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Ben Balter is the Director of Hubber Enablement within the Office of the COO at GitHub, the world’s largest software development platform, ensuring all Hubbers can do their best (remote) work. Previously, he served as the Director of Technical Business Operations, and as Chief of Staff for Security, he managed the office of the Chief Security Officer, improving overall business effectiveness of the Security organization through portfolio management, strategy, planning, culture, and values. As a Staff Technical Program manager for Enterprise and Compliance, Ben managed GitHub’s on-premises and SaaS enterprise offerings, and as the Senior Product Manager overseeing the platform’s Trust and Safety efforts, Ben shipped more than 500 features in support of community management, privacy, compliance, content moderation, product security, platform health, and open source workflows to ensure the GitHub community and platform remained safe, secure, and welcoming for all software developers.

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Current Job

Director of Hubber Enablement
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GitHub

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days
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Last 90 days
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Last 12 months
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WordPress releases

Contributed to 3 releases
  • 3.4
  • 3.3
  • 3.2

Contributions

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June 2026
Jun 19 Fri · 15:01
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Posted a reply to Upload document error after update to 4.0.4, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Glad to hear. Thanks for confirming.
Jun 04 Thu · 21:24
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Posted a reply to Upload document error after update to 4.0.4, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@valicesupport — thanks for the detailed testing. There are actually two separate issues being discussed…
May 2026
May 28 Thu · 00:06
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Posted a reply to Upload document error after update to 4.0.4, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@valicesupport Are you able to try https://github.com/wp-document-revisions/wp-document-revisions/pull/534? That should fix it. If not, I can…
May 10 Sun · 23:54
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Posted a reply to Description field no longer available after 4.04 update, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks @nwjames (spot on as always) and thanks @valicesupport for the feedback. Give 4.0.6 (https://github.com/wp-document-revisions/wp-document-revisions/releases/tag/v4.0.6)…
May 10 Sun · 23:48
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Posted a reply to Upload document error after update to 4.0.4, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for the feedback. Try 4.0.5?
May 10 Sun · 23:46
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Posted a reply to Fatal error caused by WP_Document_Revisions::image_downsize(), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for the feedback. Try 4.0.5? https://github.com/wp-document-revisions/wp-document-revisions/releases/tag/v4.0.5
June 2021
Jun 14 Mon · 16:25
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Posted a reply to “Failed to load PDF document.”, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
For the folks on this thread that had trouble with 3.3.0, are you able to…
Jun 14 Mon · 16:24
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Posted a reply to Lastest update furbars links, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
For the folks on this thread that had trouble with 3.3.0, are you able to…
Jun 10 Thu · 00:49
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Posted a reply to “Failed to load PDF document.”, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@nwjames's solution _should_ work (please do give it a try and report back!). I believe…
Jun 10 Thu · 00:48
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Posted a reply to Lastest update furbars links, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@nwjames fair point. I did some digging, and believe I have a theory, described in…

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