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

9contributions

high3

medium6

score15

Last 90 days

17contributions

high7

medium10

score31

Last 12 months

67contributions

high30

medium37

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 17 Mon · 01:23

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Accessibility-ready Theme Reviews: Extending the Deadline, on the site Make WordPress Accessible:
You mean keep missing your own set goals and deadlines? Also, this post needs a…

Aug 17 Mon · 01:16

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Accessibility-ready Theme Reviews: Extending the Deadline, on the site Make WordPress Accessible:
I would like to create an Accessibility canonical plugin (that dude is losing that slug,…

Aug 17 Mon · 01:08

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Accessibility-ready Theme Reviews: Extending the Deadline, on the site Make WordPress Accessible:
@yatil Can you give a review to https://make.wordpress.org/handbook/community-code-of-conduct/ And let me know if you'd like…

Aug 17 Mon · 01:07

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Accessibility-ready Theme Reviews: Extending the Deadline, on the site Make WordPress Accessible:
@joedolson it's just PHP code. Go find it and change it, or let me know…

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.