Joost de Valk – @joostdevalk

Member Since: July 19th, 2007
Location: Wijchen, The Netherlands
Website: yoast.com/about-us/team/joost-de-valk
GitHub: jdevalk
Job Title: Founder & Chief Product Officer
Employer: Yoast
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Bio

I’m an internet entrepreneur, probably best known for founding Yoast. I’m currently the Chief Product Officer at Yoast. 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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Committed [2445458] to Plugins Trac:
Tagging 1.12

3 weeks ago
Committed [2445457] to Plugins Trac:
Committing 1.12 to trunk

3 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Discussion: align the WordPress release cycle with the industry standard, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I worry that we aren’t allowing space for older bugs that aren’t specific to the…

1 month ago
Committed [2429869] to Plugins Trac:
Tagging version 0.3

1 month ago
Committed [2429848] to Plugins Trac:
Add header and icon

1 month ago
Posted a reply to Working with version 5.5.3, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Perfect, thank you! Just updated the stats.

1 month ago
Committed [2429027] to Plugins Trac:
Set version correctly

1 month ago
Committed [2429021] to Plugins Trac:
Tagging 0.2

1 month ago
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…

2 months 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…

2 months 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…

3 months 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.…

3 months 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…

3 months 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!

3 months ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Bulgaria 2020

3 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…

3 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…

3 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

3 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…

4 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 :)

4 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…

4 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…

4 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…

4 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…

4 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"…

4 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.…

4 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…

4 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,…

4 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…

5 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.

5 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…

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

5 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…

5 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?

5 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…

5 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...

5 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…

5 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…

5 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?

5 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?

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

5 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?

5 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…

6 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…

6 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!

6 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…

6 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…

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

6 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…

6 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…

6 months ago