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Joen Asmussen

Creative team lead at Automattic

@joen Denmark joined Oct 2004

moc.co github.com/jasmussen Slack: @joen
    Teams Design

    Bio

    Creative team lead at Automattic. Fan of open source, intentional design, and doing things right.

    Badges

    CODE
    7 badges
    Core Contributor '15 Core Team '20 Design Contributor '17 Design Team '17 Meta Contributor '23 Plugin Developer Theme Developer
    CONTENT
    1 badge
    Documentation Contributor '22
    COMMUNITY
    1 badge
    WordCamp Speaker '14
    POLYGLOTS
    1 badge
    Translation Contributor '15

    Current Job

    Creative team lead
    Present
    Automattic

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    123contributions
    high18
    medium105
    score159
    Last 90 days
    312contributions
    high40
    medium272
    score392
    Last 12 months
    475contributions
    high89
    medium386
    score653

    Team focus

    Across 1 team, with no team-attributable contributions in the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 27 releases
    • 7.1
    • 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
    • 4.9
    • 4.8
    • 4.2
    • 3.8
    • 3.6

    Time commitment

    10 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

    Contributions

    Type
    October 2026
    Oct 02 Fri · 13:55
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #84029 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Try: Add preview badge when switching themes.
    Oct 02 Fri · 10:46
    Core med
    Closed pull request #83955 on WordPress/gutenberg:
    Try: Add the block alignment control to inspector, hide on text blocks.
    Oct 02 Fri · 10:46
    Core med
    Closed pull request #83945 on WordPress/gutenberg:
    Try: Remove alignments from paragraph toolbar.
    Oct 01 Thu · 12:37
    Core high
    Merged pull request #82425 into WordPress/gutenberg:
    Experiment: restyle classic wp-admin controls from design system tokens
    Oct 01 Thu · 10:51
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #83955 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Try: Add the block alignment control to inspector, hide on text blocks.
    Oct 01 Thu · 08:49
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #83945 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Try: Remove alignments from paragraph toolbar.
    Oct 01 Thu · 08:14
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #83939 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Try: Remove avatars from block toolbar (Notes)
    September 2026
    Sep 29 Tue · 08:52
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #83767 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Try: Smaller/refined external link icon.
    Sep 28 Mon · 13:24
    Core high
    Pull request #83268 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
    Icons: Update heading level icons for optical balance
    Sep 28 Mon · 11:23
    Core high
    Merged pull request #83345 into WordPress/gutenberg:
    Storybook: Add new contributing page.

    Developer

    1 plugin

    Contributor

    3 plugins

    Themes

    6 themes

    Plugins

    9 favorites

    Themes

    1 favorite

    Translations

    1 locale
    da_DK Dansk (Danish) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 1 project.

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