jonnyauk (@jonnyauk) – WordPress user profile

Bio

I’m a UX lead at Jask Creative with over 25 years in the industry, including two decades working heavily in WordPress development. I used to be very hands-on as a developer, but these days my focus is on UX: doing the research, shaping the strategy, and keeping things pointed in the right direction so that everything we create feels intuitive and works for real people.

Accessibility really matters to me. I like bringing technical knowledge and creative thinking together to build experiences everyone can enjoy, not just some people. Along the way, I also mentor teams and help them grow their own UX capabilities.

Interests

Theme design, CSS, plugin creation, ux, ui, accessibility

WordPress Origin Story

I began working with WordPress early 2005 after working with various other content management systems (which I choose not to mention here!) It quickly developed to be my first choice when developing client websites and I like to help out the WordPress community where I can.

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CODE

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Core Contributor '15 Plugin Developer Themes Team '14

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B BuddyPress Contributor '19 WordCamp Speaker '15

Current Job

Senior UX Specialist/Lead

Apr 2025 – Present

Jask Creative · Full-time

I lead and deliver user experience research and strategy for our clients, ensuring their digital products are intuitive and effective. I am responsible for developing and delivering our UX service offering, clearly communicating its value to both existing and prospective clients. Additionally, I mentor and support our team, helping to strengthen our overall UX capability.

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WordPress releases

Contributed to 3 releases

Contributions

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January 2025

Jan 30 Thu · 03:54

Core high

Mentioned in [59736] on WordPress SVN:
Accessibility: Add invalid password message for post passwords.

February 2021

Feb 19 Fri · 10:26

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Created a topic, Sergey – impressive support for free!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I had some questions regarding the javascript implemen…

March 2019

Mar 21 Thu · 16:52

Meta high

Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Bristol 2019

July 2017

Jul 21 Fri · 12:53

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Wrote a new post, Welcome to WordCamp Birmingham, UK, on the site WordCamp Birmingham, UK:
Organizers note: Please update the portions with red text. We're happy to announce that WordCamp…

March 2017

Mar 28 Tue · 14:30

Meta high

Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Bristol, United Kingdom 2017

February 2017

Feb 01 Wed · 20:23

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Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp London 2017

November 2016

Nov 23 Wed · 11:04

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Posted a reply to BUG: WP_POST_REVISIONS already defined on line 134, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
OK - I've replicated your bug - you have either: 1) defined the following in…

Nov 23 Wed · 10:49

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Posted a reply to BUG: WP_POST_REVISIONS already defined on line 134, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for reporting, I've not come across this bug, however - I'll take a look…

September 2016

Sep 06 Tue · 04:25

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Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Manchester 2016

August 2016

Aug 20 Sat · 23:44

Core high

Mentioned in [38295] on WordPress SVN:
Media: `wp_get_attachment_link()` fails to output text for non-images if the attachment post doesn't have a title and `$text` (argument #5) was not passed to the func.