Brandon Kraft (@kraftbj) – WordPress user profile

Bio

Working for Automattic while living the dream in Austin with my wife and six daughters.

Badges

CODE

3 badges

Core Contributor '15 Meta Contributor '15 Plugin Developer

CONTENT

2 badges

Documentation Contributor '17 Photo Contributor '24

COMMUNITY

1 badge

WordCamp Speaker '14

POLYGLOTS

1 badge

Translation Contributor '15

Current Job

Code Wrangler

Present

Automattic

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

8contributions

high5

medium3

score18

Last 90 days

54contributions

high27

medium27

score108

Last 12 months

253contributions

high131

medium122

score515

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 34 releases

Contributions

Type

July 2026

Jul 10 Fri · 10:53

GitHub high

Pull request #356 merged into WordPress/secure-custom-fields:
Add milestone automation for merged PRs

Jul 02 Thu · 20:09

GitHub high

Merged pull request #148 into WordPress/press-this:
Release 2.1.0

Jul 02 Thu · 20:03

GitHub med

Submitted pull request #148 to WordPress/press-this:
Release 2.1.0

Jul 02 Thu · 19:52

GitHub high

Merged pull request #147 into WordPress/press-this:
chore(deps-dev): bump form-data from 4.0.5 to 4.0.6

June 2026

Jun 26 Fri · 16:03

Core med

Submitted pull request #79595 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Synced patterns: cap core/block expansion per render to prevent OOM/timeouts

Jun 24 Wed · 15:18

Core med

Created issue #79493 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Synced patterns (`core/block`) re-render exponentially when referenced multiple times, causing OOM/timeouts

Jun 19 Fri · 21:16

GitHub high

Merged pull request #146 into WordPress/press-this:
chore(deps-dev): bump launch-editor from 2.13.1 to 2.14.1

Jun 18 Thu · 11:39

GitHub high

Pull request #399 merged into WordPress/secure-custom-fields:
Fix media modal crash on WP 7.0 due to attachment filters wrapper…

Jun 11 Thu · 10:48

GitHub high

Pull request #355 merged into WordPress/secure-custom-fields:
Exclude bin/ directory from code coverage

Jun 10 Wed · 20:44

GitHub high

Merged pull request #145 into WordPress/press-this:
chore(deps): bump qs, @wp-playground/cli and express

Plugins 17
Photos 1
Favorites 17
Translations 13

Developer

13 plugins

Always Use Open Graph with Jetpack

500+ active installs
FediBoost

Less than 10 active installs
Genesis eNews Extended

40,000+ active installs
Jetpack - WP Security, Backup, Speed, & Growth

3+ million active installs
Jetpack Boost - Website Speed, Performance and Critical CSS

200,000+ active installs
Jetpack Protect

100,000+ active installs
Jetpack VaultPress Backup

20,000+ active installs
Language Downloader

10+ active installs
Mars Sol Date

Less than 10 active installs
Press This

5,000+ active installs
Press This Extended

300+ active installs
PuSHPress

20,000+ active installs
WP Job Manager

80,000+ active installs

Contributor

4 plugins

ATmosphere

200+ active installs
Disqus Notify Post/Page Author

80+ active installs
Hide Title

30,000+ active installs
Shiny Updates

10+ active installs

Photos

1 contribution

View all 1 photos in the Photo Directory

Plugins

17 favorites

Translations

13 locales

en_GB English (UK) (English) Translation Contributor

Contributed translations to 44 projects.

bbPress Beaver Builder Page Builder – Drag and Drop Website Builder Counter Ecl WordPress Calls to Action Delightful Downloads Maps Widget for Google Maps Google +1 by BestWebSoft iThoughts Tooltip Glossary Jetpack – WP Security, Backup, Speed, & Growth Ktai Style WordPress Landing Pages WordPress Leads Weather Station Magic Fields 2 Map My Posts Membership 2 Crowdsignal Dashboard – Polls, Surveys & more Polylang User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor QR Twitter Widget Simple Download Monitor Slim Jetpack Slimpack - Lightweight Jetpack Social StagTools WordPress.com Stats Tajer Theme Blvd Layout Builder ThemeZee Toolkit Viper's Video Quicktags Virtue/Ascend/Pinnacle Toolkit WebMan Amplifier Store Exporter – Export WooCommerce Products, Orders, Subscriptions, Customers WP-Members Membership Plugin WP Notes Widget WP Photo Album Plus Wp-Pro-Quiz User Frontend: AI Powered Frontend Posting, User Directory, Profile Builder, Membership & User Registration CBX Next Previous Article Alhena Lite Athena Nisarg Premier Ribosome

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ar العربية (Arabic) Translation Contributor