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.
Having an accessible website means that more people can use your website and the information that you share. There are a couple of checks you can do yourself before publishing an article to make sure your article can be read and understood by as many people as possible. Did you know Yoast SEO and the […]
Read: "Writing accessible content: 4 checks you can do with Yoast SEO and the block editor"
Our main focus this week has been WordPress 5.9. Justin has been working on end-to-end (E2E) tests for the Application Passwords feature, and Ari has worked on the Webfonts API and followed up on feedback on the performance team proposal. There were a lot of responses! We are excited about how well the community received […]
Read: "A week with us: Progress on the Webfonts API"
This week, the team was planning for the final quarter of the year, which includes work on Core, Test, and Theme in the WordPress project. We were also preparing for the upcoming contributor day at Yoast. This time it will be open to guests from outside the company, so watch this space for an invitation! […]
Read: "A week with us: Preparing for Q4 and contributor day"
In our weekly blog, you can read about why Ari is working on improving the block editor user preferences. Carolina has had a zoom meeting with theme developers, and Sergey is triaging tickets for WordPress 5.9. Justin has been working on other internal projects within Yoast, and Francesca is on vacation this week. Our weekly […]
Read: "A week with us: Meeting with theme developers and improvements on the block editor"
Last week, we had an online contributor day during which Yoast employees could contribute to WordPress. We also had a few special guests joining us on that day. In addition, beta 3 of WordPress 5.8 kept our WordPress Core team busy last week. In this blog post, we’ll update you on all these contributions! Contributor […]
Read: "A week with us: Contributor day and WordPress 5.8 beta 3"
This week, it was time for the planned feature freeze for Gutenberg, which means developers can’t add any more new features to the release. Also, today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD)! Want to know what our team did with the feature freeze and GAAD? And, what other things we’ve been working on? Then keep […]
Read: "A week with us: Editor feature freeze and GAAD"
Last week, we wrote about contributing to testing the first beta of WordPress 5.7. This week, WordPress 5.7 reached the third and final beta stage! The beta has kept the WordPress core team busy – especially Sergey and Tim, since they are directly involved with the release squad. Read more about what our team has […]
Read: "A week with us: WordPress 5.7 has reached the final beta stage and updates from the team"
