WordPress core

In February, we moved forward with some of our long-running projects. We worked on the SQLite database proposal, forms and details/summary blocks, PHP autoloader for WordPress core, updating documentation for themes, improving translatable strings in Gutenberg, and addressing coding standards issues in core, among other things. Read on to learn more! Our monthly updates Ari …

January was an exciting month! Together we worked on PHP 8.0+ compatibility, editor enhancements and accessibility improvements for WordPress version 6.2. Among other things, we attended bug scrubs and the old Trac ticket triage, and helped land the custom CSS feature in the Site Editor. Our monthly updates Andrea In the last month, with the …

Another month came and went, and we left 2022 behind. Our team was very productive this year! In fact, we were the most active company in the WordPress project after Automattic. In December, most of our team took some well-deserved and needed time off. As a result, the update for December will be a bit …

After a lot of deliberation, we decided to change the format of these blog posts. We felt that a weekly or bi-weekly update did not allow us to focus on some bigger concepts and ideas. From now on, these blog posts will be a monthly overview of what our team worked on. It can still …

Since its release on November 1st, WordPress 6.1 has been downloaded over 19 million times. On the Yoast blog, you can find more details about the release, including some of the features we worked on: WordPress 6.1.1 is scheduled for release on Tuesday, November 15. It contains several bug fixes fore core and the block …

As WordPress 6.1 enters the release candidate stage, we’re putting some finishing touches on it and start working on early tickets for WordPress 6.2. Read on to learn what we’ve been up to for the past couple of weeks! Our weekly updates Ari Unfortunately, after my trip to the Netherlands in the Yoast headquarters, I …

This week we had YoastCamp; Members of Yoast from all around the world gathered in our headquarters in the Netherlands, for a week full of activities, collaboration, and getting to know each other in person. In WordPress, version 6.1-beta3 was released with a lot of improvements! You can read more about this beta release on …

Since our last blog update, we have had a successful Contributor day at the Yoast office and online, and WordPress has released Beta 1 and Beta 2 of version 6.1. Ari A lot has happened in the past few weeks! SQLite support We finally published our official proposal to support SQLite in WordPress Core, and …

At Yoast, we believe in giving back to the community, and this team is proof of our commitment to our core values. As we do every few months, on September 14, 2022 Yoast is organizing a WordPress Contributor day! It is a great opportunity for all of us to work together and improve WordPress for …

As summer comes to an end, some of our colleagues have been enjoying their well-deserved time off, though our work on WordPress always goes on. Read on to learn what we’ve been up to for the past few weeks! Yoast Contributor day We also want to let you know that there will be a Yoast …