Justin Tadlock (@greenshady) – WordPress user profile

Bio

I like WordPress. A lot.

My base of operations is my personal blog, which is where you’ll find a lot of neat stuff about WordPress.

Interests

WordPress

Badges

CODE

4 badges

Core Contributor '15 Plugin Developer Theme Developer Themes Team '14

CONTENT

1 badge

Documentation Contributor '22

COMMUNITY

2 badges

bbPress Contributor '19 B BuddyPress Contributor '20

PRACTICE

2 badges

Test Contributor '21 Test Team '21

Current Job

Developer Relations Wrangler

Present

Automattic

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

9contributions

high6

medium3

score21

Last 12 months

111contributions

high54

medium57

score219

Team focus

Across 3 teams, with no team-attributable contributions in the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 19 releases

Time commitment

40 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

Automattic

Contributions

Type

November 2026

Nov 13 Fri · 21:08

Meta high

Wrote a new post, What’s new for developers? (November 2026), on the site WordPress Developer Blog:
WordPress 7.2 is coming. Here's what changed for plugin and theme developers: the Secrets API,…

Nov 05 Thu · 14:23

GitHub med

Closed issue #495 on the WordPress/developer-blog-content repository:
What's new for developers? (October 2026)

October 2026

Oct 14 Wed · 19:56

Meta high

Wrote a new post, What’s new for developers? (October 2026), on the site WordPress Developer Blog:
Your October guide to WordPress development: the 7.2 roadmap, the Ipsum theme, new block APIs,…

September 2026

Sep 29 Tue · 20:30

GitHub med

Closed issue #492 on the WordPress/developer-blog-content repository:
What's new for developers? (September 2026)

Sep 16 Wed · 18:25

Core high

Mentioned in [63641] on WordPress SVN:
Editor: Kebab-case preset slugs when converting references to custom properties.

Sep 10 Thu · 22:18

Meta high

Wrote a new post, What’s new for developers? (September 2026), on the site WordPress Developer Blog:
Gutenberg 23.8 and 23.9 bring declarable block keyboard shortcuts, theme.json schema fixes for responsive states,…

August 2026

Aug 18 Tue · 20:45

GitHub med

Closed issue #490 on the WordPress/developer-blog-content repository:
How to use the Icon API in WordPress 7.1

Aug 18 Tue · 20:45

Meta high

Gave props in Slack:
Props to @bph and @welcher for feedback and review of https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2026/08/hands-on-with-the-wordpress-7-1-icon-registration-api/ for the Developer Blog.

Aug 18 Tue · 20:44

Meta high

Wrote a new post, Hands-on with the WordPress 7.1 Icon Registration API, on the site WordPress Developer Blog:
WordPress 7.1 introduces a public API for custom icons. Discover how to register collections and…

Aug 11 Tue · 14:43

GitHub med

Closed issue #485 on the WordPress/developer-blog-content repository:
What's new for developers? (August 2026)