Rich Tabor (@richtabor) – WordPress user profile

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.

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

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Core Team
Design Contributor
Documentation Contributor
Meta Contributor
Pattern Author
Patterns Team
Photo Contributor
Plugin Developer
Test Contributor
Theme Developer
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Closed issue #64661 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Groups with contentOnly locking should not be transformable into other variations
5 days ago
Created issue #308 in the WordPress/twentytwentyfive repository:
Remove default presets for colors, gradients, and duotone filters
5 days ago
Created issue #307 in the WordPress/twentytwentyfive repository:
Move link in bio (single page) patterns out of "About"
5 days ago
Created issue #306 in the WordPress/twentytwentyfive repository:
Media or Gallery category?
5 days ago
Created issue #305 in the WordPress/twentytwentyfive repository:
Text styles
5 days ago
Created issue #304 in the WordPress/twentytwentyfive repository:
Adjust opacity color to work better across light and dark variations
5 days ago
Created issue #303 in the WordPress/twentytwentyfive repository:
Audit featured patterns
5 days ago
Created issue #302 in the WordPress/twentytwentyfive repository:
Pattern review
5 days ago
Submitted pull request #301 to WordPress/twentytwentyfive:
Remove left/right padding on heading-and-paragraph-with-image pattern
6 days ago
Created issue #300 in the WordPress/twentytwentyfive repository:
Don't include left and right padding in fullwidth constrained patterns
6 days ago
Mentioned in [59019] on Core SVN:
Editor: Deprecate "Social links with a shared background color" pattern.
6 days ago
Created issue #65298 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Advancing the Select Tool
7 days ago
Closed issue #64661 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Groups with contentOnly locking should not be transformable into other variations
1 week ago
Created issue #65174 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Difficulty removing empty heading blocks
1 week ago
Merged pull request #65163 into WordPress/gutenberg:
Editor topbar: reorder the actions on the right
1 week ago
Created issue #65169 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Site Title block conflicts between typography and link styles
1 week ago
Created issue #65168 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Remove purple coloring from DocumentBar
1 week ago
Created issue #65167 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Update DocumentBar with post type label
1 week ago
Merged pull request #64277 into WordPress/gutenberg:
Fix blurry edge along editor header with Distraction Free
2 weeks ago
Closed issue #63954 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Remove the site logo block from core
3 weeks ago
Created issue #64851 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Styles missing from images when using useFirstImageFromPost
3 weeks ago
Created ticket #186811 on Themes Trac:
THEME: Kanso – 1.0.4
3 weeks ago
Committed [3141965] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 1.0.4 from GitHub
3 weeks ago
Committed [3141964] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 1.0.3 from GitHub
3 weeks ago
Committed [3141962] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 1.0.2 from GitHub
3 weeks ago
Created issue #64727 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
ContentOnly: Improve the image block toolbar controls within contentOnly locking
4 weeks ago
Merged pull request #64700 into WordPress/gutenberg:
Use four color palette colors instead of five for useStylesPreviewColors
4 weeks ago
Created issue #64703 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Use Background Image popover for Cover block media controls
4 weeks ago
Created issue #64702 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Cover block overlay with detected color does not work once saved
4 weeks ago
Closed issue #51750 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Make replace media flows consistent across media blocks
4 weeks ago
Closed issue #63948 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Mobile width + Distraction Free: Toolbar shows non-functional style and sidebar buttons
4 weeks ago
Merged pull request #63949 into WordPress/gutenberg:
Make Distraction Free not conditional on viewport width
4 weeks ago
Submitted pull request #64700 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Use four color palette colors instead of five for useStylesPreviewColors
4 weeks ago
Created issue #64663 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Add block icons to blocks within contentOnly
4 weeks ago
Created issue #64661 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Groups with contentOnly locking should not be transformable into other variations
4 weeks ago
Created issue #64660 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
ContentOnly: Add support for block styles on top-level contentOnly locked grouped blocks
4 weeks ago
Closed issue #64548 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Inconsistent block selection from less than ideal dark-theme-focus
1 month ago
Merged pull request #64549 into WordPress/gutenberg:
Remove inconsistent dark theme focus style on block selection
1 month ago
Created issue #64553 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
DataViews: When bulk selecting, allow media selection to toggle bulk selection
1 month ago
Created issue #64552 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
DataViews: Make un-selectable gallery items clearly not selectable in bulk edit
1 month ago
Submitted pull request #64549 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Remove inconsistent dark theme focus style on block selection
1 month ago
Created issue #64548 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Inconsistent block selection from less than ideal dark-theme-focus
1 month ago
Closed issue #33180 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Standardizing required theme CSS Variables
1 month ago
Created ticket #185545 on Themes Trac:
THEME: Kanso – 1.0.3
1 month ago
Closed pull request #51599 on WordPress/gutenberg:
Try Site Editor panel metrics
1 month ago
Submitted pull request #64277 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Fix blurry edge along editor header with Distraction Free
1 month ago
Created issue #64260 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Selectable blocks should still be available in List View when zoomed out
1 month ago
Created issue #64256 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Browse Styles should always engage "Desktop" while zoomed out
1 month ago
Merged pull request #64179 into WordPress/gutenberg:
Improve zoom transition
2 months ago
Submitted pull request #64179 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Improve zoom transition
2 months ago