What if your users could submit a bug report and have a pull request ready for review before you’ve even seen the ticket? That’s what we built for Rondo Club, a

Today, Cloudflare announced Markdown for Agents, a feature that automatically converts HTML to markdown at the edge when AI agents request it. Reading their ann

Google just announced a massive shift in how the internet shops, and the biggest platform on the web wasn’t even in the room.

The news hit the developer community like a cold bucket of water. Adam Wathan, the creator of Tailwind CSS, recently announced that he had to lay off 75% of his

In my last post, I discussed why a design system is the “visual rail” AI needs. But the “Architect” I’ve been describing doesn’t just care about how a site look

In my last post, I argued that WordPress needs to become a “Base AI”: a structured foundation that AI can understand and build upon. Before that, I wrote about

In my previous post, I discussed the demise of code copyright and mentioned what Dries referred to as the generalization tax. This had me thinking more about wh

We are witnessing a strange paradox in software development. Thanks to AI code generation, more open source code is being created today than ever before. Yet, s

In December, I wrote about the state of leadership in the WordPress ecosystem. I shared how too much power rests with one person, and how the lack of transparen

Recent observations have highlighted a significant surge in new plugin submissions to the WordPress repository, as noted in this post. We also know that Automat

At Yoast, we had one mission: make SEO easier. For a long time, SEO for everyone was Yoast’s tagline, and we meant it. We helped millions of people optimize the

Last week was a whirlwind, first diving deep into AI and WordPress while working with the WP CLI as MCP host team at Cloudfest, then heading off to SMX Munich f

One of the things one runs into when you’re doing large migrations (between domains, or within a domain) is that you run into redirects that go “wrong”. A syste

This post explains how WordPress uses comment cookies and why that is detrimental to your site’s caching. It then shows you how to fix this.

WordPress is at a crossroads, now even more clearly then when I wrote my previous post on WordPress’s roadmap. I had very much intended to leave this topic alon

I was reading Hendrik Luehrsen’s excellent post “WordPress isn’t WordPress anymore“, and I decided I had to write more about this. I recently spoke at WordCamp

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By Marieke van de Rakt and Joost de Valk

When we sold Yoast to Newfold in 2021, I quickly learned we had been incredibly naive. While at Yoast, I hadn’t realized how many deals were made between big co

This commentary focuses on the data found in my monthly CMS market share report, which is generated automatically every month. This is the first time I’m writin

Today, I’m introducing a new CMS market share report on this site based on the HTTP Archive’s dataset. This report will be updated – automatically – every month

Ever since Marieke and I left Yoast, we’ve considered building a new WordPress product. We love working on something that people can use—something that will imp

I always like it when I right-click a logo on a website because I need to get the logo, and the site’s designer has thought about this. If you right-click on th

In my quest to move most of my SaaS services to self-hosted open-source software, I’ve taken on the next step: our document signing infrastructure. Everyone see

Everyone uses a lot of SaaS applications to manage their day-to-day business. So much that the cost of it becomes prohibitive. I’ve decided that I’m going to tr

I have been playing with the WordPress Playground a lot. As I did, I wanted a way to quickly make a copy of an existing site to a new Playground. It seems an id

Note: this plugin has received a ton of updates since its inception. It’s now

I feel a particular class of plugins in the WordPress world should be more prominent. Plugins that help you do something, which you then delete when you’re done

This post was migrated to this site in January 2025 when we took down the Fewer Tags project site.

We’re getting ready at Emilia Projects (which is the “run our own projects part” of Emilia Capital) to sell our first plugin, the Pro version of Fewer Tags. We