Profiles

Bio

Software Engineer at Automattic and YouTuber at https://www.youtube.com/daveonwp.

Long time WordPress developer. Generally I appear as `@getdave` or `@get_dave`.

Badges

CODE
4 badges
Core Contributor '19 Core Team '22 Plugin Developer Theme Developer '24
CONTENT
1 badge
Documentation Contributor '22
PRACTICE
1 badge
Test Contributor '21

Current Job

Software Engineer
Present
Automattic

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days
12contributions
high7
medium5
score26
Last 90 days
45contributions
high15
medium30
score75
Last 12 months
370contributions
high90
medium280
score550

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 18 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
  • 5.6
  • 5.5
  • 5.4
  • 5.3
  • 5.2

Time commitment

20 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

Contributions

Type
August 2026
Aug 17 Mon · 11:45
Core high
Pull request #80404 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
Stop saving Table of Contents output
Aug 10 Mon · 11:46
Core high
Pull request #80926 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
Playlist: Improve audio conversion and track selection
Aug 07 Fri · 20:25
Core high
Pull request #81342 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
Playlist: Normalize Waveform Player configuration handling
Aug 07 Fri · 14:00
Core med
Submitted pull request #81342 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Playlist: Normalize Waveform Player configuration handling
Aug 04 Tue · 15:29
Core high
Pull request #81158 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
[wp/7.1] Backport: Pass Playlist controls to track blocks
Aug 04 Tue · 14:18
Core med
Submitted pull request #81158 to WordPress/gutenberg:
[wp/7.1] Backport: Pass Playlist controls to track blocks
Aug 03 Mon · 16:56
Core high
Pull request #81078 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
[WP 7.1] Playlist: Add track icon
Aug 03 Mon · 14:24
Core med
Submitted pull request #81078 to WordPress/gutenberg:
[WP 7.1] Playlist: Add track icon
July 2026
Jul 31 Fri · 21:12
Core high
Merged pull request #80368 into WordPress/gutenberg:
Pass Playlist controls to track blocks
Jul 30 Thu · 13:23
Core high
Pull request #80959 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
Playlist: Add track icon

Developer

1 plugin

Support Rep

1 plugin