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Joen Asmussen

Creative team lead at Automattic

@joen Denmark joined Oct 2004

moc.co github.com/jasmussen Slack: @joen
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    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
    88contributions
    high21
    medium67
    score130
    Last 90 days
    365contributions
    high50
    medium315
    score465
    Last 12 months
    514contributions
    high101
    medium413
    score716

    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 23 Fri · 14:11
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #85474 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Block Tools: Open the block Options menu on right-click in the canvas
    Oct 23 Fri · 12:42
    Core high
    Merged pull request #85445 into WordPress/gutenberg:
    Icons: Deprecate insertBefore, insertAfter, offline
    Oct 23 Fri · 10:03
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #85453 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Icons: Try retiring 10 icons, let's discuss
    Oct 23 Fri · 09:28
    Core high
    Merged pull request #85442 into WordPress/gutenberg:
    Icons: Add new asterisk icon
    Oct 23 Fri · 09:27
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #85450 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Refine some icons based on feedback
    Oct 23 Fri · 08:24
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #85445 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Icons: Deprecate insertBefore, insertAfter, offline
    Oct 23 Fri · 07:35
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #85442 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Icons: Add new asterisk icon
    Oct 22 Thu · 10:24
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #85381 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Gallery: Let a click on an overlaid caption reach the image
    Oct 22 Thu · 08:58
    Core high
    Pull request #85275 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
    Icons: Restore the missing speech bubble in postComments
    Oct 22 Thu · 08:42
    Core med
    Closed pull request #83767 on WordPress/gutenberg:
    Try: Smaller/refined external link icon.

    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.

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