# Read about developer blog - Page 1 ## [The story behind our Site Kit by Google integration](/content/developer-blog/story-behind-site-kit-by-google-integration/index.html) 9 December 2025 [Leonidas Milosis](/content/about-us/team/leonidas-milosis/index.html) Yoast SEO offers a seamless integration with Site Kit by Google, and we’re so excited that we wanted to share some background information on the whats and hows of that ambitious technical feat. What is the integration exactly? With this new integration, site admins and SEO managers now have the ability to see data from [»](/content/developer-blog/story-behind-site-kit-by-google-integration/index.html) * * * ## [How we built the AI Optimize feature](/content/developer-blog/ai-optimize-feature/index.html) 10 April 2025 Hanna Worku Our plugin now features an AI-driven tool that suggests improvements to content based on SEO and readability assessments: Yoast AI Optimize. This was our first AI-powered feature designed to optimize posts automatically. In this article, we’ll take you through how we built it and why we embarked on this journey. If you’ve used our plugin [»](/content/developer-blog/ai-optimize-feature/index.html) * * * ## [Testing the new Yoast SEO settings interface](/content/developer-blog/testing-yoast-seo-settings-interface/index.html) 21 February 2023 [Oksana Abakumova](/content/about-us/team/oksana-abakumova/index.html) As you may already know, we recently released a brand new version of the Yoast SEO plugin with a new settings user interface. We covered the topic multiple times in different blog posts including one where we provided the thought process behind the redesign in general and, more specifically, why now. In this article, I [»](/content/developer-blog/testing-yoast-seo-settings-interface/index.html) * * * ## [How we built the inclusive language analysis in Yoast SEO](/content/developer-blog/how-we-built-the-inclusive-language-analysis/index.html) 4 January 2023 [Agnieszka Szuba](/content/about-us/team/agnieszka-szuba/index.html) Yoast SEO now comes with a new analysis to make your content even more accessible to all: the inclusive language analysis. This analysis helps you write more inclusively, lowering the likelihood that you’ll exclude someone from your content. That means you can reach a wider audience. But how does this analysis work? And how was [»](/content/developer-blog/how-we-built-the-inclusive-language-analysis/index.html) * * * ## [Redesigning the Yoast SEO settings interface](/content/developer-blog/redesigning-the-yoast-seo-settings-interface/index.html) 1 December 2022 Luc Kickken We have redesigned the Yoast SEO settings interface. Today we’re “releasing” an early alpha of this new interface so you can see what it looks like. We’ve updated, overhauled, and comprehensively improved how our interfaces look, feel, and behave. We’ve also moved some settings and features to be more intuitive, and to better match your [»](/content/developer-blog/redesigning-the-yoast-seo-settings-interface/index.html) * * * ## [Why we don’t set the og:image:alt tag](/content/developer-blog/why-we-dont-set-the-og-image-alt-tag/index.html) 22 June 2022 [Andrea Fercia](/content/about-us/team/andrea-fercia/index.html) Users often ask us why we don’t include a og:image:alt tag in the SEO and social tags that we add to pages. Alt attributes are good for accessibility, so sharing them with Facebook must be a good thing, right? Well, it turns out that it’s not that simple! We actually removed support for the og:image:alt [»](/content/developer-blog/why-we-dont-set-the-og-image-alt-tag/index.html) * * * ## [The feature that almost made it](/content/developer-blog/the-feature-that-almost-made-it/index.html) 8 March 2022 | [1 Comment](/content/developer-blog/the-feature-that-almost-made-it/#comments/index.html) [Joost de Valk](/content/about-us/team/joost-de-valk/index.html) This post explains a feature we built, and then removed from Yoast SEO 18.3 just before release. It could have been pretty annoying when we released it, so I’m happy we didn’t but I also wanted to share just how hard this sort of thing is to prevent. The feature idea On February 15th, I [»](/content/developer-blog/the-feature-that-almost-made-it/index.html) * * * ## [Behind the front-end: Yoast SEO for Shopify](/content/developer-blog/technologies-used-in-the-shopify-app/index.html) 25 January 2022 | [3 Comments](/content/developer-blog/technologies-used-in-the-shopify-app/#comments/index.html) [Nolle Groen](/content/about-us/team/nolle-groen/index.html) It is April 2021 and amidst a global pandemic, we are about to embark on our greatest venture yet: developing an SEO app for Shopify. For a development department so focused on WordPress for so long, this is both a dream and a nightmare. Starting fresh on a new platform offers endless possibilities, but even [»](/content/developer-blog/technologies-used-in-the-shopify-app/index.html) * * * ## [Site search with Algolia – improved](/content/developer-blog/site-search-algolia/index.html) 13 July 2021 | [4 Comments](/content/developer-blog/site-search-algolia/#comments/index.html) [Joost de Valk](/content/about-us/team/joost-de-valk/index.html) Here at Yoast, we’ve been using Algolia to power our site search for quite a while now. Specifically, we’re using the WP Search with Algolia plugin by WebDevStudios to index our content. And we were reasonably happy with that set up. But then we found a better way. A few weeks ago I came up [»](/content/developer-blog/site-search-algolia/index.html) * * * ## [The 2020 WordPress and PHP 8 compatibility report](/content/developer-blog/the-2020-wordpress-and-php-8-compatibility-report/index.html) 28 October 2020 Omar Reiss On November 26, PHP 8 will be released to the world. PHP 8 is set to become one of the most breaking PHP releases in the history of PHP and will bring along unprecedented challenges for legacy PHP codebases, like WordPress, to fix compatibility. Today we bring you a comprehensive report on WordPress and PHP [»](/content/developer-blog/the-2020-wordpress-and-php-8-compatibility-report/index.html)