Dan Zakirov (@alexodiy) – WordPress user profile

Bio

Been working with WordPress for a long time now. Started back when the choice of CMS wasn’t obvious, tried a few alternatives, and ended up staying here. Not sure if it was the platform or the people – probably both.

I run a few WordPress-powered projects of my own and slowly find myself getting pulled into contributing to the platform itself. Nothing dramatic, just fixing things that catch my eye.

The community is what makes it different. Hard to explain if you haven’t been around it, but it’s real.

Interests

WordPress, PHP, Open Source

WordPress Origin Story

Been around long enough that the early days are a bit of a blur. Picked up WordPress at some point, built some things, and at some point realised I’d stopped looking at alternatives altogether.

Badges

CODE

4 badges

Core Contributor '26 Meta Contributor '24 Pattern Author '22 Plugin Developer

CONTENT

1 badge

Photo Contributor '23

POLYGLOTS

2 badges

Translation Contributor '18 Translation Editor '18

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

4contributions

high2

medium2

score8

Last 90 days

19contributions

high9

medium10

score37

Last 12 months

34contributions

high18

medium16

score70

WordPress releases

Contributed to 1 release

Contributions

Type

June 2026

Jun 08 Mon · 10:45

Meta high

Mentioned in [14950] on Meta SVN:
Plugin Directory: server-render screenshots gallery + Gallery Lightbox Enhancements polyfill

Jun 04 Thu · 18:51

Forums med

Posted a reply to Fix for No SKU creation for Variations, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey @bougiedogwear @pengiins - quick follow-up. 1.3.4 is live. The variation-SKU fix from 1.3.3 still…

May 2026

May 28 Thu · 15:58

Forums med

Posted a reply to Fix for No SKU creation for Variations, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Done - shipped in 1.3.2.

May 12 Tue · 03:11

Meta high

Mentioned in [14866] on Meta SVN:
Plugin Directory: Extract image asset dimensions during plugin import.

May 07 Thu · 13:22

GitHub med

Submitted pull request #622 to WordPress/wordpress.org:
Plugin Directory: server-render screenshots gallery + Gallery Lightbox Enhancements polyfill

April 2026

Apr 23 Thu · 14:11

Core med

Submitted pull request #77615 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Gallery Block: Add masonry style variation

Apr 20 Mon · 03:58

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Plugin Directory: Local Development Environment, on the site Make WordPress.org:
Thanks, I'll be using this - was just looking into updating the plugin screenshots section

Apr 19 Sun · 14:07

Core med

Submitted pull request #77477 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Image Block: Restore captions in lightbox overlay with Gallery-level toggles

March 2026

Mar 19 Thu · 21:16

Core high

Mentioned in [62070] on WordPress SVN:
Interactivity API: fix `data-wp-bind` skipping valid directives after encountering an invalid one

Mar 19 Thu · 03:49

Core high

Mentioned in [62054] on WordPress SVN:
General: Use functions that are more random to reduce likelihood of UUID collisions.