Paal Joachim Romdahl (@paaljoachim) – WordPress user profile

Bio

I work as a freelance web designer and instructor and live in Oslo, Norway.
I enjoy giving feedback to various plugins and themes or other products that peaks my curiosity.

I have been contributing to WordPress for many few years. Focusing a lot on improving the user interface of Gutenberg as well as other areas of WordPress. I have used Balsamiq and Figma to produce various mockups.

Badges

CODE

4 badges

Core Contributor '17 Design Contributor '19 Meta Contributor '21 Plugin Developer

CONTENT

2 badges

Documentation Contributor '20 Photo Contributor '22

COMMUNITY

1 badge

Community Contributor '20

PRACTICE

4 badges

Support Contributor '26 Test Contributor '21 Test Team '21 Training Contributor '21

POLYGLOTS

2 badges

Translation Contributor '15 Translation Editor '22

Current Job

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Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

2contributions

high1

medium1

score4

Last 90 days

5contributions

high1

medium4

score7

Last 12 months

30contributions

high1

medium29

score32

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 20 releases

Contributions

Type

August 2026

Aug 03 Mon · 19:59

Core high

Mentioned in [62977] on WordPress SVN:
Widgets: Always render the On This Day widget.

July 2026

Jul 16 Thu · 22:54

Core med

Created issue #80380 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
[Block] Query Loop Excerpt does not preserve paragraph breaks for automatic excerpts

Jul 11 Sat · 21:01

Forums med

Posted a reply to Fatal error upon activation of 10.9.1, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I got it taken care of. The reason for reporting this was to inform what…

Jul 08 Wed · 07:36

Forums med

Created a topic, A very good way to control video embeds, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I have been testing out FluentPlayer for a while now a…

Jul 02 Thu · 17:21

Forums med

Created a topic, Fatal error upon activation of 10.9.1, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi The site had a fatal error and I had to login to…

March 2026

Mar 12 Thu · 07:43

Core med

Closed issue #76328 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Navigation: Lack of Nav editing when in Page template

Mar 11 Wed · 22:30

Core med

Created issue #76419 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Site Editor - Navigation: The journey of finding Settings and Styles for…

Mar 09 Mon · 16:31

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Call for Testing – Customizable Navigation (“Mobile”) Overlays, on the site Make WordPress Test:
I added this issue: Navigation: Lack of Nav editing when in Page template https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/76328

Mar 09 Mon · 16:06

Core med

Created issue #76328 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Navigation: Lack of Nav editing when in Page template

Mar 02 Mon · 20:48

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Call for Testing – Pattern editing and content-only interactivity in WordPress 7.0, on the site Make WordPress Test:
I went to the Site Editor and My Patterns. Duplicated the pattern then made the…