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Cullen Whitmore

COO & Director of Engineering at Matchbox Design Group

@cwhitmore Troy, IL joined Nov 2009

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    Bio

    My passion is to architect and develop custom solutions and processes that empower our clients to grow their businesses.

    Since co-founding Matchbox Design Group in 2006, I’ve had the privilege to work with incredibly talented designers, developers, and strategists that share this passion and deliver on our high-quality standards. My mission as COO and Director of Engineering is to streamline our processes as we grow our team’s capabilities and capacity for embracing new technologies.

    Right now, I’m excited to focus on accessibility education and remediation, small business coaching, business operations consulting and optimizing WordPress at scale.

    When not in front of a screen, I enjoy fishing, camping, and being outdoors with my family.

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    Photo Contributor '24

    Current Job

    COO & Director of Engineering
    Present
    Matchbox Design Group

    Recent impact

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

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    Team focus

    Across 4 teams, with no team-attributable contributions in the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 4 releases
    • 6.9
    • 6.7
    • 6.6
    • 6.5

    Time commitment

    4 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

    Contributions

    Type
    May 2025
    May 09 Fri · 08:56
    Core high
    Pull request #70089 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
    Remove "global" from styles variation in schema descriptions
    May 09 Fri · 03:23
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #70089 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Remove "global" from styles variation in schema descriptions
    March 2025
    Mar 11 Tue · 13:19
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Plugin author now linked to WordPress.org profiles, on the site Make WordPress Plugins:
    What happens to the plugin author link (and plugin) if an owner’s account gets banned/disabled…
    January 2025
    Jan 25 Sat · 21:36
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #68885 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Add format attribute to the palette's color property
    Jan 20 Mon · 15:09
    Core med
    Created issue #68786 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    Add top-level properties to theme.json for author data
    October 2024
    Oct 22 Tue · 01:41
    Core high
    Mentioned in [59269] on WordPress SVN:
    Bundled Themes: Update Twenty Twenty-Five for 6.7 RC 1.
    Oct 14 Mon · 21:56
    Core high
    Mentioned in [59233] on WordPress SVN:
    Bundled Themes: Update Twenty Twenty-Five for 6.7 Beta 3.
    Oct 07 Mon · 18:07
    Core high
    Mentioned in [59191] on WordPress SVN:
    Twenty Twenty-Five: Merge the latest improvements for Beta 2.
    Oct 03 Thu · 17:15
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #490 on the WordPress/twentytwentyfive repository:
    Will the theme ship with a comment block in the Pages template
    Oct 02 Wed · 20:43
    GitHub med
    Created issue #490 in the WordPress/twentytwentyfive repository:
    Will the theme ship with a comment block in the Pages template

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    2 plugins

    Contributor

    2 plugins

    Photos

    1 contribution

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    Themes

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