Rich Tabor (@richtabor) – WordPress user profile

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.

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

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

Received props from @JeffPaul in Slack:
Props to @audrasjb @desrosj @michelleames @SergeyBiryukov@joemcgill @Mamaduka @marybaum @karmatosed @estelaris @ryelle @paulkevan @themebeans @richtabor @4thhubbard…
4 weeks ago
Closed pull request #66481 on WordPress/gutenberg:
Resolve "Edit palette" visual regression in Global Styles > Colors
1 month ago
Closed pull request #63962 on WordPress/gutenberg:
Remove empty column blocks from mobile in editor, to match front-end
1 month ago
Posted a reply to Block not available in editor, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey mate, were you able to figure it out? It should work fine installing directly…
2 months ago
Posted a reply to Perfect solution, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for the review, and noted!
2 months ago
Mentioned in [59879] on Core SVN:
Administration: Revert [59705] and bring back the light grey admin background.
2 months ago
Closed pull request #61369 on WordPress/gutenberg:
Tweak color pickers to use outlines and reduce spacing
4 months ago
Closed pull request #61367 on WordPress/gutenberg:
Improve outline and radius for is-focused canvas
4 months ago
Closed pull request #58143 on WordPress/gutenberg:
Add command for Style Book and improve Style Revisions command
4 months ago
Closed pull request #55525 on WordPress/gutenberg:
Improve modal and fullscreen/starter content view
4 months ago
Closed pull request #55522 on WordPress/gutenberg:
Add hidden scope to WPBlockVariationScope
4 months ago
Closed pull request #55520 on WordPress/gutenberg:
Add heading block variations and transforms
4 months ago
Closed pull request #53696 on WordPress/gutenberg:
Use ellipsis to denote when menu items have modals (secondary steps)
4 months ago
Closed pull request #52618 on WordPress/gutenberg:
Fix visually cut off link search results in LinkControl
4 months ago
Closed pull request #46513 on WordPress/gutenberg:
Improve consistency across color and gradient panels
4 months ago
Closed issue #39069 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Remove extraneous controls from List view block options
4 months ago
Created issue #67710 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Extraneous transforms on synced patterns
5 months ago
Created issue #67693 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Remove patterns from the Quick Inserter to prevent misuse in block-specific contexts
5 months ago
Created issue #67658 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Make Write mode and Zoom out block options menus consistent
5 months ago
Closed issue #65750 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Zoom out disengages unexpectedly when double-clicking to select all text
5 months ago
Pull request #713 merged into WordPress/pattern-directory:
Use core default value for viewport width
5 months ago
Submitted pull request #713 to WordPress/pattern-directory:
Use core default value for viewport width
5 months ago
Created issue #67506 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Image changes sizes upon selection
5 months ago
Closed issue #58078 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Enhance the Block panel UI
5 months ago
Posted a reply to One of the most imp block plugin for block themes, Simple and ease to use, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey, thanks!
6 months ago
Created ticket #196284 on Themes Trac:
THEME: Kanso – 1.0.5
6 months ago
Mentioned in [59449] on Core SVN:
Editor: Warn about empty templates on the frontend for logged in users.
6 months ago
Committed [3194304] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 1.0.5 from
6 months ago
Created issue #67129 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Post content block should not be selectable in write mode with template...
6 months ago
Closed issue #64851 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Styles missing from images when using useFirstImageFromPost
6 months ago
Closed issue #66463 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Write/design mode: template parts aren't visible in list view when turning on...
6 months ago
Closed issue #66287 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Restore ability to copy and delete patterns in zoom out
6 months ago
Closed issue #53437 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Style Book: Integrate patterns
6 months ago
Closed issue #53432 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Style Book: Ability to focus on individual block types.
6 months ago
Closed issue #51936 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Query Loop: Sticky Post setting doesn't work in Categories
6 months ago
Created issue #66875 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Image block should not have the "Add text over image" control when...
6 months ago
Closed issue #66831 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Fix auto-applying of top-left positioning in the Cover block BlockAlignmentMatrixControl
6 months ago
Created issue #66831 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Fix auto-applying of top-left positioning in the Cover block BlockAlignmentMatrixControl
6 months ago
Created issue #66828 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Update placeholder instructions for blocks that support drag and drop
6 months ago
Created issue #66826 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Add Media” to “Add media” to follow sentence-case UI standards
6 months ago
Closed issue #39692 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Cover block reports color contrast accessibility error
6 months ago
Closed issue #64734 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Placeholders to render theme colors alongside custom colors
6 months ago
Closed issue #64734 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Placeholders to render theme colors alongside custom colors
6 months ago
Created issue #66824 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Cover block iteration
6 months ago
Created issue #66823 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Remove design-oriented controls from Cover block toolbar while in Write mode
6 months ago
Closed issue #65678 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Don't render tools control when getRenderingMode is set to post-only
6 months ago
Created issue #66777 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Template part selecting and editing unavailable in “Write” mode
6 months ago
Created issue #66776 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Relocate “View” external link to end of editor header controls
6 months ago
Created issue #66775 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Only render the write/design mode control with a template preview
6 months ago
Created issue #66768 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Align placeholder and iIllustration states between Cover and Image blocks
6 months ago