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Luke Cavanagh

WordPress Developer

@lukecavanagh Salt Lake CIty, UT joined May 2016

Slack: @lukecavanagh

    Bio

    Luke Cavanagh is a WordPress Core contributor, who hails from Maidstone in the United Kingdom. He is an avid Doctor Who fan, movie buff, music specialist, and a British TV nerd. He has extensive WordPress experience and currently resides in Utah with his lovely wife and daughters.

    Interests

    Dr Who
    Sherlock
    The Grand Tour
    Chvrches
    Synthwave
    Star Wars
    Jerry Goldsmith

    WordPress Origin Story

    Used WordPress for the very first time in 2011 for a company blog.

    Badges

    CODE
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    Core Contributor '16 Hosting Contributor '18 Plugin Developer
    CONTENT
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    Documentation Contributor '17
    COMMUNITY
    1 badge
    WordCamp Speaker '16
    PRACTICE
    1 badge
    Support Contributor '16

    Current Job

    WordPress Developer
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    Recent impact

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

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    Last 12 months
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    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 17 releases
    • 6.9
    • 6.8
    • 6.4
    • 6.3
    • 6.1
    • 6.0
    • 5.9
    • 5.7
    • 5.6
    • 5.5
    • 5.4
    • 5.3
    • 5.0
    • 4.9
    • 4.8
    • 4.7
    • 4.6

    Contributions

    Type
    August 2025
    Aug 11 Mon · 16:16
    Core high
    Mentioned in [60623] on WordPress SVN:
    External Libraries: Upgrade PHPMailer to version 6.10.0.
    January 2025
    Jan 23 Thu · 23:52
    Core high
    Mentioned in [59696] on WordPress SVN:
    Editor: Change the `Text` editor label to `Code`.
    September 2023
    Sep 21 Thu · 18:22
    Core high
    Mentioned in [56654] on WordPress SVN:
    Login and Registration: Improve HTML for errors and notices.
    July 2023
    Jul 12 Wed · 12:52
    Core high
    Mentioned in [56220] on WordPress SVN:
    Help/About: Add a “Get Involved” tab to the About page.
    August 2022
    Aug 03 Wed · 12:18
    Core high
    Mentioned in [53815] on WordPress SVN:
    Administration: Change default site tagline to an empty string.
    March 2022
    Mar 02 Wed · 15:10
    Core high
    Mentioned in [52814] on WordPress SVN:
    Bootstrap/Load: Stop unnecessary queries when using the `do_parse_request` filter.
    November 2021
    Nov 02 Tue · 15:56
    Core high
    Mentioned in [51975] on WordPress SVN:
    Admin/Comments: remove bespoke truncation from search string HTML.
    September 2021
    Sep 13 Mon · 20:40
    Core high
    Mentioned in [51807] on WordPress SVN:
    Twenty Eleven: Set a fixed height for search form when header image is added.
    February 2021
    Feb 02 Tue · 18:11
    Core high
    Mentioned in [50153] on WordPress SVN:
    Login and Registration: Improve the UX of the Reset Password screen.
    October 2020
    Oct 20 Tue · 01:12
    Core high
    Mentioned in [49216] on WordPress SVN:
    Bundled Themes: Import Twenty Twenty-One, the new default theme for WordPress 5.6.

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