wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS
Oct 2024 – Oct 2025
13 Months active
Languages Used
Objective-CSwiftSwiftUIXMLCSSHTMLJSONMarkdown
Technical Skills
Objective-CRefactoringSwiftUI DevelopmentiOS DevelopmentAccessibility
Alex Grebenyuk
PROFILE
Alex Grebenyuk
Alex Grebenyuk led feature development and modernization for the wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS repository, delivering over 130 features and 60 bug fixes in 13 months. He architected and implemented cohesive UI/UX improvements, modularized core components, and refactored legacy Objective-C code to Swift and SwiftUI, enhancing maintainability and performance. Alex introduced analytics-driven features, streamlined publishing workflows, and unified subscriber management, while integrating Jetpack Activity Logs and Gutenberg editor support. His work spanned API integration, Core Data modeling, and accessibility enhancements, resulting in a more stable, scalable codebase. The depth of his contributions enabled faster onboarding, improved reliability, and reduced long-term maintenance costs.
Overall Statistics
Feature vs Bugs
68%Features
Repository Contributions
351Total
Bugs
64
Commits
351
Features
136
Lines of code
136,837
Activity Months13
Your Network
254 people
Work History
October 2025
24 Commits • 12 Features
Oct 1, 2025October 2025 — WordPress iOS (wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS). Focused on stabilizing analytics workflows, delivering targeted UX improvements, enabling the 26.4 release, and upgrading the data model, with updated tests to reflect UI changes. Result: higher analytics reliability, smoother content creation and publishing workflows, and a cleaner, more maintainable codebase ahead of the 26.4 shipment.
24 Commits • 12 Features
Oct 1, 2025October 2025 — WordPress iOS (wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS). Focused on stabilizing analytics workflows, delivering targeted UX improvements, enabling the 26.4 release, and upgrading the data model, with updated tests to reflect UI changes. Result: higher analytics reliability, smoother content creation and publishing workflows, and a cleaner, more maintainable codebase ahead of the 26.4 shipment.
October 2025
September 2025
41 Commits • 11 Features
Sep 1, 2025September 2025 (WordPress-iOS) focused on delivering a polished iOS 26 experience, stabilizing core UI flows, and enabling faster content publishing and discovery. Major UI/UX enhancements, publishing workflow improvements, and foundational cleanup set the stage for improved user engagement and maintainability. Key features delivered: - iOS 26 UI/UX polish and enhancements across Reader/article screen, Stats tab, SwiftUI FAB, removal of circular buttons, app icons, and color tuning. - Publishing sheet introduced to streamline content creation and publishing workflows. - Top List stats improvements and web view toolbar item updates to improve analytics visibility and navigation. - Reader summarize action and improved excerpt generation to boost content discovery and summarization capabilities. - Code cleanup and refactors reducing complexity by removing BottomSheetPresentationController and BottomSheetAnimationController. Major bugs fixed: - UI stability fixes in Editor and Reader (button issues, context menu tint, login/navigation bar appearance). - Reader stability: crash on load, initial visibility, and table separator color issues. - Scrolling and crash fixes: BarChartView scrolling issue and Reader sidebar crash, plus popover crash mitigation and Display Zoom issues. - Minor visual polish and theme support fixes for iOS 26. - Search performance improvements in Reader Subscriptions. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Significantly improved app stability and user experience for the iOS 26 rollout, driving smoother content creation, reading, and discovery flows. - Reduced crash scenarios and UI regressions, enabling faster QA cycles and more reliable production releases. - Streamlined maintenance through code cleanup, laying groundwork for future feature work and performance optimizations. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Swift/SwiftUI adoption and iOS 26 feature integration, including UI/UX polish and new components. - Performance and stability tuning across Reader, Subscriptions, and web-view flows. - Refactoring and codebase simplification (BottomSheet components removal). - Content tooling enhancements (excerpt generation, Reader summarize action, and AI-assisted tagging groundwork).
