Ellen Bauer (@elmastudio) – WordPress user profile

Bio

A front-end engineer and designer who co-founded ElmaStudio, a WordPress agency and theme shop, together with her partner Manuel. They both love minimal design and simple products that just work and are in line with the core WordPress philosophy.

Interests

Meeting people, learning languages, travel, vegan food

WordPress Origin Story

• First WordPress freelancing work in 2009.
• Started writing about WordPress in German, documenting their experiences and challenges as WordPress freelancers.
• Released their first two WordPress free themes in 2011 and 2012.
• Released their first Premium WordPress theme in 2012.
• Built over 30 premium WordPress themes the following years.
• Started to build the block collection plugin AinoBlocks in 2019.
• Created first their block theme Aino in 2021.
• Created their first premium block and WooCommerce themes in 2022/23.
• The second free block theme Moog was released in 2023.
• Currently building two new free block themes.

Badges

CODE

5 badges

Core Contributor '20 Core Team '20 Meta Contributor '22 Plugin Developer Theme Developer

COMMUNITY

1 badge

WordCamp Speaker '19

PRACTICE

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Test Contributor '21

POLYGLOTS

1 badge

Translation Contributor '21

Current Job

Product creator

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Recent impact

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WordPress releases

Contributed to 4 releases

Contributions

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October 2025

Oct 26 Sun · 06:50

Meta high

Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Kansai 2025

June 2025

Jun 26 Thu · 08:56

Meta high

Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Europe 2025

February 2024

Feb 14 Wed · 05:43

Themes med

Created ticket #165189 on Themes Trac:
THEME: Moog – 1.1.1

December 2023

Dec 04 Mon · 21:02

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Posted a reply to Show full post content in block, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Here is a video I created showing how to add the full post content to…

Dec 04 Mon · 21:01

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Posted a reply to Limiting text in cards, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I created a video showing how to customize the Index Template, I hope this will…

November 2023

Nov 23 Thu · 03:07

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Posted a reply to Gallery blocks, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Oh, ok, I understand, I will prepare a little video showing the Gallery block. In…

Nov 23 Thu · 02:58

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Posted a reply to Show full post content in block, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there,thank you so much for such an amazing feedback, I'm so happy that the…

Nov 23 Thu · 02:22

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Posted a reply to Post Grid Order, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there,I'm sorry for my late reply. Unfortunately at the moment the column based, vertical…

Nov 23 Thu · 02:14

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Posted a reply to Post to post navigation?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yes, we added the template, but you would need to update the Single post Template…

Nov 23 Thu · 00:56

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Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Hosting Learn videos on YouTube, on the site Make WordPress Training:
I really like this proposal, I think it will also highlight the amazing work done…