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

24contributions

high15

medium9

score54

Last 90 days

50contributions

high30

medium20

score110

Last 12 months

315contributions

high152

medium163

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 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:
Widgets: Show post excerpts in On This Day widget if no title.

July 2026

Jul 31 Fri · 08:55

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Meetup.com -> GatherPress, on the site WordPress.org Project:
Thank you all for working so diligently and consistently on GatherPress! I am excited to…

Jul 30 Thu · 17:40

Meta high

Received props from @psykro in Slack:
Props to @bph, @juanmaguitar and @greenshady for their support getting the build your first AI…

Jul 29 Wed · 13:14

Meta high

Made 2 updates to handbook pages on Make WordPress Core.

Jul 29 Wed · 10:24

Core med

Created issue #80836 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Save confirm screen with viewport indicator