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

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Wrote a comment on the post New wp_get_environment_type() function in WordPress 5.5, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I honestly agree with Jonathan above, the fact that we’re introducing this in core now…

20 hours ago
Wrote a comment on the post New wp_get_environment_type() function in WordPress 5.5, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I did do research. I looked at all the large projects out there, and even…

3 days ago
Wrote a comment on the post New wp_get_environment_type() function in WordPress 5.5, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Awesome!

4 days ago
Wrote a comment on the post New wp_get_environment_type() function in WordPress 5.5, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Hi Giuseppe, The sarcasm is honestly not appreciated. I’ve circulated this change through many channels…

4 days ago
Wrote a new post, New wp_get_environment_type() function in WordPress 5.5, on the site Make WordPress Core:
WordPress 5.5 introduces a new wp_get_environment_type() function that retrieves a site's current environment type. This…

5 days ago
Created a new ticket, #5315, in Meta Trac:
Fix MIME type and other headers for counter JSON output

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Acquired by Yoast, now naggy, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This update message was literally always there as @lopo said :-) We might retire it…

3 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post External Linking Policy – “Commercial blogs”, on the site Make WordPress Documentation:
I understand that you want to prevent discussions about bias. But I think your premise…

3 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Updating jQuery version shipped with WordPress, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Awesome!

4 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Version 1.2.3, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@vickyagravat that’s not the problem I’m having.

1 month ago
Posted a reply to Version 1.2.3, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I'm not going on the file name, i'm going on what my WP admin tells…

1 month ago
Created a topic, Version 1.2.3, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I see a version 1.2.3 in the changelog, but when I dow…

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal for WordCamp site’s SEO fixes, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
That solution sounds fine to me @iandunn!

2 months ago
Created a new ticket, #50346, in Core Trac:
Make delete plugin message less scary

2 months ago
Committed [2316622] to Plugins Trac:
Tagging 1.7

2 months ago
Committed [2316621] to Plugins Trac:
Committing 1.7 to trunk

2 months ago
Created a new ticket, #50166, in Core Trac:
A universal method to define a site's "state"

3 months ago
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…

3 months 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?

3 months 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…

3 months 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…

3 months 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…

3 months 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…

3 months 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…

3 months 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?…

3 months 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…

3 months 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.

3 months 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…

3 months 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,…

3 months 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…

3 months 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…

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

3 months 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?

3 months 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.…

3 months 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…

3 months 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…

3 months 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…

3 months 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,…

3 months 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…

3 months 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 :)

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

3 months 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…

3 months 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.

3 months 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?

3 months 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…

3 months 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…

3 months 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…

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

3 months 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…

3 months 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();

3 months ago