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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
    140contributions
    high58
    medium82
    score256
    Last 90 days
    441contributions
    high246
    medium195
    score933
    Last 12 months
    791contributions
    high469
    medium322
    score1729

    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
    September 2026
    Sep 11 Fri · 07:27
    Core med
    Created issue #82755 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    Editor keyboard/clipboard handlers misfire for editable elements inside shadow DOM
    Sep 10 Thu · 21:39
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63595] on WordPress SVN:
    Tests: Restore themes after block tests.
    Sep 10 Thu · 21:32
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63594] on WordPress SVN:
    Tests: Improve isolation of rewrite tests.
    Sep 10 Thu · 21:20
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63593] on WordPress SVN:
    Tests: Restore core Ajax hooks before each test.
    Sep 10 Thu · 21:10
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63592] on WordPress SVN:
    Build/Test Tools: Reset comment globals between tests.
    Sep 10 Thu · 11:20
    Core high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
    I18N: Validate cached translation file lists.
    Sep 10 Thu · 11:18
    Core med
    Closed ticket #66063 on Core Trac:
    Check cache return value in ...
    Sep 10 Thu · 11:18
    Core high
    Committed [63580] to WordPress SVN:
    I18N: Validate cached translation file lists.
    Sep 10 Thu · 10:50
    Core high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
    Script Loader: Avoid a false entry in inline script data.
    Sep 10 Thu · 10:48
    Core med
    Closed ticket #52320 on Core Trac:
    Empty entries in WP_Scripts 'extra' field

    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