Josh Pollock (@shelob9) – WordPress user profile

WordPress Origin Story

Started a blog, googled how to change something, was lucky enough to get a job at Pods, things got carried away…

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Core Contributor '15 Meta Contributor '17 Plugin Developer Theme Developer Themes Team '14

CONTENT

2 badges

Documentation Contributor '17 Photo Contributor '22

COMMUNITY

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WordCamp Speaker '19

Current Job

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Imaginary Machines

Recent impact

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Last 30 days

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medium0

score3

Last 90 days

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Last 12 months

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WordPress releases

Contributed to 11 releases

Contributions

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June 2026

Jun 09 Tue · 09:53

Meta high

Received props from @mbigul in Slack:
A proud milestone for the WordPress Photo Directory :confetti_ball: :camera_with_flash: :tada: 40,000 photos and counting…

September 2024

Sep 11 Wed · 15:46

Core med

Submitted pull request #65246 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Docs: Check if done resolving first in authors example of dataviews

May 2024

May 31 Fri · 16:45

Playground med

Submitted pull request #284 to WordPress/playground-tools:
Allow express app to be (optionally) passed to start-server

July 2023

Jul 12 Wed · 12:52

Core high

Mentioned in [56220] on WordPress SVN:
Help/About: Add a “Get Involved” tab to the About page.

May 2023

May 10 Wed · 15:10

Forums med

Created a topic, Works as expected, too much dashboard spam, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I would not recommend this plugin. It's probably bette…

April 2023

Apr 10 Mon · 14:00

Core med

Created issue #49687 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Mastodon oEmbed block

March 2023

Mar 20 Mon · 15:19

Forums med

Created a topic, Easy To Use, Looks Good, No Problems, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I installed this beacuse the Riverbanks theme told me …

January 2023

Jan 17 Tue · 15:16

Core med

Closed issue #46550 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
wp-env package: error when starting previously stopped projects (wsl2)

December 2022

Dec 14 Wed · 17:07

Core med

Created issue #46550 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
wp-env package: error when starting previously stopped projects (wsl2)

October 2022

Oct 22 Sat · 22:58

Forums med

Created a topic, Nice, easy to understand UI, does what it says it does, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This is a good plugin, that is easy to use. I like it.…