When we add cool new features to our Yoast plugins, we use Git workflows to ensure that development can proceed smoothly. In this article, I’ll talk about two workflows we use when building bigger features: using feature branches and feature flags. Each workflow has its advantages and disadvantages. After reading this article, you’ll know more »

Last September, we released our first digital story; Diversity, inequality, and prejudice; a sociological exploration. This is the first in what will, hopefully, become a small series of stories that really define our mission, company culture, and broader vision. With these stories, we want to explore the possibilities the WordPress block editor has to offer »

One of the key things that the Yoast SEO plugin does is output rich, structured data on each page on a site. This allows data consumers like Google, Facebook, and Pinterest to more easily read and extract key product information, and to reward sites with rich listings and integrations. Building and maintaining that functionality boils »

Ever wondered how the illustrations on yoast.com are made? In this post all will be explained.

Testing WordPress plugins can be difficult, especially during development, when you want the feedback loops to be small. A local development environment can help. This enables you to test your plugin on a local WordPress installation, running on your own computer, without the need for a live website. However, setting one up can be difficult, »

Welcome to part six of our series on using WordPress JavaScript APIs, in which we explore the APIs that were introduced in WordPress 5.0. We’ll have a look at how we can use them to better integrate with other plugins, in a reliable and safe way. Make sure to also check out our repository on »

Welcome to part five of our series on using the WordPress JavaScript APIs, in which we explore the APIs that were introduced in WordPress 5.0. We’ll look at how we can use the APIs to better integrate with other plugins, in a reliable and safe way. Make sure to also check out our repository on »

Being lazy is often not a word you want to be described as. If I call you lazy, you would object, right? But lazy is not that bad, and being a lazy programmer is certainly not a bad thing. Bill Gates allegedly said: “I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a »

Composer is a dependency management tool. It allows you to add libraries as a dependency, so you don’t have to solve every problem yourself. You can make use of the solutions provided by others to save yourself some time and likely account for edge-cases you hadn’t even thought of. Why would you use dependencies? For »

Every developer has the habit to reinvent the wheel. We search for excuses to do everything ourselves, such as “Ah no, that thing doesn’t fully cover what I need” and “I don’t trust code I didn’t write myself”. That’s too bad because others might have fixed the same issues you ran into. In this post, »