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WordPress Core Committer / Director of Engineering at 10up
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Boone committed my patch to #29696
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Contributed to 30 releases
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Time commitment
2 hours per week of sponsored contribution time
February 2026
Feb 10
Tue · 15:19
Core
high
Mentioned in
[61607] on WordPress SVN:
Editor: Add support for pseudo elements for the block and its variations on theme.json.
January 2026
Jan 10
Sat · 06:36
Core
high
Mentioned in
[61465] on WordPress SVN:
Menus: Ensure a `WP_Post` instance gets passed to `get_post_states()` in `wp_setup_nav_menu_item()`.
November 2025
Nov 04
Tue · 08:48
Core
high
Mentioned in
[61123] on WordPress SVN:
Site Health: Improve messaging for PHP version status.
October 2025
Oct 15
Wed · 06:34
Core
high
Mentioned in
[60935] on WordPress SVN:
Bundled Themes: Add `path` data to block theme stylesheets so they can be inlined.
Oct 07
Tue · 06:22
Core
high
Mentioned in
[60910] on WordPress SVN:
Media: Switch to enqueueing `contain-intrinsic-size` CSS fix for `IMG` tags having `sizes=auto`.
August 2025
Aug 19
Tue · 22:15
Meta
med
Wrote a
comment on the post
Proposal: Clarifying Core’s Database Support Policy, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Thanks for the detailed writeup, @desrosj! In principle, I support this proposal to only consider…
Aug 19
Tue · 02:07
Core
med
Created issue
#71244 in the
WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Block comments: Highlight the related block when a comment is selected
Aug 19
Tue · 01:57
Core
med
Created issue
#71243 in the
WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Block comments: Add comment indicators in the block toolbar and block list
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