Joost de Valk

Third Time’s the Charm Chris Lema…

Dan Knauss

June 18, 2021

Third Time's the Charm Chris Lema shares why he’s fully committed to Gutenberg now. First and foremost, the answer is “speed.” 🐎 But it’s also “the way page builders allow you to do all the magic they do” without any…

Joost de Valk has started a…

Dan Knauss

April 9, 2021

Joost de Valk has started a conversation about developers testing their work with other developers' plugins in Post Status Slack. Joost wants to take on what he calls an "integration problem:" "Every integration with another plugin we [at Yoast] add…

As Joost de Valk joyfully observed,…

Dan Knauss

February 12, 2021

As Joost de Valk joyfully observed, Yoast has crossed the 300 million downloads milestone on WordPress.org. 😲

There’s been a lot of discussion…

Dan Knauss

February 4, 2021

There's been a lot of discussion around Josepha Haden's post about the "Big Picture Goals" for 2021. Check up on the discussion there in the comments if you haven't seen it yet. To recap the intentionally broad and incomplete focal…

I spotted this tweet from Joost…

Dan Knauss

October 16, 2020

I spotted this tweet from Joost de Valk sharing research from a post by eMarketer where they found signs eCommerce is "jumping ahead by two years" because of COVID. 🏃‍♂️ 🏬 The article is worth a read, but I'm also…

Joost de Valk on WordPress marketshare

Brian Krogsgard

October 6, 2020

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In this episode of Post Status Draft, David Bisset interviews Joost de Valk about WordPress marketshare and CMS trends.

Joost de Valk has proposed a…

Dan Knauss

October 1, 2020

Joost de Valk has proposed a font enqueue API for WordPress core. 🔡 Explaining why we should implement .wp_enqueue_font, Joost writes: "Building this so that fonts are always loaded the same way allows us to continuously improve the way we…

It appears that Yoast founder Joost…

Dan Knauss

September 2, 2020

It appears that Yoast founder Joost de Valk and Yoast’s current CEO Marieke van de Rakt have a stake in WordProof, which is building a Timestamp Ecosystem that will support multiple blockchains to verify online content. Wordproof explains the SEO…

Joost de Valk has a proposal…

Dan Knauss

March 6, 2020

Joost de Valk has a proposal for improving SEO on WordCamp sites so more of them can be indexed by Google. Judging by the response so far to this tweet, it looks like this is a common problem for WordCamp…

Joost de Valk publicly announced he…

Dan Knauss

June 13, 2019

Joost de Valk publicly announced he is stepping down from his role as Marketing Lead, a position he held for about six months. Joost will return to Yoast in the role of Chief Product Officer. Joost gave more than one…

Joost de Valk brings us up…

Dan Knauss

March 1, 2019

Joost de Valk brings us up to speed about the things he's been doing since he was appointed Marketing and Communications Lead for WordPress. Quick wins included updating the roadmap page, removing mentions of jQuery and other libraries from the features…

Congrats to Marieke van de Rakt…

Dan Knauss

January 31, 2019

Congrats to Marieke van de Rakt who is the new CEO of Yoast! Marieke is the founder of Yoast Academy as well as the former Chief Strategy Officer at Yoast. In this new role, Marieke is replacing Yoast founder Joost…

Joost de Valk has written an “After…

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2018

Joost de Valk has written an "After WCUS WordPress & Gutenberg FAQ" addressing some questions posed to him and the Yoast team at WordCamp US. In short, he is on board with Gutenberg but "annoyed with the communication failure around the…