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Caleb Burks

WordPress VIP Platform Engineer at Automattic

@icaleb Chicago, Illinios joined Mar 2012

calebburks.com Slack: @Caleb Burks

    Bio

    Platform Engineer on WordPress VIP at @ Automattic (previously WooCommerce), Occasional Insomniac, WordPress Addict, and Gummy Bear Devourer.

    WordPress Origin Story

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    CODE
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    Core Contributor '15 Meta Contributor '17 Plugin Developer
    COMMUNITY
    1 badge
    WordCamp Speaker '15
    POLYGLOTS
    1 badge
    Translation Contributor '17

    Current Job

    WordPress VIP Platform Engineer
    Present
    Automattic

    Recent impact

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

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    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 10 releases
    • 6.6
    • 6.5
    • 6.4
    • 5.9
    • 5.7
    • 5.6
    • 5.1
    • 5.0
    • 4.9
    • 4.3

    Contributions

    Type
    April 2024
    Apr 09 Tue · 01:23
    Core high
    Mentioned in [57947] on WordPress SVN:
    Themes: Avoid errors in some environments from _get_block_templates_paths.
    Apr 04 Thu · 18:53
    Core high
    Mentioned in [57928] on WordPress SVN:
    Themes: Avoid errors in some environments from `_get_block_templates_paths`.
    Apr 03 Wed · 23:50
    Core med
    Created ticket #60915 on Core Trac:
    WP 6.5 - RecursiveDirectoryIterator causing E_WARNING errors in New Relic
    December 2023
    Dec 04 Mon · 19:57
    Core high
    Mentioned in [57156] on WordPress SVN:
    Themes: Remove memoization from stylesheet and theme directories.
    October 2023
    Oct 24 Tue · 18:54
    Core med
    Created ticket #59720 on Core Trac:
    Long-term plan for handling Gutenberg version compatibility with core
    August 2023
    Aug 24 Thu · 15:55
    Core high
    Mentioned in [56448] on WordPress SVN:
    Rewrite Rules: Prevent stampedes when flush_rewrite_rules() is called
    Aug 07 Mon · 22:12
    Core med
    Created ticket #58998 on Core Trac:
    Prevent races and stampedes when flush_rewrite_rules() is called
    January 2022
    Jan 08 Sat · 00:30
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post State of the Customizer with block themes in WordPress 5.9, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    Does this also effectively remove access to “Custom CSS” from users as well? (I think…
    November 2021
    Nov 30 Tue · 21:00
    Core high
    Mentioned in [52294] on WordPress SVN:
    Options, Meta APIs: Improve error handling in `sanitize_option()`.
    August 2021
    Aug 23 Mon · 21:25
    Core med
    Created ticket #53986 on Core Trac:
    Problematic error-handling in sanitize_option()

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    English (UK) Translation Contributor - #en_GB

    WooCommerce