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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Pull request #452 merged into WordPress/twentytwentyfour:
Replace body system font with Inter font
2 days ago
Pull request #54439 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
Improve background image control
3 days ago
Created issue #454 in the WordPress/twentytwentyfour repository:
Audit template parts to only use `header` and `footer` in templates/patterns
4 days ago
Created issue #453 in the WordPress/twentytwentyfour repository:
Audit template types assigned to each "template" pattern
4 days ago
Submitted pull request #452 to WordPress/twentytwentyfour:
Replace body system font with Inter font
4 days ago
Created issue #54668 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Navigation link variations should have type rendered
4 days ago
Created issue #54667 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Add home icon to the front page in LinkControl results
4 days ago
Created issue #54666 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Add blog icon to the blog home page in LinkControl search results
4 days ago
Created issue #54664 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Consider consolidating blog/posts/post icons
4 days ago
Created issue #54620 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Pattern inserter: iterate on current experience with categories
5 days ago
Pull request #410 merged into WordPress/twentytwentyfour:
Fix sidebar display in site editor + make it more consistent
5 days ago
Submitted pull request #54611 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Use admin colors in CanvasLoader ProgressBar
5 days ago
Pull request #407 merged into WordPress/twentytwentyfour:
Fix broken writer home template pattern
5 days ago
Pull request #54574 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
Add back tooltip to styles UI
6 days ago
Merged pull request #393 into WordPress/twentytwentyfour:
Add rust theme variation
6 days ago
Submitted pull request #54574 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Add back tooltip to styles UI
6 days ago
Merged pull request #54545 into WordPress/gutenberg:
Use gray color on link control advanced toggle
6 days ago
Closed issue #53069 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Make Link UI "Advanced" button not have "Admin Color" when open
6 days ago
Merged pull request #54446 into WordPress/gutenberg:
Update block styles UI
6 days ago
Merged pull request #54470 into WordPress/gutenberg:
Update spacing sizes control metrics and icons
6 days ago
Created issue #412 in the WordPress/twentytwentyfour repository:
Remove Page Writer template
6 days ago
Created issue #411 in the WordPress/twentytwentyfour repository:
Alternate template/template part implementation
6 days ago
Submitted pull request #410 to WordPress/twentytwentyfour:
Fix sidebar display in site editor + make it more consistent
6 days ago
Created issue #409 in the WordPress/twentytwentyfour repository:
Post meta should be referenced as template part, not the hidden pattern
6 days ago
Created issue #408 in the WordPress/twentytwentyfour repository:
Sidebar should be referenced as template part, not the hidden pattern
6 days ago
Submitted pull request #407 to WordPress/twentytwentyfour:
Fix broken writer home template pattern
6 days ago
Merged pull request #330 into WordPress/twentytwentyfour:
Added Translation code to Project Details pattern
6 days ago
Submitted pull request #406 to WordPress/twentytwentyfour:
Use an alternate "portfolio" template for pages/posts
6 days ago
Closed pull request #387 on WordPress/twentytwentyfour:
Fixed Spacing issue in Feature With Images Pattern
6 days ago
Created issue #405 in the WordPress/twentytwentyfour repository:
Ensure consistent space between header and content
6 days ago
Merged pull request #402 into WordPress/twentytwentyfour:
Fix Writer Home Page template in the site editor
6 days ago
Created issue #404 in the WordPress/twentytwentyfour repository:
"Blog Home" page is the home template on a fresh install
6 days ago
Created issue #54562 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Site editor: Add template replace flow to template inspector
6 days ago
Pull request #391 merged into WordPress/twentytwentyfour:
Another round of pattern improvements
6 days ago
Submitted pull request #393 to WordPress/twentytwentyfour:
Add rust theme variation
7 days ago
Created issue #392 in the WordPress/twentytwentyfour repository:
Use placeholders instead of images in some patterns
7 days ago
Submitted pull request #391 to WordPress/twentytwentyfour:
Another round of pattern improvements
7 days ago
Closed issue #46 on the WordPress/twentytwentyfour repository:
Home page pattern - paragraphs are used for lists
7 days ago
Merged pull request #369 into WordPress/twentytwentyfour:
Block style for checkmarks
7 days ago
Closed issue #10 on the WordPress/twentytwentyfour repository:
Style Variations
7 days ago
Created issue #54514 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Add DocumentActions to Style Book
1 week ago
Closed issue #33583 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
List View: Explore Naming Blocks
1 week ago
Pull request #367 merged into WordPress/twentytwentyfour:
Use font slugs
1 week ago
Submitted pull request #367 to WordPress/twentytwentyfour:
Use font slugs
1 week ago
Submitted pull request #54470 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Update spacing sizes control metrics and icons
1 week ago
Created issue #54448 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Add contextual suggestion for undoing a template part reset
2 weeks ago
Created issue #54447 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Add contextual suggestion for reseting a template part
2 weeks ago
Submitted pull request #54446 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Update block styles UI
2 weeks ago
Pull request #54429 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
Use standard focus style on BorderControl
2 weeks ago
Merged pull request #54398 into WordPress/gutenberg:
Adjust input-style__focus mixin to proper focus size
2 weeks ago