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Brian Alexander

Quality Engineer at Modern Tribe

@ironprogrammer Portland, Oregon, USA joined May 2011

brianalexander.com github.com/ironprogrammer Slack: @ironprogrammer
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    Bio

    I’m a husband, father, and hacker living in Portland, Oregon, where I primarily contribute to WordPress Core and Gutenberg, garden Trac and GitHub tickets, and help contributors get involved in WordPress testing and development. In my free time, I play drums and pickleball, make cold process soap, and tend my flock of chickens.

    I’ve had the opportunity to serve as:
    – Test Co-Lead for WordPress 6.0, 6.1, and 6.3
    – Test Team Rep for 2022-2023
    – Contributor Day Test Lead/Co-Lead for WCEU 2022, WCUS 2022 (Slack), and WCUS 2023/2024
    – Mentor to other test leads

    Interests

    wordpress, drums, pickleball, table tennis, cycling, swimming, soap making, urban farming, reading, coffee, food, beer, cider

    WordPress Origin Story

    I’ve been hacking on WordPress since version 2.3. I started with personal blogging for a few things I wanted to share online (like making your own yogurt). Turns out that while I love writing, I’m a horrible blogger, so I eventually found a place helping other folks build and maintain their own WordPress sites.

    Badges

    CODE
    4 badges
    Core Contributor '22 Core Team '22 Meta Contributor '22 Plugin Developer
    CONTENT
    1 badge
    Photo Contributor '22
    PRACTICE
    2 badges
    Test Contributor '22 Test Team '22

    Current Job

    Quality Engineer
    May 2026 – Present
    Modern Tribe

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    1contribution
    high1
    medium0
    score3
    Last 90 days
    1contribution
    high1
    medium0
    score3
    Last 12 months
    2contributions
    high2
    medium0
    score6

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 11 releases
    • 6.9
    • 6.8
    • 6.7
    • 6.6
    • 6.5
    • 6.4
    • 6.3
    • 6.2
    • 6.1
    • 6.0
    • 5.9

    Contributions

    Type
    June 2026
    Jun 10 Wed · 15:04
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62482] on WordPress SVN:
    General: Add support for unicode email addresses in is_email and sanitize_email
    August 2025
    Aug 26 Tue · 21:52
    Core high
    Mentioned in [60674] on WordPress SVN:
    Build/Test Tools: Update in-repo PHPUnit documentation to point to a single source of truth.
    June 2025
    Jun 05 Thu · 08:14
    Core high
    Mentioned in [60278] on WordPress SVN:
    Site Health: add image output mapping details to the info tab.
    March 2025
    Mar 06 Thu · 23:46
    Core high
    Mentioned in [59948] on WordPress SVN:
    Menus: Validate custom links and add accessible error messages.
    Mar 03 Mon · 22:15
    Core med
    Created ticket #63047 on Core Trac:
    Add image upload/transform mappings to Site Health
    Mar 02 Sun · 22:05
    Core high
    Mentioned in [59899] on WordPress SVN:
    REST API: Improve performance for HEAD requests.
    February 2025
    Feb 12 Wed · 23:44
    Core high
    Mentioned in [59818] on WordPress SVN:
    Pings/Trackbacks: Add return value to `pingback()`.
    January 2025
    Jan 29 Wed · 20:39
    Core med
    Closed pull request #2259 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Migrate and refresh from 38197.1.diff
    Jan 29 Wed · 18:10
    Core high
    Mentioned in [59728] on WordPress SVN:
    Posts, Post Types: Add no-cache headers to password protected posts.
    Jan 23 Thu · 00:37
    Documentation med
    Created issue #1826 in the WordPress/Documentation-Issue-Tracker repository:
    [DevHub] Add `Update URI` theme header info to Main Stylesheet doc