Luis Miguel Climent receives the Yoast Care fund for his contribution to the WordPress community

Meet Luis Miguel Climent, a cherished member of the WordPress Community Team! His dedication and invaluable contributions are precisely why Juan Hernando nominated him for the Yoast Care fund. Let’s take a moment to get to know this passionate WordPress enthusiast a bit better.

Nominator Juan Hernando: “The time Luis Miguel dedicates to helping speakers lose their stage fright and give better presentations at WordPress events is exceptional. Still, it is only comparable to his time mentoring and reactivating meetup groups worldwide. His effort and brilliant results are his best letters of introduction. However, he is also always willing to lend a hand wherever needed in the WordPress community. A real example to follow!”

Let’s get to know Luis Miguel Climent

That’s quite an introduction, Juan! We would love to get to know Luis even better. That’s why we asked him some questions about his work and his passion for WordPress:

Hi, Luis! What do you do?

For the last twenty years, I’ve been making websites (design, programming, implementation, and maintenance). First, I used HTML and CSS, then JavaScript and PHP. When choosing a CMS, I initially chose Drupal, but for the last six years, I’ve only used WordPress.

Now that I’m retired, I dedicate myself to collaborating as much as possible with the WordPress Community (a member of the Global Community Team) and helping WordCamps Speakers from Spain and Latin America improve their talks and communication skills through mentoring.

Why did you start contributing, could you share with us your first contribution?

I discovered WordPress seven years ago. It coincided with my move from a very big city like Barcelona to a very small town like Denia (Alicante province).

I took a few months off to learn new things and slowly, I discovered WordPress; especially its community captivated me from the first moment.

When I moved to Denia and was delving into this new-to-me CMS, I discovered that there was a WordPress Meetup in Denia that had been inactive for a while. I contacted the organizer and offered to collaborate in whatever was needed to reactivate the events. We went on to co-organize the Denia Meetup, which became an official event of the WordPress Meetup program. I attended my first WordCamp (in Valencia 2019) that same year.

What have you worked on?

I’ve worked on countless things, some for pleasure and out of a thirst for knowledge, others out of sheer necessity for subsistence. But, along with websites, there is another fundamental dedication in my life: theatre. I’ve been an actor and director for more than 20 years. I usually summarize this professional duality in one sentence: “Half of my life doing theater, and the other half doing websites.”

What would you like to do in the future?

Among many other things within the WordPress Community, I’d like to create a team of “Mentors for new Speakers” in Spanish, covering Spain and Latin America, to help people with less experience to give talks and feel encouraged, and have the necessary help to propose talks in WordCamps, Meetups, and WordPress Events.

In general, of all the moments I can contribute to the project, most significantly, when I see one of the dozens of people who have participated in my mentorships giving their presentation on the stage of a WordCamp, it fills me with pride.

Where can people find you, online, at WordCamps, at other meetups?

You can find me at the WordCamps in Spain that I can attend and online in Spain and Latin America. You can find me at: CharlistaPro Project, Twitter (X), Bluesky, and LinkedIn

Thank you for this interview, Luis, and for all of your contributions to the WordPress community! Do you know someone like Luis Miguel Climent who also deserves to be in the spotlight? Go to our Yoast Care page and nominate them right away.