Marius L. J. (@clorith) – WordPress user profile

Bio

I’m a web developer with strong interests in self-empowering users, and providing them (and those that support them in being self-empowered) the tools they need to succeed, whatever success may be to them.

Having done development, in some form or fashion, professionally or personally, since the late (19)90’s, and have always enjoyed publishing what I do for others to learn from, or improve on, even before I had heard of open source.

Interests

web development, ice hockey, esports, irc

WordPress Origin Story

After having created a few basic CMS solutions from scratch on various client projects, I wanted something properly maintained with frequent updates both for features and security patches. It didn’t take me long to discover that WordPress was exactly what I needed for this, having been quietly observing for a year or two because it had me interested but I never truly felt the drag, I finally got my feet wet.

Guess what, the water was lovely, and I dove head first in! And now, many years later there’s still no regret. I spend my free time helping out in the ways I can to give back to a community I truly cherish. I provide support on the IRC channel, give input in various team meetings (anyone can join in and voice their opinions, it’s great, you should too!), and recently ever had my first props in a core update! (Even though my contribution wasn’t major, it’s still a good feeling to be recognized, and it does get you even more excited to help out even more!)

Badges

CODE

4 badges

Core Contributor '15 Core Team '20 Meta Contributor '15 Plugin Developer

CONTENT

3 badges

Documentation Contributor '16 Documentation Team '14 Photo Contributor '23

COMMUNITY

1 badge

bbPress Contributor '19

PRACTICE

3 badges

Support Contributor '16 Support Team '14 Test Contributor '23

POLYGLOTS

2 badges

Translation Contributor '15 Translation Editor '18

Current Job

Head of Engineering

Present

Dekode Interaktiv AS

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

1contribution

high1

medium0

score3

Last 90 days

2contributions

high1

medium1

score4

Last 12 months

38contributions

high21

medium17

score80

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 27 releases

Contributions

Type

May 2026

May 21 Thu · 00:32

Meta high

Received props from @amykamala in Slack:
Props to @SergeyBiryukov, @jorbin, @ellatrix, @audrasjb, @estelaris, @Clorith, @chaion07 for facilitating the 7.0 release today!

March 2026

Mar 17 Tue · 23:47

Core med

Created issue #76610 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Block recovery when different language editors edit posts, with RTC implications

January 2026

Jan 01 Thu · 12:14

Forums med

Posted a reply to Are you going to fix the vulnerability?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, Although we had not been informed of this disclosure ahead of it happening, there…

Jan 01 Thu · 12:14

Forums med

Posted a reply to Security Vulnerability Report v1.7.1, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, Although we had not been informed of this disclosure ahead of it happening, there…

Jan 01 Thu · 12:13

Forums med

Posted a reply to Vulnerability found, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, Although we had not been informed of this disclosure ahead of it happening, there…

Jan 01 Thu · 11:17

GitHub high

Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/site-health-tools:
Generic: Ensure we use public, not protected, functions

December 2025

Dec 30 Tue · 13:07

GitHub high

Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/site-health-troubleshooting:
Version bump

Dec 30 Tue · 13:00

GitHub high

Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/site-health-tools:
Version bump 1.0.1

Dec 30 Tue · 12:57

GitHub high