JavaScript archives

Last September, we released our first digital story; Diversity, inequality, and prejudice; a sociological exploration. This is the first in what will, hopefully, become a small series of stories that really define our mission, company culture, and broader vision. With these stories, we want to explore the possibilities the WordPress block editor has to offer …

Welcome to part six of our series on using WordPress JavaScript APIs, in which we explore the APIs that were introduced in WordPress 5.0. We'll have a look at how we can use them to better integrate with other plugins, in a reliable and safe way. Make sure to also check out our repository on …

Welcome to part five of our series on using the WordPress JavaScript APIs, in which we explore the APIs that were introduced in WordPress 5.0. We'll look at how we can use the APIs to better integrate with other plugins, in a reliable and safe way. Make sure to also check out our repository on …

The content analysis is a staple of our SEO plugin. We do our best to provide you with the best insights on how you could make your texts more readable and search-engine-friendly. In order to be able to give you this valuable feedback, we need to do a lot of computations. A logical solution would …

To perform tasks in our repositories, we use a JavaScript tool called Grunt. With Grunt, you can use packages from the npm repository, or you can build your own. Searching on the npm repository will give you an extensive list of grunt tasks ready for use. Workflows With Grunt, you run tasks, which need to …

Welcome to part four of our series on using the WordPress JavaScript API’s, in which we explore the API’s that were introduced in WordPress 5.0 and how we can use them to better integrate with other plugins, in a reliable and safe way. In the previous chapter, we migrated over from our own bare bone …

Welcome to part three of our series on using the WordPress JavaScript API’s, in which we explore the API’s that were introduced in WordPress 5.0. And, we'll look at how we can use them to better integrate with other plugins, in a reliable and safe way. Make sure to also check out our repository on …

Welcome to part two of our series on using the WordPress JavaScript APIs. In this series, we explore the APIs that were introduced in WordPress 5.0. And, we'll look at how we can use them to better integrate with other plugins, in a reliable and safe way. Make sure to also check out our repository …

With the recent release of WordPress 5.0, a new editor was introduced into the WordPress ecosystem. Based on a new tech stack that includes React and Redux, WordPress now allows for richer, more intuitive interfaces and simplifies the overall editing process. But that's not all! With the recent changes, it's also become much easier for …

In the last couple years, we’ve seen an increased adoption of JavaScript libraries and frameworks to build web applications. At Yoast, some important parts of our applications, such as our Yoast SEO plugin, have already moved to JavaScript. In the future, we'll build most of our interfaces using React components. This shift to JavaScript is …