While women are in no way the majority when it comes to those working with WordPress, there are plenty of examples of women who are doing some really great things with this platform. From developing plugins, themes, and contributing to the core WordPress software, as well as running successful web development studios and agencies, not to mention publishing large amounts of quality content across a range of platforms and media.
THUS, There are plenty of women in the world of WordPress who are worthy of mention.
Here is a list of awesome women in WordPress community.
Andrea Rennick—Andrea has been using WordPress since 2004 and now works at StudioPress in a technical support role. She is also a regular on the WordPress.org support forums, helping users with their issues and sharing her knowledge and experience. Her expertise can also be seen in the popular WordPress All-in-One For Dummies book, for which she was a co-author.
Andrea Whitmer—Andrea is an in demand WordPress Genesis developer who builds sites for clients for a range of purposes including financial blogs, fitness sites, and photography portfolios. Her design agency, Nuts and Bolts Media, has been in operation since 2011 and has been built upon Andrea’s 18 years of experience in the field.
Anita Cre8tiveDiva—Anita blogs about WordPress with a focus on the Genesis framework. Through her Cre8tiveDiva website, she offers a theme and customization service, as well as creating some great looking Genesis child themes.
Ayla View—Ayla is a cofounder of the ThemeBoy WordPress theme shop who produced the popular Football Club WordPress theme which is now in use by over 1,000 team sites in 100 countries. Ayla was introduced to WordPress while she was running a web development agency in Japan.After discovering its ease of use for both developers and clients, she made the transition to the platform before focusing on WordPress theme development and launching ThemeBoy, with the SportsPress plugin following soon after.
Christine Rondeau—Christine has been working with WordPress since 2004 and now offers her services as a front-end developer for the platform, via her design studio Blue Lime Media. Her involvement with the WordPress community extends beyond just client work as she contributes themes, helps users via the support forms and speaks at WordCamps.
Dee Teal—Dee Teal AKA the Web Princess offers web development services and WordPress consulting and training. On her blog you will find countless tips on using WordPress with a strong leaning towards the Genesis framework and the WP e- Commerce toolkit.
Dorian Speed—Dorian aims to help small businesses, organisations, and bloggers get better at the internet and build an online presence they are proud of, and she does that all that via her design shop Up to Speed. Dorian is another WordPress developer who builds her creations atop of the almost industry standard Genesis framework.
Emily White—Emily White is another Recommended Genesis Developer and works with clients through her full-service web and print design studio. Her portfolio is packed with creative web design and lots of happy clients.
Helen Hou-Sandí (@HelenHouSandi)—Helen is the Director of User Interface Engineering at 10up, a popular web development and strategy provider for WordPress. Her ongoing role as a Contributing Developer to the WordPress core makes her one of the most high profile women involved in the development and advancement of the world’s favourite blogging platform. She is involved in the recent 3.6 development cycle as a guest committer and feature lead for the post formats UI, and regularly helps out with Trac tickets. On top of that, she’s authored several plugins.
Jeni Elliot—Over at the Blog Maven site, Jeni offers a custom blog and website design service, as well as lots of great blogging and WordPress tips. If you are looking for someone to help you reach your blogging potential, or just want to take in the best advice on promoting yourself online then this is one blog maven who is well worth checking out.
Jen Mylo (@JenMylo)—Jen Mylo is one of the most well- known women on the list, partly for her UX work atAutomattic, but more recently for her taking on the role of encouraging more women and diversity in the WordPress community.
Mylo also launched her first initiative, a workshop series open only to women, in Washington DC and San Diego last month. The troubleshooting workshops helped participants learn about common errors, CSS fixes, software conflicts and hacks and viruses.
Jennifer Bourn—Jennifer is the Creative Director at Bourn Creative, a full service design agency that has been in business since 2005. Aside from her design and consulting work for Bourn Creative, Jennifer is a regular speaker at many industry events, as well as hosting workshops and seminars and co-organizing the Sacramento WordPress Meetup.
Jessica Barnard (@ThePixelista)—Jessica Barnard is a WordPress developer and graphic designer who specializes in ‘helping women create beautiful websites’ amongst other things and works at Bourne Creative. Jessica develops solely on the Genesis framework, allowing her to focus on design not code. She also has an entrepreneur’s eye, recently expanding her business by taking over the development and support of the popular themes from EightCrazy Designs.
