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George Stephanis

Senior WordPress Developer at Bethink Studios

@georgestephanis Lancaster, PA joined Sep 2010

georgestephanis.wordpress.com github.com/georgestephanis Slack: @georgestephanis
    Maintains Application Passwords
    Teams Core

    Interests

    PHP, CSS, HTML, React, jQuery, stuff.

    WordPress Origin Story

    When working as a novice coder, George was bit by a mutated codebase, and got infected by the GPL.

    Badges

    CODE
    5 badges
    Core Contributor '15 Core Team '20 Meta Contributor '15 Meta Team '14 Plugin Developer
    COMMUNITY
    3 badges
    bbPress Contributor '25 WordCamp Organizer '19 WordCamp Speaker '19

    Current Job

    Senior WordPress Developer
    Apr 2025 – Present
    Bethink Studios · Contract

    Job History

    Code Wrangler
    Apr 2013 – Apr 2025
    Automattic · Full-time

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    20contributions
    high15
    medium5
    score50
    Last 90 days
    59contributions
    high50
    medium9
    score159
    Last 12 months
    104contributions
    high77
    medium27
    score258

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 27 releases
    • 6.9
    • 6.6
    • 6.5
    • 6.1
    • 6.0
    • 5.9
    • 5.8
    • 5.7
    • 5.6
    • 5.4
    • 5.0
    • 4.9
    • 4.8
    • 4.7
    • 4.6
    • 4.5
    • 4.3
    • 4.2
    • 4.1
    • 4.0
    • 3.9
    • 3.8
    • 3.7
    • 3.6
    • 3.5
    • 3.4
    • 3.3

    Time commitment

    2 hours per week
    • On my own time 2 hrs/wk

    Contributions

    Type
    August 2026
    Aug 05 Wed · 17:44
    GitHub med
    Created issue #89 in the WordPress/agent-skills repository:
    WordPress 7.1 Updates
    July 2026
    Jul 31 Fri · 23:57
    Plugins high
    Committed [3630561] to Plugins SVN:
    Tagging ndizi-project-management v1.3.0
    Jul 31 Fri · 23:56
    Plugins high
    Committed [3630560] to Plugins SVN:
    Deploying ndizi-project-management v1.3.0
    Jul 31 Fri · 22:47
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Abilities API improvements in WordPress 7.1, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    Is there a pending PR to update the Agent Skills for the Abilities API to…
    Jul 30 Thu · 15:14
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #748 to WordPress/wordpress.org:
    Add DeltaScribe captioning integration
    Jul 30 Thu · 15:11
    Meta med
    Created ticket #8387 on Meta Trac:
    Proof of Concept: DeltaScribe Subtitling Tool Integration
    Jul 24 Fri · 16:38
    Meta high
    Mentioned in [14999] on Meta SVN:
    Meta: Add repository documentation for agents and humans.
    Jul 24 Fri · 01:39
    Plugins high
    Committed [3620669] to Plugins SVN:
    Tagging ndizi-project-management v1.2.0
    Jul 24 Fri · 01:39
    Plugins high
    Committed [3620668] to Plugins SVN:
    Deploying ndizi-project-management v1.2.0
    Jul 21 Tue · 19:45
    Plugins high
    Committed [3617656] to Plugins SVN:
    Tagging ndizi-project-management v1.1.2

    Developer

    24 plugins

    Contributor

    6 plugins

    Plugins

    21 favorites