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Dion Hulse

WordPress.org Engineer at Automattic

@dd32 Australia joined Jan 2005

dd32.id.au github.com/dd32 Slack: @dd32
    Teams Meta
    Languages en-au

    Bio

    Hi! I’m Dion.

    A software developer from Australia, working on WordPress.org, WordCamp.org, and WordPress itself.

    You’ll find me with my finger in far too many pies, but that means I’ll always have that piece of history from 20-years ago that explains why something is how it is to this day.

    Interests

    WordPress, IoT, PHP, Other

    WordPress Origin Story

    Got involved through the Google Summer of Code in 2008 after missing the cutoff in 2007. Been here ever since.

    Badges

    CODE
    13 badges
    C Campus Connect Participant '25 Core Contributor '15 C Core Performance Contributor '22 Core Team '14 Meta Contributor '15 Meta Team '15 Pattern Author '22 Patterns Team '22 P Playground Contributor '25 Plugin Developer '24 Plugins Team '23 Security Contributor '22 Security Team '19
    CONTENT
    3 badges
    Photo Contributor '22 Photos Team '25 WordPress.tv Contributor '16
    COMMUNITY
    5 badges
    bbPress Contributor '20 B BuddyPress Contributor '20 Meetup Organizer '18 WordCamp Organizer '18 WordCamp Speaker '17
    PRACTICE
    3 badges
    C Credits Graduate '25 C Credits Mentor '26 Support Contributor '22
    POLYGLOTS
    2 badges
    Translation Contributor '15 Translation Editor '15

    Current Job

    WordPress.org Engineer
    Oct 2014 – Present
    Automattic

    Job History

    WordPress Developer
    Nov 2011 – Present
    Automattic
    WordPress Lead Developer
    Jan 2010 – Present
    WordPress

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    213contributions
    high144
    medium69
    score501
    Last 90 days
    625contributions
    high396
    medium229
    score1417
    Last 12 months
    1645contributions
    high1035
    medium610
    score3715

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 30 releases
    • 7.0
    • 6.9
    • 6.8
    • 6.7
    • 6.6
    • 6.5
    • 6.4
    • 6.3
    • 6.2
    • 6.1
    • 6.0
    • 5.9
    • 5.8
    • 5.7
    • 5.6
    • 5.5
    • 5.4
    • 5.3
    • 5.2
    • 5.1
    • 5.0
    • 4.1
    • 4.0
    • 3.9
    • 3.8
    • 3.7
    • 3.6
    • 3.5
    • 3.4
    • 3.3

    Time commitment

    38 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

    Contributions

    Type
    June 2026
    Jun 08 Mon · 06:25
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #633 on WordPress/wordpress.org:
    Plugin Directory: Send plugin updates to Gandalf for advisory scans
    Jun 08 Mon · 05:45
    Meta high
    Committed [14946] to Meta SVN:
    Profiles: Cache user badge lookups
    Jun 08 Mon · 05:43
    Meta high
    Committed [14945] to Meta SVN:
    Support Forums: Standardize loader and constructor style
    Jun 08 Mon · 05:36
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #685 to WordPress/wordpress.org:
    Support Forums: Standardize loader and constructor style
    Jun 08 Mon · 05:32
    Meta high
    Committed [14944] to Meta SVN:
    Support Forums: Automate support profile badges.
    Jun 08 Mon · 05:06
    Community high
    Merged pull request #1734 into WordPress/wordcamp.org:
    Migrate from yarn to npm
    Jun 08 Mon · 03:51
    Community med
    Closed issue #1742 on the WordPress/wordcamp.org repository:
    Jetpack Search overlay UI is broken on WordCamp sites and renders outside…
    Jun 08 Mon · 03:51
    Community high
    Merged pull request #1743 into WordPress/wordcamp.org:
    Disable Jetpack Search overlay by default on WordCamp sites
    Jun 08 Mon · 03:38
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #684 to WordPress/wordpress.org:
    Profiles: Cache user badge lookups
    Jun 08 Mon · 03:18
    Plugins high
    Merged pull request #743 into WordPress/wporg-mu-plugins:
    Global Header & Footer: Load external endpoint assets from s.w.org to avoid…

