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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
    134contributions
    high103
    medium31
    score340
    Last 90 days
    461contributions
    high284
    medium177
    score1029
    Last 12 months
    876contributions
    high535
    medium341
    score1946

    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 30 Wed · 15:59
    Core high
    Mentioned in [64018] on WordPress SVN:
    Tests: Restore locale state between tests.
    Sep 30 Wed · 15:39
    Core high
    Mentioned in [64016] on WordPress SVN:
    Tests: Improve isolation for randomized query tests.
    Sep 30 Wed · 13:21
    Core med
    Closed pull request #13195 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Tests: Restore locale state after each test
    Sep 29 Tue · 04:57
    Core high
    Merged pull request #83474 into WordPress/gutenberg:
    E2E: Pin the site title in the router specs; raise the E2E…
    Sep 28 Mon · 01:56
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63958] on WordPress SVN:
    Options, Meta APIs: Ensure meta cache is an array before use.
    Sep 27 Sun · 12:01
    Core high
    Merged pull request #81528 into WordPress/gutenberg:
    date: drop a trailing backslash instead of formatting it as "undefined"
    Sep 24 Thu · 12:26
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63915] on WordPress SVN:
    Query: Prefer published pages in path lookups.
    Sep 24 Thu · 12:10
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #303 into WordPress/phpdoc-parser:
    Bump the pinned WordPress corpus to 7.1.2
    Sep 24 Thu · 11:43
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #13709 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Editor: Prevent a fatal error when a Template Part block's tagName is…
    Sep 24 Thu · 05:55
    Core high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
    Block Processor: Ensure block delimiters align with single HTML comments.

    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