Jeffrey Paul (@jeffpaul) – WordPress user profile

Bio

VP of Open Source at Fueled (formerly 10up). WordPress 4.7 release deputy, 4.8 release lead, 4.9 release deputy, 5.8 release coordinator, 6.1 release core tech lead, 6.8 release coordinator. Tide product maintainer. Founder of Race For Vets.

Formerly @jbpaul17 and member since April 10th, 2007. Migrated to @jeffpaul on May 10, 2018.

Interests

beer, bourbon, triathlons, veterans, technology, digital media, agile, WordPress, product management, RaceForVets.com, GotYour6.org, TeamRWB.org

WordPress Origin Story

Many moons ago I ran my personal site off Geeklog when one day host, CMS, and data all went… kaboom! I took a look at the ecosystem and on March 9th, 2007 I went with WordPress. Haven’t looked back since.

Badges

CODE

13 badges

C Core AI Contributor '25 C Core AI Team '25 Core Contributor '18 C Core Performance Contributor '22 C Core Performance Team '22 Core Team '20 Meta Contributor '19 P Playground Contributor '25 Plugin Developer Security Contributor '22 Security Team '22 Tide Contributor '19 Tide Team '19

CONTENT

2 badges

Documentation Contributor '18 Photo Contributor '23

COMMUNITY

1 badge

WordCamp Speaker '19

PRACTICE

2 badges

Support Contributor '26 Test Contributor '22

POLYGLOTS

1 badge

Translation Contributor '18

Current Job

VP of Open Source

Jan 2025 – Present

Fueled

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

49contributions

high15

medium34

score79

Last 90 days

216contributions

high71

medium145

score358

Last 12 months

725contributions

high269

medium456

score1263

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 24 releases

Time commitment

45 hours per week

10up 40 hrs/wk
On my own time 5 hrs/wk

Contributions

Type

July 2026

Jul 01 Wed · 16:48

Forums med

Posted a reply to Enabling Experimental Features Breaks Open AI Connector, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
FYI I opened https://github.com/WordPress/ai/issues/815 to account for that last item. We'll pick up over on…

Jul 01 Wed · 16:46

GitHub med

Created issue #815 in the WordPress/ai repository:
Connector Approvals doesn't immediately flag need to grant AI plugin access to…

Jul 01 Wed · 16:33

GitHub med

Submitted pull request #814 to WordPress/ai:
Fix markdown formatting in feature request template

Jul 01 Wed · 01:15

Meta med

Created ticket #8344 on Meta Trac:
Add note about pending release delayed by PTS 24hr delay

Jul 01 Wed · 01:07

Forums med

Posted a reply to Error message when generating images with a Gemini API key, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@alanp57 did you retry after that ~43 second delay?

Jul 01 Wed · 01:04

Forums med

Posted a reply to Enabling Experimental Features Breaks Open AI Connector, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@vfontj if you activate Connector Approval then you'll need to approve access for the AI…

Jul 01 Wed · 01:01

Forums med

Posted a reply to Calling AI Settings went wrong, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@meinservice based on that translation, it sounds like a 404 was resolved and things are…

Jul 01 Wed · 01:01

Forums med

Posted a reply to Calling AI Settings went wrong, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@meinservice I used Google Translate for your comment and it provided: The problem was that…

Jul 01 Wed · 00:58

Forums med

Posted a reply to Enabling Experimental Features Breaks Open AI Connector, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@vfontj so disabling Connector Approval and things are working as expected?

June 2026

Jun 30 Tue · 23:28

GitHub med

Closed issue #805 on the WordPress/ai repository:
Release version 1.1.0