WordPress.org

Bio

Hi there! 👋
I’m Toine, a 27-year-old student from Utrecht, The Netherlands 🇳🇱, currently wrapping up my Communication and Multimedia Design studies 🎓. My passion lies in UI/UX (web) design and concept creation, where I aim to build user-friendly, accessible, and innovative digital solutions ✨. Feel free to check out my portfolio to see my work! 🔗

Web accessibility is super important in my designs ♿ (think proper color contrast, font clamping for responsive typography, and using ARIA labels). My goal is to ensure inclusive and functional experiences for everyone.

Alongside my studies, I work at Uw Computerstudent 💻, helping provide IT assistance across the Netherlands, with a special focus on supporting seniors 👵👴. I also design and develop websites 🌐 for diverse clients like entrepreneurs, small businesses, and organizations. It’s a great way to apply my design principles to real-world projects and help clients shine online ✨.

I love being part of the WordPress community! 💙 You’ll find me providing feedback, reporting bugs 🐞, and contributing to making plugins translatable and localizable (i10n) on WordPress.org and GitHub. I often use tools like DeepL integrated with the WP.org glossary via the fantastic ‘WordPress Translation Filler Extended’ browser extension (big thanks to PTE/GTE Peter Smits for creating it! 🙏).

I’m also deeply involved with Elementor! 🎉 As a member of the Elementor Global Community Leaders program, I focus heavily on the localization (i10n) and translation (t9n) of all Elementor’s products, helping make them accessible to users worldwide 🌍. I enjoy using the builder to create dynamic websites and actively provide feedback to help improve it for everyone. Read more about this in my ‘WordPress Origin Story’.

My main WordPress contribution is translating plugins, themes, and more into Dutch 🇳🇱🗣️. So far, I’ve translated over 50 plugins (that’s more than 15,000 strings!). It’s incredibly rewarding to combine my love for design, accessibility, and community involvement this way. ❤️

Interests

Design, UX/UI, Concepting, Technical Support

WordPress Origin Story

My web journey began back in 2014 with Joomla 🤔. It was my first taste of a CMS, but I quickly realized it wasn’t the most intuitive or flexible platform for what I wanted to do 🚧. Updates felt slow, new features lacked spark, and the plugin options were… well, limited 📉.

By 2016, I decided it was time for a change and made the leap to WordPress! 🚀 I’ll admit, I initially avoided it, thinking the learning curve would be steep. Boy, was I wrong! 🤯 I found WordPress surprisingly easier to pick up and way more powerful than I’d expected 💪.

At first, I dove into popular ThemeForest themes (like The7, Avada, BeTheme) often paired with WPBakery (remember Visual Composer? 😉). While common, I soon hit their limitations: they weren’t well-optimized 🐌, scaling was tricky 📈❌, and they didn’t feel very future-proof ⏳. This sent me searching for better tools…

…and in 2018, I discovered Elementor! 🎉 It was a total game-changer. The drag-and-drop simplicity, live editing, and deep customization options were revolutionary ✨. For its time, it was hands-down the best page builder in the WordPress world 🥇. Elementor has kept evolving since then, adding advanced features like flexbox containers, nested elements, and loop grids, keeping it highly competitive 🚀.

Now, are there other strong contenders like Bricks and Breakdance? Absolutely! But for many projects, I still find Elementor offers the best overall balance 👌 of usability, powerful features, and flexibility.

That said, I do occasionally work on Divi sites now that Divi 5 has finally been released. But I still steer clients towards Elementor as a more robust and future-ready solution ✅. Let’s be honest, no tool is perfect (and Gutenberg can feel anything *but* intuitive sometimes 😅), but Elementor remains my go-to for building fast, visually stunning, and functional websites. Its ability to bridge the gap between design and development is invaluable 🛠️.

These days, I’m heavily focused on creating dynamic Elementor websites using Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) 💪. This powerful combination allows me to build scalable, high-performance ⚡, and truly bespoke web solutions tailored precisely to my clients’ unique needs 🎯.

Badges

PRACTICE

1 badge

Support Contributor '26

POLYGLOTS

1 badge

Translation Contributor '22

Current Job

UX/UI (web)design, frontend developer, IT support

Present

Toine.Zip · Freelance

Recent impact

Score weights high-impact work (commits, releases, approved translations, props) at 3x routine activity.

