Laurel Fulford
Theme Wrangler at Automattic
Courtenay, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolLaurel Fulford is a seasoned interface developer and designer with 13 years of experience, currently wrangling themes for Newspack at Automattic from her base on Vancouver Island. She combines front-end design sensibilities with back-end WordPress theme work—contributing PHP and CSS fixes, version maintenance, and contact-info implementations to Automattic's widely used themes repository. Her background spans agencies and in-house roles in web and digital media, giving her a pragmatic mix of creative design and production-grade development. Known for quietly keeping themes stable and accessible, she brings a meticulous, maintenance-first mindset to large open-source projects.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Design, Diploma, Design at North Island CollegeDiploma, Digital Media, Diploma, Digital Media at Vancouver Island University
Github Skills (4)
wp-theme10
php10
wordpress-themes10
css9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/themes
Feb 2018 - Mar 2022
Free WordPress themes made by Automattic for WordPress.org and WordPress.com.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:528 commits, 314 PRs, 345 pushes in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Laurel primarily contributed to WordPress theme development by modifying PHP and CSS files to update them. The commits included changing WordPress functions like `wp_filter_post_kses` to `wp_kses_post`. Moreover, the user corrected a CSS selector and bumped version numbers for the themes, indicating work on the project's core functionality and maintenance. Additionally, the user worked on the implementation of contact information.
wordpresswordpress-themeautomatticwordpress-themesthemes
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