Aaron Jorbin
@jorbin on WordPress.org and Slack
Bio
Job History
Prioritize tickets to ensure successful and impactful releases.
Triage incoming issues after a major release to ensure maintenance releases are scheduled and executed
appropriately.
Create guidelines for use by contributors in areas including communication, release process, and triaging.
Organize a local meetup group and grow it from less than 20 to over one thousand members in three years.
Plan WordCamp NYC, WordCamp Publishers, & WordCamp US.
Mentor two Google Summer of Code students.
Speak at conferences and events around the world.
Migrated infrastructure for six publications onto AWS.
Launched three publications onto WordPress.
Assisted in creating and rolling out standard job titles and descriptions and creating a standard hiring process.
Relaunched flagship property, increasing time on site by 16% YoY .
Modeled revenue & costs around video distribution strategies to allow for data informed decisions.
Managed the launch of multiple new brands.
Instituted CI/CD processes leading to increased deployments with fewer side effects.
diversity in the process.
Established and strengthen relationships with multiple vendors including negotiating new and expiring contracts.
Lead multi-year effort to update and standardize content editor across 20+ brands.
Rolled out Engineering Career Ladder with standardized salaries and normalized titles.
Oversaw the day-to-day work of multiple teams including direct and matrix reports.
Delivered success on multiple large high profile projects each year.
Enacted the first corporate hackathon and set up processes for future editions.
Improved corporate open-source contributions.
Initiated accessibility improvements including multiple product/engineering training and an organization-wide
workshop.
Redesigned the analytics product used by 20+ brands and senior executives.
Key Accomplishments
- Introduced Automated JS Testing to WordPress
- Built grunt-patch-wordpress
- Lead WordPress Core\'s compatibility with PHP 7.0, 7.1, and 7.2
- Deputy Release Lead for WordPress 4.7
- Release Lead for over over a dozen maintaince and security releases
Interests
Contributions Sponsored
- Member Since: May 6th, 2009
- Location: FANTASY LAND
- Website: aaron.jorb.in
- GitHub: aaronjorbin
Contribution History
Aaron Jorbin’s badges:- bbPress Contributor
- BuddyPress Contributor
- Core Contributor
- Core Team
- Documentation Contributor
- Hosting Contributor
- Meta Contributor
- Photo Contributor
- Plugin Developer
- Security Contributor
- Security Team
- Test Contributor
- Tide Contributor
- Translation Contributor
- Translation Editor
- WordCamp Organizer
- WordCamp Speaker
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Created issue #3665 in the WordPress/wordpress-playground repository:
[Enhancement]: Add support for very old versions of WordPress -
Closed ticket #65293 on Core Trac:
WordPress 7 – White Screen When Creating a New Page -
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 7.0 Field Guide, on the site Make WordPress Core:
It sounds like you would like to get involved with testing WordPress. The Core Test… -
Closed ticket #65304 on Core Trac:
Restore Fresh as default admin color scheme for existing users in ... -
Received props from @amykamala in Slack:
Props to @huzaifaalmesbah @narenin @azharderaiya @riko910 @Bhavik Panchal @dhavalkapadane @vishitshah @jigar9998 @vaibhavsweb @hage @shailu25 @Valer1e… -
Received props from @amykamala in Slack:
Props to @SergeyBiryukov, @jorbin, @ellatrix, @audrasjb, @estelaris, @Clorith, @chaion07 for facilitating the 7.0 release today! -
Closed issue #2246 on the WordPress/Documentation-Issue-Tracker repository:
[HelpHub]: update changelogs for bundled themes with 7.0 -
Created ticket #272927 on Themes Trac:
THEME: Twenty Twenty-Five – 1.5 -
Created ticket #272926 on Themes Trac:
THEME: Twenty Twenty-Four – 1.5 -
Created ticket #272925 on Themes Trac:
THEME: Twenty Twenty-One – 2.8 -
Created ticket #272924 on Themes Trac:
THEME: Twenty Twenty – 3.1 -
Created ticket #272923 on Themes Trac:
THEME: Twenty Nineteen – 3.3 -
Created ticket #272922 on Themes Trac:
THEME: Twenty Seventeen – 4.1 -
Created ticket #272921 on Themes Trac:
THEME: Twenty Sixteen – 3.8 -
Created ticket #272920 on Themes Trac:
THEME: Twenty Fifteen – 4.2 -
Created ticket #272919 on Themes Trac:
THEME: Twenty Fourteen – 4.5 -
Created ticket #272918 on Themes Trac:
THEME: Twenty Thirteen – 4.6 -
Created ticket #272917 on Themes Trac:
THEME: Twenty Twelve – 4.8 -
Created ticket #272916 on Themes Trac:
THEME: Twenty Eleven – 5.1 -
Created ticket #272915 on Themes Trac:
THEME: Twenty Ten – 4.6 -
Committed [62392] to Core SVN:
Build/Test Tools: Test 7.0 in upgrade testing workflows. This sets ... -
Submitted pull request #11904 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Update workflows post 7.0 -
Closed ticket #65285 on Core Trac:
The WP Admin Bar for the site itself is still using the old (Fresh) ... -
Committed [62391] to Core SVN:
Post WordPress 7.0 version bump -
Received props from @sumitsingh in Slack:
Props to @amykamala, @ellatrix, @audrasjb, @SergeyBiryukov, @jorbin, @estelaris, and all attendees for the amazing job… -
Made 6 updates to handbook pages on Make WordPress Core.
