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Corey Hall

Happiness Engineer at Automattic

@coreyhall93 South Carolina joined Feb 2025

coreyhall.link github.com/coreyhall93 Slack: @Corey Hall
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    Bio

    I’m a Happiness Engineer at Automattic, contributing to the WordPress open-source project. My background in design made me obsessive about getting the small things right, and that obsession follows me everywhere. I enjoy vibe coding little tools with AI for the fun of it. I’m in South Carolina, doing community theater and waiting all year for Halloween Horror Nights.

    Interests

    design, theme parks, consumer tech, reading, acting, musicals, horror, vibe coding

    WordPress Origin Story

    I built my first WordPress website in 2012 during my first semester of college. I dropped out not knowing what I wanted to study.

    After a few years I had a new dream and set out on the path to become a graphic designer at Walt Disney World. The jobs along that path kept leading me back to web design.

    Eventually I joined Automattic and started helping people who built their own sites on WordPress.com. That gave me a deeper understanding of how they actually use it.

    It all led me right here to the WordPress open-source project. I thought I had to be a developer to contribute and make WordPress better. That couldn’t be further from the truth.

    The project needs designers, marketers, writers, event organizers, speakers, teachers, and countless others to keep it alive.

    So here I am giving back to the software that gave so much to me.

    Badges

    COMMUNITY
    1 badge
    Meetup Organizer '26
    PRACTICE
    1 badge
    P Pathways Contributor '26

    Current Job

    Happiness Engineer
    Nov 2024 – Present
    Automattic · Full-time

    Job History

    Lead Website Designer
    Aug 2021 – Nov 2024
    SVG Digital · Full-time
    Marketing Design Specialist
    May 2018 – Aug 2021
    First Reliance Bank · Full-time
    Marketing Design Intern
    Nov 2016 – May 2018
    First Reliance Bank · Part-time
    Graphic and Web Designer
    May 2013 – Nov 2024
    Self-employed · Freelance
    Graphic Design Intern
    Apr 2012 – Apr 2013
    Center for Career and Civic Engagement, Wintrhop University · Part-time

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    24contributions
    high10
    medium14
    score44
    Last 90 days
    38contributions
    high14
    medium24
    score66
    Last 12 months
    44contributions
    high17
    medium27
    score78

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    Time commitment

    40 hours per week

    Contributions

    Type
    October 2026
    Oct 18 Sun · 13:08
    Meta high
    Wrote a new post, A hackathon instead of a workshop, a sold-out WordCamp full of students, and a first contribution in an hour, on the site Make WordPress Community:
    Meetup Organizer Newsletter | October 2026 Hola, and hello. Welcome to your monthly roundup of…
    Oct 15 Thu · 19:32
    Community med
    Created issue #1155 in the WordPress/Community-Team repository:
    [Doc] GatherPress migration: draft the handbook updates with AI, and keep people…
    Oct 15 Thu · 19:32
    Community med
    Created issue #1154 in the WordPress/Community-Team repository:
    [Doc] GatherPress migration: sweep every handbook page that mentions Meetup.com
    Oct 15 Thu · 19:32
    Community med
    Created issue #1153 in the WordPress/Community-Team repository:
    [Doc] GatherPress migration: update the group lifecycle pages
    Oct 15 Thu · 19:32
    Community med
    Created issue #1152 in the WordPress/Community-Team repository:
    [Doc] GatherPress migration: pilot docs for organizers, members, and supporters
    Oct 15 Thu · 19:32
    Community med
    Created issue #1151 in the WordPress/Community-Team repository:
    [Doc] Update the Community handbooks for the move from Meetup.com to GatherPress
    Oct 13 Tue · 22:41
    Meta high
    Made 2 updates to handbook pages on Make WordPress Community.
    Oct 13 Tue · 22:34
    Community med
    Closed issue #1147 on the WordPress/Community-Team repository:
    [Campus Connect] WordPress Campus Connect Presidency University:
    Oct 13 Tue · 19:26
    Community med
    Created issue #1147 in the WordPress/Community-Team repository:
    [Campus Connect] WordPress Campus Connect Presidency University:
    Oct 09 Fri · 18:53
    Community med
    Created issue #1144 in the WordPress/Community-Team repository:
    [Campus Connect] WordPress Campus Connect Universitas Putra Bangsa:

    Completed courses

    6 completed

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