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Adam Wood

JavaScript Engineer at Automattic

@adamwood Wanaka, New Zealand joined Aug 2011

adamwood.nz github.com/adamwoodnz Slack: @adamwood
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    Bio

    I’m a frontend specialist, passionate about building UI with great design, UX and accessibility.

    WordPress Origin Story

    I started with WordPress as a student in 2009

    Badges

    CODE
    3 badges
    Core Contributor '24 Meta Contributor '22 Meta Team '22
    PRACTICE
    2 badges
    Accessibility Contributor '22 Training Contributor '22
    POLYGLOTS
    1 badge
    Translation Contributor '24

    Current Job

    JavaScript Engineer
    Present
    Automattic

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    10contributions
    high3
    medium7
    score16
    Last 90 days
    10contributions
    high3
    medium7
    score16
    Last 12 months
    25contributions
    high8
    medium17
    score41

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 2 releases
    • 7.1
    • 6.7

    Time commitment

    Five for the Future sponsors

    Contributions

    Type
    October 2026
    Oct 20 Tue · 20:21
    Core high
    Pull request #84869 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
    Grid: preserve tile content semantics when dragging is disabled
    Oct 19 Mon · 17:46
    Meta high
    Mentioned in [15370] on Meta SVN:
    Build/Test Tools: Check committed JS/CSS build output in CI
    Oct 15 Thu · 22:01
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #84869 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Grid: preserve tile content semantics when dragging is disabled
    Oct 14 Wed · 21:30
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #84738 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Widget Primitives: Let a host give widgets their translated title
    Oct 12 Mon · 02:40
    Core med
    Created issue #84528 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    Grid: Disabled sortable tiles mark all their content as a disabled button
    Oct 08 Thu · 00:02
    Core med
    Created issue #84204 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    Widget Primitives: Let a host give widgets their translated title
    September 2026
    Sep 30 Wed · 07:02
    Core high
    Pull request #83749 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
    Base Styles: Default the admin theme color to Blueberry
    Sep 29 Tue · 23:44
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #203 on WordPress/wporg-main-2022:
    Create pattern for hosting page
    Sep 29 Tue · 01:45
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #83749 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Base Styles: Default the admin theme color to Blueberry
    Sep 29 Tue · 01:43
    Core med
    Created issue #83748 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    Base Styles: Default --wp-admin-theme-color to #3858e9 to match WordPress 7.0

    Completed courses

    4 completed

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    Plugins

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    Translations

    1 locale
    en_NZ English (New Zealand) (English) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 1 project.

    wp20.wordpress.net

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