Joost de Valk – @joostdevalk

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
Plugin Developer
Plugin Developer
Translation Contributor
Translation Contributor
Translation Editor
Translation Editor
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Speaker
WordCamp Speaker

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Posted a reply to “Click here to speed up” button takes forever…, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ok so unfortunately you’re going to have to wait for WPML to update, until then…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to “Click here to speed up” button takes forever…, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@loggins @newgiuseppe are you using a multilingual plugin by any chance?

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Update SEO title from code since 14.0, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@phamquangbaoplus that still works, for now, we catch those and write them to both the…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to After Last Update Broke Noindex For Posts, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @serezh4 Yeah we were of this issue and we're sorry! I wrote this post…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to To Plugin Author – Rollback to Stable Version Please!!!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@mrkawaii I truly understand where you're coming from, but this is not a problem that…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Deprecated: wpseo_opengraph Update 14.0.1, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If you're using polylang, they're working on an update to be compatible with Yoast SEO…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to sc_dash problem, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yeah while I hate shifting the blame, honestly I think the problem here is with…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Error on upgrade to 14.0.2, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@kleatus ok thx for checking. Can you please copy paste the complete error you’re getting?…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Error on upgrade to 14.0.2, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@aztopdavid ok. But now it works. Ok, we're looking at how we can prevent that…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Error on upgrade to 14.0.2, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The plugin needs WordPress to have table create and index rights to create those tables.

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Error on upgrade to 14.0.2, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Let me know if that fixes it @aztopdavid. In the mean time we're looking at…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Error on upgrade to 14.0.2, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@iamediaworks that is what the update should normally do, which is something WordPress core handles,…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Error on upgrade to 14.0.2, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Please remove all files that shouldn’t be there, or delete the entire folder and reinstall…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Error on upgrade to 14.0.2, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hmm just wondering @iamediaworks : when you update, do you delete the folder and put…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Error on upgrade to 14.0.2, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ah you just answered that, thanks.

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Error on upgrade to 14.0.2, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I'm stumped, honestly. Can I ask where these sites are hosted?

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Error on upgrade to 14.0.2, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What we can see is that InfiniteWP seems to use FTP to update the plugin.…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Error on upgrade to 14.0.2, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@adrian2k7 do you see the error on those sites yourself? And it doesn't show on…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Error on upgrade to 14.0.2, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
> Are you saying you think the install failed? Yes. That's what I'm thinking. If…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Error on upgrade to 14.0.2, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What could happen (although it’s very weird if that happens on more sites), is that…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Error on upgrade to 14.0.2, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @kleatus sorry to hear you're having issues! Luckily, this isn't happening on every site,…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Rest API broken in 14.0.1, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @isdoo Sorry to hear you're having issues! Which specific call were you trying to…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to primary category back in breadcrumbs, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
We've fixed this in the upcoming 14.0.2 release :)

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to 14.0.1 Fatal Error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Marking as resolved.

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to 14.0.1 Fatal Error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@scottdaylight unrelated to the above, but we've seen that too and have fixed it. 14.0.2…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Website error after 14.0 update, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Polylang is working hard on an update, I’d suggest waiting till they’ve updated too.

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to “Click here to speed up” button takes forever…, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @scarpinoc Which version of Yoast SEO are you on?

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to 14/14.01 Update Breaks Website, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey @tycreate Sorry to see you're having issues. We're just patching this issue, could you…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Fatal Errors issue, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @robword, I think we've identified the fix for this problem. Could you maybe test…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Deprecated: wpseo_opengraph Update 14.0.1, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @loorlab, are you using the wpseo_opengraph filter in your code somewhere? Or are you…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to WPSEO_Frontend_Primary_Category::post_link_category deprecated, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for testing everyone :)

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to 14.0.1 Fatal Error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @riseofweb I think we've found the fix. If you have a test site, could…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to WPSEO_Frontend_Primary_Category::post_link_category deprecated, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
So that means removing these two lines: $primary_term = new WPSEO_Frontend_Primary_Category(); $primary_term->register_hooks();

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to WPSEO_Frontend_Primary_Category::post_link_category deprecated, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yeah, I think you can just remove those two lines and it'll all work as…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Fatal Error after Yoast 14.0 update, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@rahulrathi looks like your update wasn't complete. I'd suggest deleting the plugin and reinstalling it.…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Update 14.0: Column not found: 1054 Unknown column ‘blog_id’ in ‘field list’, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@uqamsav yours is another issue than the original issue, I'm sorry to say. Looks like…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Unable to create database tables – after update to v14, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@jeanlortye that might fix it for some if the update didn't work as it should…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Yoast SEO was unable to create the database tables required and as such will not, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@bernderk can you share which constants you're setting for the database connection? Of course please…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Yoast SEO was unable to create the database tables required and as such will not, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@bernderk which parameter is missing do you think? @albie2011 we'd love to get some error…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to V14 has broken my site (when Yoast is enabled), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Might have an idea what causes this. Will have a zip to test soon.

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to V14 has broken my site (when Yoast is enabled), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@mdeluk are you running a multilingual plugin by any chance?

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Unable to create database tables – after update to v14, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi all, Thanks for your reports! I'm looking for some specifics on your database connection…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to V14 has broken my site (when Yoast is enabled), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @mdeluk, sorry for this! Do you have any errors showing in your error log…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Undefined Title In DB Indexing Wizard, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @gilesholder, thanks for the report. We've found the issue and are fixing this.

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Fatal Error after latest update 14.0, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @makeupedia, we've identified the issue here, the fix for this is coming soon.

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Latest update causes breadcrumbs to make no sense., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Could you disable that plugin and see if that fixes the output?

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Latest update causes breadcrumbs to make no sense., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What is that plugin filtering?

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Fatal errors in version 14 – Data too long for column breadcrumb_title, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @hanswitteprins, thanks for this report and sorry for the inconvenience! What is in your…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Latest update causes breadcrumbs to make no sense., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @japenz, thanks for reporting, sorry for the inconvenience! We'll look into this quickly :)…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Yoast SEO was unable to create the database tables required and as such will not, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @albie2011 well we might never have tried to create tables yet. We did have…

2 weeks ago