Matt Mullenweg (@matt) – WordPress user profile

Interests

PHP, MySQL, Fiona Apple, jazz

Badges

CODE

5 badges

Core Contributor '15 Core Team '14 Meta Contributor '24 Plugin Developer Theme Developer

CONTENT

3 badges

Marketing Contributor '17 Photo Contributor '26 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

11contributions

high6

medium5

score23

Last 90 days

16contributions

high9

medium7

score34

Last 12 months

65contributions

high31

medium34

score127

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 38 releases

Time commitment

10 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

Automattic

Contributions

Type

August 2026

Aug 06 Thu · 09:30

Core high

Mentioned in [63036] on WordPress SVN:
Pings/Trackbacks: Auto-approve pingbacks and trackbacks from the same site.

Aug 04 Tue · 01:51

Core high

Mentioned in [63001] on WordPress SVN:
Widgets: Revert On This Day dashboard widget.

Aug 04 Tue · 01:07

Meta high

Wrote a new post, Defensive Data Design, on the site Make WordPress Core:
As we go into a world where agents will be doing more things, how can…

Aug 01 Sat · 21:16

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Accessibility-ready Theme Reviews: Extending the Deadline, on the site Make WordPress Accessible:
Going forward, any other team or committer can override suggestions or requests from current accessibility…

Aug 01 Sat · 21:15

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Accessibility-ready Theme Reviews: Extending the Deadline, on the site Make WordPress Accessible:
Actually, this is permanently delayed. The team has overstepped its authority, usefulness, and charter.

July 2026

Jul 30 Thu · 19:30

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Media Library infinite scrolling is now enabled by default, with a per-user opt-out, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Why is this slow? These queries should be super-fast.

Jul 16 Thu · 18:22

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Extending Unicode support in email addresses., on the site Make WordPress Core:
Because of the vast surface area Unicode introduces and the security implications we should keep…

Jul 10 Fri · 12:03

Core high

Mentioned in [62685] on WordPress SVN:
Administration: Show part of the excerpt for untitled posts in the list table Compact view.

Jul 09 Thu · 19:34

Core high

Mentioned in [62681] on WordPress SVN:
Widgets: Add "On This Day" dashboard widget.

Jul 09 Thu · 09:15

Core high

Mentioned in [62673] on WordPress SVN:
Comments: Allow changing a comment's parent from the Edit Comment screen.