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WordPress 5.8: Paving the way to Full Site Editing

Yesterday, there was another release of WordPress and once again it’s packed with lots of cool features. This release is a big step in the direction of full site editing. It brings us new possibilities to easily change up our pages, spice up our images, and other improvements to our favorite open source platform. Let’s …

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WordPress 5.8: Paving the way to Full Site Editing

How to create a digital story in WordPress

‘It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen’. The first line of George Orwells’s book titled 1984. Kind of pulls you in right? That’s the idea of storytelling anyway. Creating content that people won’t want to put down until they’ve read the very last letter. Nowadays, storytelling isn’t just …

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How to create a digital story in WordPress

WordPress 5.7: What’s new in this release?

Thanks to contributors from all over the world, the improvements to WordPress are never at a standstill. This continuous work on WordPress is reflected in the number of new features that can be found in any new release. The latest release of WordPress 5.7 “Esperanza” is no exception. It comes with a few great enhancements, …

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WordPress 5.7: What’s new in this release?

The latest news in SEO and WordPress: January 2021

Google’s new subtopics ranking, a page builder that’s also focusing on performance and a tool to easily rewrite and repost old content. These are a few of the news items that our SEO experts Joost de Valk and Jono Alderson discussed during our SEO news webinar on the 26th of January 2021. Missed it? No …

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The latest news in SEO and WordPress: January 2021

The road to WordPress 5.6: a look behind the scenes

9 December 2020 | 2 Comments
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Francesca Marano

It’s here, the release of WordPress 5.6! What a wonderful journey it has been. As one of the release mentors of WordPress 5.6, I thoroughly enjoyed helping the team in any way I could. In this blog post, I’ll tell you more about the process, the people involved, and what we focused on. Essentially, the …

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The road to WordPress 5.6: a look behind the scenes

How to add HowTo Schema using Yoast SEO blocks

7 September 2020 | 16 Comments Edwin Toonen

You might know that structured data in the form of Schema.org can do wonders for your search results. It also forms the basis for an ever-increasing amount of new and exciting developments on the search engine front. Google has said many times that structured data is beneficial. Today, we’re going to look at an exciting …

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How to add HowTo Schema using Yoast SEO blocks


WordPress 5.5 is here! 5 things you need to know

It’s here! The official release of WordPress 5.5, a major update stuffed with new features and improvements. Not only does this release come with improvements to the block editor, it also allows you to edit inline images, gives you an improved content preview and much (much!) more. To give you an idea of what this …

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WordPress 5.5 is here! 5 things you need to know

How to make the transition to the block editor (from the classic editor) in WordPress

1 April 2020 | 17 Comments
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Iris Guelen

Are you considering switching from the classic editor to the block editor? That’s great, as the block editor will give you lots of possibilities to create awesome, high-quality and high-ranking content! Not sure how to go about this though? Don’t look any further. Here, we’ll guide you through the process of making the switch to …

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How to make the transition to the block editor (from the classic editor) in WordPress

The creation of our first digital story using the block editor

26 March 2020 | 4 Comments
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Tim Hengeveld

We write a lot of blog posts. And, not only about SEO topics, but also about our mission, company culture, and our broader vision. We hope that by writing those kinds of posts we can give you a glimpse into who we are as a company, and who we are as people. But, blog posts …

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The creation of our first digital story using the block editor