Rich Tabor
VP, Growth & Data
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRich Tabor is a product leader and maker with 11 years of experience designing and shipping high-impact WordPress products at companies like Automattic, GoDaddy, and Extendify. He blends product management, design, and front-end development—having built CoBlocks (500k+ installs) and led GoDaddy’s Go theme (90k+ sites)—to create fast onboarding flows and delightful user experiences. Equally comfortable in code and strategy, Rich has contributed to Gutenberg and multiple popular open-source WordPress projects, improving UI components, block transforms, and responsive layouts. He has a track record of taking ideas from prototype to scale (Extendify’s plugin hit 70k installs in under a year) and a knack for simplifying complex technical onboarding into clear, actionable user journeys.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Marketing, Business, Leadership, Marketing, Business, Leadership at University of North Georgia - Mike Cottrell College of Business
English
Github Skills (16)
wordpress10
css10
editors10
uid10
blocks10
javascript10
blockly10
php10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
editor10
gutenberg10
react10
responsive-design9
wp-theme8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
richtabor/MerlinWP
May 2018 - Jan 2023
Better WordPress Theme Onboarding
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 1 review, 21 commits in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Rich primarily contributed to the codebase by enhancing the WordPress theme onboarding process. Their work includes adding a backslash to `home_url` in a PHP file, merging branches, and updating CSS styling for the progress bar. They also implemented a feature that sets the maximum percentage to 99 and then 100 upon content import completion, along with fixing issues related to the plugin's span text class.
wordpress-themeswordpressthemesonboarding
godaddy-wordpress/coblocks
May 2018 - Mar 2021
A suite of professional page building content blocks for the WordPress Gutenberg block editor.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:21 releases, 31 reviews, 1456 commits in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Rich's primary contributions revolve around the development and modification of UI components within the CoBlocks plugin, specifically focusing on the implementation of various gallery and icon blocks, as well as enhancing the user interface of existing blocks. Their work involved adding features like custom link handling, new styles (such as a circular button style and new gallery layouts), and implementing responsive designs, indicating a focus on front-end development with a goal of improving the user experience. The commits demonstrated interactions with CSS and JavaScript, as well as experience in building and debugging components.
wordpress-gutenberggutenbergwordpresswordpress-pluginwordpress-blocks
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