WordPress core

At Yoast, we believe good documentation is important for any software project, and it’s essential for open source. Documentation is building a legacy. So, whatever we do, people will be able to pick it up and continue. If you are starting out or are upskilling, you are probably looking for good documentation yourself. And even …

Welcome back to our weekly post. Today, I want to share how the WordPress Core team at Yoast works. If you don’t know the team yet, that’s okay, we have a post on who we are and what we do that you can check out to get to know us! In this post, I’m going …

Last week, we wrote about contributing to testing the first beta of WordPress 5.7. This week, WordPress 5.7 reached the third and final beta stage! The beta has kept the WordPress core team busy – especially Sergey and Tim, since they are directly involved with the release squad. Read more about what our team has …

This week, the team worked on several interesting projects and ended the week with the first internal contributor day at Yoast for 2021! Contributor day recap In addition to having a dedicated team of full-time WordPress contributors, at Yoast, we organize regular contributor days for our employees. On a contributor day, everyone is encouraged to …

At the moment, the WordPress core team at Yoast is made up of four full-time employees. But despite what our team name may suggest, WordPress core is not the only thing we work on. We have a variety of skills and interests that spans multiple teams in the so-called Make universe, which has eighteen different …

Yoast as a company believes deeply in giving back and in the principles of open source software development. We talk about this regularly and have been doing that for close to a decade. In 2020, we decided to form a WordPress core team. A team that now consists of 5 full-time employees. The team gets …