Margherita Pelonara (@margheweb) – WordPress user profile

Bio

Hi! I’m Margherita, born and raised in a small town in Italy, where the landscape is made up of hills dotted with wheat fields, sunflowers, vineyards, and olive groves. There is no traffic noise and that is good, but the downside is that I often struggle with a bad internet signal.

I’m a freelance web designer since 2013

I help freelance women professionals and women small business owners thrive online with their ventures, managing their websites, blogs, and e-commerce stores. I build them, maintain them, and fix them using the open-source WordPress platform.

I also dedicate part of my free time to WordPress itself, serving as a Content Translator for the Training Team, organizing WordPress Meetup Ancona, managing the social media channels for WordPress Community Italia, and undertaking various other online and in-person activities, primarily focusing on Accessibility & DEI Advocacy.

In 2022, I was honored to receive the Kim Parsell Scholarship from the WordPress Foundation, and in 2023, I was selected to participate in the WordPress Community Summit at National Harbor, MD.

I collect lipsticks (or other make-up) and stationary—pens, colored pencils, stickers and notebooks (can you see why I love going to WordCamps?!). And I’m always up for pizza night.

Interests

People, cats, stationary & lipsticks. Not necessarily in that order.

WordPress Origin Story

I founded the WordPress Meetup in Ancona in 2016 and organize (nearly) monthly meetings, I attended as a speaker at WordCamps, Meetups and other WordPress Events:
– WordCamp Bari 2018 (talking about web accessibility);
– WordCamp Bari 2019 (talking about new Gutenberg Editor);
– WordPress Meetup Teramo (October 2019, talking about accessibility);
– WordCamp Italia 2020 (talking about web accessibility);
– WordCamp Torino 2023 (talking about self promotion for solopreneurs);
– WordPress Rome Community Day 2023 (Next Gen Event – moderating a panel and leading a workshop on diversity and inclusion);
– WordCamp Verona 2023 (talking with Simona Simionato about DEIB);
– WordPress Meetup Cagliari (March 2024, talking about female empowerment in WordPress Community);
– WordPress Meetup Zagarolo (April 2024, talking about the empowerment of women through the development of their own WordPress-based business);
– WordPress Valencia Diversity Day 2024 (talking about equity and belonging);
– WordPress Meetup Terni (March 2025, talking about female empowerment in WordPress Community, as part of the International Women’s Rights Day Celebrations, organized by the Terni Women’s House.)
– WordPress Meetup Torino (April 2025, talking about new European Accessibility Act);
– WordPress Meetup Roma (June 2025, talking about new European Accessibility Act).

As WordPress Foundation’s Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship Recipient in 2022, I could attend WordCamp US in San Diego (CA). I was one of 125 people invited to join and discuss at WordPress Community Summit in National Harbor (MD) in 2023.

Contributions

Margherita Pelonara contributes 2 hours per week to the following teams: Community, Polyglots, and Training.

Member Since: June 27th, 2016
Location: A lovely village called Santa Maria Nuova (Ancona), in Marche Region - Italy
Website: margheritapelonara.eu
GitHub: margheweb
Job Title: WordPress Expert (Web-Something, among web design, web develop & copy)
Employer: Freelancer
Find me on:

Contribution History

Meetup Organizer
Training Contributor
Translation Contributor
Translation Editor
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Speaker

