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Joe Dolson

Owner at Accessible Web Design

@joedolson Saint Paul, MN joined Oct 2008

joedolson.com github.com/joedolson Slack: @joedolson

Teams Accessibility Core

Bio

I’m a WordPress plug-in developer and a web accessibility consultant. I’m part of the Make WordPress Accessible team, the team dedicated to improving accessibility in the WordPress ecosystem.

I’m self-employed, but since fall 2022 I’ve had part-time sponsorship from GoDaddy to contribute to WordPress. In March 2025, I also welcomed sponsorship from Kinsta to expand my ability to contribute.

WordPress Origin Story

I’ve been self-employed building web sites & providing consulting services since 2004, and started using WordPress in 2006, converting my own blog from BlogSpot to WordPress. In 2008 I started building plugins, then started contributing to core regularly in 2012. I’m now a core committer, and have been in the credits for every version of WordPress since 3.8 (except for 4.5.)

Badges

CODE

6 badges

C Core AI Contributor '26 Core Contributor '15 Core Team '24 Meta Contributor '15 Plugin Developer Themes Team '14

CONTENT

1 badge

WordPress.tv Contributor '16

COMMUNITY

2 badges

bbPress Contributor '20 WordCamp Speaker '19

PRACTICE

3 badges

Accessibility Contributor '19 Accessibility Team '14 Support Contributor '26

POLYGLOTS

1 badge

Translation Contributor '25

Current Job

Owner

Present

Accessible Web Design

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

223contributions

high186

medium37

score595

Last 90 days

407contributions

high297

medium110

score1001

Last 12 months

1159contributions

high765

medium394

score2689

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 32 releases

Time commitment

16 hours per week

Contributions

Type All Code Plugins Themes Polyglots Forums Meta

August 2026

Aug 19 Wed 19:44

Forums med

Posted a reply to Version 3.8.0 and 3.7.17 no longer displays Monthly Grid, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Can you share a link? The first thing you may want to check is which…

Aug 18 Tue 16:10

Core med

Closed ticket #65804 on Core Trac:
Image editor: initial focus incorrectly set to the crop area

Aug 18 Tue 15:27

Plugins high

Committed [3653162] to Plugins SVN:
<a class="ext-link" href="https://github.com/joedolson/my-calendar/releases/tag/v3.8.0">https://github.com/joedolson/my-calendar/releases/tag/v3.8.0</a>

Aug 17 Mon 17:24

Meta high

Received props from @krupajnanda in Slack:
Props to @wildworks, @joedolson, and @SergeyBiryukov for helping with the various tasks during RC4 release.…

Aug 17 Mon 17:23

Meta high

Received props from @krupajnanda in Slack:
Props to @wildworks @joedolson @SergeyBiryukov @Benjamin_Zekavica @amykamala @desrosj @JeffPaul @milana_cap @markoserb and @westonruter for help…

Aug 17 Mon 03:08

Core high

Mentioned in [63317] on WordPress SVN:
Rewrite Rules: Only a leading `www.` is optional in `url_to_postid()`.

Aug 17 Mon 01:29

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Accessibility-ready Theme Reviews: Extending the Deadline, on the site Make WordPress Accessible:
We saw that the goal wasn't realistic in light of what theme authors and our…

Aug 17 Mon 01:27

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Accessibility-ready Theme Reviews: Extending the Deadline, on the site Make WordPress Accessible:
Had a good conversation with Otto today, and we have a plan, which I'll be…

Aug 16 Sun 17:00

Core high

Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
Rewrite Rules: Only a leading `www.` is optional in `url_to_postid()`.

Aug 16 Sun 16:56

Core med

Reopened ticket #65016 on Core Trac:
Auto-approve self pingbacks

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