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Chris M. - a11n

Payment Operations Manager at Automattic, Inc.

@csmcneill Mississippi, USA joined Jul 2021

csmcneill.com github.com/csmcneill Slack: @csmcneill

    Bio

    I’m a coffee-lover and life-long learner from California currently living in Mississippi. I love nature, film photography, video games, and all the dogs.

    Interests

    nature, film photography, ttrpgs, video games, dogs, memes, payments, music, guitar

    WordPress Origin Story

    I’ve been building websites since the heyday of Geocities. When I was in high school, I took what I knew about HTML and Dreamweaver to make websites for family and friends, and I’ve dabbled in it ever since for personal projects. My partner and I started using WordPress.org around 15 years ago for our own personal sites, and we both eventually started learning more about plugins, PHP, and JavaScript as the need arose.

    Fast forward to January 2020, when I began pursuing a degree in journalism. I’ve always enjoyed writing — which is what drove me to English education — and journalism seemed like a natural fit. As the editor for the school’s newspaper, one of my duties was to help my staff writers create portfolios. The platform of choice? WordPress.

    Badges

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    Core Contributor '26 Plugin Developer

    Current Job

    Payment Operations Manager
    Jun 2021 – Present
    Automattic, Inc. · Full-time

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    2contributions
    high2
    medium0
    score6
    Last 90 days
    10contributions
    high7
    medium3
    score24
    Last 12 months
    13contributions
    high7
    medium6
    score27

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 1 release
    • 7.1

    Contributions

    Type
    October 2026
    Oct 12 Mon · 13:26
    Core high
    Mentioned in [64314] on WordPress SVN:
    Tests: Cover scheduled publication and the Scheduled posts view.
    Oct 12 Mon · 12:25
    Core high
    Mentioned in [64313] on WordPress SVN:
    Build/Test Tools: Add comment moderation end-to-end tests.
    July 2026
    Jul 31 Fri · 01:54
    Core med
    Created ticket #65772 on Core Trac:
    Add an end-to-end test for scheduled post publishing (future to ...
    Jul 31 Fri · 01:53
    Core med
    Created ticket #65771 on Core Trac:
    Add end-to-end tests for comment moderation on edit-comments.php
    Jul 24 Fri · 02:24
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62840] on WordPress SVN:
    Media: Accessibility: Fix labels in scale tool.
    Jul 23 Thu · 22:20
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #12669 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Tests: Add end-to-end coverage for classic menu management.
    Jul 23 Thu · 22:17
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #12668 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Tests: Cover scheduled publication and the Scheduled posts view.
    Jul 23 Thu · 21:23
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #12667 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Tests: Add end-to-end coverage for comment moderation.
    Jul 22 Wed · 03:36
    Core med
    Created ticket #65685 on Core Trac:
    Image editor: width input in the Scale panel has accessible name ...
    Jul 22 Wed · 03:13
    Core med
    Created ticket #65684 on Core Trac:
    Menus: first click on Save Menu / Delete Menu in the sticky footer is ...

    Support Rep

    18 plugins