Joost de Valk

Member Since: July 19th, 2007
Location: Wijchen, The Netherlands
Website: yoast.com
GitHub: jdevalk
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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Wrote a comment on the post Proposal for WordCamp site’s SEO fixes, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Thanks for all the feedback!! Considering all this feedback so far, and after chatting with…

3 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal for WordCamp site’s SEO fixes, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
That'll fix some stuff, but it won't solve that these things don't rank if there…

3 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Fullscreen mode enabled by default in the editor, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I’m very unhappy with this change this late in the process, without a lot of…

3 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal for WordCamp site’s SEO fixes, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Thanks @chanthaboune! Let me know if you need our help in any way.

3 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal for WordCamp site’s SEO fixes, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Well, we have a fair few contacts at Google between @matt and myself, but that…

3 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal for WordCamp site’s SEO fixes, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
We could also choose middle ground here and "just" create centralized WordCamp.org speaker (and possibly…

3 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal for WordCamp site’s SEO fixes, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Noindexing old WordCamps is not my preferred solution. They can certainly have valuable information that…

3 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal for WordCamp site’s SEO fixes, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Nope.

3 weeks ago
Wrote a new post, Proposal for WordCamp site’s SEO fixes, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
People searching online should be able to find a WordCamp, by searching for that WordCamp's name at…

3 weeks ago
Created a new ticket, #49558, in Core Trac:
Remove noreferrer from wp_targeted_link_rel and other uses

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to product:retailer_item_id Missing Yoast WooCommerce, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey @ehlanafoley, I've fixed this issue in WooCommerce SEO this week. As we're planning to…

2 months ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Asia 2020

4 months ago
Committed [2200519] to Plugins Trac:
Tagging 1.9

4 months ago
Committed [2200518] to Plugins Trac:
Committing 1.9 to trunk

4 months ago
Created a new ticket, #48763, in Core Trac:
Twenty Twenty: SmoothScroll is broken

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

5 months 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…

5 months 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…

5 months ago
Committed [2107627] to Plugins Trac:
Committing assets for 1.8

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

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

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

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

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

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

9 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…

11 months ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Athens 2019

12 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?…

12 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

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

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

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

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

1 year 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…

1 year 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,…

1 year 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…

1 year 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…

1 year 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…

1 year 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…

1 year ago
Committed [2039756] to Plugins Trac:
Update readme

1 year 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…

1 year 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

1 year 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…

1 year 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…

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

1 year ago
Created a new ticket, #4154, in Meta Trac:
Noindex language guesser

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

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

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

1 year ago
Created a new ticket, #4150, in Meta Trac:
canonical on homepage

1 year ago