Dion Hulse (@dd32) – WordPress user profile

Bio

Hi! I’m Dion.

A software developer from Australia, working on WordPress.org, WordCamp.org, and WordPress itself.

You’ll find me with my finger in far too many pies, but that means I’ll always have that piece of history from 20-years ago that explains why something is how it is to this day.

Interests

WordPress, IoT, PHP, Other

WordPress Origin Story

Got involved through the Google Summer of Code in 2008 after missing the cutoff in 2007. Been here ever since.

Badges

CODE

13 badges

C Campus Connect Participant '25 Core Contributor '15 C Core Performance Contributor '22 Core Team '14 Meta Contributor '15 Meta Team '15 Pattern Author '22 Patterns Team '22 P Playground Contributor '25 Plugin Developer '24 Plugins Team '23 Security Contributor '22 Security Team '19

CONTENT

3 badges

Photo Contributor '22 Photos Team '25 WordPress.tv Contributor '16

COMMUNITY

5 badges

bbPress Contributor '20 B BuddyPress Contributor '20 Meetup Organizer '18 WordCamp Organizer '18 WordCamp Speaker '17

PRACTICE

3 badges

C Credits Graduate '25 C Credits Mentor '26 Support Contributor '22

POLYGLOTS

2 badges

Translation Contributor '15 Translation Editor '15

Current Job

WordPress.org Engineer

Oct 2014 – Present

Automattic

Job History

WordPress Developer

Nov 2011 – Present

Automattic

WordPress Lead Developer

Jan 2010 – Present

WordPress

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

172contributions

high108

medium64

score388

Last 90 days

665contributions

high389

medium276

score1443

Last 12 months

1418contributions

high815

medium603

score3048

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

Meta 100% of contributions

Contributions

Type

May 2026

May 29 Fri · 04:51

GitHub med

Submitted pull request #659 to WordPress/wordpress.org:
Plugin Directory: Update GeoPattern to 1.1.2 and tidy generated icon output

May 29 Fri · 04:22

Meta high

Mentioned in [14924] on Meta SVN:
Redirects: Redirect the legacy /extend/{plugins,themes} urls.

May 29 Fri · 04:14

GitHub med

Submitted pull request #658 to WordPress/wordpress.org:
Plugin Directory: Fix malformed viewBox attribute on generated geopattern icons

May 28 Thu · 01:41

Meta high

Wrote a new post, Proxy Access: Uros, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
Username: wpaurorautasic Public Key: ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 AAAAE2VjZHNhLXNoYTItbmlzdHAyNTYAAAAIbmlzdHAyNTYAAABBBFTSOdUos1aUt1EBfd68YHfUQHrVVF2koJhPEuqg13oIW3jYMTWIyOY7G/VjSC5L107LliCrkk1doN/iAms8780= AutoProxxy/XDGD6KDVPV @wpaurorautasic needs proxy access for WordCamp super-admin. Key…

May 27 Wed · 07:47

Themes med

Closed pull request #482 on WordPress/theme-check:
Title Check: Avoid Deprecated warnings when there's no file contents.

May 27 Wed · 07:47

Themes med

Closed issue #476 on the WordPress/theme-check repository:
Deprecated: strpos(): Passing null to parameter # 1 ($haystack) of type string…

May 27 Wed · 07:46

Themes high

Merged pull request #477 into WordPress/theme-check:
deprecated issue #476 tested in WP v6.7.1

May 27 Wed · 07:18

Meta high

Mentioned in [14923] on Meta SVN:
Rosetta: Don't throw warnings about missing helphub roles.

May 27 Wed · 01:19

Meta high

Wrote a new post, MC Access: coreyhall93, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
Can coreyhall93 please be granted MC access. No release/additional access needed. This is due to…

May 26 Tue · 07:22

Meta high

Mentioned in [14922] on Meta SVN:
Bad Requests: Silence pentester requests against profiles, junk in junk out, that's out it works.