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Dave Kellam

Developer, designer, teacher

@eightface Montreal, Canada joined Mar 2005

davekellam.com github.com/davekellam Slack: @davekellam

    Interests

    Music, movies, outdoors

    WordPress Origin Story

    * I started using WordPress in 2004, around the 1.5 beta.
    * Created one of the first plugins in early 2005 -> flickrRSS
    * Had a few core contributions in 2014
    * Have largely done WP agency work over the last 15 years – including VIP work with ObjectiveSubject, 10up as a Web Engineer and Plank as Senior Web Developer & Team Lead.

    Badges

    CODE
    2 badges
    Core Contributor '15 Plugin Developer
    COMMUNITY
    1 badge
    WordCamp Speaker '23
    POLYGLOTS
    1 badge
    Translation Contributor '23

    Current Job

    Developer, designer, teacher
    Present

    Recent impact

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

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    Last 12 months
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    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 1 release
    • 3.9

    Contributions

    Type
    September 2025
    Sep 04 Thu · 22:00
    Polyglots high
    Translated 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.
    March 2024
    Mar 25 Mon · 06:29
    Polyglots high
    Translated 35 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
    December 2023
    Dec 08 Fri · 20:30
    Meta med
    Completed the course Using the WordPress Data Layer on learn.wordpress.org
    November 2023
    Nov 25 Sat · 14:13
    Polyglots high
    Translated 47 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
    Nov 15 Wed · 14:52
    Meta high
    Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2023
    Nov 10 Fri · 21:26
    Polyglots med
    Suggested 46 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
    August 2023
    Aug 25 Fri · 09:34
    Meta high
    Received props from @psykro in Slack:
    Props to @eightface for an excellent script for the https://github.com/WordPress/Learn/issues/1738#issuecomment-1692343181 for Learn WordPress.
    Aug 17 Thu · 20:30
    Polyglots med
    Suggested 26 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
    Aug 08 Tue · 16:02
    Polyglots high
    Translated 5 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
    Aug 06 Sun · 19:32
    Polyglots high
    Translated 2 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

    Developer

    1 plugin

    Completed courses

    1 completed

    Browse courses on Learn WordPress

    Plugins

    1 favorite

    Translations

    3 locales
    en_CA English (Canada) (English) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 2 projects.

    WordPress for iOS Patterns

    View all on translate.wordpress.org

    en_GB English (UK) (English) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 1 project.

    WordPress 7.0.x - Development

    View all on translate.wordpress.org

    en_NZ English (New Zealand) (English) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 1 project.

    WordPress 6.2.x

    View all on translate.wordpress.org