    Developer

    Contributor

    Completed Courses

    Total completed courses: 4

    Plugins

    Themes

    General Translation Editor

    English (Australia) Translation Contributor - #en_AU

    WordPress for iOS, Learn WordPress, Openverse, Pattern Directory, WordPress Plugin Directory, Rosetta, WordPress Theme Directory, WordCamp.org, WordPress.org, Patterns, Add From Server, Ajax Load More – Infinite Scroll, Load More, & Lazy Load, Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection, All in One SEO – Powerful SEO Plugin to Boost SEO Rankings & Increase Traffic, AnsPress – Question and answer, Button Builder – Buttons X, Caldera Forms – More Than Contact Forms, Coming Soon Chop Chop, Admin Columns, CommentPress Core, contact-form-7-to-database-extension, Content Views – Post Grid & Filter, Recent Posts, Category Posts … (Shortcode, Gutenberg Blocks, and Widgets for Elementor), WordPress Calls to Action, Custom Content Type Manager, Custom Post Type UI, Delightful Downloads, Display Featured Image for Genesis, Event List, Event Organiser, Album and Image Gallery with Lightbox – Flagallery Photo Portfolio, Formidable Forms – Contact Form Plugin, Survey, Quiz, Payment, Calculator Form & Custom Form Builder, Gmedia Photo Gallery, Gwolle Guestbook, Jetpack – WP Security, Backup, Speed, & Growth, Ktai Style, WordPress Landing Pages, LBDesign Button Shortcode, WordPress Leads, Lightweight Social Icons, Live Composer – Free WordPress Website Builder, Magic Fields, Magic Fields 2, MailPress, MainWP Child – Securely Connects to the MainWP Dashboard to Manage Multiple Sites, Points Management System For Gamification, Ranks, Badges, and Loyalty Rewards Program – myCred, P2 Resolved Posts, PIKLIST – Easily Build Fields, Forms, Settings, Widgets and More., Pods – Custom Content Types and Fields, Revision Control, Seamless Donations is Sunset, SendPress Newsletters, Seriously Simple Podcasting, Simple Ads Manager, Page Builder by SiteOrigin, Slimpack - Lightweight Jetpack, SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle, Sprout Invoices – Client Invoicing & Estimates, TablePress – Tables in WordPress made easy, Test Plugin 3 – Testing plugin, Theme Blvd Layout Builder, Theme Blvd Shortcodes, Tweet Blender, Two Factor, Welcart e-Commerce, Booster for WooCommerce – PDF Invoices, Abandoned Cart, Variation Swatches & 100+ Tools, WP Calendar, WP Custom Fields Search, WP-Invoice – Web Invoice and Billing, Wp-Pro-Quiz, WP-Property – WordPress Powered Real Estate and Property Management, Special Text Boxes, WP Ultimate CSV Importer – WordPress Import & Export for CSV, XML & Excel, WPtouch – Make your WordPress Website Mobile-Friendly, 2013 Black and white, Academica, Accesspress Basic, AccessPress Parallax, Advantage, Aglee Lite, Aladdin, Allegiant, Amadeus, Appointway, Ashe, BlackBird, Blox, BluePrintQ Draft, Boxy, Brilliance, Bubbly, Business Directory, Business lite, Candour, Coller, Colorist, Compass, Curtains, CW Business Lite, CyberChimps, Digital, Discovery, Eclipse, Engross, eStore, evolve, Fine, FlatOn, Food Park, Formation, Fresh Lite, Greenr, GuCherry Blog, Hamza Lite, Hathor, Hueman, Hypnotist, i-transform, iBuddy, Icon WP, Indie, iRibbon, iShop, Jobile, JustWrite, Lingonberry, Lovecraft, Magazine Style, Modern Estate, Modulus, Moesia, Mosaic, Neuro, NewGenn, Nirvana, Nut, Openstrap, Outliner, Parallax, Pinnacle, Pixel-Linear, Poloray, Premier, ProMax, ProtoPress, Quill, Radiant, Regalway, Responsive Mobile, Road Fighter, Rocked, Royal, SaleJunction, Savile Row, ScrollMe, Shophistic Lite, Simvance, Start Point, StrongHold, SweetHeat, Sydney, Tempera, TemplateToaster, The Monday, Themia Lite, TheWest, Transcend, Uniform, Uniq, Virality, Virtue, Voyage, Waves, Wiles, WoodBerry, WP Barrister, WP Doppio, WP Invictus, WP Jurist, WP Macchiato, WP Profile, Wrock Metro, WordPress 4.4.x, WordPress 4.5.x, WordPress 4.6.x, WordPress 4.7.x, WordPress 4.8.x, WordPress 4.9.x, WordPress 5.0.x, WordPress 5.1.x, WordPress 5.2.x, WordPress 5.3.x, WordPress 6.8.x, and WordPress 7.0.x - Development

    Čeština (Czech) Translation Contributor - #cs_CZ

    Add From Server and Test Plugin 3 – Testing plugin

    日本語 (Japanese) Translation Contributor - #ja

    Add From Server and Test Plugin 3 – Testing plugin

    Deutsch (German) Translation Contributor - #de_DE

    Post Translation

    English (Canada) Translation Contributor - #en_CA

    Add From Server

    English (New Zealand) Translation Contributor - #en_NZ

    WordPress.org

    Nederlands (Dutch) Translation Contributor - #nl_NL

    Mantra

    Русский (Russian) Translation Contributor - #ru_RU

    Add From Server