Joost de Valk
@joostdevalk on WordPress.org and Slack
- Member Since: July 19th, 2007
- Location: Wijchen, The Netherlands
- Website: joost.blog
- GitHub: jdevalk
- Job Title: Founder & Advisor
- Employer: Yoast
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Contribution History
Joost de Valk’s badges:- Core Contributor
- Marketing Contributor
- Meta Contributor
- Plugin Developer
- Translation Contributor
- Translation Editor
- WordCamp Organizer
- WordCamp Speaker
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Reopened ticket #30465 on Core Trac:
Dashboard alert if a plugin was removed from WordPress plugins repo -
Created ticket #57913 on Core Trac:
Attachment pages need to have an "on" toggle -
Committed [2831269] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 1.9.2 from GitHub -
Committed [2831081] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 1.9 from GitHub -
Committed [2830999] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 1.0.1 from GitHub -
Committed [2830791] to Plugins SVN:
Release 1.8.1, see readme.txt for changelog. -
Committed [2830756] to Plugins SVN:
Remove Yoast as contributor -
Committed [2830755] to Plugins SVN:
Max box usage of icon -
Committed [2830752] to Plugins SVN:
Better icon -
Committed [2830593] to Plugins SVN:
Remove Yoast from plugin name -
Committed [2830591] to Plugins SVN:
Update branding -
Committed [2830577] to Plugins SVN:
Release 1.8, see readme.txt for changelog. -
Reviewed 22 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
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Suggested 22 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
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Committed [2830497] to Plugins SVN:
Tag first version -
Committed [2830495] to Plugins SVN:
Initial commit -
Closed pull request #2818 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Make touchstart events passive -
Posted a reply to Zapier integration ad is TOO MUCH, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey people, Joost here, founder of and currently interim CTO at Yoast. I agree that… -
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… -
Mentioned in [54250] on Core SVN:
Bootstrap/Load: Send HTTP headers after querying posts in `WP::main()`. -
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… -
Mentioned in [53933] on Core SVN:
Themes: Add support for `Update URI` header. -
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Netherlands 2022
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Submitted pull request #2818 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Make touchstart events passive -
Created ticket #55988 on Core Trac:
touchStart events should be passive -
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… -
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… -
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! -
Submitted pull request #1907 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Allow prevention of DB queries with get_option -
Created ticket #54459 on Core Trac:
Give get_option a third parameter to prevent DB queries -
Submitted pull request #573 to WordPress/WordPress:
Allow prevention of DB queries -
Committed [2616527] to Plugins SVN:
Tagging 1.15 -
Committed [2616526] to Plugins SVN:
Committing 1.15 to trunk -
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… -
Mentioned in [50921] on Core SVN:
Plugins: Add support for `Update URI` header. -
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… -
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! -
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… -
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… -
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 /… -
Wrote a comment on the post Discussion: Dropping support for IE11, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Agreed to exactly this. -
Mentioned in [50078] on Core SVN:
Robots: Add `max-image-preview:large` directive by default. -
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… -
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… -
Committed [2445458] to Plugins SVN:
Tagging 1.12 -
Committed [2445457] to Plugins SVN:
Committing 1.12 to trunk -
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… -
Committed [2429869] to Plugins SVN:
Tagging version 0.3 -
Committed [2429848] to Plugins SVN:
Add header and icon
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