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Mel Choyce-Dwan

Designer

@melchoyce Philadelphia, PA joined Sep 2012

melchoyce.design github.com/melchoyce Slack: @melchoyce
    Teams Core Design

    Bio

    I’m a Philly-based designer.

    In the past, I’ve contributed to parts of the project like Gutenberg and the Customizer. I’m a core committer, and co-led WordPress 4.9 “Tipton.”

    On the community side, I’ve been an organizer for WordCamp Boston and WordCamp US.

    Interests

    Large type, cold brew coffee, craft beer, drumming, and gaming.

    Badges

    CODE
    10 badges
    Core Contributor '15 Core Team '14 Design Contributor '17 Design Team '17 Meta Contributor '15 Meta Team '15 Pattern Author '22 Patterns Team '22 Plugin Developer Theme Developer
    COMMUNITY
    3 badges
    bbPress Contributor '20 WordCamp Organizer '19 WordCamp Speaker '19
    PRACTICE
    1 badge
    Accessibility Contributor '19
    POLYGLOTS
    1 badge
    Translation Contributor '26

    Current Job

    Designer
    Present

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    5contributions
    high5
    medium0
    score15
    Last 90 days
    5contributions
    high5
    medium0
    score15
    Last 12 months
    6contributions
    high6
    medium0
    score18

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 30 releases
    • 7.0
    • 6.9
    • 6.7
    • 6.5
    • 6.4
    • 6.3
    • 6.1
    • 5.9
    • 5.8
    • 5.7
    • 5.6
    • 5.5
    • 5.4
    • 5.3
    • 5.2
    • 5.1
    • 5.0
    • 4.9
    • 4.8
    • 4.7
    • 4.6
    • 4.5
    • 4.4
    • 4.3
    • 4.2
    • 4.1
    • 4.0
    • 3.7
    • 3.6
    • 3.5

    Contributions

    Type
    June 2026
    Jun 11 Thu · 18:00
    Polyglots high
    Translated 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.
    Jun 10 Wed · 22:40
    Polyglots high
    Translated 2 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
    Jun 09 Tue · 17:28
    Polyglots high
    Translated 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.
    Jun 08 Mon · 22:22
    Polyglots high
    Translated 2 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
    Jun 04 Thu · 18:28
    Polyglots high
    Translated 2 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
    January 2026
    Jan 05 Mon · 22:53
    Core high
    Mentioned in [61441] on WordPress SVN:
    Twenty Sixteen: Ensure the Quote block inherits group color settings.
    September 2024
    Sep 30 Mon · 23:55
    Core high
    Mentioned in [59146] on WordPress SVN:
    Bundled Themes: Initial import of the Twenty Twenty-Five default theme.
    Sep 22 Sun · 23:57
    GitHub high
    Pull request #380 merged into WordPress/twentytwentyfive:
    Update Book and Podcast hero pattern from using h2 to h1
    Sep 20 Fri · 18:15
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #380 to WordPress/twentytwentyfive:
    Update Book and Podcast hero pattern from using h2 to h1
    February 2024
    Feb 15 Thu · 23:47
    Core high
    Mentioned in [57638] on WordPress SVN:
    Media: Replace media icon images with SVG.

    Developer

    1 plugin

    Contributor

    4 plugins

    Themes

    1 theme

    • Edda

      100+ active installs

    Plugins

    2 favorites

    Translations

    1 locale
    art_xemoji 🌏🌍🌎 (Emoji) (Emoji) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 1 project.

    WordPress 7.0.x - Development

    View all on translate.wordpress.org