{"id":216609,"date":"2014-08-19T09:43:37","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T09:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.europe.wordcamp.org\/?p=216609"},"modified":"2014-08-19T09:47:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T09:47:00","slug":"wceu-2014-speakers-joost-de-valk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wceu-2014-speakers-joost-de-valk\/","title":{"rendered":"WCEU 2014 Speakers: Joost de Valk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Give a warm welcome to\u00a0our next WordCamp Europe 2014 speaker &#8211; WordPress developer, SEO &amp; and an Open Source expert\u00a0<strong>Joost de Valk<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Working with WordPress since 2006, Joost has a 10 year background in online marketing, more specifically SEO, and has always combined his knowledge of the two. Yoast, which he founded, has grown from a one-man-band to a 16 people agency over the last 3 years, focussing on both reviewing and improving websites as well as building free &amp; premium plugins. His WordPress SEO and Google Analytics plugins are consistently among the highest rated and most downloaded plugins available for WordPress.<\/p>\n<p>Joost was one of our most popular speakers at WordCamp Europe 2013. Watch his talk <strong>The Victory of the Commons <\/strong>and stay tuned for details on his talk in Sofia.<\/p>\n<div id=\"v-6uzkORd0-1\" class=\"video-player\"><iframe title='VideoPress Video Player' aria-label='VideoPress Video Player' width='624' height='350' src='https:\/\/videopress.com\/embed\/6uzkORd0?hd=1&amp;cover=1&amp;loop=0&amp;autoPlay=0&amp;permalink=1&amp;muted=0&amp;controls=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;useAverageColor=0&amp;preloadContent=metadata' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen data-resize-to-parent=\"true\" allow='clipboard-write'><\/iframe><script src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/video\/assets\/js\/next\/videopress-iframe.js'><\/script><\/div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #515151\">Follow<\/span><span style=\"color: #515151\">\u00a0WordCamp Europe\u00a0on\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #9f9f9f\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/wceurope\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter<\/a><span style=\"color: #515151\">,\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #9f9f9f\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WordCampEurope\">Facebook<\/a><span style=\"color: #515151\">, and\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #9f9f9f\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/111206512395258367886\/posts\">Google +<\/a><span style=\"color: #515151\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome our next WordCamp Europe 2014 speaker, WordPress developer, SEO &amp; and an Open Source expert Joost de Valk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9920888,"featured_media":216615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[22869,6543,340820],"class_list":["post-216609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speakers","tag-joost-de-valk","tag-speakers-2","tag-wceu-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2014\/files\/2014\/08\/Joost.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9920888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216609"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216618,"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216609\/revisions\/216618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europe.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}