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

high2

medium0

score6

Last 90 days

16contributions

high11

medium5

score38

Last 12 months

144contributions

high72

medium72

score288

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 19 releases

Time commitment

40 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

Automattic

Contributions

Type

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)

Aug 11 Tue · 14:42

Meta high

Gave props in Slack:
Props to @bph and @juanmaguitar for feedback and review on https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2026/08/whats-new-for-developers-august-2026/ on the Developer Blog!

Aug 10 Mon · 21:20

Meta high

Wrote a new post, What’s new for developers? (August 2026), on the site WordPress Developer Blog:
WordPress 7.1 ships August 19, and the Field Guide is out. Responsive block styles, pseudo…

Aug 09 Sun · 14:33

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Rethinking do_action(): Events as objects, hooks as class names, on the site WordPress Developer Blog:
But that's not a single event. That's three different events. They would use three different…

Aug 04 Tue · 14:10

GitHub med

Closed issue #483 on the WordPress/developer-blog-content repository:
Typed events in WordPress via `do_action()`