Category Archives: Yoast

Weekly WordPress News: WordPress Recommends PHP 7.2+

2020, PHP 7, woocommerce, Yoast

Hey, WordPress fans. This week, WordPress.org moved to officially recommend PHP 7.2 as the minimum PHP version for WordPress. If you’re using a PHP version below that, we’d highly recommend upgrading. Beyond that, the beta for WooCommerce 4.3 is out and Yoast also acquired a popular plugin from WordPress.org. Let’s get to all of this ... Read more Weekly WordPress News: WordPress Recommends PHP 7.2+

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Weekly WordPress News: Joost de Valk Steps Down as Marketing Lead

2019, Yoast

This week, Joost de Valk stepped down from his position as the WordPress Marketing lead, and CodeinWP also released the results for their 2019 WordPress hosting survey, with more than 6,500 responses. Beyond that, AppSumo also has a bunch of WordPress deals running. In addition to the ShortPixel deal we mentioned a few weeks ago, ... Read moreWeekly WordPress News: Joost de Valk Steps Down as Marketing Lead

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Weekly WordPress News: WP Engine Acquires StudioPress

StudioPress, WordPress News, WP Engine, Yoast

Big business news this week as WP Engine announced that they acquired Genesis Framework-maker, StudioPress. WP Engine plans to invest heavily in future development, as well as make StudioPress part of the WP Engine  Digital Experience Platform. Also, the Yoast SEO snippet editor got a redesign, and Pixelgrade published another one of their great transparency ... Read moreWeekly WordPress News: WP Engine Acquires StudioPress

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