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williampatton

WordPress Developer at PattonWebz

@williampatton Scotland, United Kingdom joined Jan 2010

pattonwebz.com Slack: @williampatton

    Bio

    I write open source code and tinker with electronics. Guitar Player, Father of 2, fascinated by the process of 3D Printing and lover of sandwiches.

    Interests

    Playing Guitar, Programming, Open Source Software, 3D Printing, Sandwiches

    Badges

    CODE
    7 badges
    Core Contributor '16 Core Team '20 Meta Contributor '19 Plugin Developer Theme Developer Themes Team '17 WP-CLI Contributor '19
    PRACTICE
    2 badges
    Accessibility Contributor '19 Support Contributor '26

    Current Job

    WordPress Developer
    Present
    PattonWebz

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    7contributions
    high3
    medium4
    score13
    Last 90 days
    24contributions
    high13
    medium11
    score50
    Last 12 months
    55contributions
    high17
    medium38
    score89

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 16 releases
    • 7.1
    • 6.8
    • 6.7
    • 6.3
    • 6.1
    • 5.9
    • 5.8
    • 5.6
    • 5.5
    • 5.4
    • 5.3
    • 5.2
    • 5.1
    • 5.0
    • 4.9
    • 4.7

    Time commitment

    4 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

    Contributions

    Type
    October 2026
    Oct 10 Sat · 14:18
    Core high
    Mentioned in [64282] on WordPress SVN:
    Admin: Admin notice accessibility improvements.
    September 2026
    Sep 21 Mon · 11:14
    GitHub high
    Pull request #34 merged into WordPress/ipsum:
    Add AGENTS.md
    Sep 17 Thu · 08:39
    GitHub high
    Pull request #36 merged into WordPress/ipsum:
    Credit Archivo Condensed in the Fonts section
    Sep 16 Wed · 17:29
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #36 to WordPress/ipsum:
    Credit Archivo Condensed in the Fonts section
    Sep 16 Wed · 17:29
    GitHub med
    Created issue #35 in the WordPress/ipsum repository:
    Archivo Condensed is bundled without a credit in readme.txt
    Sep 16 Wed · 17:19
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #34 to WordPress/ipsum:
    Add AGENTS.md
    Sep 16 Wed · 14:10
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #32 to WordPress/ipsum:
    Add a Playground preview link to pull requests
    Sep 04 Fri · 17:04
    Plugins high
    Committed [3681567] to Plugins SVN:
    Tagging version 1.1.0
    Sep 04 Fri · 17:03
    Plugins high
    Committed [3681566] to Plugins SVN:
    BoardScribe 1.1.0: add CSV bulk importer for meeting minutes
    Sep 04 Fri · 17:02
    Plugins high
    Committed [3681565] to Plugins SVN:
    Remove access check dir