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Matt Mullenweg

@matt San Francisco, CA joined Apr 2003

ma.tt github.com/m
    Teams Core

    Interests

    PHP, MySQL, Fiona Apple, jazz

    Badges

    CODE
    5 badges
    Core Contributor '15 Core Team '14 Meta Contributor '24 Plugin Developer Theme Developer
    CONTENT
    2 badges
    Marketing Contributor '17 Photos Team '22
    COMMUNITY
    3 badges
    bbPress Contributor '19 WordCamp Organizer '15 WordCamp Speaker '19

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    2contributions
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    medium1
    score4
    Last 90 days
    19contributions
    high9
    medium10
    score37
    Last 12 months
    43contributions
    high16
    medium27
    score75

    Specializations

    evenly split across 1 team · no team-attributable activity in the last 365 days

    Core 100% of attributed activity

    Contributions

    Type
    May 2026
    May 27 Wed · 17:40
    Meta high
    Wrote a new post, WP23, on the site WordPress News:
    WordPress at 23 is simultaneously both the strongest and most precarious it’s ever been. Last…
    May 22 Fri · 18:44
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Leadership transition for the Core AI team, on the site WordPress AI:
    Huge thanks to James and Felix! Crazy, it's only been a year, it feels like…
    April 2026
    Apr 20 Mon · 09:56
    Meta high
    Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Europe 2026
    Apr 18 Sat · 10:47
    Meta high
    Wrote a new post, Docker -> Colima?, on the site Make WordPress.org:
    The Docker onboarding process is not great. I learned today that, when setting up local…
    Apr 17 Fri · 03:40
    Polyglots med
    Suggested 2 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
    Apr 16 Thu · 17:33
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post WordPress Core Dev Environment Toolkit: A Faster Path to Your First Core Contribution, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    It would be cool to figure out something Torrent-like where if anyone on the local…
    Apr 16 Thu · 17:32
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post WordPress Core Dev Environment Toolkit: A Faster Path to Your First Core Contribution, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    Awesome! After it gets some more usage, please put this on /news, it deserves a…
    Apr 15 Wed · 03:31
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Requests for Automation, on the site Make WordPress.org:
    Okay get ready, we're going to have a lot of Wapuus running all over the…
    Apr 14 Tue · 22:50
    Meta high
    Wrote a new post, Requests for Automation, on the site Make WordPress.org:
    Howdy, I wanted to spin up a thread for anyone to request a look at…
    Apr 13 Mon · 00:57
    Meta high
    Updated a handbook page on Make WordPress Themes.

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