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 8 hours per week to the following teams: Core, 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 WP5.6 | Auto-Update Implementation Change, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I have some comments: On the feature in general: • If we enable WordPress core…

3 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Event Schema for WordCamp.org, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
This works perfectly. Do we have a page about the WordPress Community Support entity? Then…

4 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Event Schema for WordCamp.org, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Thought I would personally put this to future development and focus on getting some version…

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Event Schema for WordCamp.org, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Maybe we can use the same description that organisers update for central.wordcamp.org? Works for me.…

1 month ago
Wrote a new post, Proposal: Event Schema for WordCamp.org, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
We have taken some great steps in improving the SEO of WordCamp sites by rearranging the…

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordCamp.org URL Migration Complete, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
Super excited to see this happen. Thanks for all you hard work @iandunn!

1 month ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Bulgaria 2020

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: A font enqueue API for WP core, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Both local and remote font loading should be allowed and possible with this API. We’re…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: A font enqueue API for WP core, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I would object to stop allowing that from an API perspective. Whether the themes team…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: A font enqueue API for WP core, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I think this can just hook into wp_print_styles

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: A font enqueue API for WP core, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I’m presuming this isn’t going to magically provide a UI to download those fonts to…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: A font enqueue API for WP core, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Well I guess you shouldn't use it with theirs then :)

2 months ago
Wrote a new post, Proposal: A font enqueue API for WP core, on the site Make WordPress Core:
The themes team is proposing for themes to require local web font loading. The reasoning…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: REST API Authentication / Application Passwords, on the site Make WordPress Core:
The fact that it works for XMLRPC is, IMHO, a historical necessity that's now a…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: REST API Authentication / Application Passwords, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I'm / we are 100% in favor of this. Opening this up is like opening…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Enhancing image preview: core proposal, on the site Make WordPress Core:
By the way, if we're building this, I think we should at least consider building…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Enhancing image preview: core proposal, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I disagree with that. The fact that people say "I want to be in Google"…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Enhancing image preview: core proposal, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Agreed, I think I slightly misread that bit when I typed my comment this morning.…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Enhancing image preview: core proposal, on the site Make WordPress Core:
So what I'm seeing here are a couple of different things: * A proposal to…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to Deprecated: wpseo_opengraph Update 14.0.1, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @platcatheo They're not going to go away, another plugin you'r running, or your theme,…

3 months ago
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…

3 months 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.

3 months 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…

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

3 months 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…

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

3 months 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 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 honestly agree with Jonathan above, the fact that we’re introducing this in core now…

4 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…

4 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!

4 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…

4 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…

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

5 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…

5 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…

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

5 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.

5 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…

5 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…

5 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!

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

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

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

6 months ago