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Automatically convert WebP files to PNG

I love CloudFlare. It makes websites lots faster. One of the things it does is change PNG files to WebP automatically when your browser (f.i. Google Chrome) sup

Google’s robots changes, the web & the law

Google announced a few days ago that they would change the way rel="nofollow" works for them. They would start treating nofollow as a “hint” instead of a “direc

Traveling to Peru

At the end of April, beginning of May, 2019, Marieke and I visited Peru with our kids. The main reason for going to Peru was to attend the wedding of two of our

(Why) I’m stepping down from my WordPress marketing role

I’m going to step away from my role as Marketing Lead. I consider this mostly a personal failure, both in correctly setting and getting expectations and in fitt

Marketing WordPress – first steps

I’ve had the question a few times now of what I’ve been up to since I got appointed lead marketing for WordPress. The first few weeks have been busy, but very i

Stepping “down” at Yoast

Today we’ve announced that Marieke is the new CEO at Yoast, and I’m stepping down. With me recently stepping up as Marketing & Communications Lead for WordPress

Leading marketing & communication for WordPress

Last week I was appointed Marketing & Communications Lead of WordPress. I think WordPress is one of the most essential platforms on the web and I’m really proud

Karen Sparck Jones

> “Computing is too important to be left to men.”

Democratizing publishing

Matt blogged, in response to a question asked at WordCamp US: what does “democratizing publishing” mean to you? His answer:

After WCUS 2018: WordPress & Gutenberg FAQ

I just came back from WordCamp US in Nashville, which was awesome. In this post I want to address some of the questions I’ve had a couple of times. So here we g

WordPress 5.0 needs a different timeline

For the last few months, the WordPress developer community has been moving towards a release of WordPress 5.0. This is the highly anticipated release that will

Gutenberg and Yoast SEO

I’m typing this as I sit in Track 1 of WordCamp Europe in Paris. Matt Mullenweg just announced Gutenberg as a plugin is available, so I installed it on here and