WordPress.org
Get WordPress

Profiles

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
    108contributions
    high9
    medium99
    score126
    Last 90 days
    152contributions
    high27
    medium125
    score206
    Last 12 months
    282contributions
    high64
    medium218
    score410

    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 18 Tue · 14:29
    Meta high
    Received props from @markoserb in Slack:
    Props to @Joen and @obenland for additional updates on Microsite. And to @krupajnanda for additional…
    Aug 18 Tue · 10:17
    Core med
    Closed issue #60304 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    Manage templates view should inform users what templates are
    Aug 18 Tue · 10:17
    Core high
    Merged pull request #81613 into WordPress/gutenberg:
    Site editor: update template section description.
    Aug 17 Mon · 09:14
    Core med
    Closed issue #54230 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    Command Palette: consider bringing back more context to names of commands
    Aug 17 Mon · 03:35
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63318] on WordPress SVN:
    Toolbar: Revert focus and hover style changes.
    Aug 16 Sun · 16:10
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63306] on WordPress SVN:
    Toolbar: Revert focus and hover style changes.
    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

    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

    View all on translate.wordpress.org