Building websites has been a way for me to express myself and to reach other people since the mid 90’s.
And that is what WordPress is to me, a tool that helps people create their own space where they can express themselves freely, a tool to help people grow. It is also why open source, the four freedoms, and web accessibility is important to me.
I am a theme nerd who enjoys every aspect of theme development because I can be creative with the design and provide structure with code.
As a WordPress Core contributor my focuses are accessibility and themes.
Before this I worked with refugees at a government agency for 18 years. Besides coding I enjoy cross stitching and painting. I am a gamer, so even outside work I spend a lot of time at the computer. I enjoy country music and hiphop, and watching adventure and sci fi movies.
January was an exciting month! Together we worked on PHP 8.0+ compatibility, editor enhancements and accessibility improvements for WordPress version 6.2. Among other things, we attended bug scrubs and the old Trac ticket triage, and helped land the custom CSS feature in the Site Editor. Our monthly updates Andrea In the last month, with the […]
Read: "A month with the WordPress Core team – January 2023"
Since its release on November 1st, WordPress 6.1 has been downloaded over 19 million times. On the Yoast blog, you can find more details about the release, including some of the features we worked on: WordPress 6.1.1 is scheduled for release on Tuesday, November 15. It contains several bug fixes fore core and the block […]
Read: "A week with us: WordPress 6.1 and 6.1.1"
Since our last blog update, we have had a successful Contributor day at the Yoast office and online, and WordPress has released Beta 1 and Beta 2 of version 6.1. Ari A lot has happened in the past few weeks! SQLite support We finally published our official proposal to support SQLite in WordPress Core, and […]
Read: "A week with us: Beta x 2"
This week we continue to work through the heatwave that has hit Europe. Read about how Andrea is sharing his accessibility knowledge by adding a section to the block editor handbook, while Ari experiments with the new Style Engine. Yoast Contributor day We also want to let you know that there will be a Yoast […]
Read: "A week with us: 40 commits and 40 degrees"
This week, Ari and Carolina are at WordCamp Europe in Porto. Since our whole team works remotely, it is our first opportunity to meet some of our colleagues in person! We are looking forward to seeing old friends, meeting new people, connecting with other contributors, and, of course the contributor day and after party. If […]
Read: "A week with us: WordCamp Europe"
We have had lots going on these past two weeks. Sergey has helped with the release of WordPress version 5.9.3, which is a minor release. There are 19 bug fixes in this release, including fixes for the customizer, image blocks and cover blocks. You can read all about the release on WordPress.org. The WordPress 6.0 […]
Read: "A week with us: WordPress 6.0 feature freeze is getting closer"
Whether you celebrated Valentine’s Day or Single Awareness Day, there is always love for WordPress, and here is what we have been working on this week. The release candidate for WordPress 5.9.1 will arrive later today, plans for 6.0 are taking shape, and there was a new release of Gutenberg (version 12.6). Our weekly updates […]
Read: "A week with us: WordPress 5.9.1 Release Candidate and e2e test migration"
The latest release of WordPress is here and it brings us loads of new features. In a nutshell, WordPress 5.9 is the next stop on the road to full site editing. But what does that mean? What is full site editing and what can you do with it? In this blog post, we’ll discuss exactly […]
Read: "What is full site editing (FSE) in WordPress?"
The last planned release candidate for WordPress 5.9, RC3, was released on Tuesday. Unless new critical bugs are found, there will be no more code changes to this major release. Head over to WordPress.org to read the release post and how you can contribute with testing or translations. Our weekly updates Justin This week, my […]
Read: "A week with us: WordPress 5.9 on the finishing line"
WordPress 5.9 Beta 1 was due on Tuesday of this week. The release squad initially delayed the beta for 24 hours to allow more time to work on the new full site editing features. Contributors are now discussing if WordPress 5.9 needs to be postponed until January 2022. By the time this post is published, […]
Read: "A week with us: Beta 1 of WordPress 5.9 postponed"
