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Joseph Scott

Performance Team Lead at Automattic at Automattic

@josephscott Utah joined May 2004

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    Bio

    Lead of the Performance team at Automattic.

    Badges

    CODE
    2 badges
    Core Contributor '15 Plugin Developer
    COMMUNITY
    2 badges
    WordCamp Organizer '14 WordCamp Speaker '14

    Current Job

    Performance Team Lead at Automattic
    Present
    Automattic

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    24contributions
    high17
    medium7
    score58
    Last 90 days
    51contributions
    high32
    medium19
    score115
    Last 12 months
    63contributions
    high38
    medium25
    score139

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 13 releases
    • 7.1
    • 7.0
    • 6.9
    • 6.8
    • 6.6
    • 5.3
    • 5.1
    • 4.6
    • 3.7
    • 3.6
    • 3.5
    • 3.4
    • 3.3

    Contributions

    Type
    September 2026
    Sep 14 Mon · 20:04
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #13521 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Fatal error in wp_insert_term() when the term name is not a string
    Sep 14 Mon · 20:01
    Core med
    Created ticket #66108 on Core Trac:
    Fatal error in wp_insert_term() when the term name is not a string
    Sep 14 Mon · 17:03
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #13517 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    XML-RPC: Convert client-supplied dates before calling IXR_Date methods.
    Sep 14 Mon · 16:56
    Core med
    Created ticket #66107 on Core Trac:
    XML-RPC: Fatal error when a date field is not a dateTime.iso8601
    Sep 10 Thu · 21:48
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #13481 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Check cache return value in metadata_exists(), get_metadata_raw(), an…
    Sep 10 Thu · 21:43
    Core med
    Created ticket #66091 on Core Trac:
    Check cache return value in metadata_exists(), get_metadata_raw(), and ...
    Sep 10 Thu · 11:18
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63580] on WordPress SVN:
    I18N: Validate cached translation file lists.
    Sep 07 Mon · 19:44
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #13429 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Check cache return value in WP_Textdomain_Registry::get_language_file…
    Sep 07 Mon · 19:38
    Core med
    Created ticket #66063 on Core Trac:
    Check cache return value in ...
    August 2026
    Aug 31 Mon · 18:06
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #13339 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Core Needs a Validating Cache Get Function: wp_cache_get_valid()

    Developer

    4 plugins

    Contributor

    2 plugins

    Plugins

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