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KokkieH

Code Wrangler at Automattic

@kokkieh South Africa joined Jan 2015

kokkieh.blog github.com/KokkieH Slack: @kokkieh
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    Bio

    Code Wrangler on WooCommerce.com. He enjoys music, movies, reading and people. He’s just the slightest bit obsessive-compulsive. He could be a half-decent musician if only he practiced a bit more. He makes puppets. And bakes.

    Interests

    Reading, writing, gardening, hiking, photography, puppetry, sailing

    WordPress Origin Story

    Back in 2012 I did an online creative writing course. Afterwards our group decided to start a blog where we could share our writing and give feedback to each other. The person who set it up picked WordPress.com. I liked it so much that I promptly moved my few posts on Blogger over to my own WordPress.com site, and haven’t looked back since.

    I became involved in the WordPress.com support forums, and eventually applied to work at Automattic.

    Badges

    CODE
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    Core Contributor '20 Plugin Developer
    COMMUNITY
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    WordCamp Speaker '16
    POLYGLOTS
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    Translation Contributor '16

    Current Job

    Code Wrangler
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    Automattic

    Job History

    Code Wrangler
    Dec 2023 – Present
    Automattic
    Part of the team that maintains the WooCommerce.com website and plugin marketplace, and contributor to the WooCommerce plugin.
    Happiness Engineer
    Nov 2015 – Nov 2023
    Automattic
    Provide customer support across WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Jetpack and other Automattic products, primarily in public support forums and over social media.

    Recent impact

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    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 1 release
    • 5.4

    Contributions

    Type
    November 2025
    Nov 28 Fri · 06:44
    Core med
    Created issue #73638 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    DataForm: Improve collapse button screen reader text
    July 2024
    Jul 04 Thu · 14:27
    Meta high
    Confirmed as a speaker for Uganda Website Projects Competition 2024
    July 2022
    Jul 08 Fri · 12:26
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Remove space between header and content, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Glad I could help :)
    Jul 08 Fri · 09:49
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    Posted a reply to contact form displays no boarders or text, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Happy to help :)
    Jul 08 Fri · 09:28
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to contact form displays no boarders or text, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi there, Replace the code Adam gave you with this instead: form.wp-block-jetpack-contact-form input, form.wp-block-jetpack-contact-form input:focus,…
    Jul 08 Fri · 09:11
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    Posted a reply to Remove space between header and content, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi Ali, For that version of Blank Canvas, you can use this code: #masthead.site-header.has-title-and-tagline {…
    Jul 08 Fri · 07:46
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    Posted a reply to featured page and posts on static page, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thanks for letting me know :) Glad you were able to sort it out.
    Jul 05 Tue · 09:17
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    Posted a reply to How to change text decoration via CSS?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Happy to help :)
    Jul 04 Mon · 10:09
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to featured page and posts on static page, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi Nicola, Unfortunately we're not able to provide help with custom PHP/child theme development questions…
    Jul 04 Mon · 10:06
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    Posted a reply to How to change text decoration via CSS?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi Neville, First, can I suggest a small change to your code? The syntax as…