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Yorick Brown

Creative Technologist and Developer at The Yorick Touch

@yodiyo United Kingdom joined Oct 2010

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    Bio

    A rare find, I am a full-stack developer who enjoys implementing designs on the front-end as much as engineering templates, APIs, and queries on the back-end. I relish the challenges of customising WordPress themes and plugins and I have substantial experience with eCommerce and 3rd-party integrations.

    ★ Front-end stack: HTML5, CSS3, SASS, LESS, JavaScript/TypeScript, NPM, Gulp, Webpack ★
    ★ Front-end frameworks & libraries: React, AngularJS, jQuery, Bootstrap ★
    ★ Templating: PHP, XSLT, XPATH, XQUERY, XSL-FO, Handlebars ★
    ★ Data modelling and API methodologies: JSON, XML, RESTful, MySQL★
    ★ Content Management Systems: WordPress, Unify, Squarespace, Concrete★
    ★ Debugging and problem-solving: Chrome/Firefox DevTools, Stack Overflow ★
    ★ Git, CI/CD, and code management: Github, Bitbucket, AWS, Docker ★
    ★ Project management: Jira, Trello, Agile, sprint, Kanban, waterfall ★

    Interests

    Writing, photography, politics, technology, AI, family, education, kayaking, tennis, squash, film, music and festivals.

    Oh, and food. My first hobby site is all about lunch – https://rollonlunch.com

    WordPress Origin Story

    Back in 2006. I saw a WordUp London event advertised, went along, loved the energy and community vibe, and was hooked. I started building hobby sites. As a Lead CMS Developer at my work – studied the schema of WordPress templates and applied a similar structure to the company CMS. By then, I was also building sites for clients, before eventually joining Pragmatic, one of the top VIP WordPress agencies in the UK and also served another few years with other VIP WordPress agencies. I’m currently working on various freelance projects and exploring new frontiers in AI and API integrations with the WordPress platform.

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    Current Job

    Creative Technologist and Developer
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    The Yorick Touch

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    Team focus

    Across 3 teams, with no team-attributable contributions in the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 1 release
    • 5.3

    Contributions

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    September 2025
    Sep 02 Tue · 13:09
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    Wrote a comment on the post Introducing Block Bindings, part 1: connecting custom fields, on the site WordPress Developer Blog:
    Thank you very much for this great set of articles on block binding, variations and…
    Sep 02 Tue · 13:09
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    Wrote a comment on the post Introducing Block Bindings, part 1: connecting custom fields, on the site WordPress Developer Blog:
    Yes, I was going to point this out too. This is definitely the case for…
    November 2023
    Nov 08 Wed · 13:13
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    Created a topic, Translations in My Account not working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Translations for My Account strings are not working: …

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