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Jon Surrell

Software Engineer at Automattic

@jonsurrell Spain joined Jan 2011

sirre.al github.com/sirreal Slack: @jonsurrell
    Maintains HTML API
    Teams Core

    Badges

    CODE
    6 badges
    C Core AI Contributor '26 Core Contributor '18 Core Team '24 Meta Contributor '24 P Playground Contributor '25 Plugin Developer
    CONTENT
    1 badge
    Documentation Contributor '24
    POLYGLOTS
    1 badge
    Translation Contributor '18

    Current Job

    Software Engineer
    Present
    Automattic

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    177contributions
    high133
    medium44
    score443
    Last 90 days
    495contributions
    high313
    medium182
    score1121
    Last 12 months
    954contributions
    high592
    medium362
    score2138

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 13 releases
    • 7.1
    • 7.0
    • 6.9
    • 6.8
    • 6.7
    • 6.6
    • 6.5
    • 6.1
    • 5.8
    • 5.7
    • 5.5
    • 5.4
    • 5.0

    Time commitment

    20 hours per week

    Contributions

    Type
    October 2026
    Oct 15 Thu · 10:44
    Core med
    Closed pull request #12964 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    HTML API: Hoist `strlen()` out of the `class_list()` loop condition
    Oct 15 Thu · 09:15
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #14300 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    HTML API: Add class_list() tests for whitespace and character references
    Oct 15 Thu · 08:10
    Core high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
    Tests: Fix Block Bindings unsafe HTML test.
    Oct 15 Thu · 08:09
    Core med
    Closed pull request #14092 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Tests: Make Block Bindings unsafe HTML test independent of KSES text handling
    Oct 15 Thu · 08:08
    Core high
    Committed [64355] to WordPress SVN:
    Tests: Fix Block Bindings unsafe HTML test.
    Oct 15 Thu · 07:57
    Core high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
    Editor: Cache the theme.json data merged from all origins.
    Oct 15 Thu · 07:55
    Core med
    Closed ticket #66280 on Core Trac:
    Editor: Cache the theme.json data merged from all origins
    Oct 15 Thu · 07:55
    Core high
    Committed [64354] to WordPress SVN:
    Editor: Cache the theme.json data merged from all origins.
    Oct 15 Thu · 07:21
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #549 on WordPress/wporg-developer:
    Composer: update the lock
    Oct 14 Wed · 16:39
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #14281 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Docs: Describe how to read the script text as a browser parses…

    Developer

    1 plugin

    Plugins

    3 favorites

    Translations

    1 locale
    es_ES Español (Spanish) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 1 project.

    Jetpack – WP Security, Backup, Speed, & Growth

    View all on translate.wordpress.org