Profiles

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

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