Naoko Takano (@nao) – WordPress user profile

Bio

Ex-Automattic. I was a sponsored contributor working on various things.
WordPress 日本語翻訳についての情報をお探しの方はこちらをご覧ください。

Former roles:
– Japanese Team Locale Manager: 2008-2024
– Japanese General Translation Editor (GTE): 2008-2024
– WordCamp Tokyo organizer: 2008-2019
– Polyglots Team Global Mentor
– WordPress Translation Day Lead Organizer: 2019
– Community Team Program Manager (Deputy): ~2024
– WordCamp Asia Global Lead: 2020-2023
– Five for the Future Program contributor: 2023-2024
– WordPress Contributor Mentorship Program Facilitator: 2023-2024

WordPress Origin Story

After I switched my personal blog system to WordPress, I started helping out with Japanese documentation and support forums because there was so little information on WordPress in Japanese back then.
You can read my HeroPress story here: https://heropress.com/essays/how-the-wordpress-community-helped-me-find-my-way/

I may be referred to as 高野直子 / @naokomc, or Naoko McCracken in the past!

Badges

CODE

3 badges

Core Contributor '15 Meta Contributor '19 Plugin Developer

CONTENT

2 badges

Documentation Contributor '18 Photo Contributor '22

COMMUNITY

6 badges

bbPress Contributor '19 Community Contributor '17 Community Team '22 Meetup Organizer '18 WordCamp Organizer '14 WordCamp Speaker '18

PRACTICE

2 badges

Support Contributor '16 Support Team '16

POLYGLOTS

2 badges

Translation Contributor '15 Translation Editor '15

Current Job

Project Manager

Present

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

3contributions

high3

medium0

score9

Last 90 days

7contributions

high7

medium0

score21

Last 12 months

39contributions

high39

medium0

score117

WordPress releases

Contributed to 17 releases

Contributions

Type

June 2026

Jun 14 Sun · 06:17

Polyglots high

Translated 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.

Jun 12 Fri · 14:19

Polyglots high

Translated 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.

May 2026

May 24 Sun · 12:35

Polyglots high

Translated 4 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

May 01 Fri · 13:35

Polyglots high

Translated 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.

April 2026

Apr 18 Sat · 12:29

Polyglots high

Translated 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.

Apr 17 Fri · 13:39

Polyglots high

Translated 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.

Apr 02 Thu · 15:11

Polyglots high

Translated 2 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

March 2026

Mar 13 Fri · 13:14

Polyglots high

Translated 2 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

February 2026

Feb 25 Wed · 06:28

Polyglots high

Translated 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.

Feb 21 Sat · 12:53

Polyglots high

Translated 2 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

Plugins 1
Photos 8
Courses 6
Favorites 24
Translations 28

Contributor

1 plugin

Force Update Translations

1,000+ active installs

Photos

8 contributions

View all 8 photos in the Photo Directory

Completed courses

6 completed

WordPress meetup organizer training

Completed July 30, 2024
Open source basics and WordPress

Completed July 24, 2024
Polyglots contributor training

Completed August 29, 2023
Community meeting etiquette

Completed May 18, 2023
How decisions are made in the WordPress project

Completed May 18, 2023
Community team event mentor training

Completed August 26, 2022

Browse courses on Learn WordPress

Plugins

23 favorites

Themes

1 favorite

TT1 Blocks

Translations

28 locales

ja 日本語 (Japanese) Meta Translation Editor Translation Contributor

Translation editor for 1 project.

Meta

Contributed translations to 3,204 projects.

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