Joost de Valk (@joostdevalk) – WordPress user profile

Member Since: July 19th, 2007
Location: Wijchen, The Netherlands
Website: joost.blog
GitHub: jdevalk
Job Title: Partner
Employer: Emilia Capital
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Bio

I’m an internet entrepreneur, probably best known for founding Yoast.

Together with my wife Marieke I’m an investor in several companies through Emilia Capital, some of which deal with WordPress like Castos, WordProof and Extendify.

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 2 hours per week to the following teams: Core and Meta.

Contribution History

Core Contributor
Marketing Contributor
Meta Contributor
Plugin Developer
Translation Contributor
Translation Editor
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Speaker

Activity
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Translations

Mentioned in [56657] on Core SVN:
Media: Disable attachment pages for new installations.
1 day ago
Mentioned in [56500] on Core SVN:
Introduce font-face styles generator and printer.
3 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Feature idea: Speaker profile block, on the site Make WordPress Community:
I’m sorry but that would just mean a slightly “wider” aimed bio at profiles.wordpress right?…
2 months ago
Mentioned in [56220] on Core SVN:
Help/About: Add a “Get Involved” tab to the About page.
2 months ago
Mentioned in [55954] on Core SVN:
Administration: Make checkbox column clickable.
3 months ago
Mentioned in [12662] on Meta SVN:
Main: Update cookie privacy page to include ga.
3 months ago
Mentioned in [12659] on Meta SVN:
Adds new OG image.
3 months ago
Created issue #2403 in the WordPress/openverse repository:
Add Google Analytics to Openverse site?
3 months ago
Submitted pull request #155 to WordPress/wordpress.org:
Update cookies page
3 months ago
Mentioned in [12654] on Meta SVN:
Jobs theme: Add GTM.
3 months ago
Closed ticket #4773 on Meta Trac:
Change GTM ID on trac properties to match the rest of the ecosystem
3 months ago
Pull request #545 merged into WordPress/wordpress-playground:
Make iframe reference actually work
3 months ago
Created ticket #7055 on Meta Trac:
Allow filtering of the WordPress profile activity stream
3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Feature idea: Speaker profile block, on the site Make WordPress Community:
To counter that: I currently have ~20 speaker profiles on old WordCamp sites that are…
3 months ago
Submitted pull request #545 to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
Make iframe reference actually work
3 months ago
Submitted pull request #153 to WordPress/wordpress.org:
Remove double GTM container
3 months ago
Closed pull request #145 on WordPress/wordpress.org:
Add playground embedder
3 months ago
Wrote a new post, Feature idea: Speaker profile block, on the site Make WordPress Community:
I propose we build a WordPress profile bio block, that, given a WordPress username, pulls…
4 months ago
Submitted pull request #146 to WordPress/wordpress.org:
Add GTM mu-plugin to buddypress
4 months ago
Submitted pull request #145 to WordPress/wordpress.org:
Add playground embedder
4 months ago
Created issue #533 in the WordPress/wordpress-playground repository:
Add a "start" button + parameter
4 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Discussion: Next Generation Event Tooling , on the site Make WordPress Community:
Regarding alternative URL mapping; we don’t need that to start ranking for terms around “WordPress…
4 months ago
Committed [2895036] to Plugins SVN:
Update readme
6 months ago
Committed [2895034] to Plugins SVN:
Update readme
6 months ago
Committed [2895026] to Plugins SVN:
Update readme
6 months ago
Committed [2895023] to Plugins SVN:
Update readme
6 months ago
Mentioned in [55620] on Core SVN:
General: Remove Windows Live Writer manifest file.
6 months ago
Submitted pull request #4276 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Remove wlwmanifest.xml from core
6 months ago
Reopened ticket #30465 on Core Trac:
Dashboard alert if a plugin was removed from WordPress plugins repo
6 months ago
Created ticket #57913 on Core Trac:
Attachment pages need to have an "on" toggle
6 months ago
Committed [2831269] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 1.9.2 from GitHub
10 months ago
Committed [2831081] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 1.9 from GitHub
10 months ago
Committed [2830999] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 1.0.1 from GitHub
10 months ago
Committed [2830791] to Plugins SVN:
Release 1.8.1, see readme.txt for changelog.
10 months ago
Mentioned in [12309] on Meta SVN:
Plugin banners: reduce dpi requirement to 120, to use high dpi images on more devices.
10 months ago
Committed [2830756] to Plugins SVN:
Remove Yoast as contributor
10 months ago
Committed [2830755] to Plugins SVN:
Max box usage of icon
10 months ago
Committed [2830752] to Plugins SVN:
Better icon
10 months ago
Committed [2830593] to Plugins SVN:
Remove Yoast from plugin name
10 months ago
Committed [2830591] to Plugins SVN:
Update branding
10 months ago
Committed [2830577] to Plugins SVN:
Release 1.8, see readme.txt for changelog.
10 months ago
Reviewed 22 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
10 months ago
Suggested 22 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
10 months ago
Committed [2830497] to Plugins SVN:
Tag first version
10 months ago
Committed [2830495] to Plugins SVN:
Initial commit
10 months ago
Closed pull request #2818 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Make touchstart events passive
10 months ago
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…
11 months ago
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…
12 months ago
Mentioned in [54250] on Core SVN:
Bootstrap/Load: Send HTTP headers after querying posts in `WP::main()`.
1 year 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 year ago