Margherita Pelonara (@margheweb) – WordPress user profile

Bio

Hi! I’m Margherita, born and raised in a small town in Italy, where the landscape is made up of hills dotted with wheat fields, sunflowers, vineyards, and olive groves. There is no traffic noise and that is good, but the downside is that I often struggle with a bad internet signal.

I’m a freelance web designer since 2013

I collect lipsticks (or other make-up) and stationary—pens, colored pencils, stickers and notebooks (can you see why I love going to WordCamps?!). And I’m always up for pizza night.

Interests

People, cats, stationary & lipsticks. Not necessarily in that order.

WordPress Origin Story

I got to know the web in 1996, when I chose the hotel for my honeymoon because it had a nice website. Since then it has been just love and the only times we have had a fight it has always been the fault of the poor quality of the network signal.

WordPress entered my life by force, at the behest of the owner of the sad provincial web agency where I worked, churning out a website every 2 weeks – officially as web designer, but often doing tasks as art director, project manager, web design, copy and graphics, too, practically all by myself) . It was in 2013: intimidated, I started the installation unwillingly and out of a sense of duty. An installation that lasted less than 5 minutes: I never went back because an incredible feeling was immediately born!

Many things have changed since then: I build WordPress websites for women solopreneurs and frelancers, I founded the WordPress Meetup in Ancona in 2016 and organize (nearly) monthly meetings, I attended as a speaker at some WordCamps and Meetup:
– WordCamp Bari 2018 (talking about web accessibility);
– WordCamp Bari 2019 (talking about new Gutenberg Editor);
– WordPress Meetup Teramo (October 2019, talking about accessibility);
– WordCamp Italia 2020 (talking about web accessibility);
– WordCamp Torino 2023 (talking about self promotion for solopreneurs);
– WordPress Rome Community Day 2023 (Next Gen Event – moderating a panel and leading a workshop on diversity and inclusion);
– WordCamp Verona 2023 (talking with Simona Simionato about DEIB);
– WordPress Meetup Zagarolo (April 2024, talking about the empowerment of women through the development of their own WordPress-based business)
– WordPress Valencia Diversity Day 2024 (talking about equity and belonging).

As WordPress Foundation’s Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship Recipient in 2022, I could attend WordCamp US in San Diego (CA). I was one of 125 people invited to join and discuss at WordPress Community Summit in National Harbor (MD) in 2023.

Contributions

Margherita Pelonara contributes 8 hours per week to the following teams: Community, Polyglots, and Training.

Member Since: June 27th, 2016
Location: A lovely village called Santa Maria Nuova (Ancona), in Marche Region - Italy
Website: margheritapelonara.eu
GitHub: margheweb
Job Title: WordPress Expert (Web-Something, among web design, web develop & copy)
Employer: Freelancer
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Contribution History

Meetup Organizer
Training Contributor
Translation Contributor
Translation Editor
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Speaker

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Wrote a new post, Tutti i meetup di giugno 2025, on the site Italia:
In tutta Italia ci sono meetup WordPress! I meetup sono incontri gratuiti e aperti a…
3 weeks ago
Created a topic, Problems displaying the credit card number entry form., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Problems displaying the credit card number entry form.…
2 months ago
Wrote a new post, Trasforma le tue idee in talk coinvolgenti – #WPDiversity Workshop, on the site Italia:
Hai mai sognato di parlare a un evento di WordPress, ma una vocina interiore ti…
3 months ago
Wrote a new post, Protagoniste nel Tech, on the site Italia:
Esperienze e visioni di donne che ispirano Martedì 11 marzo ore 16-20, Casa delle Donne…
4 months ago
Reviewed 11 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
6 months ago
Reviewed 3 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
7 months ago
Translated 6 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
7 months ago
Wrote a new post, Tutti i meetup di dicembre 2024, on the site Italia:
In tutta Italia ci sono meetup WordPress!I meetup sono incontri gratuiti e aperti a tutti,…
7 months ago
Reviewed 4 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
8 months ago
Completed the course WordPress meetup organizer training on learn.wordpress.org
8 months ago
Wrote a new post, [Canale DEIB] Riunione del 18 novembre 2024, on the site Team italiano:
Presenti:@glorialchemica, @lidia, @Maria Vittoria, @Chiara e @margheweb (che facilita e coordina). Lettura risposte aperte del sondaggio: si decide che le risposte…
8 months ago
Translated 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.
9 months ago
Reviewed 11 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
9 months ago
Translated 28 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
9 months ago
Made 2 updates to handbook pages on Team italiano.
9 months ago
Translated 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.
10 months ago
Translated 6 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
10 months ago
Translated 2 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
10 months ago
Wrote a new post, Il primo do_action in Italia, on the site Italia:
È stato fissato per il 12 ottobre 2024 nel calendario mondiale degli eventi WordPress il…
10 months ago
Translated 4 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
11 months ago
Translated 21 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
11 months ago
Translated 2 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
11 months ago
Wrote a new post, Scopri il nuovo Learn WordPress, on the site Italia:
Articolo originale di Kathryn Presner- Traduzione di @margheweb Più di un anno fa, il Team…
11 months ago
Joined the organizing team for Rome Core Days 2024
11 months ago
Translated 9 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
11 months ago
Translated 2 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
12 months ago
Translated 3 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
12 months ago
Wrote a new post, WordPress 6.6 “Dorsey”, on the site Italia:
Un saluto a WordPress 6.6 “Dorsey”, che prende il nome dal leggendario leader della Big…
12 months ago
Reviewed 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.
12 months ago
Translated 9 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
12 months ago
Translated 7 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
12 months ago
Reviewed 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.
12 months ago
Translated 4 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
12 months ago
Translated 4 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
1 year ago
Translated 3 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
1 year ago
Wrote a new post, Tutti i meetup di luglio 2024, on the site Italia:
In tutta Italia ci sono meetup WordPress!I meetup sono incontri gratuiti e aperti a tutti,…
1 year ago
Suggested 22 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
1 year ago
Translated 39 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
1 year ago
Translated 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.
1 year ago
Closed issue #2224 on the WordPress/Learn repository:
ITALIAN translation for COURSE "Writing in the WordPress Voice"
1 year ago
Completed the course Scrivere con la voce di WordPress on learn.wordpress.org
1 year ago
Translated 30 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
1 year ago
Wrote a new post, Pubblicato il nuovo Manifesto della Community, on the site Italia:
Come hai letto nel titolo di questo articolo, lo scorso lunedì 27 maggio 2024 la…
1 year ago
Translated 12 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
1 year ago
Translated 34 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
1 year ago
Reviewed 2 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
1 year ago
Translated 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.
1 year ago
Translated 25 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
1 year ago
Translated 19 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
1 year ago
Created issue #2225 in the WordPress/Learn repository:
ITALIAN translation for COURSE "Community Meeting Etiquette"
1 year ago