Joost de Valk (@joostdevalk) – WordPress user profile

Member Since: July 19th, 2007
Location: Wijchen, The Netherlands
Website: joost.blog
Job Title: Founder & Advisor
Employer: Yoast
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Bio

I’m an internet entrepreneur, probably best known for founding Yoast, where I’m currently an advisor. You should use some of our WordPress plugins.

I’m an investor in several companies, some of which deal with WordPress like Castos and WordProof.

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

Yoast sponsors Joost de Valk to contribute 2 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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Translations

Wrote a new post, Moving the send_headers action to later in the load, on the site Make WordPress Core:
As of WordPress 6.1, the send_headers hook has been moved to slightly later in the…
3 weeks ago
Mentioned in [54250] on Core SVN:
Bootstrap/Load: Send HTTP headers after querying posts in `WP::main()`.
1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post Canonical Plugins Revisited, on the site Make WordPress Core:
@matt This leaves me with a couple of questions, some rather straightforward, other probably more…
1 month ago
Mentioned in [53933] on Core SVN:
Themes: Add support for `Update URI` header.
2 months ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Netherlands 2022
3 months ago
Created ticket #55988 on Core Trac:
touchStart events should be passive
4 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Disallow assignments in conditions and remove the Yoda condition requirement for PHP, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I couldn’t be more in favor of this. At Yoast our code style follows WPCS…
5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Defining Five for the Future Pledges & Contributions, on the site WordPress.org Project:
Hey, I'm not sure if this is an intended consequence of your definition, but it…
5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post An Update on Preferred Languages, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Thanks for working on this, much much appreciated!
6 months ago
Created ticket #54459 on Core Trac:
Give get_option a third parameter to prevent DB queries
12 months ago
Committed [2616527] to Plugins SVN:
Tagging 1.15
1 year ago
Committed [2616526] to Plugins SVN:
Committing 1.15 to trunk
1 year ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal for a Performance team, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I’m not sure how this performance setup talk went entirely behind my back, for I’m…
1 year ago
Mentioned in [50921] on Core SVN:
Plugins: Add support for `Update URI` header.
1 year ago
Posted a reply to Yoast 15.7 not compatible with SiteGround Ultrafast PHP, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey everyone, we're aware of an issue here and are working with the team at…
1 year ago
Wrote a comment on the post New WordPress Make Team, on the site Make WordPress.org:
Looking forward to seeing how this pans out @mkaz!
2 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post Automatically Catching Bugs in Plugins, on the site Make WordPress.org:
There are good cases for not using translation functions or for not using a text…
2 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Treat FLoC like a security concern, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I'm not the first to say this but I think there are a couple of…
2 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post Experiment: Coordinating Sponsored Contributor Teams, on the site Team Updates:
I don't think I fully understand what @chanthaboune is saying here as the goal /…
2 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post Discussion: Dropping support for IE11, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Agreed to exactly this.
2 years ago
Mentioned in [50078] on Core SVN:
Robots: Add `max-image-preview:large` directive by default.
2 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post Big Picture Goals 2021, on the site Team Updates:
The problem is that that issue, while giving a high level overview of FSE, does…
2 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post Big Picture Goals 2021, on the site Team Updates:
Question: I've been unable to determine what has been determined as being "MVP" for Full…
2 years ago
Committed [2445458] to Plugins SVN:
Tagging 1.12
2 years ago
Committed [2445457] to Plugins SVN:
Committing 1.12 to trunk
2 years 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…
2 years ago
Committed [2429869] to Plugins SVN:
Tagging version 0.3
2 years ago
Committed [2429848] to Plugins SVN:
Add header and icon
2 years ago
Posted a reply to Working with version 5.5.3, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Perfect, thank you! Just updated the stats.
2 years ago
Committed [2429027] to Plugins SVN:
Set version correctly
2 years ago
Committed [2429021] to Plugins SVN:
Tagging 0.2
2 years ago
Mentioned in [49565] on Core SVN:
Feeds: Register transient feed cache handler using the recommended method for SimplePie 1.3 or later.
2 years 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 years 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 years ago
Mentioned in [49478] on Core SVN:
Bundled Themes: Sync Twenty Twenty-One with the latest changes from GitHub.
2 years 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…
2 years 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.…
2 years 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…
2 years 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!
2 years ago
Mentioned in [49258] on Core SVN:
Privacy: Add "Mark as completed" action.
2 years ago
Mentioned in [49216] on Core SVN:
Bundled Themes: Import Twenty Twenty-One, the new default theme for WordPress 5.6.
2 years ago
Mentioned in [49215] on Core SVN:
General: Remove `noreferrer` from `wp_targeted_link_rel()` and other uses.
2 years ago
Mentioned in [49109] on Core SVN:
REST API: Introduce Application Passwords for API authentication.
2 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Bulgaria 2020
2 years 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 years 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 years 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 years 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 years 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 years 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 years ago