September 2025
41 Commits • 11 Features
Sep 1, 2025September 2025 (WordPress-iOS) focused on delivering a polished iOS 26 experience, stabilizing core UI flows, and enabling faster content publishing and discovery. Major UI/UX enhancements, publishing workflow improvements, and foundational cleanup set the stage for improved user engagement and maintainability. Key features delivered: - iOS 26 UI/UX polish and enhancements across Reader/article screen, Stats tab, SwiftUI FAB, removal of circular buttons, app icons, and color tuning. - Publishing sheet introduced to streamline content creation and publishing workflows. - Top List stats improvements and web view toolbar item updates to improve analytics visibility and navigation. - Reader summarize action and improved excerpt generation to boost content discovery and summarization capabilities. - Code cleanup and refactors reducing complexity by removing BottomSheetPresentationController and BottomSheetAnimationController. Major bugs fixed: - UI stability fixes in Editor and Reader (button issues, context menu tint, login/navigation bar appearance). - Reader stability: crash on load, initial visibility, and table separator color issues. - Scrolling and crash fixes: BarChartView scrolling issue and Reader sidebar crash, plus popover crash mitigation and Display Zoom issues. - Minor visual polish and theme support fixes for iOS 26. - Search performance improvements in Reader Subscriptions. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Significantly improved app stability and user experience for the iOS 26 rollout, driving smoother content creation, reading, and discovery flows. - Reduced crash scenarios and UI regressions, enabling faster QA cycles and more reliable production releases. - Streamlined maintenance through code cleanup, laying groundwork for future feature work and performance optimizations. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Swift/SwiftUI adoption and iOS 26 feature integration, including UI/UX polish and new components. - Performance and stability tuning across Reader, Subscriptions, and web-view flows. - Refactoring and codebase simplification (BottomSheet components removal). - Content tooling enhancements (excerpt generation, Reader summarize action, and AI-assisted tagging groundwork).
August 2025
20 Commits • 7 Features
Aug 1, 2025August 2025 focused on delivering analytics-driven features for WordPress iOS while stabilizing the experience for broader user adoption. Key work shipped new analytics capabilities, iOS 26 UI polish, and UX enhancements, paired with critical stability fixes and quality improvements to reduce support burden and improve app reliability.
20 Commits • 7 Features
Aug 1, 2025August 2025 focused on delivering analytics-driven features for WordPress iOS while stabilizing the experience for broader user adoption. Key work shipped new analytics capabilities, iOS 26 UI polish, and UX enhancements, paired with critical stability fixes and quality improvements to reduce support burden and improve app reliability.
August 2025
July 2025
8 Commits • 4 Features
Jul 1, 2025July 2025 monthly summary for wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS: Delivered key features and improvements across Post List, Reader, Notifications, and SwiftUI-based Post/Page settings, plus targeted bug fixes and compatibility improvements. These efforts enhanced content readability, navigation, and authoring capabilities, while simplifying domain sorting and improving compilation stability. Result: faster onboarding for content creators, better user engagement signals, and a more maintainable codebase.
July 2025
8 Commits • 4 Features
Jul 1, 2025July 2025 monthly summary for wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS: Delivered key features and improvements across Post List, Reader, Notifications, and SwiftUI-based Post/Page settings, plus targeted bug fixes and compatibility improvements. These efforts enhanced content readability, navigation, and authoring capabilities, while simplifying domain sorting and improving compilation stability. Result: faster onboarding for content creators, better user engagement signals, and a more maintainable codebase.
June 2025
11 Commits • 5 Features
Jun 1, 2025June 2025 monthly summary for wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS: Implemented SwiftUI-driven UI modernization and stability improvements, with Jetpack Activity Logs integration, a SwiftUI-based Timezone picker, and groundwork for DataViews. Completed cross-cutting maintenance (Xcode 26 compatibility, removal of unused WPError alert), improved like/unlike UX with error handling and logging, refreshed header typography to Recoleta, and updated development guidelines and tooling (CLAUDE.md, Rakefile, localization guidelines). These changes reduce maintenance costs, improve accessibility and analytics, and enable safer rollout of data-visualization features.
11 Commits • 5 Features
Jun 1, 2025June 2025 monthly summary for wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS: Implemented SwiftUI-driven UI modernization and stability improvements, with Jetpack Activity Logs integration, a SwiftUI-based Timezone picker, and groundwork for DataViews. Completed cross-cutting maintenance (Xcode 26 compatibility, removal of unused WPError alert), improved like/unlike UX with error handling and logging, refreshed header typography to Recoleta, and updated development guidelines and tooling (CLAUDE.md, Rakefile, localization guidelines). These changes reduce maintenance costs, improve accessibility and analytics, and enable safer rollout of data-visualization features.
June 2025
May 2025
3 Commits • 1 Features
May 1, 2025May 2025 monthly summary focusing on key accomplishments for wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS. Key efforts centered on stabilizing the project setup and delivering a unified subscriber management experience.
