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Joen Asmussen

Creative team lead at Automattic

@joen Denmark joined Oct 2004

moc.co github.com/jasmussen Slack: @joen
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    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
    115contributions
    high17
    medium98
    score149
    Last 90 days
    226contributions
    high34
    medium192
    score294
    Last 12 months
    382contributions
    high77
    medium305
    score536

    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
    September 2026
    Sep 11 Fri · 07:24
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #82754 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Stroke icons: final batch, 96 icons
    Sep 11 Fri · 05:50
    Core high
    Merged pull request #82600 into WordPress/gutenberg:
    Block alignment: List unavailable wide and full alignments instead of hiding them
    Sep 10 Thu · 12:58
    Core high
    Pull request #82540 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
    Stroke icons: 3rd batch, 142 icon updates
    Sep 10 Thu · 07:09
    Core med
    Closed issue #39076 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    Improving innerBlocks inserters
    Sep 09 Wed · 14:20
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Replacing Dashicons in the admin bar and menu, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    Thanks for this feedback. I'll also register the vote for pin as a good additional…
    Sep 09 Wed · 12:58
    Core med
    Created issue #82679 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    Alignment: the editor and the saved markup can disagree about a block's…
    Sep 09 Wed · 11:59
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #82675 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Block alignment: Explain when the template is what limits a block's w…
    Sep 09 Wed · 11:24
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #82673 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Editor: Describe the post title in the sidebar instead of "No block…
    Sep 09 Wed · 06:36
    Core high
    Merged pull request #82599 into WordPress/gutenberg:
    Editor: Derive post-only block list layout from the assigned template
    Sep 08 Tue · 15:22
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #82607 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Add/block width constraint notice

    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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