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Brian Alexander

Hacker at #OpenToWork

@ironprogrammer Portland, Oregon, USA joined May 2011

brianalexander.com github.com/ironprogrammer

    Bio

    ** I’m currently open to new work opportunities. **

    I’m a husband, father, and hacker living in Portland, Oregon, where I primarily contribute to WordPress Core and Gutenberg, garden Trac and GitHub tickets, and help contributors get involved in WordPress testing and development. In my free time, I play drums and pickleball, make cold process soap, and tend my flock of chickens.

    I’ve had the opportunity to serve as:
    – Test Co-Lead for WordPress 6.0, 6.1, and 6.3
    – Test Team Rep for 2022-2023
    – Contributor Day Test Lead/Co-Lead for WCEU 2022, WCUS 2022 (Slack), and WCUS 2023/2024
    – Mentor to other test leads

    You can usually find me lurking in the WordPress #core and #core-test Slack channels.

    Interests

    wordpress, drums, pickleball, table tennis, cycling, swimming, soap making, urban farming, reading, coffee, food, beer, cider

    WordPress Origin Story

    I’ve been hacking on WordPress since version 2.3. I started with personal blogging for a few things I wanted to share online (like making your own yogurt). Turns out that while I love writing, I’m a horrible blogger, so I eventually found a place helping other folks build and maintain their own WordPress sites.

    Badges

    CODE
    4 badges
    Core Contributor '22 Core Team '22 Meta Contributor '22 Plugin Developer
    CONTENT
    1 badge
    Photo Contributor '22
    PRACTICE
    2 badges
    Test Contributor '22 Test Team '22

    Current Job

    Hacker
    Present
    #OpenToWork

    Recent impact

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

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    Contributions

    Type
    August 2025
    Aug 26 Tue · 21:52
    Core high
    Mentioned in [60674] on WordPress SVN:
    Build/Test Tools: Update in-repo PHPUnit documentation to point to a single source of truth.
    June 2025
    Jun 05 Thu · 08:14
    Core high
    Mentioned in [60278] on WordPress SVN:
    Site Health: add image output mapping details to the info tab.
    March 2025
    Mar 06 Thu · 23:46
    Core high
    Mentioned in [59948] on WordPress SVN:
    Menus: Validate custom links and add accessible error messages.
    Mar 02 Sun · 22:05
    Core high
    Mentioned in [59899] on WordPress SVN:
    REST API: Improve performance for HEAD requests.
    February 2025
    Feb 12 Wed · 23:44
    Core high
    Mentioned in [59818] on WordPress SVN:
    Pings/Trackbacks: Add return value to `pingback()`.
    January 2025
    Jan 29 Wed · 18:10
    Core high
    Mentioned in [59728] on WordPress SVN:
    Posts, Post Types: Add no-cache headers to password protected posts.
    December 2024
    Dec 10 Tue · 19:57
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Let’s reconsider adopting the WP Consent API, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    As noted (1) above (2), the API itself doesn't attempt to dictate legal details nor…
    Dec 10 Tue · 01:55
    Meta high
    Gave props in Slack:
    Props to @dd32 :hero: for https://wordpress.slack.com/files/U02QCT4MY/F084CT9LDFU/screen_recording_2024-12-10_at_11.38.01___am.compressed.mov, and @peterwilsoncc for helping confirm the update.
    Dec 06 Fri · 16:39
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Classic Editor adds extra classes to tags, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Building on @psykro's response, if the text was pasted in from another app, then this…
    Dec 05 Thu · 00:47
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Let’s reconsider adopting the WP Consent API, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    Hi, Ben 👋🏻 The WP Consent API doesn't impose limitations on how categories and services…