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Barry

Systems Wrangler at Automattic

@barry Houston, TX joined Oct 2005

barry.wordpress.com 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
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    Automattic

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    13contributions
    high5
    medium8
    score23
    Last 90 days
    42contributions
    high5
    medium37
    score52
    Last 12 months
    89contributions
    high8
    medium81
    score105

    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
    July 2026
    Jul 17 Fri · 17:40
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62783] on WordPress SVN:
    General: Note files that were readded for 7.1.
    Jul 17 Fri · 17:11
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62781] on WordPress SVN:
    General: Explicitly delete `wp-includes/collaboration`.
    Jul 17 Fri · 16:57
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62780] on WordPress SVN:
    General: Update `$_old_files` list, take 2.
    Jul 17 Fri · 16:55
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62779] on WordPress SVN:
    General: Update `$_old_files` list, take 2.
    Jul 16 Thu · 18:37
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Hi there! Could I get…, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
    Yes, done.
    Jul 16 Thu · 18:35
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Access Gandalf Request Can we…, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
    Done!
    Jul 15 Wed · 17:22
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Hi there! Could I get…, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
    Done.
    Jul 14 Tue · 02:53
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Installing Node.js 24 on the build server, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
    Currently 24.18.0 and the bundled version of npm, 11.16.0. However we will continue to update…
    Jul 14 Tue · 02:51
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Grant access to Gandalf I’d…, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
    Granted batmoo and xknown access. fiocavallari already had access.
    Jul 09 Thu · 19:36
    Meta high
    Committed [14963] to Meta SVN:
    Extend redirect_old_topic_id() to support really old URLs like https://wordpress.org/support/3/5661 which are in wayback machine.

    Developer

    2 plugins

    Contributor

    1 plugin