Steven Lin (@stevenlinx) – WordPress user profile

Bio

From an early age, I like to tinker with all kinds of tech related things.

I’m inspired by FOSS projects.

Gradually, I’ve landed and remained in the open web space.

Interests

reading, open web, open source, blogging occasionally, and editing wikis

WordPress Origin Story

As a user, I’ve self-hosted WordPress sites in an on-and-off basis starting with v1.5 in 2005.

At the time, I’ve content that I want to be published in a blog-like site, along with the need for some publishing related features. Manually coding / re-implementing the features in PHP would have exceeded the time available. WordPress fits the scenario well: easy to install/customize/extend and lets me to self-host which many blog platforms don’t.

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past roles:
* Release Doc Lead for WP 6.3 | 6.5
* Codex to DevHub migrator (phase I)

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I started contributing back to Core in 2016 and to Docs in 2019.

Badges

CODE

3 badges

Core Contributor '16 Core Team '23 Hosting Contributor '23

CONTENT

2 badges

Documentation Contributor '17 Documentation Team '23

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

2contributions

high1

medium1

score4

Last 90 days

3contributions

high1

medium2

score5

Last 12 months

5contributions

high2

medium3

score9

WordPress releases

Contributed to 10 releases

Contributions

Type

June 2026

Jun 21 Sun · 23:33

Core high

Mentioned in [62538] on WordPress SVN:
Site Health: Correct the anchor in object cache documentation link.

Jun 05 Fri · 16:33

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Welcome Estela as a team rep, on the site Make WordPress Documentation:
Well done, @estelaris If I would present, it's also +1 from me.

May 2026

May 26 Tue · 11:52

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Extending Unicode support in email addresses., on the site Make WordPress Core:
I wonder if you can add "RfC" to the post title?

March 2026

Mar 11 Wed · 10:31

Meta high

Updated a handbook page on Make WordPress Documentation.

December 2025

Dec 04 Thu · 14:38

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Proposal to change the user documentation workflow, on the site Make WordPress Documentation:
Good proposal. 1.) For publication date, I'd suggest that if some of the user doc…

February 2025

Feb 25 Tue · 12:35

Meta high

Updated a handbook page on WordPress Developer Resources.

September 2024

Sep 18 Wed · 14:01

GitHub high

Pull request #364 merged into WordPress/Advanced-administration-handbook:
Create mail.md

Sep 17 Tue · 23:56

Core high

Mentioned in [59044] on WordPress SVN:
Bootstrap/Load: Add documentation warning about updating `$table_prefix`.

July 2024