May 2025
3 Commits • 1 Features
May 1, 2025May 2025 monthly summary focusing on key accomplishments for wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS. Key efforts centered on stabilizing the project setup and delivering a unified subscriber management experience.
April 2025
51 Commits • 26 Features
Apr 1, 2025April 2025 summary for wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS focused on delivering Reader capabilities, stabilizing the codebase, and improving performance and maintainability. Key outcomes include Reader target integration enabling 2025-04 batch workflows, extensive Reader app integration and UI overhaul to support new reader experiences, and refactoring of navigation and public APIs to improve modularity and future feature delivery. The month also delivered critical authentication flow improvements and build/quality optimizations that accelerate delivery while reducing risk.
51 Commits • 26 Features
Apr 1, 2025April 2025 summary for wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS focused on delivering Reader capabilities, stabilizing the codebase, and improving performance and maintainability. Key outcomes include Reader target integration enabling 2025-04 batch workflows, extensive Reader app integration and UI overhaul to support new reader experiences, and refactoring of navigation and public APIs to improve modularity and future feature delivery. The month also delivered critical authentication flow improvements and build/quality optimizations that accelerate delivery while reducing risk.
April 2025
March 2025
95 Commits • 37 Features
Mar 1, 2025Monthly summary for 2025-03 focusing on delivering polished Reader UI, Swift rewrites, and codebase modernization across the wordpress-ios repository. Achieved measurable performance gains, architecture improvements, and robust bug fixes that reduce future maintenance risk and enable faster feature delivery.
March 2025
95 Commits • 37 Features
Mar 1, 2025Monthly summary for 2025-03 focusing on delivering polished Reader UI, Swift rewrites, and codebase modernization across the wordpress-ios repository. Achieved measurable performance gains, architecture improvements, and robust bug fixes that reduce future maintenance risk and enable faster feature delivery.
February 2025
19 Commits • 4 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025 — WordPress-iOS monthly summary focused on delivering a major Comment System overhaul, Gutenberg editor integration, and Reader UI/UX enhancements, complemented by targeted UI fixes to improve reliability and business impact. Key outcomes include: improved commenting experience with a new composer UI, reply previews, drafts, and editing support; removal of WPRichText usage in ReaderComments; Gutenberg-driven configuration to streamline input UI; Reader UI enhancements such as modal comments on small screens, depth indicators for threads, updated icons, and more robust header loading behavior; plus targeted UI fixes for the dashboard and search results to improve consistency and discoverability. Documentation and release notes were updated for version 25.8.
19 Commits • 4 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025 — WordPress-iOS monthly summary focused on delivering a major Comment System overhaul, Gutenberg editor integration, and Reader UI/UX enhancements, complemented by targeted UI fixes to improve reliability and business impact. Key outcomes include: improved commenting experience with a new composer UI, reply previews, drafts, and editing support; removal of WPRichText usage in ReaderComments; Gutenberg-driven configuration to streamline input UI; Reader UI enhancements such as modal comments on small screens, depth indicators for threads, updated icons, and more robust header loading behavior; plus targeted UI fixes for the dashboard and search results to improve consistency and discoverability. Documentation and release notes were updated for version 25.8.
February 2025
January 2025
9 Commits • 6 Features
Jan 1, 2025January 2025: WordPress iOS maintenance and feature delivery focused on usability, reliability, and engineering efficiency for wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS. Delivered UI modernization, usability/performance improvements, and networking reliability work, while removing legacy UI and investing in WebKit groundwork and internal refinements. These efforts reduce user friction, stabilize tests, and set the stage for future WebKit-based features and code health improvements across the app.
January 2025
9 Commits • 6 Features
Jan 1, 2025January 2025: WordPress iOS maintenance and feature delivery focused on usability, reliability, and engineering efficiency for wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS. Delivered UI modernization, usability/performance improvements, and networking reliability work, while removing legacy UI and investing in WebKit groundwork and internal refinements. These efforts reduce user friction, stabilize tests, and set the stage for future WebKit-based features and code health improvements across the app.
