Wanted: Women WordPress Developers

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1. Barry (33 comments.) says:

   5/7/2009 at 8:30 am

   Didn’t think very far Jeff :). What about Andrea_r who contributes directly to your own WP Tavern website and forum and is very active in the WordPress (particularly WordPress MU world)?
   • Andrea_R (29 comments.) says:

     5/7/2009 at 12:51 pm

     He did say “and a few others”.
   • Jeff Chandler (295 comments.) says:

     5/7/2009 at 4:09 pm

     During the post, I thought of Lorelle, Liz Strauss, Andrea, Kim Parsell, Kit Singleton, and some others. But I don’t see them as developers unless I’m wrong. There are plenty of women who contribute to WordPress but which of them are PHP coders, developers, ones that can submit patches to WordPress? That is who this post is looking for.
     • that girl again (41 comments.) says:

       5/7/2009 at 9:54 pm

       Historically, WP has had trouble retaining female developers, but I think that’s an issue with most open source software. Hopefully, the professionalisation of the project, the presence of women at Automattic and the movement away from an aggressive and occasionally misogynistic fanboy culture will improve matters, and a year from now you will no longer be struggling to think of women coders.

       (The other problem, of course, is that for a number of social and cultural reasons, female developers tend not to be as addicted to self-promotion as the men. This may be harder to overcome.)
2. Webdev (11 comments.) says:

   5/7/2009 at 8:42 am

   Strong title Recently I saw a statistics for 2008 conform which senior developers are approximately equally part from both sex. So due to this post I think WordPress is a “masculine software” at this point, isn’t it?
   However, I don’t bother which sex contributes more bringing WordPress to live and evolution, great job!
3. Lynette Chandler (2 comments.) says:

   5/7/2009 at 4:03 pm

   “I can’t think of any women off the top of my head that contributes routinely to the development of WordPress or plugins”

   Maybe it’s a gender thing, I tend to be a more behind-the-scenes type person too bad I’m neither in San Francisco nor NYC. Would be a fab opportunity.
4. bubazoo (213 comments.) says:

   5/7/2009 at 8:03 pm

   I can think of two female developers, but one of them develops privately from what I understand.
   THere’s hightechredneckwoman from hightechredneckwoman.com she’s been a WP plugin
   developer for as long as i know. She don’t care a hoot about me, but she’s my idol. lol
   then there’s Jennifer, who’s been a WP developer / mother for as long as WP has been
   in existence. She was a MT gal until she switched to wordpress back in the 1.x days.
   I forget where her blog is at, [something]goddess I forget off the top of my head now. lol
   but I know she’s friends with several other female developers that she has listed on her
   blogroll.
   • Jennifer (1 comments.) says:

     5/8/2009 at 2:55 pm

     Hehe. You talkin’ ’bout me? scriptygoddess.com – I actually emailed her. However, the email I received about it didn’t specify CA area – I don’t live in CA. The coding I do now for wordpres isn’t so much patch/plugin development as it is customizing themes – usually for the purpose of making it behave like a typical CMS. So not sure if I can help or not – but I did reach out.
5. bubazoo (213 comments.) says:

   5/7/2009 at 8:06 pm

   here it is. scriptygoddess.com I knew I would think of it eventually. LOL
   I just know her as Jennifer from her old MT blog days.
6. Amy Stephen (1 comments.) says:

   5/8/2009 at 8:41 am

   Good job! I am a female developer with Joomla!. Drupal does a great job supporting women. Glad to see the WordPress community working on this, as well.
7. Hannit (1 comments.) says:

   5/10/2009 at 10:15 am

   Well, I’m another one. Furtunately well known in Israel. Unfortunately live in Israel.

   But… I must say I don’t know of any other woman WP developers in IL.