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Build websites like it’s 2005 (and win in 2025)

Last week was a whirlwind, first diving deep into AI and WordPress while working with the WP CLI as MCP host team at Cloudfest, then heading off to SMX Munich f

Redirect-By HTTP headers

One of the things one runs into when you’re doing large migrations (between domains, or within a domain) is that you run into redirects that go “wrong”. A syste

WordPress comments, cookies and caching

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.

Breaking the Status Quo

WordPress is at a crossroads, now even more clearly then when I wrote my previous post on WordPress’s roadmap. I had very much intended to leave this topic alon

WordPress, and what should be on its roadmap

I was reading Hendrik Luehrsen’s excellent post “WordPress isn’t WordPress anymore“, and I decided I had to write more about this. I recently spoke at WordCamp

Can I safely use AVIF or WebP share images?

AVIF and WebP are efficient image storage formats. They are smaller than their predecessors, PNG, JPG, and GIF. This leads to smaller images, which means faster

The People Behind the Platform: How WordPress’s Community Drives its Success

By Marieke van de Rakt and Joost de Valk

Transparency, Contribution, and the Future of WordPress

When we sold Yoast to Newfold in 2021, I quickly learned we had been incredibly naive. While at Yoast, I hadn’t realized how many deals were made between big co

CMS market share June 2024 commentary

This commentary focuses on the data found in my monthly CMS market share report, which is generated automatically every month. This is the first time I’m writin

CMS Market share measured “right”

Today, I’m introducing a new CMS market share report on this site based on the HTTP Archive’s dataset. This report will be updated – automatically – every month

Introducing a new plugin: Progress Planner

Ever since Marieke and I left Yoast, we’ve considered building a new WordPress product. We love working on something that people can use—something that will imp

A right-click / contextmenu logo popover

I always like it when I right-click a logo on a website because I need to get the logo, and the site’s designer has thought about this. If you right-click on th