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I am an allround WordPress theme builder with a UX background. I hold a masters degree in Human Factors Engineering Psychology and have a big passion for highly usable interfaces, especially websites. I have autodidactically developed my coding over the past six years, and run a solo business to build websites for my clients.

I aim to contribute to WordPress as much as I can, to help make the block editor interface less confusing, and more intuitive, from both perspectives of user and developer.

WordPress Origin Story

It all started 9years ago with my first tinyframework (by mtomas7) website, built on _underscores. This theme framework has greatly helped me to understand core WordPress. Not much later I got accustomed to ACF and created my own CSS framework for it.

I have always been a proponent of WordPress projects that follow standards as much as possible, leveraging custom post types & taxonomies and keeping with WordPress php functions.

Since update 5.8 I made the big step to adopt Gutenberg and blocks and created a fresh starter theme for my projects. This has evolved in a flexible and variable controlled block website fully leveraging theme.json and patterns. It is an exciting time!

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WordPress releases

Contributed to 3 releases
  • 6.9
  • 6.8
  • 6.6

Contributions

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November 2023
Nov 11 Sat · 09:48
Meta med
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 6.4 Field Guide, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I see a new way of adding names to group blocks and specifying more color…
October 2023
Oct 04 Wed · 08:10
Playground med
Created issue #114 in the WordPress/playground-tools repository:
wp-now: EPERM operation not permitted: rename
September 2023
Sep 13 Wed · 10:26
Core med
Created issue #54417 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Site editor UX issues, revert back to frontpage, extra edit prompt
August 2023
Aug 31 Thu · 09:14
Core med
Created issue #54084 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Spacer block bug retrieving spacing.spacingSizes presets.
Aug 15 Tue · 12:20
Core med
Created issue #53678 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Query / Post-template-block layout controls should be on parent (WP 6.3).
April 2023
Apr 21 Fri · 07:56
Core med
Created issue #49983 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
WP 6.2 Categories-list block wrongly displays & counts non-existing uncategorized posts
March 2023
Mar 31 Fri · 09:02
Meta med
Wrote a comment on the post Custom CSS for global styles and per block, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This is a nice addition. Here's hoping that this feature can at some point support…
Mar 31 Fri · 08:41
Meta med
Wrote a comment on the post Style Book preview of blocks in global styles, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This is a very cool and handy feature! However I can think of many use…
November 2022
Nov 27 Sun · 09:56
Core med
Created issue #46090 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Navigation block - add 'current-menu-item' to post-type archive links
Nov 17 Thu · 12:22
Core med
Created issue #45848 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Row vertical alignment breaks when in column