Joost de Valk, co-founder of the Yoast SEO plugin, called for a change in WordPress governance that removes Mullenweg as the sole decision maker, offering to lead the transition to a more democratic and diverse board that is representative of WordPress stakeholders. Matt Mullenweg disagreed. Critique Of Mullenweg’s Leadership Joost says that he was prompted … Read more
Joost de Valk, co-founder of the Yoast SEO plugin, published an article calling for more equitable contributions from large WordPress companies, greater financial transparency, and a new board that represents the voices of contributors and companies. Joost de Valk Supports Matt Mullenweg Joost de Valk’s article is supportive of WordPress and agrees with Automattic’s CEO … Read more
WordPress security company Patchstack announced a round of $5 million USD funding and the addition of Joost de Valk, co-founder of Yoast SEO, to their board. The funding will accelerate the development of Patchstack toward becoming the fastest full-cycle security solution. Patchstack – Trusted Security Partner Patchstack, based in Estonia, is a fast growing WordPress … Read more
A sharp-eyed search marketer noticed that Yoast was generating duplicate sitemaps. It’s not known how long this has been happening, but the head of SEO at Yoast acknowledged the bug and noted that Yoast is aware of the problem and says it is working on a fix. Once this duplicate sitemap bug was discovered however, … Read more
