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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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    Current Job

    Developer Relations Advocate
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    Automattic

    Recent impact

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    Last 30 days
    8contributions
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    medium1
    score22
    Last 90 days
    27contributions
    high19
    medium8
    score65
    Last 12 months
    143contributions
    high69
    medium74
    score281

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    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 28 releases
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    • 4.2

    Contributions

    Type
    June 2026
    Jun 12 Fri · 17:59
    Training high
    Pushed 8 commits to wptrainingteam/wp-ai-workshop:
    Remove screenshots and references to installing RC4
    Jun 10 Wed · 15:12
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Custom post types missing from list, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi and thanks for using AQL! My first guess is that the custom post types…
    May 2026
    May 15 Fri · 16:00
    Training high
    Pushed 1 commit to wptrainingteam/wcpt-2026-ai-workshop:
    Update screenshot to use RC4
    May 15 Fri · 15:59
    Training high
    Pushed 1 commit to wptrainingteam/wcpt-2026-ai-workshop:
    Bump WordPress version references from 7.0-RC3 to 7.0-RC4
    May 15 Fri · 15:54
    Training high
    Pushed 1 commit to wptrainingteam/wcpt-2026-ai-workshop:
    Switch summarizer enqueue to enqueue_block_editor_assets
    May 15 Fri · 15:40
    Training high
    Pushed 1 commit to wptrainingteam/wcpt-2026-ai-workshop:
    Add empty includes/summarizer.php file for starting point.
    May 15 Fri · 15:35
    Training high
    Pushed 2 commits to wptrainingteam/wcpt-2026-ai-workshop:
    Merge branch 'planning' into trunk
    May 15 Fri · 15:09
    Training high
    Pushed 2 commits to wptrainingteam/wcpt-2026-ai-workshop:
    Merge planning: teach meta.mcp.public opt-in across the workshop
    May 11 Mon · 18:21
    Training high
    Merged pull request #1 into wptrainingteam/wcpt-2026-ai-workshop:
    Workshop Planning Content
    May 07 Thu · 20:24
    Training high
    Pushed 1 commit to wptrainingteam/wcpt-2026-ai-workshop:
    Add screenshot of Studio version selection to setup instructions

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