In this article, we’ll outline a solution to a problem we faced when splitting up a text into sentences in RTL languages. These are languages with a right-to-left written script such as Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, and Hebrew. You’ll learn about the technical implementation of sentence tokenization in the Yoast text analysis, and how we expanded »

The internal linking suggestions tool has been a staple of the Yoast SEO Premium plugin since 2017. After all these years it was time for an overhaul. In a dramatic turn of events, we actually took some lessons from the way search engines work. Ultimately, this led to a little internal search engine of our »

Yoast SEO 14.0 was a release that needed quite a few patches so far. We’re sorry about that. In building Yoast SEO 14.0 we made a mistake: we bypassed wpdb. That caused issues and errors for some users when they tried to upgrade, which we’re very sorry about. This post explains the mistakes we made, »

We have added a WP CLI command to Yoast SEO 14.0. In Yoast SEO 14.0 we created new tables in which we combine all the metadata for indexable objects on a site. Please see Omar’s post for the reasoning behind this. Regardless of whether you’re using Yoast SEO in the conventional way or through the »

Yoast SEO 14.0 ushered in a new age for the Yoast SEO plugin. In it, we’ve rewritten our entire metadata engine and built an abstraction called indexables. We believe this rewrite will boost WordPress + Yoast SEO as an excellent platform for SEO for many years to come! Please let us walk you through the »

With Yoast SEO 14.0 we’re introducing lots of new goodies. One of them is a Yoast SEO REST API endpoint that’ll give you all the metadata you need for a specific URL. This will make it very easy for headless WordPress sites to use Yoast SEO for all their SEO meta output. There are two »

We’ve released our Yoast Test Helper plugin to WordPress.org. This is a plugin our teams use internally while testing Yoast SEO and it could be very useful for you in testing Yoast SEO on your staging environment. Let me explain the nicest features: Switching between free and premiumFor obvious reasons, this is something we do »

Team Yoast, while all working from home for the first time in our history, is working on one of the biggest improvements to Yoast SEO yet. This release, Yoast SEO 14.0, internally has the codename “Indexables”. This release, while fully backwards compatible, will change some of our known integration API’s. If you integrate with Yoast »

In Yoast SEO 14.0 we’ve introduced a formal way of integrating Yoast SEO into your code. We’ve added what’s called a surface called YoastSEO(). This surface gives easy access to lots of the features Yoast SEO has to offer. In this post I’ll show you some of the different helpers that are now easily accessible »

Due to the Yoast SEO indexable project using an entirely new namespaced Dependency Injection architecture, we’ve had to change some of our Schema API. All your existing integrations still work as we’ve made them backwards compatible, but we ask that you please update to the new code when you can. In this post I will »