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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
    25contributions
    high10
    medium15
    score45
    Last 90 days
    40contributions
    high15
    medium25
    score70
    Last 12 months
    178contributions
    high55
    medium123
    score288

    Team focus

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

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 26 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
    • 4.9
    • 4.8
    • 4.2
    • 3.8
    • 3.6

    Time commitment

    10 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

    Contributions

    Type
    July 2026
    Jul 02 Thu · 12:39
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62625] on WordPress SVN:
    Toolbar: Show the site icon in the admin bar when one is set.
    Jul 01 Wed · 18:08
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62614] on WordPress SVN:
    Toolbar: Show the site icon in the admin bar when one is set.
    June 2026
    Jun 30 Tue · 10:30
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62592] on WordPress SVN:
    Toolbar: Make the user avatar image circular.
    Jun 26 Fri · 07:38
    Core high
    Pull request #78332 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
    Icons: Add PHP method(s) for rendering inline SVG icons from the registry
    Jun 24 Wed · 11:42
    Core high
    Pull request #79320 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
    Icons: self declare color
    Jun 18 Thu · 12:51
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #79320 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Icons: self declare color
    Jun 15 Mon · 15:22
    Core high
    Pull request #79192 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
    Icon block: Move flip controls to toolbar group.
    Jun 15 Mon · 14:22
    Core high
    Merged pull request #79111 into WordPress/gutenberg:
    Icons block: insert an icon by default
    Jun 15 Mon · 13:12
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #79192 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Icon block: Move flip controls to toolbar group.
    Jun 12 Fri · 15:41
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #79158 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Block locking: add "Lock design" action that turns content into a pattern

    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.

    WordPress for iOS

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