Joost de Valk
@joostdevalk on WordPress.org and Slack
- Member Since: July 19th, 2007
- Location: Wijchen, The Netherlands
- Website: yoast.com/about-us/team/joost-de-valk
- Job Title: Founder & Chief Product Officer
- Employer: Yoast
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Joost de Valk’s badges:- Core Contributor
- Marketing Contributor
- Meta Contributor
- Plugin Developer
- Translation Contributor
- Translation Editor
- WordCamp Organizer
- WordCamp Speaker
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Created ticket #54459 on Core Trac:
Give get_option a third parameter to prevent DB queries -
Committed [2616527] to Plugins SVN:
Tagging 1.15 -
Committed [2616526] to Plugins SVN:
Committing 1.15 to trunk -
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal for a Performance team, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I’m not sure how this performance setup talk went entirely behind my back, for I’m… -
Mentioned in [50921] on Core SVN:
Plugins: Add support for `Update URI` header. -
Posted a reply to Yoast 15.7 not compatible with SiteGround Ultrafast PHP, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey everyone, we're aware of an issue here and are working with the team at… -
Wrote a comment on the post New WordPress Make Team, on the site Make WordPress.org:
Looking forward to seeing how this pans out @mkaz! -
Wrote a comment on the post Automatically Catching Bugs in Plugins, on the site Make WordPress.org:
There are good cases for not using translation functions or for not using a text… -
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Treat FLoC like a security concern, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I'm not the first to say this but I think there are a couple of… -
Wrote a comment on the post Experiment: Coordinating Sponsored Contributor Teams, on the site Team Updates:
I don't think I fully understand what @chanthaboune is saying here as the goal /… -
Wrote a comment on the post Discussion: Dropping support for IE11, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Agreed to exactly this. -
Mentioned in [50078] on Core SVN:
Robots: Add `max-image-preview:large` directive by default. -
Wrote a comment on the post Big Picture Goals 2021, on the site Team Updates:
The problem is that that issue, while giving a high level overview of FSE, does… -
Wrote a comment on the post Big Picture Goals 2021, on the site Team Updates:
Question: I've been unable to determine what has been determined as being "MVP" for Full… -
Committed [2445458] to Plugins SVN:
Tagging 1.12 -
Committed [2445457] to Plugins SVN:
Committing 1.12 to trunk -
Wrote a comment on the post Discussion: align the WordPress release cycle with the industry standard, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I worry that we aren’t allowing space for older bugs that aren’t specific to the… -
Committed [2429869] to Plugins SVN:
Tagging version 0.3 -
Committed [2429848] to Plugins SVN:
Add header and icon -
Posted a reply to Working with version 5.5.3, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Perfect, thank you! Just updated the stats. -
Committed [2429027] to Plugins SVN:
Set version correctly -
Committed [2429021] to Plugins SVN:
Tagging 0.2 -
Mentioned in [49565] on Core SVN:
Feeds: Register transient feed cache handler using the recommended method for SimplePie 1.3 or later. -
Wrote a comment on the post WP5.6 | Auto-Update Implementation Change, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I have some comments: On the feature in general: • If we enable WordPress core… -
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Event Schema for WordCamp.org, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
This works perfectly. Do we have a page about the WordPress Community Support entity? Then… -
Mentioned in [49478] on Core SVN:
Bundled Themes: Sync Twenty Twenty-One with the latest changes from GitHub. -
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Event Schema for WordCamp.org, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Thought I would personally put this to future development and focus on getting some version… -
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Event Schema for WordCamp.org, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Maybe we can use the same description that organisers update for central.wordcamp.org? Works for me.… -
Wrote a new post, Proposal: Event Schema for WordCamp.org, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
We have taken some great steps in improving the SEO of WordCamp sites by rearranging the… -
Wrote a comment on the post WordCamp.org URL Migration Complete, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Super excited to see this happen. Thanks for all you hard work @iandunn! -
Mentioned in [49258] on Core SVN:
Privacy: Add "Mark as completed" action. -
Mentioned in [49216] on Core SVN:
Bundled Themes: Import Twenty Twenty-One, the new default theme for WordPress 5.6. -
Mentioned in [49215] on Core SVN:
General: Remove `noreferrer` from `wp_targeted_link_rel()` and other uses. -
Mentioned in [49109] on Core SVN:
REST API: Introduce Application Passwords for API authentication. -
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Bulgaria 2020
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Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: A font enqueue API for WP core, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Both local and remote font loading should be allowed and possible with this API. We’re… -
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: A font enqueue API for WP core, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I would object to stop allowing that from an API perspective. Whether the themes team… -
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: A font enqueue API for WP core, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I think this can just hook into wp_print_styles -
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: A font enqueue API for WP core, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I’m presuming this isn’t going to magically provide a UI to download those fonts to… -
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: A font enqueue API for WP core, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Well I guess you shouldn't use it with theirs then :) -
Wrote a new post, Proposal: A font enqueue API for WP core, on the site Make WordPress Core:
The themes team is proposing for themes to require local web font loading. The reasoning… -
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: REST API Authentication / Application Passwords, on the site Make WordPress Core:
The fact that it works for XMLRPC is, IMHO, a historical necessity that's now a… -
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: REST API Authentication / Application Passwords, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I'm / we are 100% in favor of this. Opening this up is like opening… -
Wrote a comment on the post Enhancing image preview: core proposal, on the site Make WordPress Core:
By the way, if we're building this, I think we should at least consider building… -
Wrote a comment on the post Enhancing image preview: core proposal, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I disagree with that. The fact that people say "I want to be in Google"… -
Wrote a comment on the post Enhancing image preview: core proposal, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Agreed, I think I slightly misread that bit when I typed my comment this morning.… -
Wrote a comment on the post Enhancing image preview: core proposal, on the site Make WordPress Core:
So what I'm seeing here are a couple of different things: * A proposal to… -
Posted a reply to Deprecated: wpseo_opengraph Update 14.0.1, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @platcatheo They're not going to go away, another plugin you'r running, or your theme,… -
Mentioned in [48966] on Core SVN:
Posts, Post Types: Don't output the adjacent posts `rel` link by default. -
Wrote a new post, Deprecated JavaScript globals, on the site Make WordPress Core:
In WordPress 5.5 the global JavaScript objects listed below were removed without being deprecated. WordPress 5.5.1 adds…
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