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Celebrating the WordPress community: the Yoast Care fund

5 September 2019 | 6 Comments Marieke van de Rakt

WordPress is wonderful! It is a wonderful CMS and with it comes a wonderful community. At Yoast, we’re definitely WordPress fanboys and fangirls. We’re fans of the CMS, fans of the community and fans of all those kickass volunteers. That’s why we’ve decided to introduce a new fund: the Yoast Care fund. Care stands for …

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Celebrating the WordPress community: the Yoast Care fund

Setting up WordPress for AMP: Accelerated Mobile Pages

6 June 2019 | 28 Comments Jono Alderson

This post explains what AMP is and aims to do, who should implement and why, how to get your WordPress site ready for AMP and how to make sure Yoast SEO integrates nicely with it. What are Accelerated Mobile Pages/AMP? The Accelerated Mobile Pages project aims to make pages load instantly on mobile. The web is slow …

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Setting up WordPress for AMP: Accelerated Mobile Pages




How to test WordPress 5.0 — and every other new release

7 December 2018 | 11 Comments Edwin Toonen

December 6, 2018, is the day we shall remember for the birth of WordPress 5.0 and its new block editor. While we loved the new editor, initially, we advised people to hold off updating to WordPress 5.0 until a more stable release. But now, we’re happy to tell people to move to WordPress 5.0! Nevertheless, …

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How to test WordPress 5.0 — and every other new release

Pressing questions about Gutenberg: the new editor in WordPress 5.0

5 December 2018 | 11 Comments Edwin Toonen

December 6th, 2018, we saw the release of WordPress 5.0. With it came one of the most talked about — and divisive — new features ever: a brand-new editor, the one we currently know as Gutenberg. Gutenberg is not just a simple refresh of the interface, no, it is an entirely re-imagined editor with a …

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Pressing questions about Gutenberg: the new editor in WordPress 5.0



Reaching higher together: how we all benefit from open source

30 November 2018 | 5 Comments Marieke van de Rakt

You may know this open source fanatic as WordPress Core Contributor or esteemed speaker on WordCamps and other conferences. Today, Software Engineer & WordPress Consultant Alain Schlesser shares the details of his first experiences with open source and how to learn from, as well as contribute to open source projects. And, he is clear on …

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