Ryan Welcher
Developer Relations Advocate at Automattic
@welcher Bracebridge Ontario joined Jan 2011
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Recent impact
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Last 30 days
16contributions
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medium14
score20
Last 90 days
54contributions
high10
medium44
score74
Last 12 months
154contributions
high74
medium80
score302
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Contributed to 29 releases
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- 7.0
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- 6.1
- 6.0
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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
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
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
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
[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
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
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
Download translations from translate.wordpress.org and ship them in the app
Sep 29
Tue · 13:47
GitHub
med
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
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
Make the first-run screen translatable, with a pseudo-locale test
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