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joost.blog
Internet entrepreneur • Investor at Emilia Capital • Founder of Yoast • Husband of Marieke van de Rakt • Father of 4 • 🇪🇺🇳🇱️ • he/him
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Today at #OSSummit @joost.blog and I with @fair.pm announced our open call to @linuxfoundation.org members to join a new directed fund to ensure a true #OpenSource #CMS ecosystem for generations to come! Get in touch to Join!

Just gotten off stage presenting about @fair.pm at the Linux Foundation’s #OSSummit together with @marucchi.com - we’re starting the conversations with funders of our project today.

We're delighted to launch the FAIR Package Manager with the Linux Foundation - read our announcement and come collaborate with us! #FAIRPM www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-...

Is WordPress innovation in plugins slowing down? In this post Marieke and I explore why new plugins struggle to gain traction and how established ones dominate and what that means for innovation. Walking around #WCEU today, I realized that I *really* needed to publish: joost.blog/innovation-i...

It's time to fix the image of WordPress and its security: progressplanner.com/time-to-fix-...

We made SEO easier for everyone. That was the goal. But in the process, we helped flood the web with content. This is a reflection on what worked, what didn’t, and what we can learn from it. joost.blog/unintended-c...

Not everything needs AI. But WordPress needs AI-ready infrastructure. Read my thoughts: progressplanner.com/wordpress-ne...

We've built something cool at @progressplanner.com over the last few weeks: an integration with Yoast SEO, to give you lots of recommendations to improve your Yoast SEO setup: progressplanner.com/progress-pla...

Google now wants your marketing emails. Literally. progressplanner.com/google-now-w...

I knew the risks of speaking up to Matt were there, and I’ve stayed silent on account of not wanting to get Taco in trouble before WordCamp Asia. But honestly, it sucks and it does have a real impact.

Post Status is celebrating Women in WordPress through brief interviews with @michellefrechette.bsky.social. In this interview, meet @raemorey.bsky.social! youtu.be/bUiSXkTxPA4

I've been having lots of different fun discussions around AI the last few weeks, but there's one that we simply have to shed more light on. In order to appear in AI, you can't build fancy headless websites. AI simply does not execute JavaScript when crawling your site. 1/2

I wrote about my experience at the #cloudfest Hackathon #cfhack and what I think the #WordPress world could learn from that: progressplanner.com/cloudfest-ha...

WP-CLI + MCP combines visionary technology and I‘m assembling an overall winning dream team to break any barriers. This is going to be a *pitch perfect* Hackathon project that allows you to master social media—I mean, WordPress—using AI. #CFHACK25 #CloudFest

I'm at the #Cloudfest #CFHack Hackathon! I've joined the WP CLI as an MCP host team (and yes that is a LOT of abbreviations in one sentence, we'll be using the #CLI-MCP hashtag).

I wrote a thing, mostly fun for search geeks: should we standardize redirect-by?

We (Marieke, @joost.blog, and me) have just started a new blog series "Progress for WordPress" on the @progressplanner.com website. Marieke wrote the first article "Why WordPress is a tough sell for marketing students". Go check it out at progressplanner.com/why-wordpres... #Progress #WordPress

I love it when I can send bug reports to a team, and they tackle them as pro’s, like The Events Calendar team did here:

Very thankful for our experience with PersonalizeWP and the team at Filter. While this was not our aspired outcome, I’m grateful for having the honest conversations and making the right choices when needed. I wish the team all the best!! personalizewp.com/blog/announc...

Yesterday we released Progress Planner Pro into the world. For me, it's what made me excited about developing for #WordPress again, as I truly thinks it helps people make & maintain their websites better. I'm super excited about it, so let me tell you about it:

So... We've acquired Post Status and then immediately handed it off to a new, non profit, foundation (I'm in that foundation too, of course, but not alone): poststatus.com/ringing-the-... Making sure Post Status keeps on being available for the community.

Help me out people: where can a student create a free WordPress site? (no domain needed, just something temporary)

Stuff that would make my life easier, "invoice" edition: 1. If I download an invoice from your site, give it a meaningful name, at the very least containing the word "invoice" or similar, your company name and the period.

Let’s be clear: Karim and I asked for and proposed change inside the #WordPress project. *We* did not talk about a fork.

Had a fantastic evening with my dad and three sons, watching Borussia Mönchengladbach play Bayern Munich.