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Update: This post was the start of a longer series.

Today, I’m introducing a new CMS market share report on this site based on the HTTP Archive’s dataset.

This commentary focuses on the data found in my monthly CMS market share report, which is generated automatically every month.

Ever since Marieke and I left Yoast, we’ve considered building a new WordPress product.

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.

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.

Migrating from SaaS to open-source Everyone uses a lot of SaaS applications to manage their day-to-day business.

I have been playing with the WordPress Playground a lot.

Note: this plugin has received a ton of updates since its inception.

I feel a particular class of plugins in the WordPress world should be more prominent.

This post was migrated to this site in January 2025 when we took down the Fewer Tags project site.

We’re getting ready at Emilia Projects (which is the “run our own projects part” of Emilia Capital) to sell our first plugin, the Pro version of Fewer Tags.

I absolutely love GitHub Actions and have been using them more and more for several purposes.

The WordPress ecosystem is very good at talking to each other.

The simple things make life easy.

After my blog post about healthy GitHub repositories, I learned that many people didn’t know how to create .github repositories and what you can do with those.

As a result of investing in a fair few companies and getting a lot more requests to invest, I look at GitHub repositories a lot.

For years, plugin developers have been looking for ways to demo their plugins to users.

Last Friday (June 23rd 2023) we had Marieke‘s goodbye party from Yoast.

Dealing with security issues for your WordPress plugin can be hard and even a bit scary, certainly when it’s happening to you for the first time.

I had a need for complex routing of notification messages in Gravity Forms.

The WordPress’ admin UI needs to be drastically improved.

I’ve been playing a lot with Schema and Social images recently and one thing has become clear: we need better naming of these images and we should probably improve the Schema.org image standards a bit.

I wrote about crawl optimization last week, mostly about getting stuff that you don’t want crawled to not be crawled.

Search engines rely on spiders / bots to crawl the web and find (new) content.

There’s no more denying it: if you look at W3Techs CMS market share numbers, WordPress’ market share is shrinking, losing 0.4% market share since February.

At the end of this month, I will transition to a different role at Yoast.

Is Elementor the secret behind WordPress’ growth in the last years?

Update: Since this acquisition, I’ve written about how the WordPress admin UI needs to improve and eventually transitioned to a new role before leaving Yoast entirely.

MacOS has great built-in screenshot functionality.

One of the biggest long-term trust problems of the web is reliably figuring out who published something first.

This post explains how to get the week number in your Mac’s menu bar.

I love CloudFlare.

Google announced a few days ago that they would change the way rel="nofollow" works for them.

At the end of April, beginning of May, 2019, Marieke and I visited Peru with our kids.

I’m going to step away from my role as Marketing Lead.

I’ve had the question a few times now of what I’ve been up to since I got appointed lead marketing for WordPress.

Today we’ve announced that Marieke is the new CEO at Yoast, and I’m stepping down.

Update: Marieke and I later wrote about the people behind the platform and the role community marketing played in WordPress’s growth.

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

Update: Six years later, the question of what “democratizing publishing” means in practice became central to the WordPress governance discussion.

I just came back from WordCamp US in Nashville, which was awesome.

For the last few months, the WordPress developer community has been moving towards a release of WordPress 5.0.

I’m typing this as I sit in Track 1 of WordCamp Europe in Paris.

I’ve been wanting to do this for a while: blogging for fun, on a domain separate from Yoast.com.