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Timothy Jacobs

Software Engineer at Fingerprint

@timothyblynjacobs New York joined May 2012

timothybjacobs.com github.com/TimothyBJacobs Slack: @timothybjacobs
    Maintains Application Passwords REST API
    Teams Core

    Bio

    I’m a Lead Software Engineer with ten years of experience. I’m most passionate about Security, REST APIs and Performance.

    Interests

    fencing, doctor who, graphic design, photography, chess

    Badges

    CODE
    3 badges
    Core Contributor '15 Core Team '20 Plugin Developer
    CONTENT
    1 badge
    Documentation Contributor '17
    COMMUNITY
    1 badge
    WordCamp Speaker '17

    Current Job

    Software Engineer
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    Fingerprint

    Recent impact

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    Last 12 months
    54contributions
    high53
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    score160

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 27 releases
    • 7.0
    • 6.9
    • 6.8
    • 6.7
    • 6.6
    • 6.5
    • 6.4
    • 6.3
    • 6.2
    • 6.1
    • 6.0
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    • 5.2
    • 5.1
    • 5.0
    • 4.9
    • 4.8
    • 4.7
    • 4.6
    • 4.5
    • 4.2

    Contributions

    Type
    February 2026
    Feb 19 Thu · 10:25
    Core high
    Mentioned in [61689] on WordPress SVN:
    Real-time collaboration: add new REST endpoints, setting, and registered post meta.
    December 2025
    Dec 08 Mon · 21:53
    Core high
    Mentioned in [61360] on WordPress SVN:
    Posts, Post Types: Only set default title for custom post types if they have title support.
    October 2025
    Oct 31 Fri · 18:55
    Core high
    Mentioned in [61105] on WordPress SVN:
    Editor: Notes should not appear in the context of comments.
    Oct 22 Wed · 07:05
    Core high
    Mentioned in [61045] on WordPress SVN:
    Abilities API: Add Ability Categories REST API controller
    Oct 21 Tue · 15:23
    Core high
    Mentioned in [61037] on WordPress SVN:
    Users: Revert Lazy load user capabilities in WP_User object.
    Oct 21 Tue · 13:50
    Core high
    Mentioned in [61032] on WordPress SVN:
    Abilities API: Introduce server-side registry and REST API endpoints
    Oct 15 Wed · 20:28
    Core high
    Mentioned in [60937] on WordPress SVN:
    REST API: Allow comment content to be updated to empty when allow_empty_comment filter returns true
    Oct 09 Thu · 20:15
    Core med
    Reopened ticket #58001 on Core Trac:
    Lazy load user capabilities in WP_User object
    Oct 09 Thu · 05:21
    Core high
    Mentioned in [60917] on WordPress SVN:
    Attachments REST API endpoint: add support for filtering attachments by multiple media types
    Oct 08 Wed · 22:49
    Core high
    Mentioned in [60916] on WordPress SVN:
    REST API: Rename post link relation in media endpoint to wp:attached-to