senior wordpress developer · core contributor · speaker
Hi, I’m Jessica.
I build fast, accessible and user-friendly websites with WordPress — no unnecessary bloat. My focus: the Block and Site Editor, theme development, and web accessibility. Tea is my coffee and I’m a music lover.
Selected work
WordPress 6.4
Twenty Twenty-Four Default Theme
Default Theme Lead — one of the most widely used themes in the world, shipped with every WordPress install.
since 2020
WordPress Core Contributor
Default Theme Wrangler for WordPress 5.6, creator of the “Pilgrimage” style variation for Twenty Twenty-Three.
WCDE 2023
WordCamp Organizer
Lead organizer of WordCamp Germany 2023 and WordCamp Osnabrück 2019, meetup organizer in Nuremberg.
since 2016
Speaker
Talks at WordCamp Europe, WordCamp US and many more — themes, CSS, performance, accessibility.
Recent talks
From the blog
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TIL: Changes tab in Firefox DevTools
At the Smashing Conf SF 2019, Jen Simmons walked through creating a layout with CSS Grid almost completely from scratch. Showing the Firefox DevTools,…
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TIL: How to monospace numbers in fonts
I stumbled upon a CSS property I wasn’t aware of: font-feature-settings. Ever had the “joy” of using a non-monospace font and working with numbers…