Completed the course WordPress Credits Mentor’s Course on learn.wordpress.org
1 month ago
Is the 52nd person to arrive at WordCamp Verona 2025
2 months ago
Wrote a new post, Tutti i meetup di ottobre 2025, on the site Italia:
In tutta Italia ci sono meetup WordPress!I meetup sono incontri gratuiti e aperti a tutti,…
2 months ago
Made 4 updates to handbook pages on Team italiano.
2 months ago
Made 2 updates to handbook pages on Team italiano.
2 months ago
Reviewed 30 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
2 months ago
Translated 123 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
2 months ago
Translated 2 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
4 months ago
Translated 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.
4 months ago
Wrote a new post, Tutti i meetup di giugno 2025, on the site Italia:
In tutta Italia ci sono meetup WordPress! I meetup sono incontri gratuiti e aperti a…
5 months ago
Created a topic, Problems displaying the credit card number entry form., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Problems displaying the credit card number entry form.…
7 months ago
Wrote a new post, Trasforma le tue idee in talk coinvolgenti – #WPDiversity Workshop, on the site Italia:
Hai mai sognato di parlare a un evento di WordPress, ma una vocina interiore ti…
7 months ago
Wrote a new post, Protagoniste nel Tech, on the site Italia:
Esperienze e visioni di donne che ispirano Martedì 11 marzo ore 16-20, Casa delle Donne…
9 months ago
Reviewed 11 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
10 months ago
Reviewed 3 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
11 months ago
Translated 6 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
11 months ago
Wrote a new post, Tutti i meetup di dicembre 2024, on the site Italia:
In tutta Italia ci sono meetup WordPress!I meetup sono incontri gratuiti e aperti a tutti,…
12 months ago
Reviewed 4 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
12 months ago
Completed the course WordPress meetup organizer training on learn.wordpress.org
1 year ago
Wrote a new post, [Canale DEIB] Riunione del 18 novembre 2024, on the site Team italiano:
Presenti:@glorialchemica, @lidia, @Maria Vittoria, @Chiara e @margheweb (che facilita e coordina). Lettura risposte aperte del sondaggio: si decide che le risposte…
1 year ago
Translated 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.
1 year ago
Reviewed 11 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
1 year ago
Translated 28 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
1 year ago
Made 2 updates to handbook pages on Team italiano.
1 year ago
Translated 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.
1 year ago
Translated 6 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
1 year ago
Translated 2 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
1 year ago
Wrote a new post, Il primo do_action in Italia, on the site Italia:
È stato fissato per il 12 ottobre 2024 nel calendario mondiale degli eventi WordPress il…
1 year ago
Translated 4 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
1 year ago
Translated 21 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
1 year ago
Translated 2 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
1 year ago
Wrote a new post, Scopri il nuovo Learn WordPress, on the site Italia:
Articolo originale di Kathryn Presner- Traduzione di @margheweb Più di un anno fa, il Team…
1 year ago
Joined the organizing team for Rome Core Days 2024
1 year ago
Translated 9 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
1 year ago
Translated 2 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
1 year ago
Translated 3 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
1 year ago
Wrote a new post, WordPress 6.6 “Dorsey”, on the site Italia:
Un saluto a WordPress 6.6 “Dorsey”, che prende il nome dal leggendario leader della Big…
1 year ago
Reviewed 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.
1 year ago
Translated 9 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
1 year ago
Translated 7 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
1 year ago
Reviewed 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.
1 year ago
Translated 4 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
1 year ago
Closed issue #2224 on the WordPress/Learn repository:
ITALIAN translation for COURSE "Writing in the WordPress Voice"
1 year ago
Created issue #2225 in the WordPress/Learn repository:
ITALIAN translation for COURSE "Community Meeting Etiquette"
2 years ago
Created issue #2224 in the WordPress/Learn repository:
ITALIAN translation for COURSE "Writing in the WordPress Voice"
2 years ago
Closed issue #2050 on the WordPress/Learn repository:
ITALIAN translation for LESSON PLAN "IMPROVING SITE PERFORMANCE"
2 years ago
Closed issue #1775 on the WordPress/Learn repository:
ITALIAN translation for LESSON PLAN "HOW TO CREATE A LESSON PLAN"
2 years ago
Created issue #2050 in the WordPress/Learn repository:
ITALIAN translation for LESSON PLAN "IMPROVING SITE PERFORMANCE"
2 years ago
Created issue #1775 in the WordPress/Learn repository:
ITALIAN translation for LESSON PLAN "HOW TO CREATE A LESSON PLAN"
2 years ago
Closed issue #1429 on the WordPress/Learn repository:
Italian translation for Handbook page "Preparing a Technical Tutorial"
2 years ago