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Adam Wood

JavaScript Engineer at Automattic

@adamwood Wanaka, New Zealand joined Aug 2011

adamwood.nz github.com/adamwoodnz Slack: @adamwood
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    Bio

    I’m a frontend specialist, passionate about building UI with great design, UX and accessibility.

    WordPress Origin Story

    I started with WordPress as a student in 2009

    Badges

    CODE
    3 badges
    Core Contributor '24 Meta Contributor '22 Meta Team '22
    PRACTICE
    2 badges
    Accessibility Contributor '22 Training Contributor '22
    POLYGLOTS
    1 badge
    Translation Contributor '24

    Current Job

    JavaScript Engineer
    Present
    Automattic

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    8contributions
    high0
    medium8
    score8
    Last 90 days
    8contributions
    high0
    medium8
    score8
    Last 12 months
    16contributions
    high6
    medium10
    score28

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 1 release
    • 6.7

    Time commitment

    Five for the Future sponsors

    Contributions

    Type
    June 2026
    Jun 28 Sun · 23:21
    Training med
    Closed issue #3048 on the WordPress/Learn repository:
    Close backlog issues
    Jun 28 Sun · 23:17
    Core med
    Closed pull request #2944 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Fix block border color issues in bundled themes (Pullquote)
    Jun 28 Sun · 23:17
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #166 on WordPress/wporg-two-factor:
    Auto select TOTP input contents when focused
    Jun 28 Sun · 23:16
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #339 on WordPress/wporg-main-2022:
    Fix home page performance
    Jun 28 Sun · 23:16
    Training med
    Closed pull request #2343 on WordPress/Learn:
    Try wp-now for local development
    Jun 28 Sun · 23:14
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #270 on WordPress/wordpress.org:
    Try using blocks for block content
    Jun 28 Sun · 23:13
    Plugins med
    Closed pull request #655 on WordPress/wporg-mu-plugins:
    Link Wrapper: Default to the permalink if the url isn't defined
    Jun 28 Sun · 23:12
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #543 on WordPress/wporg-developer:
    Use wp_register_block_metadata_collection for block metadata perf improvements
    April 2026
    Apr 10 Fri · 06:22
    Meta high
    Mentioned in [14803] on Meta SVN:
    Breathe 2024: Add scroll-margin-top to comments for sticky header offset
    February 2026
    Feb 11 Wed · 00:36
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #333 to WordPress/wporg-two-factor:
    Remove workaround for modal closing in Firefox

    Completed courses

    4 completed

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    Translations

    1 locale
    en_NZ English (New Zealand) (English) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 1 project.

    wp20.wordpress.net

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