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Max Schmeling

Team Lead / Code Wrangler at Automattic

@maxschmeling Lenexa, KS joined Jul 2023

maxschmeling.com github.com/maxschmeling Slack: @Max Schmeling

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    CODE
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    Core Contributor '25 Plugin Developer

    Current Job

    Team Lead / Code Wrangler
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    Automattic

    Recent impact

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    Last 30 days
    1contribution
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    medium0
    score3
    Last 90 days
    26contributions
    high10
    medium16
    score46
    Last 12 months
    106contributions
    high33
    medium73
    score172

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 2 releases
    • 7.0
    • 6.9

    Contributions

    Type
    June 2026
    Jun 11 Thu · 18:00
    Core high
    Merged pull request #78984 into WordPress/gutenberg:
    RTC: Allow disabling collaboration by post type
    Jun 05 Fri · 17:57
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #78984 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    RTC: Allow disabling collaboration by post type
    May 2026
    May 22 Fri · 19:56
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #78594 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    RTC: Do not sync taxonomy term entities
    May 08 Fri · 15:58
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62338] on WordPress SVN:
    Remove real-time collaboration.
    May 08 Fri · 14:12
    Core med
    Closed issue #74549 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    Collaborative Editing iteration for WordPress 7.0
    May 08 Fri · 14:03
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62334] on WordPress SVN:
    Remove real-time collaboration.
    May 08 Fri · 12:46
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #11774 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Remove real-time collaboration implementation from 7.0
    May 08 Fri · 12:34
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Real-time collaboration will not ship in WordPress 7.0, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    Come chat with us in the #feature-realtime-collaboration channel and we'd be happy to help!
    May 08 Fri · 04:17
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #11768 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Disable real-time collaboration for the 7.0 release.
    May 08 Fri · 04:16
    Core med
    Closed pull request #11767 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Remove RTC from 7.0 release branch

    Developer

    1 plugin