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Ryan Welcher

Developer Relations Advocate at Automattic

@welcher Bracebridge Ontario joined Jan 2011

www.ryanwelcher.com github.com/ryanwelcher Slack: @welcher
    Maintains Menus Widgets
    Teams Core AI Core Documentation

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    Core Contributor '15 Core Team '25 Meta Contributor '19 Plugin Developer
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    Documentation Contributor '17
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    WordCamp Speaker '15
    PRACTICE
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    Support Contributor '26

    Current Job

    Developer Relations Advocate
    Present
    Automattic

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    21contributions
    high3
    medium18
    score27
    Last 90 days
    43contributions
    high8
    medium35
    score59
    Last 12 months
    144contributions
    high73
    medium71
    score290

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 29 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
    • 5.6
    • 5.5
    • 5.4
    • 5.3
    • 5.2
    • 5.1
    • 5.0
    • 4.9
    • 4.8
    • 4.7
    • 4.6
    • 4.5
    • 4.4
    • 4.3
    • 4.2

    Contributions

    Type
    September 2026
    Sep 17 Thu · 13:43
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Query Header, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Ah! Sorry, I misunderstood what you are trying to do. I have been thinking about…
    Sep 09 Wed · 14:44
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Query Header, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    You should be able to do this using the template in AQL using the the…
    Sep 08 Tue · 15:04
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Using ACF time field, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    @philbee I am currently working on a revamp of the Post meta query builder that…
    Sep 01 Tue · 15:04
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Can’t query CPT by taxonomy anymore, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Great to hear! I'm going to close this topic as fixed but please feel free…
    Sep 01 Tue · 15:02
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Aql in taxonomy archive, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    HI @simon1402! There is nothing you need to do, I just wanted to tell you…
    August 2026
    Aug 31 Mon · 17:22
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Aql in taxonomy archive, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Just to follow up on this. I have a PR open that should allow you…
    Aug 31 Mon · 17:16
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Can’t query CPT by taxonomy anymore, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Just wanted to follow up that I just released version 5.0.0 that removes the button…
    Aug 31 Mon · 17:13
    Plugins high
    Committed [3674690] to Plugins SVN:
    Update the readmes, icon and banner images
    Aug 31 Mon · 16:52
    Plugins high
    Committed [3674648] to Plugins SVN:
    Release 5.0.0
    Aug 31 Mon · 15:54
    Plugins high
    Committed [3674594] to Plugins SVN:
    Better live preview blueprint

    Developer

    2 plugins

    Contributor

    2 plugins

    Completed courses

    5 completed

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