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 we were reasonably happy with that set up. But then we found a better way. A few weeks ago I came up »
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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 PHP codebases, like WordPress, to fix compatibility. Today we bring you a comprehensive report on WordPress and PHP »
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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 no further! I’m not going into more detail about the technical solution. But there’s also a bigger lesson to be learned here, »
Read: "Splitting RTL texts into sentences, part 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, Farsi, Urdu, and Hebrew. You’ll learn about the technical implementation of sentence tokenization in the Yoast text analysis, and how we expanded »
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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 took some lessons from the way search engines work. Ultimately, this led to a little internal search engine of our »
Read: "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 some users when they tried to upgrade, which we're very sorry about. This post explains the mistakes we made, »
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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 reasoning behind this. Regardless of whether you're using Yoast SEO in the conventional way or through the »
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The upcoming 14.0 release of Yoast SEO marks the beginning of a new age for the Yoast SEO plugin. In it, we’ve rewritten our entire metadata engine and we’ve built an abstraction we call indexables. We believe this rewrite will boost WordPress + Yoast SEO as a great platform for SEO for many years to »
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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 easy for headless WordPress sites to use Yoast SEO for all their SEO meta output. There are two »
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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 staging environment. Let me explain the nicest features: Switching between free and premiumFor obvious reasons, this is something we do »
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