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SteelWagstaff

Customer Experience Lead at Pressbooks

@steelwagstaff Eugene, Oregon joined Apr 2014

steelwagstaff.info github.com/SteelWagstaff Slack: @Steel Wagstaff

    Bio

    I contribute to a few open-source educational technology projects and was formerly the product manager for Pressbooks (open source book publishing software built on WordPress multisite). I have a Ph.D. in English Literature and a master’s degree in Library and Information Studies, both from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Outside of work and family, my great loves are poetry (with a special interest in the work of the “Objectivists”), music, DIY/indie web stuff, vegetarian food, and playing pickup soccer.

    WordPress Origin Story

    I learned HTML + CSS in library school years ago, and began building websites by hand coding them. Started using WordPress in 2008 or 2009 because I wasn’t a skilled PHP developer and really appreciated its flexibility & ease of use.

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    Core Contributor '20

    Current Job

    Customer Experience Lead
    Present
    Pressbooks

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
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    Last 90 days
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    Last 12 months
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    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 3 releases
    • 6.2
    • 6.1
    • 5.4

    Contributions

    Type
    May 2026
    May 22 Fri · 08:39
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #11940 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    fix: ensure that figure and figcaption elements have unique IDs
    May 22 Fri · 07:54
    Core med
    Created ticket #65315 on Core Trac:
    Inserting the same image with different captions on the same page ...
    February 2023
    Feb 07 Tue · 16:16
    Core high
    Mentioned in [55272] on WordPress SVN:
    Formatting: Treat `math` elements as block-level elements.
    September 2022
    Sep 17 Sat · 00:33
    Core high
    Mentioned in [54192] on WordPress SVN:
    Login and Registration: Required fields in network registration.
    October 2021
    Oct 30 Sat · 18:21
    Core med
    Closed ticket #54348 on Core Trac:
    Update TinyMCE to 5.10
    Oct 30 Sat · 18:19
    Core med
    Created ticket #54348 on Core Trac:
    Update TinyMCE to 5.10
    Oct 30 Sat · 02:55
    Core med
    Created ticket #54344 on Core Trac:
    Required inputs on multisite site registration page lack required attribute
    August 2021
    Aug 19 Thu · 00:38
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Cron issues, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    There are hundreds, if not thousands, of pageviews.php files on the server -- one for…
    Aug 18 Wed · 23:06
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Cron issues, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Upon closer inspection, I think what may have happened is that the cron jobs were…
    Aug 18 Wed · 16:48
    Forums med
    Created a topic, Cron issues, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    We make an open source book publishing platform, that …