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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
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    Core Contributor '15 Plugin Developer
    COMMUNITY
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    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
    54contributions
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    medium43
    score76
    Last 90 days
    123contributions
    high11
    medium112
    score145
    Last 12 months
    224contributions
    high14
    medium210
    score252

    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 24 Fri · 21:22
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #737 on WordPress/wordpress.org:
    Login: Update logo and switch to modern admin color scheme
    Jul 24 Fri · 19:35
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #735 on WordPress/wordpress.org:
    Theme Directory: Indicate upload progress on the theme upload form
    Jul 24 Fri · 18:58
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #736 on WordPress/wordpress.org:
    Trac Notifications: Restore styling for the components archive table
    Jul 24 Fri · 16:39
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #716 on WordPress/wordpress.org:
    Document ALL (or ... more, rather) of the things!
    Jul 24 Fri · 16:27
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #710 on WordPress/wordpress.org:
    Change date/location of WordCamp Europe 2027
    Jul 24 Fri · 02:59
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #12673 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Comments: Encode emoji for utf8mb3 comment columns in wp_insert_comme…
    Jul 24 Fri · 01:29
    Core med
    Created ticket #65700 on Core Trac:
    Comments: wp_insert_comment() and wp_update_comment() don't encode ...
    Jul 23 Thu · 22:24
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Sandbox request for learn.wordpress.org testing, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
    @psykro - sorry to come back to this old issue, but lately we have more…
    Jul 23 Thu · 22:09
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post WordPress.org FreeScout Instance, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
    This is deployed at https://freescout.wordpress.net. It's not deployed on a WordPress.org domain to mitigate the…
    Jul 23 Thu · 03:38
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post WordCamp roles for raicem’s sandbox…, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
    Done.

    Developer

    2 plugins

    Contributor

    1 plugin