Daniel Richards
JavaScript Engineer at Automattic
@talldanwp Perth, Australia joined Jun 2018
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JavaScript Engineer
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Automattic
Recent impact
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Last 30 days
48contributions
high8
medium40
score64
Last 90 days
126contributions
high42
medium84
score210
Last 12 months
497contributions
high156
medium341
score809
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Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days
WordPress releases
Contributed to 22 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
Time commitment
30 hours per week of sponsored contribution time
Contributions
Type
September 2026
Sep 16
Wed · 08:33
Core
high
Sep 16
Wed · 08:31
Core
med
Submitted pull request #83015 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Fix prettier lint issues after prettier upgrade
Fix prettier lint issues after prettier upgrade
Sep 16
Wed · 07:37
Core
high
Merged pull request #82860 into WordPress/gutenberg:
Pattern block: Run autoembed() before do_blocks()
Pattern block: Run autoembed() before do_blocks()
Sep 15
Tue · 09:04
Core
med
Closed issue #75022 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Integrate Block Bindings with Block Fields
Integrate Block Bindings with Block Fields
Sep 15
Tue · 09:03
Core
med
Closed issue #73420 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Block Fields: add inspector 'fields' support for blocks like Site Tagline, Site…
Block Fields: add inspector 'fields' support for blocks like Site Tagline, Site…
Sep 15
Tue · 09:03
Core
med
Closed issue #73261 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Block Fields: fully adopt the DataForms API
Block Fields: fully adopt the DataForms API
Sep 15
Tue · 09:03
Core
med
Sep 15
Tue · 09:03
Core
med
Closed issue #74438 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Block Fields: Align implementation with PHP-only block dataform
Block Fields: Align implementation with PHP-only block dataform
Sep 15
Tue · 09:02
Core
med
Sep 15
Tue · 09:02
Core
med
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