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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.

Badges

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

Current Job

Developer Advocate
Present
WooCommerce

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days
4contributions
high2
medium2
score8
Last 90 days
7contributions
high3
medium4
score13
Last 12 months
17contributions
high6
medium11
score29

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 8 releases
  • 7.1
  • 7.0
  • 6.9
  • 6.8
  • 6.7
  • 6.6
  • 6.5
  • 6.3

Time commitment

Five for the Future sponsors

Contributions

Type
October 2026
Oct 21 Wed · 19:53
GitHub high
Pull request #379 merged into WordPress/mcp-adapter:
Docs: link connection FAQ to site-owner guide
Oct 15 Thu · 22:25
Core med
Created ticket #66323 on Core Trac:
MCP setup on the Connectors screen
Oct 10 Sat · 11:13
GitHub med
Submitted pull request #379 to WordPress/mcp-adapter:
Docs: link connection FAQ to site-owner guide
Oct 10 Sat · 11:06
GitHub med
Created issue #378 in the WordPress/mcp-adapter repository:
Link the plugin FAQ's connection answer directly to the site-owner guide
September 2026
Sep 22 Tue · 14:40
Core med
Created issue #83364 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Extensible Site Editor: explore direct Appearance entry points with the wp-admin sidebar
Sep 21 Mon · 22:32
Core med
Created ticket #66152 on Core Trac:
Default Navigation fallback menu title is ambiguous and produces a ...
August 2026
Aug 07 Fri · 16:12
Meta med
Wrote a comment on the post Defensive Data Design, on the site Make WordPress Core:
All good points. Proposing a draft should be easy; publishing to the world should be…
July 2026
Jul 14 Tue · 18:54
Meta high
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp US 2026
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

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1 plugin

Contributor

1 plugin

Completed courses

2 completed

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