Last 30 days

22contributions

high11

medium11

score44

Last 90 days

42contributions

high24

medium18

score90

Last 12 months

83contributions

high45

medium38

score173

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

Time commitment

4 hours per week

On my own time 4 hrs/wk

Contributions

Type

July 2026

Jul 31 Fri · 11:40

Polyglots med

Suggested 6 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

Jul 31 Fri · 09:41

Polyglots high

Translated 208 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

Jul 30 Thu · 23:17

Polyglots med

Suggested 32 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

Jul 30 Thu · 21:36

Forums med

Posted a reply to Latest update seems to crash the site?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Note: I restored from a backup and that fixed it. But upon updating again to…

Jul 30 Thu · 13:29

Polyglots high

Translated 2 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

Jul 29 Wed · 19:36

Forums med

Created a topic, Latest update seems to crash the site?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Got multiple emails that my site wasnt able to update …

Jul 26 Sun · 06:13

Polyglots high

Translated 30 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

Jul 25 Sat · 22:19

Polyglots med

Suggested 74 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

Jul 25 Sat · 15:58

Polyglots high

Translated 8 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

Jul 24 Fri · 21:09

Forums med

Posted a reply to Function _load_textdomain_just_in_time was called incorrectly., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This also happened in versions before btw, it not just popped up on this update

Plugins

127 favorites

Themes

18 favorites

Translations

2 locales

nl_NL Nederlands (Dutch) Translation Contributor

Contributed translations to 171 projects.

Patterns AAA Option Optimizer Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker – WCAG, ADA, EAA and Section 508 compliance Accessibility Widget by OneTap – Easy One-Click Accessibility Toolbar ACF: Better Search Advanced Custom Fields: Extended Frontend Admin by DynamiApps Action Scheduler ActivityPub Admin Menu Customizer Admin and Site Enhancements (ASE) Advanced Cron Manager – debug & control Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®) Advanced Queries Advanced Product Fields (Product Addons) for WooCommerce AI Engine – The Chatbot, AI Framework & MCP for WordPress All in One SEO – AI SEO Plugin to Boost SEO Rankings & Traffic (Schema, Local SEO, Sitemap & SEO Insights) Analytics Insights – Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress Angie – Agentic AI AppMySite – WordPress & WooCommerce Mobile App Builder (No-Code Android & iOS App Maker) ARMember – Membership Plugin, Content Restriction, Member Levels, User Profile & User signup Popup Box – Create Countdown, Coupon, Video, Contact Form Popups Back In Stock Notifier for WooCommerce | WooCommerce Waitlist Pro BetterDocs – AI Documentation, Knowledge Base, Docs, Wikis, FAQ with Chatbot BetterLinks – URL Shortener, Link Tracking, Analytics & Affiliate Link Manager Chat Widget: Floating Customer Support Button for 30+ Channels, Supporting SMS, Calls, and Chat – Bit Assist Bit integrations – Form Integration, Webhook, Spreadsheets, CRM, LMS & Email Automation Bit SMTP – Easy SMTP Solution with Email Logs Bit Social – Social Media Auto Poster and Scheduler Elementor Blocks for Gutenberg Appointment Booking Calendar Plugin and Scheduling Plugin – BookingPress Code Explorer Code Snippets Admin Columns Website Builder by SeedProd — Theme Builder, Landing Page Builder, Coming Soon Page, Maintenance Mode Comment-free zone Complianz – GDPR/CCPA Cookie Consent Convert to Blocks Smash Balloon Social Post Feed – Simple Social Feeds for WordPress Custom Adobe Fonts (Typekit) Database Cleaner DCO Comment Attachment Debug Log Manager – Conveniently Monitor and Inspect Errors Duplicator – Backups & Migration Plugin – Cloud Backups, Scheduled Backups, & More GTM4WP – A Google Tag Manager (GTM) plugin for WordPress Dynamic Conditions DynamicTags Easy WP SMTP – WordPress SMTP and Email Logs: Gmail SMTP, Office 365, Outlook, Custom SMTP, and more

Showing the first 48 of 171 projects; search above to filter the full list.

View all on translate.wordpress.org

nl_NL / formal Nederlands (Dutch) Translation Contributor

Contributed translations to 6 projects.

Classic Editor Custom Post Type UI Elementor Website Builder – more than just a page builder FluentSMTP – WP SMTP Plugin with Amazon SES, SendGrid, MailGun, Postmark, Google and Any SMTP Provider Simple Custom Post Order Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI

View all on translate.wordpress.org