Rich Tabor (@richtabor) – WordPress user profile

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

Now Rich leads product at Extendify, where the team is building a platform of site design and creation tools to empower folks to publish beautifully online.

WordPress Origin Story

Since 2011, I’ve been designing, building, and launching WordPress products like CoBlocks, ThemeBeans, and Iceberg. Over the past few years my focus has turned towards defining top-notch Gutenberg tooling to better empower folks to publish with WordPress.

Previously, 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.

I also led the effort towards using the Go theme as a medium to bring about 100 different site variations with just one theme, helping to make WordPress at GoDaddy a best-in-class offering.

After a few years at GoDaddy I jumped in with Extendify as Head of Product (current) — where we are building a platform of site design and creation tools to empower folks to publish beautifully online.

In all, building experiences around the block editor is what I do. WordPress themes and plugins that I’ve led on are installed on over 700,000 sites. Crazy.

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

Contributions Sponsored

Extendify sponsors Rich Tabor to contribute 2 hours per week to the Design team.

Contribution History

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

Activity
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Mentioned in [54235] on Core SVN:
Bundled Themes: Import Twenty Twenty-Three, the new default theme for WordPress 6.1.
1 week ago
Pull request #66 merged into WordPress/twentytwentythree:
Variation: "Pitch"
2 weeks ago
Submitted pull request #66 to WordPress/twentytwentythree:
Variation: "Pitch"
1 month ago
Created issue #43276 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Registered block styles inline_styles not loading within BlockPreview
1 month ago
Created issue #43234 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Theme.json spacingSizes do not work with the new padding presets UI
2 months ago
Created issue #22 in the WordPress/twentytwentythree repository:
Use generic font family slugs
2 months ago
Created issue #43095 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Root padding is doubled on child blocks
2 months ago
Created issue #42899 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Consider naming List View panel label relative to current template/part
2 months ago
Closed pull request #36675 on WordPress/gutenberg:
Update layout toggle label
2 months ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp US 2022
2 months ago
Created issue #42644 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Move button block width control into Dimensions
2 months ago
Created issue #42632 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Top-level patterns
2 months ago
Created issue #42610 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Add visual cue for Group block HTML Elements (Header & Footer) to...
2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 6.1 Planning Roundup, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I'd be down to jump on Design Lead.
2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: A new kind of default theme, on the site Make WordPress Design:
I'm in 🔥
2 months ago
Posted a reply to Incredible work, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Glad you like both of them!
2 months ago
Posted a reply to Beautiful minimalist theme, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Appreciate this Sarah!
2 months ago
Mentioned in [11963] on Meta SVN:
Theme Directory: Add the 'Full Site Editing' Tag to the theme filter bar.
3 months ago
Submitted pull request #42283 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Update border color on color panel items
3 months ago
Submitted pull request #42282 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Try using shadows instead of borders on interface skeleton
3 months ago
Created issue #42278 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Modernize color palette picker and better surface color personalization
3 months ago
Created issue #42274 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Remove extraneous step to edit the theme color palette via Global Styles
3 months ago
Created issue #42204 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Theme.json var:preset:color... formatting not working for settings.custom object
3 months ago
Created issue #42203 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Auditing the block toolbar "Options" menu
3 months ago
Created issue #42202 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Consider more approachable copy for "Transform to"
3 months ago
Created issue #42200 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Exploring improved insertion point and drag/drop
3 months ago
Created issue #42197 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Add setting to turn off block descriptions
3 months ago
Created issue #42196 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Removing applied colors should be easier/similar across any applied color
3 months ago
Created ticket #119639 on Themes Trac:
THEME: Wei – 1.0.0
4 months ago
Created ticket #119486 on Themes Trac:
THEME: Wabi – 1.0.4
4 months ago
Created issue #41644 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Improve initial state of the Post Comments Link block
4 months ago
Created issue #41643 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Inconsistent active states across the editor UI
4 months ago
Created issue #41640 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Tweak group block description
4 months ago
Created issue #41637 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Add method to name custom entity props
4 months ago
Created issue #41636 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Units reset to px when resizing a Cover block
4 months ago
Closed issue #41588 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Cover block with a featured image does not render unless edited (from...
4 months ago
Created issue #41588 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Cover block with a featured image does not render unless edited (from...
4 months ago
Created issue #41408 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Disable featured image control if no featured image is applied to the...
4 months ago
Closed issue #34592 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Additional css classes should be applied to transformed blocks
4 months ago
Posted a reply to Global Styles UI on non-FSE themes?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey Dave, as of today there’s not support for the Global Styles UI outside of…
5 months ago
Closed issue #41033 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Make pattern modal views more consistent
5 months ago
Created issue #41033 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Make pattern modal views more consistent
5 months ago
Created issue #41030 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Navigate to specific NavigationScreen paths
5 months ago
Committed [2719605] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 0.1.5 from GitHub
5 months ago
Committed [2719603] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 0.2.0 from GitHub
5 months ago
Committed [2719596] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 0.2.5 from GitHub
5 months ago
Committed [2719595] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 0.1.9 from GitHub
5 months ago
Posted a reply to Navigation Block on mobile has many issues, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
> When it comes to front-end output For a block theme, the core blocks are…
6 months ago
Committed [2704474] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 0.1.1 from GitHub
6 months ago
Committed [2704432] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 0.2.4 from GitHub
6 months ago