Adam Silverstein (@adamsilverstein) – WordPress user profile

Adam Silverstein

Staff Developer at Earthbound

@adamsilverstein Hotchkiss, CO joined Oct 2012

earthbound.com github.com/adamsilverstein Slack: @adamsilverstein

Maintains Autosave Media Notes Revisions

Teams Core AI Core Core Performance

Bio

Core Committer. Previously Developer Relations Engineer at Google, Lead engineer at 10up.

Interests

WordPress, Mbira, river rafting, growing food, big skies, family, sailing, chocolate, farming, travel.

Badges

CODE

7 badges

C Core AI Contributor '26 Core Contributor '15 C Core Performance Contributor '22 C Core Performance Team '22 Core Team '16 Meta Contributor '15 Plugin Developer

CONTENT

1 badge

Documentation Contributor '16

COMMUNITY

3 badges

bbPress Contributor '25 WordCamp Speaker '18 WordCamp Volunteer '26

PRACTICE

1 badge

Support Contributor '26

Current Job

Staff Developer

Present

Earthbound

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

221contributions

high95

medium126

score411

Last 90 days

522contributions

high191

medium331

score904

Last 12 months

1129contributions

high367

medium762

score1863

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 35 releases

Time commitment

20 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

Contributions

Type

August 2026

Aug 10 Mon · 17:05

Core med

Submitted pull request #81397 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Media: Stop claiming "Upload complete" when every upload failed

Aug 06 Thu · 03:16

Core high

Mentioned in [63035] on WordPress SVN:
Comments: Exclude notes from comment feed queries.

Aug 06 Thu · 02:43

Core med

Closed issue #80448 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Notes: Backtick markdown code formatting strips/deletes pasted text content upon saving

Aug 05 Wed · 22:20

Core high

Merged pull request #81061 into WordPress/gutenberg:
Media: Cover client-side big image scaling and orphaned files

Aug 05 Wed · 20:12

Core med

Submitted pull request #81243 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Notes: enable Undo for deleted notes by trashing instead of deleting

Aug 05 Wed · 19:57

Core med

Closed issue #73415 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Add support for @mentions in Notes to notify mentioned users

Aug 05 Wed · 17:39

Meta high

Received props from @annezazu in Slack:
Props to @adamsilverstein for https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C0B4Q0RJVAT/p1785887717971559?thread_ts=1785803600.748689&cid=C0B4Q0RJVAT and driving them forward ahead of RC1.

Aug 05 Wed · 16:20

Meta high

Received props from @Benjamin_Zekavica in Slack:
Props to @milana_cap, @adamsilverstein, @tyxla, @joedolson, @isabel_brison, @talldanwp, @aaronrobertshaw, @wildworks, @oandregal, @youknowriad, @0mirka00, @aduth, @fushar,…

Aug 05 Wed · 12:23

Meta high

Wrote a new post, The notify_post_author filter now has the final say on post author notifications, on the site Make WordPress Core:
WordPress 7.1 changes when wp_new_comment_notify_postauthor() checks a comment's approval status: the check now happens before the notify_post_author filter is applied, rather…

Aug 05 Wed · 07:16

Core high

Mentioned in [63019] on WordPress SVN:
Build/Test Tools: Raise the PHPStan rule level to 1.