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 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…

2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress environment types, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Hi Frank, as far as I know core doesn't use that.

2 weeks ago
Wrote a new post, WordPress environment types, on the site Make WordPress Core:
In WordPress 5.5 we introduced the new wp_get_environment_type function which allows retrieving the type of…

2 weeks ago
Created a new ticket, #51171, in Core Trac:
Properly deprecate removed JavaScript globals

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Tabs not visible / Dropdowns not working., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The jquery helper doesn’t affect us, it means another plugin you’re running causes errors without…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Tabs not visible / Dropdowns not working., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Does your browser show any JavaScript errors?

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Tabs not visible / Dropdowns not working., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Not sure, I think the problem was introduced in WordPress 5.5 but I’m not sure…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to New update breaks Gutenberg, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The plugin didn’t. WP core did, unfortunately. I don’t know what exactly yet...

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to New update breaks Gutenberg, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hmmm will see if we can find what could cause that, but I would contact…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Tabs not visible / Dropdowns not working., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
No you won’t lose data but I doubt that’s it... could you try and check…

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to New update breaks Gutenberg, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What happens if you switch to the default theme?

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Tabs not visible / Dropdowns not working., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi! Sorry to hear that, which version of yoast SEO are you on?

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to New update breaks Gutenberg, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Are you using Elementor?

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Yoast tabs are not visible in WP 5.5, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Sarah, Sorry to hear that! Which version are you on right now?

3 weeks ago
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…

2 months 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…

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

2 months 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…

2 months 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…

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

2 months 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…

2 months 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…

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

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

3 months 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…

3 months 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…

3 months 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!

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

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

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

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

4 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…

4 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?

4 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…

5 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…

5 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…

5 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…

5 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…

5 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?…

5 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…

5 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,…

5 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…

5 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…

5 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.

5 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?

5 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.…

5 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…

5 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…

5 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,…

5 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…

5 months ago