Joost de Valk

Member Since: July 19th, 2007
Location: Wijchen, The Netherlands
Website: yoast.com
Job Title: Founder & Chief Product Officer
Employer: Yoast
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Bio

I’m the founder and Chief Product Officer at Yoast, and a WordPress / web developer, SEO and online marketer. You should use some of our WordPress plugins or follow one of our online courses.

Interests

I love open source, marketing (particularly technical SEO) and helping businesses excel online. In my spare time, I love hanging out with my wife & kids, drinking good drinks and eating good food. If I need “alone” time, it’s usually spent coding or gaming on my iPhone.

WordPress Origin Story

I started working with WordPress in 2006, while building css3.info and my personal site which was, back then, still joostdevalk.nl. As I was also working as an SEO consultant and wanted to improve the SEO of my sites, to scratch my own itch I started building SEO plugins. In doing this I found things in core needed fixing so I also started contributing to WordPress core in 2007. I later combined my several SEO plugins into “the” WordPress SEO plugin, later renamed to Yoast SEO.

Contributions Sponsored

Joost de Valk contributes 4 hours per week to the following teams: Core, Hosting, Marketing, Meta.

Contribution History

Core Contributor
Core Contributor
Marketing Contributor
Marketing Contributor
Meta Contributor
Meta Contributor
Translation Contributor
Translation Contributor
Translation Editor
Translation Editor
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Speaker
WordCamp Speaker
Plugin Developer
Plugin Developer

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Created a new ticket, #4822, in Meta Trac:
Add canonical to 5ftf pages

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Why does Yoast not auto update?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Unfortunately, WordPress only updates itself automatically, not your plugins... People can opt in to automatic…

3 weeks ago
Created a topic, Read this *before* you post, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey! Before you create your own thread on these forum…

3 weeks ago
Committed [2107627] to Plugins Trac:
Committing assets for 1.8

5 months ago
Committed [2107626] to Plugins Trac:
Tagging 1.8

5 months ago
Committed [2107624] to Plugins Trac:
Committing 1.8 to trunk

5 months ago
Committed [2107292] to Plugins Trac:
Committing assets for 1.6

5 months ago
Committed [2107291] to Plugins Trac:
Tagging 1.6

5 months ago
Committed [2107290] to Plugins Trac:
Committing 1.6 to trunk

5 months ago
Committed [2107213] to Plugins Trac:
Committing 1.5 to trunk

5 months ago
Posted a reply to JSON+LD outputs twice!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
That's probably because another plugin or code is trying to remove stuff with yoast in…

7 months ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Athens 2019 coming up on May 18th

7 months ago
Posted a reply to My website broken after every Yoast SEO update, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey @jennylili I'm very sorry to hear that. Could you be more specific? What breaks?…

7 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Design meeting agenda for Wednesday 3rd April, on the site Make WordPress Design:
Would like to add https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/46763

8 months ago
Created a new ticket, #46764, in Core Trac:
Admin search functionality

8 months ago
Created a new ticket, #46763, in Core Trac:
Improve plugin search results with already active plugins

8 months ago
Created a new ticket, #4296, in Meta Trac:
Replace "Dev blog" with "WordPress.org blog" in Planet

8 months ago
Created a new ticket, #4292, in Meta Trac:
Add canonical to planet.wordpress.org homepage

8 months ago
Posted a reply to Duplicate Site Title in Snippet, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
No I'd actually suggest changing your settings, removing the all caps sitename and making it…

8 months ago
Posted a reply to Duplicate Site Title in Snippet, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ok so: https://cloudup.com/cBakU6pGdHs As you can see, in your site's output, the title is correct,…

8 months ago
Posted a reply to Duplicate Site Title in Snippet, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Nope that seems clean. Ok can you screenshot your title template under SEO -> Search…

8 months ago
Posted a reply to Duplicate Site Title in Snippet, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Georgi, if it doesn't show it in the snippet editor, that often means that…

8 months ago
Posted a reply to Google Indexing API, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @tariqaltaf, no we're not using that API. Currently that API is restricted to particular…

8 months ago
Posted a reply to After Yoast 10.0 update – cannot get og:image for Facebook to show, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey Phillip, was it a subpage of the site you linked? Or the homepage? Because…

8 months ago
Committed [2039756] to Plugins Trac:
Update readme

9 months ago
Wrote a new post, Gutenberg page changes, on the site Make WordPress.org Marketing:
The “problem” The Gutenberg page on /gutenberg/ talks exclusively about what we’ve started calling the…

9 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Call for design: WordPress Showcase, on the site Make WordPress Design:
wireframes for mobile: https://pragmatic-web.invisionapp.com/share/FPQ78M9V4HE

9 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Call for design: WordPress Showcase, on the site Make WordPress Design:
As to be discussed in a bit in the design meeting, a first stab at…

9 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Dev Chat Summary: January 30th, on the site Make WordPress Core:
That's definitely how I see it too @iandunn, all I did at that point was…

9 months ago
Created a new ticket, #46254, in Core Trac:
Change URL for Cookies error

9 months ago
Created a new ticket, #4154, in Meta Trac:
Noindex language guesser

9 months ago
Created a new ticket, #4153, in Meta Trac:
Slight change to wording on roadmap page

9 months ago
Created a new ticket, #4152, in Meta Trac:
Change screenshots and FAQ redirects to a 301

9 months ago
Created a new ticket, #4151, in Meta Trac:
Non existing plugin tags should return 404

9 months ago
Created a new ticket, #4150, in Meta Trac:
canonical on homepage

9 months ago
Created a new ticket, #4142, in Meta Trac:
Add rel=next / prev on support archives

9 months ago
Created a new ticket, #4136, in Meta Trac:
Remove lines from robots.txt

10 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Call for design: WordPress Showcase, on the site Make WordPress Design:
Trello card created too: https://trello.com/c/o8yTgngh/158-create-a-new-design-for-the-wordpress-showcase

10 months ago
Wrote a new post, Call for design: WordPress Showcase, on the site Make WordPress Design:
What is it? The WordPress showcase is a portfolio of inspiring and innovative sites built…

10 months ago
Wrote a new post, Showcase redesign, on the site Make WordPress.org Marketing:
The marketing team would like to redesign the WordPress showcase and the processes around it.…

10 months ago
Wrote a new post, Team process, on the site Make WordPress.org Marketing:
Hey team Marketing! Thanks for the warm welcome and for a lot of good conversations…

10 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Expanding WordPress Leadership, on the site Team Updates:
I can totally understand why you'd feel like that. I think you'll see, if you…

10 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Expanding WordPress Leadership, on the site Team Updates:
Hi @skarjune, I don't think we've met. Happy to chat about this, but I honestly…

10 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Expanding WordPress Leadership, on the site Team Updates:
As said above, all of us involved understand that this was unfortunate and we'll definitely…

10 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Expanding WordPress Leadership, on the site Team Updates:
Your thoughts here are appreciated @nerrad, I agree with Josepha in that this is not…

10 months ago
Created a new ticket, #46004, in Core Trac:
Allow actions based on blocks in the current content

10 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Site Health Check Project review at WCUS, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Looking forward to seeing this in core, thanks for the hard work on it everyone…

10 months ago
Created a topic, This plugin breaks with WordPress 5.0, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Due to naming collisions between functions (particular…

11 months ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp US 2018 coming up on December 7th

11 months ago
Closed ticket #45601, in Core Trac:
Bring back the classic editor

11 months ago