Joyce Grace—Despite not liking cheesecake, Joyce has made a name for herself in the World of WordPress thanks to her insightful posts on the Manage WP blog and her services offered as a WordPress-focused internet marketer. With a background in journalism, Joyce’s writing abilities separate her from the crowd and help her clients realize their online potential.
Julie Kuehl-–Julie is aiming to improve the web, one site at a time and was recently aspeaker at the Denver WordCamp. Her talk was on how to get around the problem that Learning WordPress Sucks, which received great reviews. As well as attending WordCamps, Julie is active in the WordPress sphere thanks to the range of services she offers such as website wrangling and writing.
Lisa Sabin-Wilson (@LisaSabinWilson)—Lisa Sabin- Wilson’s story is almost legend —After 10 years as a registered nurse Lisa switched paths in 2004 to become a freelance web designer. It heralded the start of a very productive involvement with WordPress which continues to this day. As well as starting her own web design studio, before becoming a partner at WebDevStudios, Lisa is also a published author with WordPress Web Design for Dummies and BuddyPress for Dummies amongst her list of titles.
Lorelle VanFossen—Lorelle first got involved with WordPress back in 2003 and hasn’t looked back since. She has contributed 100s of articles to the WordPress Codex, and has presented or keynoted at 45 WordCamps from around the world. As if that wasn’t enough Lorelle has also creates 100s of websites using WordPress for clients as part of her web design service.
Mika Ariela Epstein (@Ipstenu)—Better known as Ipstenu, Mika Ariela Epstein is the Half-Elf support rogue. She works forDreamHost as a WordPress support specialist, but like so many others involved in the community, her work goes way beyond her day job. She’s a regular problem-solver in the WordPress.org forums, and is a dab-hand at plugin development too.
Raelene Wilson—Raelene Wilson is a blogger over at the ever popular and newly re-christened WPMU DEV Blog. As a fellow WordPress blogger, her posts are always a great source of inspiration as they always go the extra mile to ensure they are informative, insightful and in-depth. Her contributions to the WPMU Dev blog theme shop review series were great examples of her work.
Rebecca Gill-–Rebecca is the founder and President of Web Savvy Marketing, a design firm that offers a range of WordPress related services, as well as sponsoring WordCamp Miami 2014. The services on offer from Rebecca and her team include site development, custom WordPress theme design, and WordPress support and development.
Sara Cannon—Sara designs and codes at the Range design studio where she is a partner, and brings her years of experience with art, design and typography to the WordPress projects that the team take on.
Sarah Gooding (@PollyPlummer)—At the time Sarah was proudly presented on the blog as an award winning writer, and with good reason. She has been writing about WordPress longer than many of us have been using it. Not only that, she is a partner at Untame, a boutique digital marketing firm specializing in open source content management systems and social networking architecture.
Siobhan McKeown (@SiobhanPMcKeown)—Another success is McKeown, who started out as a writer on this very website. She has gone on to run Words for WP, is an editor at Smashing Magazine and recently started a new role at WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg’s angel investment company Audrey Capital.
Stephanie Leary—Stephanie is a published author and WordPress consultant who has helped many an aspiring developer get started with this platform thanks to her book: WordPress for Developers.As well as publishing books on WordPress, Stephanie also provides a range of related services and has created her own selection of plugins and themes.
Susan Nelson—Susan’s development work with WordPress has led to her becoming a Recommended Genesis Developer, thanks to the projects she has completed via her Oh Hello design shop. Susan also has created a child theme, Pure Elegance, that is available for the framework and showcases her design skills.
Susan Ramsey—Susan provides theme customization for the pre- made StudioPress themes that run on the widely-used Genesis framework via her Graphically Designing photography and design studio. As well as modifying Genesis child themes, Susan also helps support the community by moderating the StudioPress forums.
Suzette Franck (@suzette_franck)—Suzette works at web hosting specialists Media Temple, where she educates and advocates for WordPress. The line between her work time and free time is blurry however, as she attends an astonishing number of WordPress meet-ups and WordCamps.
If you are looking for some new WordPressers to follow on Twitter and pick up some excellent tips for using this platform from, then this list is just what you need.