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

83contributions

high31

medium52

score145

Last 90 days

164contributions

high59

medium105

score282

Last 12 months

814contributions

high299

medium515

score1412

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

September 2026

Sep 04 Fri · 18:56

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Replacing Dashicons in the admin bar and menu, on the site Make WordPress Core:
These look beautiful, much more modern, love it! How does the before/after look for an…

Sep 04 Fri · 08:27

Meta high

Wrote a new post, AI Contributor Weekly Summary – 2 September 2026, on the site WordPress AI:
This week’s AI contributor meeting covered WordPress 7.2 roadmap planning, embeddings and connector work, maintainer…

Sep 03 Thu · 21:14

GitHub med

Closed issue #262 on the WordPress/ai repository:
Provider-Level Model Bucketing for Model Selection

Sep 03 Thu · 21:11

GitHub med

Created issue #995 in the WordPress/ai repository:
Update Developer Tools icon to `tool`

Sep 02 Wed · 17:24

GitHub med

Created issue #284 in the WordPress/php-ai-client repository:
Release 1.5.0

Sep 02 Wed · 13:27

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post AI Contributor Weekly Summary – 26 August 2026, on the site WordPress AI:
@tokyobiyori you'd need to ask @estelaris who's been looking into this, but I'll at least…

Sep 02 Wed · 13:27

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post AI Contributor Weekly Summary – 26 August 2026, on the site WordPress AI:
+make.wordpress.org/polyglots/

Sep 02 Wed · 13:15

Forums med

Posted a reply to API Error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
That error usually means the Anthropic API key on file isn't being accepted, most often…

Sep 02 Wed · 13:09

Forums med

Posted a reply to Error message when generating images with a Gemini API key, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If you're on a free tier, its almost certainly not granting you image generation access;…

Sep 02 Wed · 13:06

Forums med

Posted a reply to Is there a usage cost?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yes, there is a cost to use the Gemini API, but it offers a Free…