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Barry

Systems Wrangler at Automattic

@barry Houston, TX joined Oct 2005

barry.wordpress.com github.com/bazza Slack: @barry

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    CODE
    2 badges
    Core Contributor '15 Plugin Developer
    COMMUNITY
    2 badges
    bbPress Contributor '19 WordCamp Speaker '14

    Current Job

    Systems Wrangler
    Present
    Automattic

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    84contributions
    high13
    medium71
    score110
    Last 90 days
    144contributions
    high14
    medium130
    score172
    Last 12 months
    259contributions
    high17
    medium242
    score293

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 12 releases
    • 6.8
    • 6.5
    • 6.4
    • 5.8
    • 5.6
    • 5.5
    • 4.6
    • 3.9
    • 3.7
    • 3.6
    • 3.5
    • 3.4

    Contributions

    Type
    August 2026
    Aug 08 Sat · 17:11
    Meta high
    Committed [15049] to Meta SVN:
    Remove trailing slashes from intertrac links so they work in new trac version.
    Aug 08 Sat · 05:48
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post MC Access: danluu, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
    Done.
    Aug 08 Sat · 05:46
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Proxy Access: Steve Mosby, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
    Done.
    Aug 07 Fri · 21:08
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #772 on WordPress/wordpress.org:
    Trac: Refresh WordPress.org header and footer templates
    Aug 07 Fri · 13:38
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #770 on WordPress/wordpress.org:
    Fix unit tests after GitHub outage
    Aug 06 Thu · 20:38
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #768 on WordPress/wordpress.org:
    Escape values interpolated into HTML attributes
    Aug 06 Thu · 19:24
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #767 on WordPress/wordpress.org:
    Compare user identities strictly
    Aug 05 Wed · 18:13
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #764 on WordPress/wordpress.org:
    Trac: Restore WP.org styles for wiki headings
    Aug 05 Wed · 18:12
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #760 on WordPress/wordpress.org:
    Provide a public new-queue count endpoint
    Aug 04 Tue · 14:58
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #761 on WordPress/wordpress.org:
    Plugin Directory, Photo Directory: Escape output consistently

    Developer

    2 plugins

    Contributor

    1 plugin