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Joost de Valk
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Joost de Valk
@jdevalk
Investor @emiliacapital • Founder @Yoast • Open Source aficionado currently playing with Astro & EmDash • Husband to Marieke • Father of 4 • 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇮🇹️️
- It's clear the #WordPress world needs a change. So I wrote a post about exactly that: Breaking the Status Quo: A vision for a new WordPress era buff.ly/4grFfIA
- So @photomatt - I saw the post by @automattic. I'm ready to lead the next releases. I am sure plenty of people and companies are willing to help me and we've got plenty of ideas on what we should be doing. #WordPress
- Can we all agree that this is nonsense? I have nothing against Elementor, but it’s not a CMS. It’s a page builder, or whatever we call those things these days. It doesn’t store the content, doesn’t deal with users, doesn’t do authentication, etc. Etc. The CMS is calledElementor is the content management system of the year w3techs.com/blog/entry/web… #Elementor @elemntorReaders added contextElementor is not a Content Management System (CMS), it is a software add-on (plugin) that adds design tools and options to WordPress. It is WordPress that provides the CMS functionality. The Elementor website itself covers the differences between the two: elementor.com/help/wordpress…
- 10 years ago I started a company, from home, with the support of my lovely wife, not knowing what it would turn into. Now, with 100+ employees and 11 million+ websites using our software, Marieke runs the show and we’re looking back a bit :-) youtu.be/btwt7EHOi0o
- People in the WordPress world realize that: hosts are slowly "cutting loose" from w .org. Either to mitigate risks or to allow updates when they're blocked. This has a big unintended consequence: Download & active install numbers are now no longer reliable.
- Let’s be clear: Karim and I asked for and proposed change inside the #WordPress project. *We* did not talk about a fork.
- I’m amazed by the negative backlash against Slack. I agree with it, don’t get me wrong. But do you all understand that OpenAI, Microsoft, Google and others trained their AIs on all *your* website content and *your* public code? Why are you not as mad about that?
- (Why) I'm stepping down from my WordPress marketing role:
- The moment I've been fearing would come, has come: #WordPress market share is shrinking. See what's happening, and why I think it's happening, in my blog post:
- I have an idea. Remember when we used to blog? How about we start doing that again a bit more frequently? Comment on each other’s blogs (time to re-enable those comments people!) and use pingbacks and trackbacks. Let’s not exchange Twitter for yet another platform we don’t own.
- I've been working incredibly hard with @jonoalderson and other colleagues to get Schema to a whole new level. @Yoast SEO 11.0, out today, in my not so humble opinion, changes the game on what Schema implementations should look like:
- Turns out there's a reason why WordPress sites without fancy JavaScript are outranking your shiny JS based site. This shouldn't be news but it keeps being news to developers.You’re unable to view this Post because this account owner limits who can view their Posts. Learn more
