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Rich Tabor

Product at Automattic

@richtabor Atlanta, GA joined Aug 2016

richtabor.com github.com/richtabor Slack: @Rich Tabor
    Teams Core Design

    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.

    Badges

    CODE
    8 badges
    Core Contributor '19 Core Team '22 Design Contributor '19 Meta Contributor '22 Pattern Author '22 Patterns Team '22 Plugin Developer Theme Developer
    CONTENT
    2 badges
    Documentation Contributor '23 Photo Contributor '22
    COMMUNITY
    1 badge
    WordCamp Speaker '19
    PRACTICE
    1 badge
    Test Contributor '21

    Current Job

    Product
    Present
    Automattic

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    3contributions
    high2
    medium1
    score7
    Last 90 days
    3contributions
    high2
    medium1
    score7
    Last 12 months
    21contributions
    high7
    medium14
    score35

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 17 releases
    • 7.1
    • 7.0
    • 6.9
    • 6.8
    • 6.7
    • 6.6
    • 6.5
    • 6.4
    • 6.3
    • 6.2
    • 6.1
    • 6.0
    • 5.9
    • 5.6
    • 5.5
    • 5.4
    • 5.0

    Time commitment

    Five for the Future sponsors

    Contributions

    Type
    September 2026
    Sep 22 Tue · 05:45
    GitHub high
    Pull request #103 merged into WordPress/agent-skills:
    Fix Plugin/Theme header detection in PHP docblocks
    Sep 11 Fri · 20:54
    Meta high
    Wrote a new post, Hey team, I’m requesting MC…, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
    Hey team, I'm requesting MC access (#ecosystem) for my WordPress.org account: richtabor. I'm exploring a…
    Sep 07 Mon · 18:47
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #103 to WordPress/agent-skills:
    Fix Plugin/Theme header detection in PHP docblocks
    June 2026
    Jun 18 Thu · 19:36
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #700 to WordPress/wordpress.org:
    Main: Use updated WordPress blue for site headers
    Jun 15 Mon · 12:43
    Meta high
    Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Europe 2026
    May 2026
    May 24 Sun · 15:10
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #78612 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Block Editor: Add list view lock controls
    May 24 Sun · 03:46
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #78608 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Block Editor: Add layout lock option to lock modal
    May 24 Sun · 03:25
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #78607 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Block Editor: Add zoom-out pattern insertion menu items
    May 24 Sun · 00:25
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #78606 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Block Editor: Replace zoom-out "Change design" to "Replace' with pattern explorer modal
    May 23 Sat · 20:15
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #78604 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Block Editor: Open Patterns Explorer for zoom-out insertion

    Developer

    6 plugins

    Contributor

    1 plugin

    Themes

    3 themes

    • Kanso

      300+ active installs

    • Wabi

      100+ active installs

    • Wei

      40+ active installs

    Photos

    27 contributions

    View all 27 photos in the Photo Directory

    Completed courses

    2 completed

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    Plugins

    2 favorites