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

7contributions

high2

medium5

score11

Last 90 days

12contributions

high3

medium9

score18

Last 12 months

36contributions

high17

medium19

score70

WordPress releases

Contributed to 1 release

Contributions

Type

June 2026

Jun 14 Sun · 18:44

GitHub med

Submitted pull request #697 to WordPress/wordpress.org:
Plugin Directory: Improve screenshot lightbox captions

Jun 12 Fri · 13:53

GitHub med

Submitted pull request #693 to WordPress/wordpress.org:
Remove Photon srcset from Plugin Directory screenshots

Jun 11 Thu · 17:46

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Plugin Directory screenshots gallery update, on the site Make WordPress.org:
Thanks for flagging this. Well review this case and aim for a fix that helps…

Jun 10 Wed · 19:51

Meta high

Wrote a new post, Plugin Directory screenshots gallery update, on the site Make WordPress.org:
The screenshots gallery in the Plugin Directory has now been updated on WordPress.org. This work…

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