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marybaum

Digital consultant, owner at RacquetPress

@marybaum St. Louis, MO joined Aug 2011

marybaum.com github.com/marybaum
    Teams Core

    Bio

    2022 Core representative and co-maintainer of a few components. Copy editor for the Core team (I may have tweaked that error message you saw yesterday!) Release co-coordinator, WordPress 6.5 and 5.5.2.

    WordCamp speaker, mostly on design and CSS.

    Direct marketer with a design degree in three things:
    1. Don’t make it symmetrical.
    2. Do make it look intentional.
    3. And if you can’t make it good, make it big.

    Self-taught developer, if you don’t count CSS-Tricks, Know the Code Pro and Wes Bos.

    Dabbler in online fabric and assorted other product design, and 3D.

    Tennis, landscape and macro photographer and near-daily tennis player.

    Grandmother.

    Interests

    Type. Tennis. Cats. Comedy. 3D design and 2D pattern design, with a rock ‘n roll soundtrack in my head for ALL of it.

    Grandmother.

    WordPress Origin Story

    (Sooooo boring … And I don’t bore easily. )

    Badges

    CODE
    2 badges
    Core Contributor '19 Core Team '20
    CONTENT
    2 badges
    Documentation Contributor '23 Marketing Contributor '17
    COMMUNITY
    3 badges
    WordCamp Organizer '19 WordCamp Speaker '19 WordCamp Volunteer '25
    PRACTICE
    1 badge
    Test Contributor '23

    Current Job

    Digital consultant, owner
    Present
    RacquetPress

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    1contribution
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    medium1
    score1
    Last 90 days
    5contributions
    high4
    medium1
    score13
    Last 12 months
    16contributions
    high11
    medium5
    score38

    Specializations

    evenly split across 1 team · no team-attributable activity in the last 365 days

    Core 100% of attributed activity

    Contributions

    Type
    May 2026
    May 21 Thu · 20:22
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 7.1 Call for Volunteers, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    Raising my hand for coordination, triage or test lead!
    March 2026
    Mar 20 Fri · 22:06
    Meta high
    Received props from @amykamala in Slack:
    Props to @ellatrix @mukesh27 @SergeyBiryukov @audrasjb @juanmaguitar @marybaum @JeffPaul @Ankit K Gupta @wildworks @adamsilverstein @desrosj…
    Mar 12 Thu · 16:04
    Meta high
    Received props from @chaion07 in Slack:
    Huge Props to @ellatrix, @mukesh27, @wildworks, @juanmaguitar, @Ankit K Gupta, @marybaum, @westonruter, @davidbaumwald, @desrosj, @mindctrl,…
    Mar 11 Wed · 00:02
    Meta high
    Wrote a new post, It’s time to test real-time collaboration!, on the site Make WordPress Test:
    With WordPress 7.0, real-time collaboration—the centerpiece of Gutenberg Phase 3—lands in Core. This is the…
    Mar 05 Thu · 15:00
    Meta high
    Received props from @amykamala in Slack:
    Props to @ellatrix, @mukesh27, @wildworks, @juanmaguitar, @Ankit K Gupta, @marybaum ,@chaion07, @davidbaumwald,@desrosj, @mindctrl, @4thhubbard, @JeffPaul,…
    Mar 01 Sun · 02:34
    Meta high
    Joined the organizing team for WordCamp Canada 2026
    January 2026
    Jan 14 Wed · 04:28
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Nominations for Core Team Reps: 2026 Edition, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    I of course mean @francina. Apologies!
    Jan 14 Wed · 04:27
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Nominations for Core Team Reps: 2026 Edition, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    Ben, I am honored by your nomination and would love to work together! I think…
    Jan 09 Fri · 21:14
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 7.0 Call for Volunteers, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    Release coordination (I love hosting release parties!) or triage would be good fits for me!
    November 2025
    Nov 18 Tue · 16:21
    Meta high
    Received props from @akshayar in Slack:
    Props to @ravigadhiyawp, @iamshubhamsp, @vishitshah, @khushdoms, @shsajalchowdhury, @kishanjasani, @jigar9998, @mobarak, @shailu25, @huzaifaalmesbah, @adityab98, @abduremon, @gajendrasingh,…