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Brian Coords

Developer Advocate at WooCommerce

@bacoords Orange County, CA joined Jan 2016

briancoords.com github.com/bacoords Slack: @bacoords
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    Bio

    Brian Coords is a Developer Advocate at WooCommerce and a long-time WordPress developer, writer, and instructor. He hosts a WordPress podcast at Webmasters.fm, and you can find his writing on industry publications like WP Tavern, MasterWP, The WP Minute, and his personal technology blog.

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    CODE
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    Core Contributor '23 P Playground Contributor '25 Plugin Developer
    COMMUNITY
    1 badge
    WordCamp Speaker '23

    Current Job

    Developer Advocate
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    WooCommerce

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    3contributions
    high1
    medium2
    score5
    Last 90 days
    5contributions
    high1
    medium4
    score7
    Last 12 months
    13contributions
    high3
    medium10
    score19

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 7 releases
    • 7.0
    • 6.9
    • 6.8
    • 6.7
    • 6.6
    • 6.5
    • 6.3

    Time commitment

    Five for the Future sponsors

    Contributions

    Type
    May 2026
    May 20 Wed · 20:59
    GitHub med
    Created issue #6 in the WordPress/browser-extension repository:
    Feature Request: Make the 'Show Admin Bar' enabled by default or have…
    May 18 Mon · 19:23
    Core med
    Created issue #78414 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    "View Revisions" link in site editor page list view opens old revisions
    May 11 Mon · 16:45
    Meta med
    Created ticket #8246 on Meta Trac:
    Jobs custom contributor block not loading CSS
    May 07 Thu · 13:23
    GitHub med
    Created issue #19 in the WordPress/experimental-wp-dev-env repository:
    Claude directory picked up in diff
    March 2026
    Mar 27 Fri · 21:43
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Rethinking Left Navigation, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    +1 to this concept. My ideal would be per-user personalization over generalized changes. Two simple…
    January 2026
    Jan 13 Tue · 18:33
    Core high
    Pull request #73986 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
    [create-block] Updates variant handling for missing directory files
    December 2025
    Dec 13 Sat · 01:05
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #73986 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    [create-block] Updates variant handling for missing directory files
    November 2025
    Nov 25 Tue · 16:33
    Core med
    Created issue #73553 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    DataViews items are not clickable in List view
    October 2025
    Oct 29 Wed · 13:58
    Core med
    Created issue #72786 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    Template Registration: WooCommerce templates trigger PHP warning for sites using the FrontPage…
    August 2025
    Aug 05 Tue · 18:46
    Playground med
    Created issue #2464 in the WordPress/wordpress-playground repository:
    Bug: Some installPlugin steps from git aren't working without explicit target directory…

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    Completed Courses

    Total completed courses: 2