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Riad Benguella

Keeper of the blocks at Automattic

@youknowriad Oran Algeria joined Oct 2016

riad.blog github.com/youknowriad Slack: @youknowriad
    Teams Core
    Languages fr_FR

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    CODE
    5 badges
    Core Contributor '16 Core Team '20 Meta Contributor '19 Plugin Developer Theme Developer
    CONTENT
    1 badge
    Documentation Contributor '22
    COMMUNITY
    1 badge
    WordCamp Speaker '19
    POLYGLOTS
    1 badge
    Translation Contributor '18

    Current Job

    Keeper of the blocks
    Present
    Automattic

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    18contributions
    high9
    medium9
    score36
    Last 90 days
    25contributions
    high14
    medium11
    score53
    Last 12 months
    828contributions
    high295
    medium533
    score1418

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 23 releases
    • 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
    • 5.7
    • 5.6
    • 5.5
    • 5.4
    • 5.3
    • 5.2
    • 5.1
    • 5.0
    • 4.9
    • 4.7

    Time commitment

    Five for the Future sponsors

    Contributions

    Type
    July 2026
    Jul 05 Sun · 15:35
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #12406 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Comments: Allow changing a comment's parent from the Edit Comment screen
    Jul 03 Fri · 15:36
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62632] on WordPress SVN:
    Media: Enable Media Library infinite scrolling and add an opt-out user option.
    Jul 02 Thu · 15:45
    Core high
    Merged pull request #79659 into WordPress/gutenberg:
    Block variations: Support innerContent for the Custom HTML block
    Jul 01 Wed · 11:23
    Core med
    Created ticket #65570 on Core Trac:
    Allow changing a comment's parent from the Edit Comment screen
    Jul 01 Wed · 10:42
    Core high
    Merged pull request #79736 into WordPress/gutenberg:
    Build: Support --skip-types in npm run dev
    Jul 01 Wed · 09:52
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #79736 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Build: Support --skip-types in npm run dev
    June 2026
    Jun 30 Tue · 09:38
    Core high
    Merged pull request #79676 into WordPress/gutenberg:
    Backport package version bump
    Jun 29 Mon · 21:47
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #79659 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Block variations: Support innerContent for the Custom HTML block
    Jun 29 Mon · 15:55
    Core high
    Merged pull request #79115 into WordPress/gutenberg:
    Blocks: Add innerContent support for static inner blocks, adopt it in the…
    Jun 25 Thu · 14:52
    Core high
    Merged pull request #79456 into WordPress/gutenberg:
    Experiments: Move screen under Settings, drop top-level Gutenberg menu and Demo page

    Developer

    3 plugins

    Contributor

    1 plugin

    Themes

    1 theme

    Plugins

    1 favorite

    Translations

    1 locale
    fr_FR Français (French) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 7 projects.

    Drop it Gutenberg WordPress 5.0.x WordPress 5.1.x WordPress 5.2.x WordPress 5.3.x WordPress 7.0.x - Development

    View all on translate.wordpress.org