As you may already know, we recently released a brand new version of the Yoast SEO plugin with a new settings user interface. We covered the topic multiple times in different blog posts including...
https://yoast.com/developer-blog/testing-yoast-seo-settings-interface/
Yoast SEO now comes with a new analysis to make your content even more accessible to all: the inclusive language analysis. This analysis helps you write more inclusively, lowering the likelihood ...
https://yoast.com/developer-blog/how-we-built-the-inclusive-language-analysis/
We have redesigned the Yoast SEO settings interface. Today we’re “releasing” an early alpha of this new interface so you can see what it looks like. We’ve updated, overhauled, and compreh...
https://yoast.com/developer-blog/redesigning-the-yoast-seo-settings-interface/
In March 2023, we will be increasing the minimum PHP requirement for Yoast SEO, Yoast SEO Premium, and all its add-ons to PHP 7.2. If you’re not running PHP 7.2 or higher yet, you really, reall...
https://yoast.com/developer-blog/notice-increasing-minimum-php-requirement/
Users often ask us why we don’t include a og:image:alt tag in the SEO and social tags that we add to pages. Alt attributes are good for accessibility, so sharing them with Facebook must be a go...
https://yoast.com/developer-blog/why-we-dont-set-the-og-image-alt-tag/
This post explains a feature we built, and then removed from Yoast SEO 18.3 just before release. It could have been pretty annoying when we released it, so I’m happy we didn’t but I also want...
https://yoast.com/developer-blog/the-feature-that-almost-made-it/
It is April 2021 and amidst a global pandemic, we are about to embark on our greatest venture yet: developing an SEO app for Shopify. For a development department so focused on WordPress for so l...
https://yoast.com/developer-blog/technologies-used-in-the-shopify-app/
Here at Yoast, we’ve been using Algolia to power our site search for quite a while now. Specifically, we’re using the WP Search with Algolia plugin by WebDevStudios to index our content. And ...
On November 26, PHP 8 will be released to the world. PHP 8 is set to become one of the most breaking PHP releases in the history of PHP and will bring along unprecedented challenges for legacy PH...
https://yoast.com/developer-blog/the-2020-wordpress-and-php-8-compatibility-report/
In a previous article, I’ve told you the story of how we fixed the problem of sentence tokenization in RTL languages. If it’s only this specific technical problem you were interested in, read...
https://yoast.com/developer-blog/splitting-rtl-texts-into-sentences-2/
In this article, we’ll outline a solution to a problem we faced when splitting up a text into sentences in RTL languages. These are languages with a right-to-left written script such as Arabic,...
https://yoast.com/developer-blog/splitting-rtl-texts-into-sentences/
The internal linking suggestions tool has been a staple of the Yoast SEO Premium plugin since 2017. After all these years it was time for an overhaul. In a dramatic turn of events, we actually to...
https://yoast.com/developer-blog/linking-suggestions-a-look-behind-the-scenes/
Yoast SEO 14.0 was a release that needed quite a few patches so far. We’re sorry about that. In building Yoast SEO 14.0 we made a mistake: we bypassed wpdb. That caused issues and errors for so...
We have added a WP CLI command to Yoast SEO 14.0. In Yoast SEO 14.0 we created new tables in which we combine all the metadata for indexable objects on a site. Please see Omar’s post for the re...
https://yoast.com/developer-blog/yoast-seo-wp-cli-index-command/
Yoast SEO 14.0 ushered in a new age for the Yoast SEO plugin. In it, we’ve rewritten our entire metadata engine and built an abstraction called indexables. We believe this rewrite will boost Wo...
https://yoast.com/developer-blog/the-exciting-new-technology-that-is-indexables/
With Yoast SEO 14.0 we’re introducing lots of new goodies. One of them is a Yoast SEO REST API endpoint that’ll give you all the metadata you need for a specific URL. This will make it very e...
https://yoast.com/developer-blog/yoast-seo-rest-api-endpoint/
We’ve released our Yoast Test Helper plugin to WordPress.org. This is a plugin our teams use internally while testing Yoast SEO and it could be very useful for you in testing Yoast SEO on your ...
https://yoast.com/developer-blog/yoast-test-helper-easy-testing/
Team Yoast, while all working from home for the first time in our history, is working on one of the biggest improvements to Yoast SEO yet. This release, Yoast SEO 14.0, internally has the codenam...
https://yoast.com/developer-blog/upcoming-release-yoast-seo-14-0-indexables/
In Yoast SEO 14.0 we’ve introduced a formal way of integrating Yoast SEO into your code. We’ve added what’s called a surface called YoastSEO(). This surface gives easy access to lots of the...
https://yoast.com/developer-blog/yoast-seo-14-0-using-yoast-seo-surfaces/
Due to the Yoast SEO indexable project using an entirely new namespaced Dependency Injection architecture, we’ve had to change some of our Schema API. All your existing integrations still work ...
https://yoast.com/developer-blog/yoast-seo-14-0-changing-the-yoast-schema-api/