Joost de Valk
Improving the web, one open-source project, open standard or better SEO’d website at a time.
CMS Market Share
Read my bi-annual CMS market share analysis, to see which CMSs are growing and which CMSs aren’t doing all that all well.
About Joost
Want to read more about me and the projects I work on? Grab a cup of coffee, find a comfortable place to sit and click the link below.
WP Plugins
I maintain several useful WordPress plugins to make your site better and easier to manage.
Investments
My wife Marieke and I have made several investments into companies inside & outside the WordPress space. You can read all about that on the website of our investment company Emilia Capital.
Speaking Engagements
I love the opportunity to speak at conferences all over the world.
Your Event Here!
Looking for a speaker? I’d love to hear about your event!
Online
AnyoneCanWP
I’ll keynote the first AnyoneCanWP hackathon, covering the present challenges and future opportunities within WordPress.
The Hague, NL
WordCamp NL
I’ll speak at the Netherlands’ only WordCamp about “The missing features of WordPress”.
Munich, DE
SMX München
Speaking about SEO domain migrations at Europe’s largest search conference.
Recent Blog Posts
Videos
Want to see me speak? Have a look at some of the videos below:
Improve the environment. Start with your website!
Your website runs on a server. That server uses electricity. Making your website more efficient and avoiding unnecessary visits to your website by bots, leads to less power consumption (and maybe even …
WordPress SEO in 2019
In this talk, which I gave at WordCamp Athens in 2019, I discussed the state of WordPress SEO:
Why timestamping will be good for SEO
In this video I discuss with Bas, the founder of WordProof, why timestamping is awesome:
