Yoast Summer School 2021: A recap of the best bits
This year we held our first ever Yoast SEO Summer School, a series of 4 interactive online workshops with our…
Summer School: Free workshops on SEO and marketing!
Do you want to know how to stand out in Google’s search results? Do you want to brush up on…
Learn how to use WordPress without touching any code
Since July 2021, a whopping 42% of all websites are hosted on WordPress. And this number is only growing larger.…
Popular Podcast App Pocket Casts Joins Automattic
We’re excited to announce that Pocket Casts will be joining Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com. More than 80M people…
6 Ways WordPress.com Courses Help You Grow
WordPress.com experts invite you to join our community-driven courses to get your blog or podcast started, launched, or taken to…
Build a Blogging Habit with Reminders in Your WordPress App
Writing regularly on your blog both improves your writing skills and engages the readers that visit your site. The more…
Do the SEO workout to rank higher with your best content
Are you ranking with the content you want to rank with? With your very best content? The content you’re the…
Yoast SEO 16.6: An internal linking workout for SEO fitness
SEO is just like staying healthy — you have to work at regularly it to keep fit. So be sure…
P2 Puts Easy, Flexible Project Tracking Tools In Your Hands
From to-do apps and day planners, to spreadsheets and full-blown subscription services, making your work trackable and visible can really…
Built-in Duotone Image Filter, Editor Navigation via Persistent List View, and Other Block Editor Improvements
The next batch of exciting updates to the block editor is live on WordPress.com. Powerful duotone image editing, a persistent…
WordPress.com Welcomes the Award-Winning Atavist Magazine to the Platform
At WordPress.com, part of our mission is to support and empower storytellers and publishers of all sizes. We’re thrilled to…
Let’s Celebrate Pride by Supporting Nonprofits
It’s Pride month; perhaps you’ve noticed from the rainbows all over everything? A most unusual Pride month it is, too…
Yoast SEO 16.5: New Social Appearance Templates
Social media are essential tools in every site owner’s marketing toolkit. It is, however, hard to control how your URLs…
Day One, the Journaling App, Joins Automattic
We’re excited to welcome Day One to the Automattic team. Day One is a private journaling app that makes writing…
The beginner’s guide to Yoast SEO
Let’s say you have a website but know little about SEO. But you’ve heard about Yoast SEO and people have…
WordPress.com is the fastest WordPress host in Review Signal’s 2021 test
For the past eight years, Review Signal has published its WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks, and 2021’s results are in. We’re…
10 reasons your page won’t rank – even though it’s optimized
If your perfectly optimized post isn’t ranking, what could be the matter? Is the problem that your site is not…
SEO news in May 2021: Google introduces a new language model
This month, Google held their annual I/O conference, an event at which they announce new product releases and other interesting…