Rich Tabor (@richtabor) – WordPress user profile

Member Since: August 3rd, 2016
Location: Atlanta, GA
Website: richtabor.com
GitHub: richtabor
Job Title: Product
Employer: Automattic
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Bio

As a WordPress entrepreneur, designer and developer all wrapped up in one, Rich Tabor is recognized as one of the top leaders in this post-Gutenberg era of WordPress. His ever-precise design chops have topped the 2018 Automattic Design Awards and led him to co-found CoBlocks – a top-notch set of page builder blocks and tools for Gutenberg, ThemeBeans – a premier WordPress theme shop and Iceberg – a markdown editor for Gutenberg.

Rich is currently at Automattic, working towards making the web a better place.

WordPress Origin Story

Building experiences is what I do. I obsess over details you hardly see, but certainly feel.

Since 2011, I’ve been designing, building, and launching WordPress products like Iceberg, CoBlocks, ThemeBeans (acquired by GoDaddy). Over these past few years, my focus has turned towards defining top-notch block-editor experiences, to better empower folks to publish with WordPress.

In 2019, I joined GoDaddy as the Senior Product Manager of WordPress Experience, where we launched and grew the Go WordPress theme to just over 90,000 active installs and took CoBlocks from 5,000 installs to 500,000 installs in two years.

After a few years at GoDaddy I jumped in with Extendify as Head of Product — where we built a platform of site design and creation tools (Extendify Library, Launch, and Assist) to empower folks to publish beautifully online. The Extendify plugin was one of the fastest growing plugins of 2022, having gained nearly 70,000 installs in the first year.

Currently I’m a Product Manager at Automattic, working on making the web a better place.

I love WordPress — it’s priceless and free at the same time, equipping and inspiring folks to be successful online.

Contributions Sponsored

Automattic sponsors Rich Tabor to contribute 40 hours per week to the following teams: Core and Design.

Contribution History

Core Contributor
Core Team
Design Contributor
Meta Contributor
Pattern Author
Patterns Team
Photo Contributor
Plugin Developer
Test Contributor
Theme Developer
WordCamp Speaker

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Created issue #47164 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Clearer controls for copying and pasting styles
2 days ago
Posted a reply to Bring back the old widgets page, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey @locko69, I appreciate the feedback. Do you have anything specific that you're missing perhaps…
4 days ago
Posted a reply to template-tags vs template-functions, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It's all good @andre-jutras — not embarrassing :) So the files that come with a…
4 days ago
Posted a reply to Perma link issue, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey @kevinpleong, sometimes you need to save those permalinks twice, to get them to stick.…
4 days ago
Posted a reply to Dim Images, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey @yianni1066, I took at look at the block. So it looks like the carousel's…
4 days ago
Posted a reply to Query Loop with Pages issue, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey @aporee, I'm not getting the same result — here's a screenshot for reference. I…
4 days ago
Pull request #47093 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
Change "Custom" CSS navigation label to "Additional CSS"
4 days ago
Pull request #47091 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
Add "Learn more about CSS" help text to Custom CSS control
4 days ago
Submitted pull request #47093 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Change "Custom" CSS navigation label to "Additional CSS"
5 days ago
Created issue #47092 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Improve Global Styles CSS navigation button label
5 days ago
Submitted pull request #47091 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Add "Learn more about CSS" help text to Custom CSS control
5 days ago
Submitted pull request #47089 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Fix misaligned layout control icons
5 days ago
Created issue #47088 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Layout control icons misaligned
5 days ago
Closed issue #47072 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
ToggleControl: Missing gap if label too long
5 days ago
Posted a reply to Jetpack error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey there, That is a server-side error from your web host. I suggest checking your…
5 days ago
Posted a reply to How to add custom item to color toolbar panel?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey Roel, there sure is — although it's not the easiest implementation. A solid example of…
5 days ago
Completed the course Open Source Basics and WordPress on learn.wordpress.org
6 days ago
Completed the course Open Source Basics and WordPress on learn.wordpress.org
6 days ago
Completed the course Community Meeting Etiquette on learn.wordpress.org
6 days ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 6.2 Planning Schedule Proposal, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I’d be down to lead/co-lead design.
2 weeks ago
Submitted pull request #46686 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Fix inspector tab active state border
4 weeks ago
Submitted pull request #46684 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Use proper color for block styles control
4 weeks ago
Created issue #46681 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Inconsistent vertical navigation menu active states
4 weeks ago
Closed pull request #46511 on WordPress/gutenberg:
Update moreHorizontal and moreVertical icons
1 month ago
Pull request #46507 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
Remove clearable from link ColorPanel item
1 month ago
Submitted pull request #46513 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Improve consistency across color and gradient panels
1 month ago
Submitted pull request #46511 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Update moreHorizontal and moreVertical icons
1 month ago
Closed pull request #37502 on WordPress/gutenberg:
Add proper padding to ColorGradientControl
1 month ago
Submitted pull request #46507 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Remove clearable from link ColorPanel item
1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post Design Share: Nov 21–Dec 2, on the site Make WordPress Design:
Good stuff — those developer & documentation redesigns are 🔥
1 month ago
Created ticket #129791 on Themes Trac:
THEME: Wabi – 1.1.0
2 months ago
Closed issue #39074 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Add border radius support to Post Featured Image block
2 months ago
Created issue #45859 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Patterns with page post type do not render within the Site Editor
2 months ago
Created issue #45857 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Add the new caption block toolbar control to the gallery block
2 months ago
Mentioned in [54695] on Core SVN:
Help/About: Update About section images.
3 months ago
Mentioned in [54690] on Core SVN:
Help/About: Update About section images.
3 months ago
Mentioned in [54638] on Core SVN:
Administration: Update the Dashboard welcome banner for 6.1.
3 months ago
Mentioned in [54635] on Core SVN:
Help/About: Update copy & style for About page and subpages.
3 months ago
Mentioned in [54629] on Core SVN:
Twenty Twenty-Three: Sync the latest fixes for RC2.
3 months ago
Closed issue #283 on the WordPress/twentytwentythree repository:
Block out variation: White Page Titles
3 months ago
Created issue #283 in the WordPress/twentytwentythree repository:
Block out variation: White Page Titles
3 months ago
Created issue #282 in the WordPress/twentytwentythree repository:
XX-Large font size is BIG
3 months ago
Submitted pull request #281 to WordPress/twentytwentythree:
Add name for xx-large font size
3 months ago
Created issue #280 in the WordPress/twentytwentythree repository:
Undefined name for XX-Large font size setting
3 months ago
Mentioned in [54499] on Core SVN:
Help/About: Update the About page for 6.1.
3 months ago
Mentioned in [54235] on Core SVN:
Bundled Themes: Import Twenty Twenty-Three, the new default theme for WordPress 6.1.
4 months ago
Pull request #66 merged into WordPress/twentytwentythree:
Variation: "Pitch"
4 months ago
Submitted pull request #66 to WordPress/twentytwentythree:
Variation: "Pitch"
5 months ago
Created issue #43276 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Registered block styles inline_styles not loading within BlockPreview
5 months ago
Created issue #43234 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Theme.json spacingSizes do not work with the new padding presets UI
5 months ago