Birgit Pauli-Haack (@bph) – WordPress user profile

Bio

WordPress Developer Advocate
Curating community voices around the new editor on Gutenberg Times

Badges

CODE

6 badges

Core Contributor '18 Core Team '22 Meta Contributor '20 P Playground Contributor '25 P Playground Team '25 Plugin Developer

CONTENT

3 badges

Documentation Contributor '20 Documentation Team '20 Photo Contributor '22

COMMUNITY

5 badges

Community Contributor '19 Community Team '17 Meetup Organizer '18 WordCamp Organizer '19 WordCamp Speaker '18

PRACTICE

2 badges

Support Contributor '26 Test Contributor '21

POLYGLOTS

1 badge

Translation Editor '26

Current Job

Developer Advocate

Present

Automattic

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

19contributions

high15

medium4

score49

Last 90 days

47contributions

high29

medium18

score105

Last 12 months

309contributions

high155

medium154

score619

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 19 releases

Time commitment

40 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

Automattic

Contributions

Type

August 2026

Aug 13 Thu · 12:35

Plugins high

Committed [3645315] to Plugins SVN:
Add plugin banner (772x250 + 1544x500) — closes <a class="closed ticket" href="http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6" title="#6: defect: javascript problem with WP-Amazon (closed: fixed)">#6</a>

Aug 13 Thu · 10:51

Plugins high

Committed [3644986] to Plugins SVN:
Tagging version 0.4.0

Aug 13 Thu · 10:50

Plugins high

Committed [3644982] to Plugins SVN:
Updating readme/assets from GitHub

Aug 11 Tue · 14:42

Meta high

Received props from @greenshady in Slack:
Props to @bph and @juanmaguitar for feedback and review on https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2026/08/whats-new-for-developers-august-2026/ on the Developer Blog!

Aug 06 Thu · 15:41

GitHub med

Created issue #490 in the WordPress/developer-blog-content repository:
How to use the Icon API in WordPress 7.1

Aug 06 Thu · 15:37

GitHub med

Created issue #489 in the WordPress/developer-blog-content repository:
Writing more robust configuration/args in plugins

Aug 05 Wed · 08:14

Meta high

Made 3 updates to handbook pages on Make WordPress Core.

Aug 04 Tue · 14:09

Meta high

Received props from @greenshady in Slack:
Props to @juanmaguitar and @bph for feedback on https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2026/08/rethinking-do_action-events-as-objects-hooks-as-class-names/ for the Developer Blog.

Aug 03 Mon · 08:43

Meta high

Made 4 updates to handbook pages on Make WordPress Core.

Aug 02 Sun · 22:23

Core high

Mentioned in [62968] on WordPress SVN:
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