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

22contributions

high8

medium14

score38

Last 90 days

151contributions

high49

medium102

score249

Last 12 months

752contributions

high278

medium474

score1308

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

August 2026

Aug 07 Fri · 14:11

GitHub high

Merged pull request #913 into WordPress/ai:
Update our preferred models

Aug 06 Thu · 19:50

Forums med

Posted a reply to GenerateBlocks?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@beachholiday I'm not conversant with GenerateBlocks or Kadence Blocks, so I'm not sure how they…

Aug 06 Thu · 15:03

Forums med

Posted a reply to Great plugin, updated!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@vyskoczilova thanks for the kind words and review, please let us know if you run…

Aug 05 Wed · 16:43

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post AI Contributor Weekly Summary – 17 June 2026, on the site WordPress AI:
@abuhayat - please make note of the Using Subversion page in the WPORG Plugin Handbook,…

Aug 05 Wed · 03:23

GitHub med

Closed issue #869 on the WordPress/ai repository:
window.aiProviderData is only attached to the block-editor iframe snapshot, never to the…

Aug 05 Wed · 03:01

GitHub med

Closed issue #193 on the WordPress/ai repository:
Add developer-only log panel for inspecting AI provider responses

July 2026

Jul 21 Tue · 13:30

Meta high

Wrote a new post, What’s new in AI 1.2.0 (14 JULY 2026)?, on the site WordPress AI:
AI 1.2.0 introduces a new Suggest Reply experiment, bulk content summary generation, new read-only content…

Jul 20 Mon · 13:56

GitHub high

Pull request #882 merged into WordPress/ai:
Add/sr screenshot

Jul 17 Fri · 19:48

GitHub med

Submitted pull request #882 to WordPress/ai:
Add/sr screenshot

Jul 17 Fri · 19:16

Meta high

Wrote a new post, AI Contributor Weekly Summary – 15 July 2026, on the site WordPress AI:
This week’s AI contributor meeting covered WordPress 7.1, AI Plugin 1.2, Abilities and Connectors work,…