Michał Czapliński
Founder at WordPress
Costa da Caparica, Setúbal, Portugal
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Top SchoolMichał Czapliński is a software engineer and founder with 12 years of experience building developer tooling and large-scale interactive JavaScript applications, now based in Costa da Caparica, Portugal. He co-architected the Interactivity API and shipped multiple features for WordPress’s Gutenberg—one of the largest open-source JS apps—earning a WordPress core committer role and international conference talks. Earlier, he helped take the Frontity React framework from inception through acquisition by Automattic, gaining deep experience in framework architecture, API design, and developer experience. Comfortable working remotely for the past seven years, he excels in asynchronous collaboration across distributed teams. Beyond code, he contributes front-end refinements to high-profile repos (notably comment rendering in Gutenberg) and speaks five languages, which he leverages when engaging global open-source communities. Now founding Motmotalk, he combines product instincts with hands-on engineering to build scalable, developer-friendly tools.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Radboud UniversityMaster of Arts - MA, Psychology, Master of Arts - MA, Psychology at University of Glasgow
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Github Skills (23)
javascript10
ampl10
wordpress10
css10
ui-design10
frontity10
uid10
front-end-development10
gutenberg10
accelerated-mobile-pages10
react10
typescript9
typescript-types9
typescripts9
html9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
frontity/frontity
Dec 2019 - Jul 2022
» Frontity - The React Framework for WordPress
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:150 reviews, 1300 commits, 163 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Michał primarily contributed to the Frontity framework, focusing on implementing and improving React components. Their work included reordering methods, removing unnecessary code and types, and adding new features such as handling various configurations of options in the Google Ad Manager component and also for 301 redirections. The user also updated the AMP theme, adding features like new components and accessibility attributes.
reactwordpressfrontityreact-frameworkreactjs
WordPress/gutenberg
Oct 2021 - Sep 2022
The Block Editor project for WordPress and beyond. Plugin is available from the official repository.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:506 reviews, 27 commits, 128 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Michał primarily contributed to the development of the Comment Template block within the WordPress Gutenberg project. They implemented and refined the user interface components, focusing on the visual representation of comments, including nested comment structures. The user's contributions included adding and improving styles, fixing flickering issues during block selection, and enhancing the overall user experience. Their work directly involved the front-end aspects of rendering comments within the block editor.
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