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KokkieH

Code Wrangler at Automattic

@kokkieh South Africa joined Jan 2015

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    Languages af

    Bio

    Code Wrangler on WooCommerce.com. He enjoys music, movies, reading and people. He’s just the slightest bit obsessive-compulsive. He could be a half-decent musician if only he practiced a bit more. He makes puppets. And bakes.

    Interests

    Reading, writing, gardening, hiking, photography, puppetry, sailing

    WordPress Origin Story

    Back in 2012 I did an online creative writing course. Afterwards our group decided to start a blog where we could share our writing and give feedback to each other. The person who set it up picked WordPress.com. I liked it so much that I promptly moved my few posts on Blogger over to my own WordPress.com site, and haven’t looked back since.

    I became involved in the WordPress.com support forums, and eventually applied to work at Automattic.

    Badges

    CODE
    3 badges
    Core Contributor '20 Meta Contributor '26 Plugin Developer
    COMMUNITY
    1 badge
    WordCamp Speaker '16
    POLYGLOTS
    1 badge
    Translation Contributor '16

    Current Job

    Code Wrangler
    Present
    Automattic

    Job History

    Code Wrangler
    Dec 2023 – Present
    Automattic
    Part of the team that maintains the WooCommerce.com website and plugin marketplace, and contributor to the WooCommerce plugin.
    Happiness Engineer
    Nov 2015 – Nov 2023
    Automattic
    Provide customer support across WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Jetpack and other Automattic products, primarily in public support forums and over social media.

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
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    Last 90 days
    48contributions
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    medium25
    score94
    Last 12 months
    49contributions
    high23
    medium26
    score95

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 2 releases
    • 7.1
    • 5.4

    Contributions

    Type
    September 2026
    Sep 22 Tue · 10:03
    Community high
    Merged pull request #2098 into WordPress/wordcamp.org:
    Sponsors: include central and unrecorded PDFs in the agreement backfill
    Sep 22 Tue · 06:55
    Community med
    Submitted pull request #2098 to WordPress/wordcamp.org:
    Sponsors: include central and unrecorded PDFs in the agreement backfill
    Sep 18 Fri · 09:14
    Community high
    Merged pull request #1992 into WordPress/wordcamp.org:
    Sponsors: store agreement attachments with the private status
    Sep 17 Thu · 13:17
    Meta high
    Committed [15210] to Meta SVN:
    Trac Notifications: Render the component block after the shortcode pass
    Sep 11 Fri · 13:27
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #910 to WordPress/wordpress.org:
    Jobs: Document the post-a-job form render path
    Sep 11 Fri · 12:42
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #909 to WordPress/wordpress.org:
    Trac Notifications: Render the component block after the shortcode pass
    Sep 11 Fri · 10:23
    Meta high
    Committed [15181] to Meta SVN:
    PHPUnit Test Reporter: Improve single result rendering
    Sep 11 Fri · 07:06
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post dotorg.svn write access, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
    Thanks, Barry!
    Sep 10 Thu · 14:50
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #897 to WordPress/wordpress.org:
    Improve single result rendering
    Sep 10 Thu · 14:38
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #124 to WordPress/phpunit-test-reporter:
    Improve single result rendering and add test coverage

    Support Rep

    1 plugin

    Plugins

    5 favorites

    Translations

    1 locale
    af Afrikaans Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 19 projects.

    WordPress Theme Directory Classic Editor Twenty Nineteen Twenty Seventeen Twenty Twenty WordPress 4.1.x WordPress 4.2.x WordPress 4.3.x WordPress 4.4.x WordPress 4.5.x WordPress 4.6.x WordPress 4.7.x WordPress 4.8.x WordPress 4.9.x WordPress 5.0.x WordPress 5.1.x WordPress 5.2.x WordPress 5.3.x WordPress 7.1.x - Development

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