Irene Strikkers (@ireneyoast) – WordPress user profile

Member Since: May 9th, 2016
Location: The Netherlands
Website: yoast.com
Job Title: Development Manager Plugin & Release Lead
Employer: Yoast
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Bio

I’m the development manager of Yoast’s plugin team. I enjoy optimizing processes and being the communication link between Development, QA and Product.

Over the years, I’ve been part of many of Yoast’s development teams: I joined the inaugural MyYoast team, switched back to the plugin team, became team lead of the Gutenberg integration team, and later of all plugin development teams.

On Contributor days you’ll find me at the Core or Gutenberg table to write or test code, the Polyglots table to translate, the Marketing table to subtitle videos, or the Docs table to write or review docs.

To relax I like to go for a run, visit a museum or discover a new place. I have a passion for linguistics and history.

WordPress Origin Story

After studying linguistics, I applied to the only job posting I have ever seen to this day that had ‘Linguist’ as its title. Little did I know that I would become part of the WordPress community a few months later.

During my first few months at Yoast, I focussed on developing content checks to help our users to write more readable content. When I was asked if I wanted to assist in writing the code for those checks as well, I immediately said yes!

Because @mariekerakt and @joostdevalk were going to present this new feature on WordCamp Europe 2016, I was asked if I wanted to travel to Vienna as well. Of course, I wanted to join! From the moment I entered the venue, I was sold. There were so many friendly people and interesting talks. There really was a sense of community.

My temporary move to the development team at Yoast turned out to be quite permanent. When I became the lead of Yoast’s Gutenberg integration team in 2018, it was the first time I really contributed to WordPress’s code. Among other things, I worked on the extensibility of the Gutenberg sidebar.

My most memorable WordPress contributor story is spending months of Thursday afternoons with @terwdan documenting all the regexes used in editor.js.

Contributions Sponsored

Irene Strikkers contributes 1 hours per week to the following teams: Core, Marketing.

Contribution History

Core Contributor
Documentation Contributor
Plugin Developer
Translation Contributor
Translation Editor
WordCamp Speaker

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Plugins
Translations

Wrote a comment on the post Call for testing: PHP 8.0, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I ran into 404s on my first try. Running npm run env:pull and restarting the…

11 months ago
Committed [2283043] to Plugins Trac:
Remove premium-specific sentence from the changelog intro

1 year ago
Committed [2278959] to Plugins Trac:
Set stable tag to 13.4.1 on trunk to reflect the 13.4.1 release

1 year ago
Committed [2278175] to Plugins Trac:
Sets minimum PHP version to 5.6.20

1 year ago
Committed [2182185] to Plugins Trac:
Set minimum version to 5.2 and tested up to version to 5.3

2 years ago
Committed [2182182] to Plugins Trac:
Set tested up to version to 5.3

2 years ago
Committed [2182181] to Plugins Trac:
Set minimum version to 5.2 and tested up to version to 5.3

2 years ago
Committed [2182180] to Plugins Trac:
Set minimum version to 5.2 and tested up to version to 5.3

2 years ago
Committed [2182178] to Plugins Trac:
Set minimum version to 5.2, tested up to version to 5.3 and PHP ...

2 years ago
Committed [2182173] to Plugins Trac:
Set minimum version to 5.2 and tested up to version to 5.3

2 years ago
Committed [2157831] to Plugins Trac:
Committing 12.2-RC1 to trunk

2 years ago
Posted a reply to Uncaught Error: Class ‘WPSEO_Capability_Manager_Factory’, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @beatom, Thank you for reporting this issue. However, I have a hard time reproducing…

3 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Nijmegen 2018

3 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post JS docs initiative: Add inline-docs for JavaScript!, on the site Make WordPress Core:
We'd like to claim wp-admin/js/language-chooser.js

3 years ago
Created a new ticket, #43020, in Core Trac:
Improve JS Documentation: customize-image-cropper.js

4 years ago
Created a new ticket, #42956, in Core Trac:
Improve JS Documentation: js/media-upload.js

4 years ago
Created a new ticket, #42955, in Core Trac:
Add documentation for js/media/views/attachments.js

4 years ago
Created a new ticket, #42954, in Core Trac:
Add documentation for customize-preview-widgets.js

4 years ago

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