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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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    Core Contributor '15 Core Team '25 Meta Contributor '19 Plugin Developer
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    Support Contributor '26

    Current Job

    Developer Relations Advocate
    Present
    Automattic

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    114contributions
    high35
    medium79
    score184
    Last 90 days
    146contributions
    high40
    medium106
    score226
    Last 12 months
    255contributions
    high105
    medium150
    score465

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 29 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
    • 5.6
    • 5.5
    • 5.4
    • 5.3
    • 5.2
    • 5.1
    • 5.0
    • 4.9
    • 4.8
    • 4.7
    • 4.6
    • 4.5
    • 4.4
    • 4.3
    • 4.2

    Contributions

    Type
    October 2026
    Oct 20 Tue · 14:06
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #701 on the WordPress/contributor-toolkit repository:
    A pull request's file list includes trunk commits when the site's trunk…
    Oct 20 Tue · 14:06
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #702 into WordPress/contributor-toolkit:
    Fix the pull request preview listing trunk's files when the site's trunk…
    Oct 20 Tue · 14:05
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #677 into WordPress/contributor-toolkit:
    List the changed files in the site's details as trees, each opening…
    Oct 20 Tue · 13:32
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #702 to WordPress/contributor-toolkit:
    Fix the pull request preview listing trunk's files when the site's trunk…
    Oct 20 Tue · 13:09
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #691 on the WordPress/contributor-toolkit repository:
    Add labels to the icons on the bottom
    Oct 20 Tue · 13:09
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #700 into WordPress/contributor-toolkit:
    Label the footer's tray buttons with their names
    Oct 20 Tue · 13:08
    GitHub med
    Created issue #701 in the WordPress/contributor-toolkit repository:
    A pull request's file list includes trunk commits when the site's trunk…
    Oct 19 Mon · 22:45
    Core high
    Mentioned in [64585] on WordPress SVN:
    Script Loader: Retire script and style concatenation.
    Oct 19 Mon · 16:12
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #700 to WordPress/contributor-toolkit:
    Label the footer's tray buttons with their names
    Oct 19 Mon · 15:59
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #683 into WordPress/contributor-toolkit:
    Revert one changed file from the site's details, and mark edits with…

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