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Tom J Nowell

Engineer at HumanMade Ltd

@tjnowell Manchester, United Kingdom joined Jan 2011

tomjn.com github.com/tomjn Slack: @tomjn

    Bio

    I’m a Senior Engineer, a speaker at conferences, Lead Developer for VVV, and an elected community moderator at WordPress Stack Exchange.

    I also blog about WordPress and PHP at https://tomjn.com

    WordPress Origin Story

    I got started with WordPress when my PunBB install collapsed under the weight of AI threads. WordPress to the rescue! After a brief stint running a Cookie Bank tied to an IRC bot, I graduated to building WordPress sites professionally.

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    CODE
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    Core Contributor '15 Meta Contributor '15 Plugin Developer
    CONTENT
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    Documentation Contributor '17
    COMMUNITY
    2 badges
    WordCamp Organizer '16 WordCamp Speaker '19

    Current Job

    Engineer
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    HumanMade Ltd

    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
    1contribution
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    Last 12 months
    4contributions
    high1
    medium3
    score6

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 16 releases
    • 6.9
    • 6.7
    • 6.5
    • 6.4
    • 6.3
    • 6.2
    • 6.1
    • 5.8
    • 5.4
    • 5.3
    • 5.1
    • 5.0
    • 4.9
    • 4.7
    • 4.1
    • 4.0

    Time commitment

    Five for the Future sponsors

    Contributions

    Type
    September 2026
    Sep 04 Fri · 13:31
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post WordCamp US 2026: PHP conversation, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    I see WASM mentioned multiple times, but nowhere is the proposal linked or the reason…
    January 2026
    Jan 11 Sun · 00:50
    Core med
    Created issue #74515 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    Parameterised Patterns
    December 2025
    Dec 05 Fri · 13:24
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post AI as a WordPress Fundamental, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    We have clients who cannot use AI for compliance and legal reasons, and any proposed…
    October 2025
    Oct 15 Wed · 21:51
    Core high
    Mentioned in [60939] on WordPress SVN:
    Blocks: Introduce WP_Block_Processor for efficiently parsing blocks.
    May 2025
    May 20 Tue · 13:51
    GitHub med
    Created issue #108 in the wp-cli/cache-command repository:
    Support for term/blog/post/user/etc cache flushes
    April 2025
    Apr 24 Thu · 12:54
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 6.8.1 Release Schedule, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    The volume and severity of tickets mean that the maintenance release should be prepared perspicaciously.…
    July 2024
    Jul 30 Tue · 15:46
    Core high
    Pull request #64100 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
    Fix a typo in use-image-sizes.js
    Jul 30 Tue · 14:17
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #64100 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Fix a typo in use-image-sizes.js
    Jul 11 Thu · 13:54
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to GTM Data Layer Names containing spaces cause syntax errors, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Noting I've searched for a Github repo to make a PR against for this fix…
    Jul 11 Thu · 13:33
    Forums med
    Created a topic, GTM Data Layer Names containing spaces cause syntax errors, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    In src/view/frontend/scripts/google-consent-mode-js.ph…

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