Topher (@topher1kenobe) – WordPress user profile

Bio

Christian, Husband, Father, WordPress developer, Teacher, Documenter, HeroPresser

Interests

https://heropress.com
https://topher.how

WordPress Origin Story

https://heropress.com/essays/making-family/

Badges

CODE

3 badges

Core Contributor '15 Meta Contributor '21 Plugin Developer

CONTENT

3 badges

Documentation Contributor '23 Photo Contributor '22 Photos Team '22

COMMUNITY

5 badges

B BuddyPress Contributor '21 Community Contributor '24 Meetup Organizer '18 WordCamp Organizer '18 WordCamp Speaker '19

POLYGLOTS

1 badge

Translation Contributor '16

Current Job

WordPress Engineer

Present

MediaForge Productions

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

1contribution

high1

medium0

score3

Last 90 days

1contribution

high1

medium0

score3

Last 12 months

18contributions

high4

medium14

score26

Team focus

Across 1 team, with no team-attributable contributions in the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 4 releases

Contributions

Type

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…

February 2026

Feb 18 Wed · 16:17

Forums med

Created a topic, How do you pronounce Cimo?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Just what the title says. I want to make a video abou…

Feb 15 Sun · 14:23

Forums med

Created a topic, Fast, resonsive, and featureful, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Given that this is pulling data from an enormous pool,…

January 2026

Jan 13 Tue · 17:16

Forums med

Posted a reply to High Algolia traffic, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I gave the info the Algolia manager and he took it to the webhost who…

Jan 08 Thu · 17:49

Forums med

Posted a reply to High Algolia traffic, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks a bunch Michael. Do you know of any good search query logging plugins? Does…

Jan 08 Thu · 16:56

Forums med

Created a topic, High Algolia traffic, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
We installed this plugin and got it working just fine.…

Jan 07 Wed · 20:48

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Created a topic, It let me work with confidence, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This worked great. I liked the way that before it did …

October 2025

Oct 25 Sat · 17:04

Forums med

Posted a reply to Post Date as Future Event, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
There are quite a few plugins that do this already. Do a search for "WordPress…

Oct 21 Tue · 14:04

Meta med

Created ticket #8110 on Meta Trac:
New layout for Photos submission

Oct 11 Sat · 08:47

Forums med

Created a topic, Perfect, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This plugin does exactly what it says. It also works …