In about two weeks, I’ll be speaking at WordCamp Europe about procrastination. My talk is focused on how to overcome procrastination in website maintenance tasks. Because let’s face it: website maintenance is tedious. At the same time, website maintenance is very important. I hope you’ll all join me for my talk in Torino. Next to …
Category Archives: WordPress
Yoast joins Newfold Digital!
Today, we announced the news that Yoast is joining Newfold Digital. Wow! The news is finally out! I am so very excited for this next step in the Yoast rollercoaster. In this blog post, I share some of my personal thoughts and considerations on why we decided to join Newfold Digital. Growing a business is …
A new era of Yoast: a new board
Our company celebrated its tenth anniversary in this crazy Covid year. It has been a wonderful experience: growing a company, employing 120+ people, making a product that 12 million people are using. However, growth also means change. Yoast is not the same company as it was 10 years ago. With 12 million users, you’ll need …
Block editor: woohoo!!!
Only 6 months ago, one of my biggest concerns was the acceptance rate of the block editor. This COVID-19 thing got me worried about so many other things, that I almost forgot about the block editor. Last week though, we released our block editor training. This is a free course, specifically designed for people who …
Block editor for the win!
Last week after his State of the Word presentation I asked Matt a question: ‘So, we, at Yoast are really into Gutenberg and we’re adding a lot of Gutenblocks into Yoast SEO. But, our research shows that half of our customers are not using Gutenberg yet. So, that is hard…. Because we have to maintain …
Gutenbrain – Gutenberg never was so easy
Last week, I was asked to test a new revolutionary product called the GutenBrain. The London-based WordPress agency 93digital developed a ground-breaking headset that uses a BCI (brain computer interface) and artificial intelligence to control blocks and content within the Gutenberg editor, simply by thinking about it. In this blogpost, I’ll tell you my experiences …