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Joen Asmussen

Creative team lead at Automattic

@joen Denmark joined Oct 2004

moc.co github.com/jasmussen Slack: @joen
    Teams Design

    Bio

    Creative team lead at Automattic. Fan of open source, intentional design, and doing things right.

    Badges

    CODE
    7 badges
    Core Contributor '15 Core Team '20 Design Contributor '17 Design Team '17 Meta Contributor '23 Plugin Developer Theme Developer
    CONTENT
    1 badge
    Documentation Contributor '22
    COMMUNITY
    1 badge
    WordCamp Speaker '14
    POLYGLOTS
    1 badge
    Translation Contributor '15

    Current Job

    Creative team lead
    Present
    Automattic

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    118contributions
    high21
    medium97
    score160
    Last 90 days
    354contributions
    high46
    medium308
    score446
    Last 12 months
    503contributions
    high97
    medium406
    score697

    Team focus

    Across 1 team, with no team-attributable contributions in the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 27 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
    • 5.7
    • 5.6
    • 5.5
    • 5.4
    • 5.3
    • 5.2
    • 5.1
    • 5.0
    • 4.9
    • 4.8
    • 4.2
    • 3.8
    • 3.6

    Time commitment

    10 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

    Contributions

    Type
    October 2026
    Oct 21 Wed · 13:04
    Core high
    Pull request #85273 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
    Icons: Add "database" icon
    Oct 21 Wed · 11:25
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #85275 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Icons: Restore the missing speech bubble in postComments
    Oct 21 Wed · 10:59
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #85273 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Icons: Add "database" icon
    Oct 21 Wed · 10:31
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #85272 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Icons: Add a script that normalizes design-tool SVG exports
    Oct 20 Tue · 10:03
    Core high
    Mentioned in [64593] on WordPress SVN:
    Administration: Add a ”On This Day” section to the Activity widget
    Oct 20 Tue · 06:09
    Core high
    Mentioned in [64590] on WordPress SVN:
    Editor: Add a background clip block support.
    Oct 19 Mon · 21:25
    Core high
    Mentioned in [64583] on WordPress SVN:
    Administration: Replace Dashicons in admin bar and sidebar with wp-icons.
    Oct 18 Sun · 22:27
    Core high
    Mentioned in [64488] on WordPress SVN:
    Editor: Add emoji reactions ❤️ 🎉 😄 👀 🚀
    Oct 14 Wed · 13:42
    Core high
    Pull request #79114 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
    Gallery: Improve mobile lightbox with animated swiping
    Oct 12 Mon · 12:03
    Core high
    Mentioned in [64312] on WordPress SVN:
    Toolbar: Move "Howdy" into user menu item to free up space.

    Developer

    1 plugin

    Contributor

    3 plugins

    Themes

    6 themes

    Plugins

    9 favorites

    Themes

    1 favorite

    Translations

    1 locale
    da_DK Dansk (Danish) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 1 project.

    WordPress for iOS

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