Marius L. J. (@clorith) – WordPress user profile

Bio

I’m a web developer with strong interests in self-empowering users, and providing them (and those that support them in being self-empowered) the tools they need to succeed, whatever success may be to them.

Having done development, in some form or fashion, professionally or personally, since the late (19)90’s, and have always enjoyed publishing what I do for others to learn from, or improve on, even before I had heard of open source.

Interests

web development, ice hockey, esports, irc

WordPress Origin Story

After having created a few basic CMS solutions from scratch on various client projects, I wanted something properly maintained with frequent updates both for features and security patches. It didn’t take me long to discover that WordPress was exactly what I needed for this, having been quietly observing for a year or two because it had me interested but I never truly felt the drag, I finally got my feet wet.

Guess what, the water was lovely, and I dove head first in! And now, many years later there’s still no regret. I spend my free time helping out in the ways I can to give back to a community I truly cherish. I provide support on the IRC channel, give input in various team meetings (anyone can join in and voice their opinions, it’s great, you should too!), and recently ever had my first props in a core update! (Even though my contribution wasn’t major, it’s still a good feeling to be recognized, and it does get you even more excited to help out even more!)

Badges

CODE

4 badges

Core Contributor '15 Core Team '20 Meta Contributor '15 Plugin Developer

CONTENT

3 badges

Documentation Contributor '16 Documentation Team '14 Photo Contributor '23

COMMUNITY

1 badge

bbPress Contributor '19

PRACTICE

3 badges

Support Contributor '16 Support Team '14 Test Contributor '23

POLYGLOTS

2 badges

Translation Contributor '15 Translation Editor '18

Current Job

Head of Engineering

Present

Dekode Interaktiv AS

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

13contributions

high5

medium8

score23

Specializations

share of activity across teams · last 365 days · 10 attributed contributions

Documentation 30% Meta 10% Support 60%

Contributions

Type

May 2026

May 21 Thu · 00:32

Meta high

Received props from @amykamala in Slack:
Props to @SergeyBiryukov, @jorbin, @ellatrix, @audrasjb, @estelaris, @Clorith, @chaion07 for facilitating the 7.0 release today!

January 2026

Jan 01 Thu · 12:14

Forums med

Posted a reply to Are you going to fix the vulnerability?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, Although we had not been informed of this disclosure ahead of it happening, there…

Jan 01 Thu · 12:14

Forums med

Posted a reply to Security Vulnerability Report v1.7.1, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, Although we had not been informed of this disclosure ahead of it happening, there…

Jan 01 Thu · 12:13

Forums med

Posted a reply to Vulnerability found, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, Although we had not been informed of this disclosure ahead of it happening, there…

December 2025

Dec 16 Tue · 20:18

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Real-time collaboration: Early user feedback, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Exciting to hear it's being demoed! I have some questions that immediately came to mind…

October 2025

Oct 30 Thu · 12:28

Meta high

Received props from @wildworks in Slack:
Props to @jorbin @desrosj @davidbaumwald @Clorith @joedolson @SirLouen @dd32 @poena for giving me advice on…

September 2025

Sep 24 Wed · 21:24

Meta high

Made 4 updates to handbook pages on Make WordPress Support.

August 2025

Aug 18 Mon · 07:30

Forums med

Posted a reply to Continuous automated comment spam, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@jessicawordprs We have archived your topic on WordPress.org. Although using AI tools is becoming very…

Aug 18 Mon · 07:20

Forums med

Posted a reply to I am disappointed, completely disappointed., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@ghughupakhi We have removed your review, as it is clearly AI generated, and you did…

July 2025

Jul 30 Wed · 22:49

Meta high

Updated a handbook page on Make WordPress Support.