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Matias Ventura

Lead Architect of Gutenberg at Automattic

@matveb Firenze joined Aug 2008

matiasventura.com github.com/mtias Slack: @matias
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    Bio

    Matías is an engineer, designer, and philosophy enthusiast from Montevideo. Member of the developer experience team at Automattic and the lead architect of the Gutenberg project in WordPress. He has been contributing to core since he co-designed the Twenty Eleven default theme. You can find him on Twitter as @matias_ventura.

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    CODE
    5 badges
    Core Contributor '15 Core Team '20 Design Contributor '19 Meta Contributor '15 Plugin Developer
    CONTENT
    1 badge
    Documentation Contributor '22
    COMMUNITY
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    WordCamp Speaker '19
    POLYGLOTS
    1 badge
    Translation Contributor '18

    Current Job

    Lead Architect of Gutenberg
    Present
    Automattic

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    2contributions
    high2
    medium0
    score6
    Last 90 days
    5contributions
    high4
    medium1
    score13
    Last 12 months
    89contributions
    high11
    medium78
    score111

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 24 releases
    • 7.0
    • 6.9
    • 6.8
    • 6.7
    • 6.6
    • 6.5
    • 6.4
    • 6.3
    • 6.2
    • 6.1
    • 6.0
    • 5.9
    • 5.8
    • 5.7
    • 5.6
    • 5.5
    • 5.4
    • 5.3
    • 5.0
    • 4.9
    • 4.8
    • 4.1
    • 3.4
    • 3.3

    Time commitment

    Five for the Future sponsors

    Contributions

    Type
    May 2026
    May 20 Wed · 18:41
    Meta high
    Wrote a new post, WordPress 7.0 “Armstrong”, on the site WordPress News:
    Explore AI abilities directly in your website, all managed from a central hub. Slide seamlessly…
    May 07 Thu · 11:51
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62319] on WordPress SVN:
    Connectors: Register Akismet Anti-Spam as a connector.
    May 06 Wed · 21:44
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62310] on WordPress SVN:
    Connectors: Register Akismet Anti-Spam as a connector.
    April 2026
    Apr 01 Wed · 10:48
    Core med
    Created issue #76955 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    Dynamic galleries and media attached to a post
    March 2026
    Mar 31 Tue · 22:50
    Meta high
    Wrote a new post, Extending the 7.0 Cycle, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    After discussions with project leadership, the decision has been made to delay the 7.0 release…
    February 2026
    Feb 19 Thu · 19:22
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Proposal for merging WP AI Client into WordPress 7.0, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    Let's discuss today what we can do with the timeliness we have and if the…
    Feb 13 Fri · 01:51
    Core high
    Mentioned in [61632] on WordPress SVN:
    Block Supports: Add text indent to typography supports
    January 2026
    Jan 23 Fri · 03:46
    Core high
    Pull request #73959 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
    Add custom CSS support for individual block instances
    December 2025
    Dec 21 Sun · 23:26
    Core high
    Pull request #73114 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
    Add Line Indent support.
    Dec 12 Fri · 18:54
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #73978 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Add/style variations system

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    Español (Spanish (Spain)) Translation Contributor - #es_ES

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