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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
    102contributions
    high5
    medium97
    score112
    Last 90 days
    146contributions
    high23
    medium123
    score192
    Last 12 months
    277contributions
    high61
    medium216
    score399

    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
    August 2026
    Aug 14 Fri · 11:58
    Core med
    Closed issue #63707 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    Image: Captions overlaying images in galleries are still visible when lightbox is…
    Aug 14 Fri · 11:52
    Core med
    Closed issue #62329 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    Add indicator for modified post meta in pre-publish flow
    Aug 14 Fri · 11:51
    Core med
    Closed issue #62752 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    Design tools exploration: Contextual color controls and new panels for Background, and…
    Aug 14 Fri · 09:49
    Core med
    Closed issue #55521 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    Navigation sub-blocks offer Create Template Part option
    Aug 14 Fri · 09:46
    Core med
    Closed issue #62025 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    Tabs: Make default text alignment consistent
    Aug 14 Fri · 09:36
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #81613 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Site editor: update template section description.
    Aug 14 Fri · 09:26
    Core med
    Closed issue #59448 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    Improve UX of template inspector "transform into" experience
    Aug 14 Fri · 09:24
    Core med
    Closed issue #59190 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    Social Icon: Add variation placeholder state
    Aug 13 Thu · 11:07
    Core med
    Closed issue #52850 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    File: Inherit all styles from buttons
    Aug 13 Thu · 11:06
    Core med
    Closed issue #58526 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    Style revisions: reconsider identical styles messaging and apply button behaviour

    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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