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Joen Asmussen

Creative team lead at Automattic

@joen Denmark joined Oct 2004

moc.co github.com/jasmussen Slack: @joen
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    Bio

    Creative team lead at Automattic. Fan of open source, intentional design, and doing things right.

    Badges

    CODE
    7 badges
    Core Contributor '15 Core Team '20 Design Contributor '17 Design Team '17 Meta Contributor '23 Plugin Developer Theme Developer
    CONTENT
    1 badge
    Documentation Contributor '22
    COMMUNITY
    1 badge
    WordCamp Speaker '14
    POLYGLOTS
    1 badge
    Translation Contributor '15

    Current Job

    Creative team lead
    Present
    Automattic

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    15contributions
    high6
    medium9
    score27
    Last 90 days
    55contributions
    high21
    medium34
    score97
    Last 12 months
    186contributions
    high59
    medium127
    score304

    Team focus

    Across 1 team, with no team-attributable contributions in the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 26 releases
    • 7.0
    • 6.9
    • 6.8
    • 6.7
    • 6.6
    • 6.5
    • 6.4
    • 6.3
    • 6.2
    • 6.1
    • 6.0
    • 5.9
    • 5.8
    • 5.7
    • 5.6
    • 5.5
    • 5.4
    • 5.3
    • 5.2
    • 5.1
    • 5.0
    • 4.9
    • 4.8
    • 4.2
    • 3.8
    • 3.6

    Time commitment

    10 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

    Contributions

    Type
    August 2026
    Aug 06 Thu · 10:25
    Core med
    Created issue #81274 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    Icons: Convert to being stroke-based
    Aug 06 Thu · 08:16
    Core med
    Created issue #81270 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    Icons: Move "inline image" to icon library
    Aug 05 Wed · 09:22
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Defensive Data Design, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    Noting a couple of followups on error-message improvements, and new documentation for how to author…
    Aug 04 Tue · 10:00
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #81143 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Docs: Add error message guidance.
    Aug 03 Mon · 19:59
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62977] on WordPress SVN:
    Widgets: Always render the On This Day widget.
    Aug 03 Mon · 13:31
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #81077 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Update save & submit docs
    July 2026
    Jul 27 Mon · 12:30
    Core med
    Closed pull request #79158 on WordPress/gutenberg:
    Block locking: add "Lock design" action that turns content into a pattern
    Jul 13 Mon · 13:27
    Core high
    Pull request #80180 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
    Playlist icon: Fix bug with missing viewbox.
    Jul 13 Mon · 11:15
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #80180 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Playlist icon: Fix bug with missing viewbox.
    Jul 13 Mon · 11:03
    Core high
    Merged pull request #80094 into WordPress/gutenberg:
    Icons: Add "sites" icon.

    Developer

    1 plugin

    Contributor

    3 plugins

    Themes

    6 themes

    Plugins

    9 favorites

    Themes

    1 favorite

    Translations

    1 locale
    da_DK Dansk (Danish) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 1 project.

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