Joost de Valk

How to Make the Most of Sponsoring WordCamps

Michelle Frechette

July 21, 2023

In this panel discussion, Michelle Frechette poses questions asked by the Post Status community about the benefits and how-to’s of sponsoring WordCamps. On the panel are Taco Verdonschot (Yoast), Katie Keith (Barn2), Drew Griswold (StellarWP), and Lincoln Islam (WPFunnels). Transcript…

An Interview with Patrick Posner: WCEU and More

Michelle Frechette

July 13, 2023

BusinessPost Status Podcasts

In this episode, Michelle Frechette, Director of Community Relations at Post Status, talks with Patrick Posner, Founder and Developer at Simply Static, about the importance of being open and approachable, creating opportunities for others to join conversations, and making space…

Post Status Draft – Veteran Executive Lyndi Zavy On Hiring & Leadership Burnout

Cory Miller

June 21, 2023

BusinessDraft

Transcript ↓ Cory Miller, CEO of Post Status, interviews Lyndi Zavy, Founder and CEO of Rivers and Roads, about the topic of burnout and leadership. They discuss the importance of self-care and how leaders often neglect their well-being while trying…

Emilia Capital Gets Creative with WCEU Sponsorship

Michelle Frechette

June 12, 2023

BusinessDraft

In this episode, Marieke van de Rakt and Joost de Valk from Emilia Capital discuss their investment process with Michelle Frechette. They talk about evaluating potential investments, providing feedback, and the importance of finding a good fit. Their investments in…

Business Roundup Week Ending March 31

Mike Demopoulos

April 1, 2023

BusinessThe Week in Review

Web Developer Services Market 2023 Size and Forecast to 2031 Market Watch reports on a new report by Industry Research. -(Powered by Absolute Reports) on the state of the web developer market. It also talks about how COVID-19 and the…

Business Roundup Week Ending March 17

Mike Demopoulos

March 17, 2023

BusinessThe Week in Review

Equalize Digital Receives Pre-Seed Investment from Emilia Capital Equalize Digital recently received a pre-seed investment from venture capital firm Emilia Capital. (Partners Joost de Valk and Marieke van de Rakt from Yoast fame) The investment will help accelerate their mission…

Active Install Charts Removed from Plugin Repo

Dan Knauss

October 3, 2022

BusinessFeatures

In reaction to as-yet-unpublicized details about the abuse of active install data in the WordPress.org plugin repository, the charts displaying that data have been removed from plugin pages in a move expected to be temporary. Important (and some familiar) questions are emerging as this story unfolds: how to balance the values of openness, security, and privacy as well as cooperation and competition at WordPress.org — still the central hub for WordPress plugin businesses.

Agency Business Brief for the Week of September 12

Dan Knauss

September 16, 2022

BusinessPlanet

WordPress Founders Invest in Atarim • Gridpane and Automattic Team Up to Serve Agencies • Salary Transparency — Why Not? • Learning Together in Post Status Slack: Adobe's Figma Acquisition and PayPal vs. Stripe

Naming is Hard: Social and Schema Images

Dan Knauss

August 30, 2022

DevelopmentNotes

This was a neat post from Joost de Valk back in July where he did some thinking out loud about the challenges of naming in Schema.org image standards to distinguish between featured and poster images on social networks: I’ve been…

Joost’s 7th WordPress Market Share Report

Cory Miller

July 22, 2022

BusinessNotes

Joost de Valk, founder of Yoast SEO, posted his 7th CMS Market Share Analysis, based on data from W3Techs and BuiltWith. Here are some key points from Joost’s post: WordPress is the #1 CMS with a 43% market share, roughly…

Misogyny in WordPress is Real

Michelle Frechette

June 24, 2022

FeaturesPost Status Team Blog

Misogyny is alive and well in WordPress, but it doesn't have to be. If we work together, we can make it an even safer space for all.

9 Things I Learned from WordCamp Europe 2022

David Bisset

June 7, 2022

BusinessFeatures

A lot of interesting things surfaced in the open conversations with Matt and Josepha at WCEU. I also learned a lot from Pablo Postigo, Feliz Arntz, Shane Pearlman, Jonathan Wold, Nora Ferrerio, Milana Cap.

Does Market Share Matter?

David Bisset

May 13, 2022

PlanetPost Status Team Blog

Is the WordPress market share beginning to shrink? How do we assess market share? What metrics matter? It's time we asked these questions.

📆 Upcoming Events Headless webinar: What…

Dan Knauss

July 16, 2021

📆 Upcoming Events Headless webinar: What is headless and why does everyone seem to want it?: On July 20th, Joost de Valk (founder of Yoast) and Miriam Schwab (CEO and co-founder of Strattic) will be holding a free webinar focused…

Joost de Valk shows how the…

Dan Knauss

July 16, 2021

Joost de Valk shows how the new Algolia implementation in Yoast SEO Premium can improve site search results. 🔎

What should be included in the…

Dan Knauss

June 25, 2021

What should be included in the 2021 HTTP Archive Web Almanac’s chapter on CMSes? Joost de Valk would love to hear your thoughts about this — because he is authoring that chapter! The 2020 version is still available online.