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Created ticket #65279 on Core Trac:
Prevent non css files from being placed in CSS folders and prevent non ... -
Received props from @amykamala in Slack:
Props to @troychaplin @zunaid321 @Emon @miroku @josevarghese @Shazzad @Ankit K Gupta @kausaralm @ruba1956 @brechtryckaert @chiscoleiton… -
Mentioned in [62385] on WordPress SVN:
Upgrade/Install: Update the `$_old_files` array for 7.0. -
Mentioned in [62379] on WordPress SVN:
Script Loader: Warn when classic scripts with module dependencies lack footer/defer. -
Mentioned in [62368] on WordPress SVN:
Script Loader: Warn when classic scripts with module dependencies lack footer/defer. -
Received props from @chaion07 in Slack:
Props to @ellatrix, @audrasjb and @l0idor helping with the various release tasks :thank-you: :heart: Props… -
Mentioned in [62363] on WordPress SVN:
Help/About: Update the About page for 7.0. -
Mentioned in [62362] on WordPress SVN:
Help/About: Update the About page for 7.0. -
Mentioned in [62355] on WordPress SVN:
I18N: Add translator context to disambiguate translation strings for "Preview". -
Mentioned in [62354] on WordPress SVN:
Toolbar: Revert add CSS from admin color scheme on front-end. -
Mentioned in [62353] on WordPress SVN:
I18N: Add translator context to disambiguate translation strings for "Preview". -
Mentioned in [62349] on WordPress SVN:
Toolbar: Revert add CSS from admin color scheme on front-end. -
Mentioned in [62331] on WordPress SVN:
I18N: Add translator context to the use of "Reply". -
Mentioned in [62330] on WordPress SVN:
Build/Test Tools: Remove `gutenberg:verify` script on `postinstall`. -
Created ticket #65205 on Core Trac:
Remove Real Time Collaboration from WordPress Core -
Mentioned in [62327] on WordPress SVN:
Media: Restore usage of attachment filters in media modal. -
Mentioned in [62326] on WordPress SVN:
Media: Restore usage of attachment filters in media modal. -
Closed ticket #65015 on Core Trac:
Connectors: Several strings are not translated -
Committed [62325] to Core SVN:
I18N: Harden against undefined index in ... -
Reopened ticket #64984 on Core Trac:
reply needs gettext -
Closed ticket #64984 on Core Trac:
reply needs gettext -
Committed [62324] to Core SVN:
I18N: Add translator context to the use of "Reply". Props timse201, ... -
Mentioned in [62323] on WordPress SVN:
Toolbar: Improvements to changes in [62282]. -
Mentioned in [62321] on WordPress SVN:
Build/Test Tools: Remove `gutenberg:verify` script on `postinstall`.
Developer
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BRAD
Active Installs: 10+
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Force PclZip
Active Installs: 500+
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Hit An External Cron
Active Installs: 10+
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Hotfix
Active Installs: 4,000+
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Log Deprecated Notices
Active Installs: 1,000+
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Post Forking
Active Installs: 20+
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Post Format Block
Active Installs: 10+
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Remove Custom Header Uploads
Active Installs: Less than 10
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Rollbar
Active Installs: 400+
Total photo contributions: 101
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