Student impact

Students in WordPress Credits earn academic credit by contributing to WordPress, and many keep contributing after they graduate. This page shows what graduates have given to the project, and who is leading the way.

Contributions and impact are read from each graduate’s public WordPress.org profile and cover the last 12 months. For the whole program in figures, see WordPress Credits in numbers.

Graduates in numbers

What graduates of the program have contributed to WordPress.

Graduates to date
376
Contributions by graduates in the last 12 months
5,216
Recent impact score, as WordPress.org counts it
6,822
First contributions made
535
WordPress teams contributed to
18
Graduates who plan to keep contributing to WordPress
80%

Contributions and impact are read from the WordPress.org profiles of 366 graduates. 85 of them contributed in the last 90 days. Last updated on .

Graduates leading the way

The 50 graduates with the most recent impact and contributions on WordPress.org. Each name opens a public WordPress.org profile.

What the figures mean

Impact
The recent impact score on the graduate's WordPress.org profile, for the last 12 months. WordPress.org weighs each contribution: high-impact work counts three times as much as routine activity.
Contributions
How many contributions WordPress.org recorded for the graduate in the last 12 months, of any kind.
#1
The graduate's place in the list. Impact and contributions count half each; the first three sit on a tinted card.
Active now
The graduate made at least one contribution in the last 90 days.
Polyglots
The WordPress team the graduate mainly contributes to, Polyglots for example. The buttons above the cards filter by it.
8 high-impact
How many of those contributions WordPress.org counts as high-impact, such as commits, releases, approved translations and props.

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