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
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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
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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.
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By Marieke van de Rakt and Joost de Valk