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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
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    Teams Core AI Core Documentation

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    Core Contributor '15 Core Team '25 Meta Contributor '19 Plugin Developer
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    Documentation Contributor '17
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    WordCamp Speaker '15
    PRACTICE
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    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
    48contributions
    high9
    medium39
    score66
    Last 90 days
    88contributions
    high17
    medium71
    score122
    Last 12 months
    188contributions
    high81
    medium107
    score350

    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
    October 2026
    Oct 06 Tue · 20:14
    GitHub med
    Created issue #648 in the WordPress/contributor-toolkit repository:
    Translate the screen-reader "Notifications" text that @wordpress/a11y adds before the locale loads
    Oct 06 Tue · 20:09
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #647 to WordPress/contributor-toolkit:
    Translate the mail dialog, the Playground web server and the copy-path error
    Oct 06 Tue · 20:07
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #625 on the WordPress/contributor-toolkit repository:
    Translate the pull request destination and GitHub sign-in
    Oct 06 Tue · 20:07
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #643 into WordPress/contributor-toolkit:
    Translate the pull request destination and GitHub sign-in
    Oct 06 Tue · 18:34
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #646 to WordPress/contributor-toolkit:
    Translate the Terminal and Logs output
    Oct 06 Tue · 18:22
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #645 to WordPress/contributor-toolkit:
    Translate patch and pull request apply failures
    Oct 06 Tue · 18:21
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #644 to WordPress/contributor-toolkit:
    Translate ticket and branch notices and input errors
    Oct 06 Tue · 17:58
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #624 on the WordPress/contributor-toolkit repository:
    Translate the Review & submit dialog
    Oct 06 Tue · 17:57
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #635 into WordPress/contributor-toolkit:
    Translate the Review & submit dialog
    Oct 06 Tue · 17:44
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #643 to WordPress/contributor-toolkit:
    Translate the pull request destination and GitHub sign-in

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    2 plugins

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