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Ryan Welcher

Developer Relations Advocate at Automattic

@welcher Bracebridge Ontario joined Jan 2011

www.ryanwelcher.com github.com/ryanwelcher Slack: @welcher
    Maintains Menus Widgets
    Teams Core AI Core Documentation

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    CODE
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    Core Contributor '15 Core Team '25 Meta Contributor '19 Plugin Developer
    CONTENT
    1 badge
    Documentation Contributor '17
    COMMUNITY
    1 badge
    WordCamp Speaker '15
    PRACTICE
    1 badge
    Support Contributor '26

    Current Job

    Developer Relations Advocate
    Present
    Automattic

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    16contributions
    high2
    medium14
    score20
    Last 90 days
    54contributions
    high10
    medium44
    score74
    Last 12 months
    154contributions
    high74
    medium80
    score302

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 29 releases
    • 7.1
    • 7.0
    • 6.9
    • 6.8
    • 6.7
    • 6.6
    • 6.5
    • 6.4
    • 6.3
    • 6.2
    • 6.1
    • 6.0
    • 5.9
    • 5.8
    • 5.6
    • 5.5
    • 5.4
    • 5.3
    • 5.2
    • 5.1
    • 5.0
    • 4.9
    • 4.8
    • 4.7
    • 4.6
    • 4.5
    • 4.4
    • 4.3
    • 4.2

    Contributions

    Type
    September 2026
    Sep 30 Wed · 17:53
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #572 into WordPress/contributor-toolkit:
    Publish the .pot to translate.wordpress.org from trunk
    Sep 30 Wed · 15:57
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #572 to WordPress/contributor-toolkit:
    Publish the .pot to translate.wordpress.org from trunk
    Sep 30 Wed · 13:38
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #541 into WordPress/contributor-toolkit:
    Make the first-run screen translatable, with a pseudo-locale test
    Sep 29 Tue · 14:46
    GitHub med
    Created issue #562 in the WordPress/contributor-toolkit repository:
    [Experimental] Share setup downloads between laptops at Contributor Day
    Sep 29 Tue · 14:13
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #547 to WordPress/contributor-toolkit:
    Add the translation download to the release steps
    Sep 29 Tue · 14:11
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #546 to WordPress/contributor-toolkit:
    Document the release process in RELEASING.md
    Sep 29 Tue · 13:58
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #544 to WordPress/contributor-toolkit:
    Download translations from translate.wordpress.org and ship them in the app
    Sep 29 Tue · 13:47
    GitHub med
    Created issue #543 in the WordPress/contributor-toolkit repository:
    Document the release process
    Sep 28 Mon · 16:21
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #277 on WordPress/contributor-toolkit:
    Add a design-token layer and convert the site header onto it
    Sep 28 Mon · 16:21
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #541 to WordPress/contributor-toolkit:
    Make the first-run screen translatable, with a pseudo-locale test

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