Associating GitHub accounts with WordPress.org profiles

In an effort to make tracking all contributions to the WordPress project across multiple locations easier, a new option is available when editing your WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ profile that allows you to connect your GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ account.

WordPress.org profile with GitHub profile link highlighted.

In recent releases, the process of collecting props for non-WordPress.org contributions (namely GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/) has been highly manual and error prone, occasionally resulting in contributors not receiving proper credit. Connecting your WordPress.org and GitHub accounts will allow automatic tooling to be built which reduces the burden on release teams to maintain a credit list.

How it works

The feature uses an oAuth flow to grant a WordPress GitHub application read-only access to your GitHub account’s public information. This proves that you own both the GitHub account and the WordPress.org account and links the two accounts.

This has been available and tested for several months now, and many contributors have connected their accounts. But, because it was never officially announced, adoption has been low.

If you have not already, please take a moment to connect your GitHub account to your WordPress.org account by going to https://profiles.wordpress.org/me/profile/edit/.

Below are some screenshots of how the process works.

1. Edit WordPress.org profile

WordPress.org profile edit screen with the GitHub Username section highlighted.
Click “link your GitHub account” to initiate the process.

2. Authorize WordPress.org Profiles application

The authorization screen on GitHub for the WordPress.org Profiles application.
Grant the WordPress Profiles GitHub application read-only access to your public information.

3. Verify connection

WordPress.org profile edit screen showing a linked GitHub profile.
Access can be revoked at any time on the Edit Profile screen on WordPress.org.

Huge props go out to @dd32 for implementing this feature. For more information on this feature and the ongoing effort to make collecting props easier, see Meta-#4447.