Allan Cole
Lead Designer at Automattic
Greenbelt, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAllan Cole is a multidisciplinary lead designer and Theme Wrangler at Automattic with 14 years of hands-on experience building and refining WordPress themes and front-end experiences. He blends a BFA in Graphic Design from Cooper Union with pragmatic engineering, shipping accessibility, RTL, and mobile-first improvements across flagship projects like Twenty Nineteen, Jetpack, AMP for WordPress, and Automattic’s theme collection. Known for thoughtful CSS and UX fixes—down to mini-cart behavior and live customizer previews—he focuses on subtle visual polish that measurably improves usability. He also founded small theme businesses, bringing product instincts and client-facing discipline to open-source collaboration. Based in Greenbelt, Maryland, Allan balances artistry and engineering to make large-scale WordPress design feel intentionally human.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BFA, Graphic Design, Art,, BFA, Graphic Design, Art, at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
English
Github Skills (18)
javascript10
wordpress-themes10
ampl10
wordpress10
css10
responsive-design10
google-amp10
plugin10
php10
front-end-development10
html10
theme-development10
wp-theme10
react8
user-interface8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/themes
Mar 2018 - Nov 2020
Free WordPress themes made by Automattic for WordPress.org and WordPress.com.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 1585 commits, 330 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Allan's contributions center around modifying and improving the display and functionality of the mini-cart in the context of a WooCommerce theme. They removed background colors on hover for anchor tags, which improves the UI. Their commits involve display improvements and adjustments to the appearance of the mini-cart, particularly for RTL (Right-to-Left) languages and display layout for mobile devices. The focus appears to be on CSS changes to enhance the front-end user experience.
wordpress-themeswordpressthemes
WordPress/twentynineteen
Oct 2018 - Jan 2019
Twenty Nineteen is a theme now included in all WordPress installs. To report any issues please go here: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/newticket
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:528 commits, 220 PRs, 301 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Allan's contributions focused on enhancing the Twenty Nineteen WordPress theme. They implemented fixes to various style issues, including adjustments to 404 and no-results page titles. Furthermore, they worked on improving the menu system by adding dropdown support and implementing accessibility features for tabbed browsing. The user also made visual enhancements to the menu and gallery elements for a better user experience.
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