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Better Know a Vulnerability: SQL Injection

We get a lot of submissions to the WordPress.org plugin repository, and so there is often a lot of dangerous code submitted. Usually this isn’t malicious, it’s just by people who honestly don’t know that their code has problems. Understanding those problems is the first step to fixing them. So here’s one common vulnerability we […]

How to Learn SEO Online If You’re a Beginner (and an Online Business Owner)?

If you want to find out how to learn SEO online then it seems like it’s a topic that’s fairly well-covered as it is. I mean, there are sites like Moz.com, Search Engine Journal and so on. But as it turns out, they are more about the in-the-trenches practices and advice for people who are already deep into SEO. But what if you’re just starting out?

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Language Packs 101 – Prepwork

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One of the new features alongside the auto-update feature in WordPress 3.7 is support for “language packs”. More info about these will be coming out eventually, along with new tools for plugin and theme authors to use to manage this system (or to not have to micro-manage it, rather). A lot of this feature is […]

Why you should avoid HostGator

Today I got a tweet from a user of WordPress SEO who had their site disabled by HostGator, without any prior notice. They said that while they had a cache plugin running, their caching wasn’t working, and HostGator blamed it on two plugins, our own WordPress SEO plugin and WordFence. Why would these plugins prevent caching? They…

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Victory of the Commons

Update Dec 12th 2013: here’s the video! About half way through there’s a short clip from A Beautiful Mind that gets clipped out, that’s embedded a bit below in this post: Note from Joost: This is the write up of the presentation I gave today at WordCamp Europe and an earlier version in Dutch at…

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Plugin to the Future

In our previous post Joost explained why it is impossible to test compatibility of our plugin updates with other plugins. Joost showed us the enormous number of plugins our users have installed on their websites next to one of our plugins. The number of 83,000 plugins intrigued me immensely. In the past years the number…

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The honest Truth about Plugin Testing

After my post about content analysis with the WordPress SEO plugin, which covered the recent updates to that plugin, I got some comments that we should test better, especially because the commenter had issues with a certain slider plugin. I laughed when I read that comment, but then it dawned on me that most in…

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New license options

In response to a growing demand from people who wanted “bigger” licenses, we’ve added a couple of license options for our plugins. All of them now have a 50 site and a 100 site license option too, at a discount. We’ve also added a Complete SEO bundle that contains our Premium SEO, Local SEO, Video SEO,…

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WordPress SEO Premium: (pre)-release

We’ve been working hard here at Yoast to offer you a Premium version of our WordPress SEO plugin with some really cool new features. But they’re not done yet. So we didn’t want to release WordPress SEO premium just yet either. However: more and more people are asking us for paid support on the plugin. So…

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