Hello friends!
March 2026.
My name is Carolina Nymark. I am a developer and WordPress nerd from Stockholm, Sweden.
I have contributed to WordPress for over a decade, with countless hours, thousands of theme reviews, code contributions, support, documentation, and more.
I am a WordPress core committer and one of the Bundled Themes component maintainers.
I am passionate about themes and I am a former team representative for the WordPress.org Themes Team. I was one of the lead developers for the default themes Twenty Twenty-One and Twenty Twenty-Five.
My WordPress contributions were sponsored by Yoast from 2021 to 2024.
In 2025, Yoast and Newfold reduced their WordPress contributions, and I was employed by Yoast. As part of the Platform team, I created features, templates and custom blocks for Yoast.com, as we moved from a classic theme to a hybrid approach.
In early 2026, I was laid off, and I am now looking for new opportunities or sponsors to continue contributing to WordPress.
If you have an opening that would fit me or if you would like to collaborate, please email me or message me on LinkedIn. If we hang out in the same Slack, that is fine too. 😉
The story behind this site
On this site, I share lessons and tools for full site editing and block themes. A lot of things have changed since May 2020 when I first created this site.
For 18 years, I was employed by a government agency (administration and customer service) and WordPress was something I contributed to in my spare time.
During the first COVID outbreak, my employer was not able to offer working conditions that would have been safe for my disabled partner, and I became unemployed.
My job at the government agency was highly specialised. At that point, the only thing I really had to fall back on was my WordPress knowledge.
First, I freelanced a bit, but I found it difficult to compete on marketplaces because while I had knowledge and experience of WordPress, I did not yet have the necessary work experience in tech.
When I first started thinking about creating a course about full site editing, my first plan was to have some free articles and a paid course. I quickly learned that creating course plans and videos is difficult! Gutenberg development moved so fast that I could not keep the video material up to date. And it still moves at that pace!
I needed to change the format to something more practical that would be easy to update.
When discussions about creating Twenty Twenty-One started, I volunteered to be the development lead. This was a huge honor for me and I still feel that for a theme developer, it doesn’t get bigger than getting to create a default theme. It was not always easy, but it was an important experience for me. The team was also tasked with creating a block theme version of Twenty Twenty-One.
At that time, I took a chance and dedicated all my time to creating the theme without having an income. This was when I was contacted by Yoast and they decided to sponsor my work on the theme. After the theme was completed, I was able to continue the sponsorship deal. Not long after, I became a contractor and part of the WordPress core team at Yoast, and I mostly worked on Gutenberg and theme related tasks.
In 2024, I did it again. With the help of a co-lead and a design lead and a large number of contributors, we created the theme Twenty Twenty-Five.