How to use WordPress? The 12 most common questions

26 September 2019 Joost de Valk

WordPress is huge. According to the latest stats, WordPress powers almost 35% of the web — and keeps on growing. With many sites staying true to the CMS and many new sites bursting onto the scene, there are a lot of new users taking their first steps into the wonderful world of WordPress. People from …

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How to use WordPress? The 12 most common questions

Favicons and your online brand: Make sure you stand out!

20 September 2019 | 13 Comments Michiel Heijmans

Favicons are those little icons you see in your browser tabs. When you have lots of open tabs in your browser it helps you recognize and find the page you were looking for. They are important for your branding, even more so, because Google recently decided to add them to the mobile search results. So, …

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Favicons and your online brand: Make sure you stand out!

Yoast SEO 12.1: Snippet preview updated

17 September 2019 | 10 Comments Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 12.1 is out today! It features a couple of changes in order to match the design of Google’s search results pages, this includes those shiny new favicons. In addition to this, we added a number of new filters for our Schema implementation. See what else is new in the latest release of your …

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Yoast SEO 12.1: Snippet preview updated

Yoast SEO: don’t just set it and forget it!

13 September 2019 | 10 Comments Marieke van de Rakt

Some of the things Yoast SEO does are pure magic. Lots of things are just taken care of after you’ve installed the plugin. You don’t have to do anything about that. Simply installing Yoast SEO will fix a lot of important technical SEO things for you. The content side of SEO, though, is something you …

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Yoast SEO: don’t just set it and forget it!

How to change your favicon in WordPress: a step-by-step guide

12 September 2019 | 18 Comments Joost de Valk

Have you seen that icon in the search results in front of your website’s URL? It’s been visible for a while now in Google’s mobile results. And, as we speak, it’s rolling out for desktop search results too. So, no excuses, your site needs a good favicon. Luckily, setting a favicon in WordPress is very …

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How to change your favicon in WordPress: a step-by-step guide

What is user testing and why should you do it?

10 September 2019 | 3 Comments Meike Hendriks

Watching your (potential) clients use your website or use your products can give you plenty of new insights. Seeing how they navigate, search or click your site can give you information you wouldn’t get out of just analyzing your data. And, as you know your product inside out, you might have developed some blind spots. …

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What is user testing and why should you do it?


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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Yoast SEO 12.0: UX improvements and new Portuguese checks

3 September 2019 | 37 Comments Edwin Toonen

Contrary to what the version number might suggest, Yoast SEO 12.0 isn’t a huge release. It’s simply the next release in our current release schedule, but after hitting 11.9 a couple of weeks ago we had no choice but to go for 12.0 ;). That’s how it goes! But don’t worry, there’s enough interesting stuff …

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Yoast SEO 12.0: UX improvements and new Portuguese checks