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George Stephanis

Senior WordPress Developer at Bethink Studios

@georgestephanis Lancaster, PA joined Sep 2010

georgestephanis.wordpress.com github.com/georgestephanis Slack: @georgestephanis
    Maintains Application Passwords
    Teams Core

    Interests

    PHP, CSS, HTML, React, jQuery, stuff.

    WordPress Origin Story

    When working as a novice coder, George was bit by a mutated codebase, and got infected by the GPL.

    Badges

    CODE
    5 badges
    Core Contributor '15 Core Team '20 Meta Contributor '15 Meta Team '14 Plugin Developer
    COMMUNITY
    3 badges
    bbPress Contributor '25 WordCamp Organizer '19 WordCamp Speaker '19

    Current Job

    Senior WordPress Developer
    Apr 2025 – Present
    Bethink Studios · Contract

    Job History

    Code Wrangler
    Apr 2013 – Apr 2025
    Automattic · Full-time

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    23contributions
    high19
    medium4
    score61
    Last 90 days
    43contributions
    high36
    medium7
    score115
    Last 12 months
    85contributions
    high62
    medium23
    score209

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 27 releases
    • 6.9
    • 6.6
    • 6.5
    • 6.1
    • 6.0
    • 5.9
    • 5.8
    • 5.7
    • 5.6
    • 5.4
    • 5.0
    • 4.9
    • 4.8
    • 4.7
    • 4.6
    • 4.5
    • 4.3
    • 4.2
    • 4.1
    • 4.0
    • 3.9
    • 3.8
    • 3.7
    • 3.6
    • 3.5
    • 3.4
    • 3.3

    Time commitment

    2 hours per week
    • On my own time 2 hrs/wk

    Contributions

    Type
    July 2026
    Jul 14 Tue · 15:08
    GitHub med
    Created issue #260 in the WordPress/php-ai-client repository:
    ModelMetadata has no context-window concept, and TokenLimitReachedException is never thrown
    Jul 03 Fri · 19:08
    Plugins high
    Committed [3595442] to Plugins SVN:
    Tagging ndizi-project-management v1.0.3
    Jul 03 Fri · 19:08
    Plugins high
    Committed [3595440] to Plugins SVN:
    Deploying ndizi-project-management v1.0.3
    Jul 02 Thu · 21:30
    Plugins high
    Committed [3594546] to Plugins SVN:
    Update ndizi-project-management readme/assets
    June 2026
    Jun 23 Tue · 17:01
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Merge Proposal: Guidelines built on Knowledge, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    I think some of it is that it's a "nice to have" for humans and…
    Jun 23 Tue · 10:18
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Merge Proposal: Guidelines built on Knowledge, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    Genuinely, this feels like something that would be almost designed to be extended to provide…
    Jun 18 Thu · 15:25
    Plugins high
    Committed [3577475] to Plugins SVN:
    Update ndizi-project-management readme/assets
    Jun 16 Tue · 17:43
    Plugins high
    Committed [3574853] to Plugins SVN:
    Tagging ndizi-project-management v1.0.2
    Jun 16 Tue · 17:43
    Plugins high
    Committed [3574852] to Plugins SVN:
    Deploying ndizi-project-management v1.0.2
    Jun 16 Tue · 00:35
    GitHub med
    Created issue #32 in the WordPress/browser-extension repository:
    Please let the browser extension default "Always open List View" in the…

    Developer

    23 plugins

    Contributor

    6 plugins

    Plugins

    21 favorites