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URL: https://profiles.wordpress.org/joostdevalk/

⇱ Joost de Valk (@joostdevalk) – WordPress user profile | WordPress.org

Profiles

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.

Badges

Core Contributor '15 Meta Contributor '16 Plugin Developer Theme Developer
Marketing Contributor '19 Photo Contributor '24
WordCamp Organizer '18 WordCamp Speaker '19
Translation Contributor '16 Translation Editor '17

Current Job

Partner
Present
Emilia Capital

Recent impact

Score weights high-impact work (commits, releases, approved translations, props) at 3x routine activity.

Last 30 days
1contribution
high1
medium0
score3
Last 90 days
2contributions
high1
medium1
score4
Last 12 months
4contributions
high3
medium1
score10

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 27 releases
  • 6.8
  • 6.4
  • 6.3
  • 6.1
  • 5.9
  • 5.8
  • 5.7
  • 5.6
  • 5.5
  • 5.4
  • 5.3
  • 5.2
  • 5.1
  • 5.0
  • 4.9
  • 4.8
  • 4.6
  • 4.4
  • 4.3
  • 4.2
  • 4.1
  • 4.0
  • 3.9
  • 3.8
  • 3.7
  • 3.4
  • 3.2

Time commitment

4 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

Contributions

Type
June 2026
Jun 16 Tue · 20:20
Core high
Mentioned in [62511] on WordPress SVN:
Comments: Remove `touchstart` event listeners from comment reply/cancel links.
May 2026
May 24 Sun · 19:24
GitHub med
Closed pull request #330 on WordPress/wordpress.org:
WordPress.tv: make the main heading on video pages an h1
February 2026
Feb 02 Mon · 21:16
Meta high
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Netherlands 2025
September 2025
Sep 22 Mon · 09:55
Meta high
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Netherlands 2025
June 2025
Jun 13 Fri · 09:19
Meta high
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Netherlands 2024
February 2025
Feb 28 Fri · 16:56
Core high
Mentioned in [59890] on WordPress SVN:
Site Health: Add a robots.txt check to the server data.
January 2025
Jan 05 Sun · 22:12
Core high
Mentioned in [59576] on WordPress SVN:
Comments: Noindex pages containing unapproved comments.
Jan 02 Thu · 20:31
Core med
Created ticket #62770 on Core Trac:
Move comment cookie handling to user/JavaScript space
Jan 01 Wed · 13:09
Core med
Created ticket #62760 on Core Trac:
Noindex URLs when they render unapproved comments
December 2024
Dec 20 Fri · 08:18
Community med
Created issue #1450 in the WordPress/wordcamp.org repository:
Remove wordpress.org login requirement for buying WordCamp tickets
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Developer

14 plugins

Contributor

7 plugins

Themes

1 theme