Carolina Nymark
Business Owner at Carolinas Broderi
Stockholm County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolCarolina Nymark is a seasoned WordPress engineer and educator based in Stockholm with over a decade of hands-on experience building block-based themes and front-end features for the WordPress ecosystem. As a WordPress core committer and Bundled Theme component maintainer, she has shipped enhancements to Gutenberg—adding blocks like post comments link and author name—and helped shape the bundled themes used by millions. She combines open source stewardship with practical product work, having been sponsored by and worked for Yoast on blocks, testing, triage and documentation. Alongside freelance and educational work on full-site editing, she runs a creative embroidery pattern business, reflecting a design-minded approach to technical problems. Her background includes nearly two decades of administrative experience in government, which informs her meticulous documentation and process-oriented contributions.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Webdesign, Webdesign at Umeå University
Swedish, English
Github Skills (10)
html10
css10
wordpress10
editors10
blocks10
javascript10
blockly10
editor10
gutenberg10
react10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
WordPress/theme-experiments
Oct 2020 - Jul 2022
Experimenting with themes made out of blocks.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 42 reviews, 98 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Carolina primarily contributed to the development of a block-based theme for WordPress. They modified template files, added CSS classes, and updated the theme's styling. They also implemented features such as comment areas and query pagination. Furthermore, the user introduced a new basic blog theme called "Armando."
themesexperimenting
WordPress/gutenberg
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
The Block Editor project for WordPress and beyond. Plugin is available from the official repository.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:996 reviews, 350 commits, 501 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Carolina primarily contributed to the block editor project, focusing on front-end development tasks. They implemented new features such as the post comments link block and author name block, as well as updated existing block features such as post title, post excerpt, and site logo. Their work involved modifying existing components and adding new features and functionality to enhance the user experience within the WordPress block editor, including adding CSS classes, and options for links and display.
block-editorwordpressgutenbergwordpress-pluginbeyond
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