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

82contributions

high46

medium36

score174

Last 90 days

193contributions

high89

medium104

score371

Last 12 months

868contributions

high336

medium532

score1540

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 25 releases

Time commitment

45 hours per week

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

Contributions

Type

October 2026

Oct 01 Thu · 17:41

GitHub high

Merged pull request #45 into WordPress/ai-provider-for-anthropic:
Release/1.0.5

Oct 01 Thu · 17:13

GitHub med

Submitted pull request #47 to WordPress/ai-provider-for-anthropic:
Fix #39: enable AI editor experiments in the Playground blueprint

Oct 01 Thu · 17:11

GitHub med

Closed issue #14 on the WordPress/ai-provider-for-anthropic repository:
Add support for thought tokens count in results

Oct 01 Thu · 17:11

GitHub high

Merged pull request #44 into WordPress/ai-provider-for-anthropic:
Fix #14: report Anthropic thinking token usage

Oct 01 Thu · 16:06

GitHub high

Merged pull request #360 into WordPress/mcp-adapter:
docs: replace refs to AI Plugin with MCP Adapter

September 2026

Sep 30 Wed · 21:38

GitHub high

Pull request #1011 merged into WordPress/two-factor:
Add Plugin Check workflow

Sep 30 Wed · 17:05

GitHub high

Merged pull request #1082 into WordPress/ai:
Fix spelling and grammar errors in documentation

Sep 30 Wed · 17:04

GitHub med

Submitted pull request #1011 to WordPress/two-factor:
Add Plugin Check workflow

Sep 29 Tue · 19:39

Forums med

Posted a reply to You do not have permission to install plugins. Please ask a site administrator t, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@bretweinraub99 can you confirm more specifics about your setup? WordPress, PHP, theme, plugin versions so…

Sep 29 Tue · 19:35

Forums med

Posted a reply to You do not have permission to install plugins. Please ask a site administrator t, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@bretweinraub99 do you have the Connector Approvals experiment enabled or anything else that might be…