

I’ve just published Part II of my WordPress CMS series: Design & development of your WordPress CMS. Enjoy!

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Design & development of your WordPress CMS

So, after reading the article on getting from your website’s goal to a proper site structure, and having determined which kinds of page templates and functionality you’ll need, you’re ready for the next step: designing and developing your site. At the end of this article I’ll go through a short list of often-needed functionality, and [...]

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Using WordPress as a CMS article series

I picked the winner for the ShopHTML competition today, a winner who asked for a post I can not possibly do in one single post. So I’ve started an article series on the topic: using WordPress as a CMS, and am ready to release the first article to you already: going from your website’s goal [...]

From your site’s goal to its structure

This article is the first in a series of articles on using WordPress as a CMS, aimed at helping you develop a good corporate site with WordPress, helping you to go from basically nothing to a fully functional website. While this article itself hardly touches on WordPress, it’s in these first steps that the end [...]

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