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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 page loads, which is what we all want. So, you should use them everywhere. Ideally, we’d also be able to use these image formats for our OpenGraph image tags…
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The People Behind the Platform: How WordPress’s Community Drives its Success
By Marieke van de Rakt and Joost de Valk WordPress marketing is a collaborative effort. WPBeginner, Yoast, BobWP, Siteground, Post Status, and the Repository are just a few of the many, many brands and individuals advocating for WordPress. We’re incredibly proud of the WordPress community. Amid the recent drama, we feel the community’s role and…
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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 companies to promote their products. This was my first realization that not all companies thought and worked like we had been doing. I did learn a…
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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 writing the commentary separately from the data, so I’m still figuring things out, but as I was building this, I had so many interesting tidbits that I wanted to…
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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. It doesn’t just contain CMSes; it also contains the most popular eCommerce platforms, WordPress page builders, and SEO plugins. Over time, we might expand this to more;…
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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 improve their website or make working on their website easier. About a year ago, we came up with something, and we’ve been playing with that idea ever since. We’ve been…
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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 the logo on our Emilia Capital site, you’ll get a popup that sends you to our logo page. As of today, that’s not a…
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Docusign to Documenso
Migrating from SaaS to open-source In my quest to move most of my SaaS services to self-hosted open-source software, I’ve taken on the next step: our document signing infrastructure. Everyone seems to be using Docusign, but as with all SaaS tools, that can get really expensive. While we don’t do a ton of contracts at…
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HelpScout to Freescout
Migrating from SaaS to open-source Everyone uses a lot of SaaS applications to manage their day-to-day business. So much that the cost of it becomes prohibitive. I’ve decided that I’m going to try to move as much of the software we use to run Emilia Capital from SaaS to open-source and self-hosted solutions as possible.…
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Playground Blueprint Builder
I have been playing with the WordPress Playground a lot. As I did, I wanted a way to quickly make a copy of an existing site to a new Playground. It seems an ideal way to test new plugins, themes, and other things you’d want to change. You do that by making a Blueprint with…