December 2024
18 Commits • 4 Features
Dec 1, 2024Month: 2024-12. Focused on delivering cohesive Reader UX enhancements, refactoring media loading into a unified architecture, and stabilizing Reader/Notifications to improve reliability and engagement. Key features delivered include: (1) Reader UI Enhancements and Notifications - show-more view for clipped posts, quick access to notifications on iPad, consistent notification bell behavior, improved ReaderDetailHeaderView, and enhanced cover image rendering; (2) Media loading architecture improvements - introduction of WordPressMedia module and a unified AsyncImageView across campaigns and media-related views; (3) App layout and infrastructure changes - default SplitView behavior adjustments, removal of TipKit feature flag, and relocation of FaviconService to streamline architecture; (4) Media and subscriber data enhancements - added media URLs and entity IDs, exposed post IDs in post settings, and improved subscriber data ordering for deterministic UI. Major bugs fixed include crashes and UI inconsistencies in Reader/Notifications: safe link taps, notification badge coloring on iPad, correct display of posts in notifications, scrollable empty states, and accurate like counts. Overall impact includes improved user experience, reliability, and performance, enabling faster onboarding of new media formats and more deterministic analytics. Technologies/skills demonstrated include iOS architectural refactors (WordPressMedia, AsyncImageView), module-based design, data modeling for media/subscriber data, and performance-oriented UI optimizations.
18 Commits • 4 Features
Dec 1, 2024Month: 2024-12. Focused on delivering cohesive Reader UX enhancements, refactoring media loading into a unified architecture, and stabilizing Reader/Notifications to improve reliability and engagement. Key features delivered include: (1) Reader UI Enhancements and Notifications - show-more view for clipped posts, quick access to notifications on iPad, consistent notification bell behavior, improved ReaderDetailHeaderView, and enhanced cover image rendering; (2) Media loading architecture improvements - introduction of WordPressMedia module and a unified AsyncImageView across campaigns and media-related views; (3) App layout and infrastructure changes - default SplitView behavior adjustments, removal of TipKit feature flag, and relocation of FaviconService to streamline architecture; (4) Media and subscriber data enhancements - added media URLs and entity IDs, exposed post IDs in post settings, and improved subscriber data ordering for deterministic UI. Major bugs fixed include crashes and UI inconsistencies in Reader/Notifications: safe link taps, notification badge coloring on iPad, correct display of posts in notifications, scrollable empty states, and accurate like counts. Overall impact includes improved user experience, reliability, and performance, enabling faster onboarding of new media formats and more deterministic analytics. Technologies/skills demonstrated include iOS architectural refactors (WordPressMedia, AsyncImageView), module-based design, data modeling for media/subscriber data, and performance-oriented UI optimizations.
December 2024
November 2024
51 Commits • 18 Features
Nov 1, 2024November 2024 (WordPress iOS) focused on delivering core Reader capabilities, UI/UX refinements, stability, and performance gains. Key outcomes include a first-class site-wide Search in Reader, streaming UI improvements with safer layouts and responsive covers, and a new Logged-out experience to reduce friction for non-logged-in users. The team also added Favorites to personalize discovery, and implemented progressive loading and optimized image loading to improve perceived performance. These efforts, combined with localization fixes and analytics refinements, reduce support cost, improve engagement, and position the app for smoother onboarding and retention. Tech debt reduction included preparatory steps to remove obsolete dependencies (AlamofireImage, UIKitConstants).
November 2024
51 Commits • 18 Features
Nov 1, 2024November 2024 (WordPress iOS) focused on delivering core Reader capabilities, UI/UX refinements, stability, and performance gains. Key outcomes include a first-class site-wide Search in Reader, streaming UI improvements with safer layouts and responsive covers, and a new Logged-out experience to reduce friction for non-logged-in users. The team also added Favorites to personalize discovery, and implemented progressive loading and optimized image loading to improve perceived performance. These efforts, combined with localization fixes and analytics refinements, reduce support cost, improve engagement, and position the app for smoother onboarding and retention. Tech debt reduction included preparatory steps to remove obsolete dependencies (AlamofireImage, UIKitConstants).
October 2024
1 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 2024October 2024 monthly summary for wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS focused on delivering a user-visible improvement to cross-post handling and simplifying the underlying data model to reduce maintenance burden and improve consistency across cross-post content.
1 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 2024October 2024 monthly summary for wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS focused on delivering a user-visible improvement to cross-post handling and simplifying the underlying data model to reduce maintenance burden and improve consistency across cross-post content.
October 2024
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Quality Metrics
Correctness91.2%
Maintainability90.4%
Architecture87.4%
Performance86.0%
AI Usage21.8%
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CCSSHTMLJSONJavaScriptMarkdownObjective-CObjective-C++PlistProject configuration
Technical Skills
AI IntegrationAPI DesignAPI IntegrationAccess ControlAccessibilityAccount ManagementAnalyticsAnalytics IntegrationAnalytics TrackingAnimationApp ExtensionsAsset ManagementAuthenticationAutomationBug Fixing
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