Rich Tabor (@richtabor) – WordPress user profile

Member Since: August 3rd, 2016
Location: Atlanta, GA
Website: richtabor.com
GitHub: richtabor
Job Title: Product
Employer: Automattic
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Bio

As a WordPress entrepreneur, designer and developer all wrapped up in one, Rich Tabor is recognized as one of the top leaders in this post-Gutenberg era of WordPress. His ever-precise design chops have topped the 2018 Automattic Design Awards and led him to co-found CoBlocks – a top-notch set of page builder blocks and tools for Gutenberg, ThemeBeans – a premier WordPress theme shop and Iceberg – a markdown editor for Gutenberg.

Rich is currently at Automattic, working towards making the web a better place.

WordPress Origin Story

Building experiences is what I do. I obsess over details you hardly see, but certainly feel.

Since 2011, I’ve been designing, building, and launching WordPress products like Iceberg, CoBlocks, ThemeBeans (acquired by GoDaddy). Over these past few years, my focus has turned towards defining top-notch block-editor experiences, to better empower folks to publish with WordPress.

In 2019, I joined GoDaddy as the Senior Product Manager of WordPress Experience, where we launched and grew the Go WordPress theme to just over 90,000 active installs and took CoBlocks from 5,000 installs to 500,000 installs in two years.

After a few years at GoDaddy I jumped in with Extendify as Head of Product — where we built a platform of site design and creation tools (Extendify Library, Launch, and Assist) to empower folks to publish beautifully online. The Extendify plugin was one of the fastest growing plugins of 2022, having gained nearly 70,000 installs in the first year.

Currently I’m a Product Manager at Automattic, working on making the web a better place.

I love WordPress — it’s priceless and free at the same time, equipping and inspiring folks to be successful online.

Contributions Sponsored

Automattic sponsors Rich Tabor to contribute 40 hours per week to the following teams: Core and Design.

Contribution History

Core Contributor
Core Team
Design Contributor
Meta Contributor
Pattern Author
Patterns Team
Photo Contributor
Plugin Developer
Test Contributor
Theme Developer
WordCamp Speaker

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Created issue #51147 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Apply text color selection to link color
2 days ago
Created issue #51138 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Image block: Implement aspect ratio control
2 days ago
Merged pull request #50977 into WordPress/gutenberg:
Visually hide the LinkControl initial/results heading
2 days ago
Closed issue #48492 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Social link block distorted visually when moved (highlighted)
1 week ago
Submitted pull request #50978 to WordPress/gutenberg:
LinkControl Suggestion UI
1 week ago
Submitted pull request #50977 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Visually hide the LinkControl initial/results heading
1 week ago
Created issue #50975 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Extraneous tooltip for save draft button
1 week ago
Closed issue #50181 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Update Post Link block variation icon to match the one used in...
1 week ago
Merged pull request #50190 into WordPress/gutenberg:
Update Post Link block variation icon to match the one used in...
1 week ago
Merged pull request #50878 into WordPress/gutenberg:
Tweak edit site resizable frame handle
1 week ago
Created issue #50893 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Image and Media & Text blocks: Use LinkControl
1 week ago
Closed issue #50179 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Add ability to set link text at creation time for Navigation links
1 week ago
Created issue #50892 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
LinkControl: Remove interstitial link preview step
1 week ago
Created issue #50891 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
LinkControl Refresh
1 week ago
Created issue #50890 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
LinkControl: Improve Edit State
1 week ago
Created issue #50888 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
LinkControl: Add control for adding blocks
1 week ago
Created issue #50886 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
LinkControl: Remove tools controls from initial state
1 week ago
Created issue #50885 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
LinkControl: Simpler suggestions
1 week ago
Created issue #50884 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
LinkControl: Surface contextual suggestions
1 week ago
Submitted pull request #50878 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Tweak edit site resizable frame handle
1 week ago
Created issue #50796 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Template Parts: Consider applying purple selection color to blocks within template parts
2 weeks ago
Created issue #50758 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Patterns & Media List Items: Apply hover color to icons
2 weeks ago
Created issue #50757 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Pattern & Media List Items: Use consistent admin focus style
2 weeks ago
Created issue #50756 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
List View: Explore hiding blocks
2 weeks ago
Created issue #50754 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Pattern & Media List Items: Consider small chevrons
2 weeks ago
Created issue #50753 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Pattern & Media List Items: Improve metrics to account for chevrons
2 weeks ago
Created issue #50750 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
List View: Consider removing cell animation to improve scannability
2 weeks ago
Created issue #50748 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
List View: Reduce visual weight of locked nested blocks
2 weeks ago
Created issue #50747 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Use consistent styling for is-highlighted and is-hovered
2 weeks ago
Created issue #50745 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Copy/paste styles should not be available for blocks that do not have...
2 weeks ago
Merged pull request #50728 into WordPress/gutenberg:
Try: Smaller external link icon.
2 weeks ago
Created issue #580 in the WordPress/pattern-directory repository:
Add select for filtering the pattern directory
2 weeks ago
Pull request #50710 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
Add wide align support to code block
2 weeks ago
Submitted pull request #50710 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Add wide align support to code block
2 weeks ago
Closed issue #50182 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Add description to Link Text field in Navigation Link block
2 weeks ago
Merged pull request #50214 into WordPress/gutenberg:
Update `rel` and `title` labels for navigation and submenu links.
2 weeks ago
Created issue #50531 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
ContrastChecker: Cover block overlay and text color incorrect
3 weeks ago
Merged pull request #50444 into WordPress/gutenberg:
Tweak copy for block settings menu "Insert..." to "Add..."
3 weeks ago
Created issue #50451 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Consider removing transform BlockPreview flyout
4 weeks ago
Created issue #50449 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
BlockPreview: Patterns with VH units scale oddly
4 weeks ago
Created issue #50448 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Modal headings and labels missing editor text color
4 weeks ago
Created issue #50446 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Rearrange items in block settings menu for improved clarity
4 weeks ago
Submitted pull request #50444 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Tweak copy for block settings menu "Insert..." to "Add..."
4 weeks ago
Submitted pull request #50443 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Remove parent block selector from Block Settings Menu
4 weeks ago
Merged pull request #50410 into WordPress/gutenberg:
Update Template Parts icon to use the symbol
4 weeks ago
Merged pull request #49808 into WordPress/gutenberg:
More intuitive Details block with summary and innerBlocks content
4 weeks ago
Submitted pull request #50410 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Update Template Parts icon to use the symbol
4 weeks ago
Created issue #50409 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Style Book: List view should be closed when Style Book is invoked
4 weeks ago
Created issue #50407 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Command Center: Mapping Contextual Commands
4 weeks ago
Created issue #50405 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Add action to "View Site" from the Site Editor sidebar
4 weeks ago