Alex Kirk (@akirk) – WordPress user profile

Badges

CODE

6 badges

Core Contributor '15 Meta Contributor '15 Meta Team '22 P Playground Contributor '25 P Playground Team '25 Plugin Developer

COMMUNITY

2 badges

WordCamp Organizer '19 WordCamp Speaker '23

PRACTICE

1 badge

Support Contributor '26

POLYGLOTS

2 badges

Translation Contributor '15 Translation Editor '15

Current Job

Present

Automattic

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

51contributions

high25

medium26

score101

Last 90 days

201contributions

high117

medium84

score435

Last 12 months

418contributions

high231

medium187

score880

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 10 releases

Time commitment

20 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

Automattic

Contributions

Type

October 2026

Oct 24 Sat · 05:18

Playground med

Submitted pull request #4515 to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
[Blueprints] Localize starter content using an initial setSiteLanguage step

Oct 23 Fri · 13:26

Playground med

Submitted pull request #4505 to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
[Blueprints] Support browser language selection

Oct 21 Wed · 15:25

Playground med

Submitted pull request #4488 to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
Prototype Spacefast persistence and static publishing for Playground

Oct 21 Wed · 10:25

Playground high

Merged pull request #4423 into WordPress/wordpress-playground:
[Personal WP] Use a SharedWorker runtime

Oct 19 Mon · 16:19

Meta high

Mentioned in [15368] on Meta SVN:
Translate: Skip unknown locales when listing locales on the front page

Oct 19 Mon · 13:29

GitHub med

Closed issue #373 on the WordPress/wordpress.org repository:
translate.wordpress.org: add cloud translation suggestions via Google Cloud Translation API

Oct 16 Fri · 15:59

Playground med

Submitted pull request #4464 to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
Improve runtime startup error page and add copyable details

Oct 14 Wed · 07:05

Playground med

Submitted pull request #4430 to WordPress/wordpress-playground:
Update the service worker when retrying startup failures

Oct 14 Wed · 06:04

Plugins high

Committed [3745432] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 4.4.0 from GitHub

Oct 14 Wed · 06:01

Plugins high

Committed [3745430] to Plugins SVN:
Release 1.7.0

Developer

15 plugins

Chatrix

30+ active installs
Cook App

Less than 10 active installs
Enable Mastodon Apps

500+ active installs
Factolex Glossary

Less than 10 active installs
Family Wiki

Less than 10 active installs
Friends

900+ active installs
GlotPress

500+ active installs
My Apps

Less than 10 active installs
My Post Stats Dashboard Widget

Less than 10 active installs
OpenID Connect Server

200+ active installs
Secure Gettext

Less than 10 active installs
startpage

40+ active installs
thinkery

Less than 10 active installs
Tours

10+ active installs
Travel App

Less than 10 active installs

Contributor

4 plugins

ActivityPub

6,000+ active installs
Embed PDF Viewer

20,000+ active installs
Jetpack - WP Security, Backup, Speed, & Growth

3+ million active installs
Masterbar Note

Less than 10 active installs

Plugins

51 favorites

Themes

2 favorites

Translations

21 locales

art_xpirate English (Pirate) (English) General Translation Editor Translation Contributor

Contributed translations to 2 projects.

Friends WordPress 7.1.x - Development

View all on translate.wordpress.org

de_DE Deutsch (German) Patterns Translation Editor Project Translation Editor Translation Contributor

Translation editor for 1 project.

Patterns

Translation editor for 2 projects.

Plugins Themes

Contributed translations to 25 projects.

WordPress for Android WordPress for iOS Contributor Toolkit Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection Cook App Enable Mastodon Apps Family Wiki Friends Jetpack – WP Security, Backup, Speed, & Growth Locatoraid Store Locator Masterbar Note Product Catalog Simple Slimpack - Lightweight Jetpack WooCommerce WordPress 4.4.x WordPress 4.5.x WordPress 4.6.x WordPress 4.7.x WordPress 4.8.x WordPress 4.9.x WordPress 5.0.x WordPress 5.1.x WordPress 5.2.x WordPress 5.3.x WordPress 7.1.x - Development

View all on translate.wordpress.org

it_IT Italiano (Italian) Translation Contributor

Contributed translations to 5 projects.

WordPress for Android WordPress for iOS Friends Jetpack – WP Security, Backup, Speed, & Growth WooCommerce

View all on translate.wordpress.org

ar العربية (Arabic) Translation Contributor

Contributed translations to 4 projects.

WordPress for Android WordPress for iOS Jetpack – WP Security, Backup, Speed, & Growth WooCommerce

View all on translate.wordpress.org

he_IL עִבְרִית (Hebrew) Translation Contributor

Contributed translations to 4 projects.

WordPress for Android WordPress for iOS Jetpack – WP Security, Backup, Speed, & Growth WooCommerce