The open source publishing platform that powers over 40% of the web.
I’ve been working on WordPress since 2011, across both the open source project and WordPress.com. It’s been the through-line of my career — fifteen years designing and building tools that help people publish on the web. I’ve contributed to WordPress releases 4.2 through 6.0, and I’m still actively contributing to the Gutenberg repo today.
Gutenberg Block Editor
I was a founding member of the block editor team, working alongside Matías Ventura from the earliest days of the project. I helped prototype, design, and build foundational features including block styles, parent block selection, the list view, and the linking experience. The block editor now ships in every WordPress install — over 40% of the web. The project is fully open source on GitHub, and I’m still opening issues and PRs to this day.
MP6 (WordPress 3.8)
The last major visual redesign of the WordPress admin. I designed and built the new widgets interface that shipped with the release, and helped review and test across the full scope of the redesign.
THX
A complete redesign and rebuild of WordPress’s theme management system, led by Matías Ventura. It was largely just the two of us — a from-scratch rethinking of how people discover, preview, and install themes.
Design Team Rep
In 2021, I was welcomed as the WordPress.org Design Team Representative, representing the design team to the broader project. As a staff designer at Automattic, I’ve helped the WordPress.com design team learn and grow — offering guidance, feedback, and mentorship across the organization.
Plugins & Experiments
Over the years I’ve built a number of WordPress plugins and prototypes — some shipped in core, some stayed experiments, all of them scratching an itch.
- widgets-widgets-widgets — Rethinking widgets in WordPress. A series of prototypes exploring how widgets could work better, from drag-and-drop to live preview. This work fed directly into the Widget Customizer that shipped in core.
- Better-Widgets — “This makes widgets better. Trust me.” A companion plugin cleaning up the widget experience in wp-admin.
- THX — The prototype that became the WordPress theme browser. A better way to browse and install themes from wp-admin.
- template-grid — A Gutenberg block for creating template layouts using flexbox. An early experiment in block-based page building.
- title-prompt — A small tweak to the WordPress title field behavior in wp-admin. Sometimes the best plugins are the simplest.
- mini-admin-bar — A minimal admin bar for WordPress. Less chrome, more content.