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ianmjones

Senior Staff Software Engineer at WP Engine

@ianmjones Somerset, UK joined Aug 2014

ianmjones.com github.com/ianmjones Slack: @ianmjones

    Bio

    Always developing.

    Senior Staff Software Engineer at WP Engine working on the WP Migrate, WP Offload Media, and WP Offload SES WordPress plugins.

    I also contribute to the WP Background Processing and WP Queue libraries, and occasionally find and fix bugs in WordPress, usually in the media components.

    WordPress Origin Story

    Started using WordPress with version 1.2 back in October 2004, probably attracted by the Mingus code name (I’m a fan of Charlie Mingus).
    I ran WordPress on my personal site for 5 years before trying other solutions for another 5 years, eventually coming back to WordPress when I joined Delicious Brains Inc in 2014.

    Badges

    CODE
    2 badges
    Core Contributor '15 Plugin Developer
    PRACTICE
    1 badge
    Support Contributor '26

    Current Job

    Senior Staff Software Engineer
    Present
    WP Engine

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    9contributions
    high6
    medium3
    score21
    Last 90 days
    13contributions
    high8
    medium5
    score29
    Last 12 months
    24contributions
    high16
    medium8
    score56

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 8 releases
    • 6.0
    • 5.9
    • 5.8
    • 5.7
    • 5.4
    • 5.3
    • 4.2
    • 4.1

    Contributions

    Type
    July 2026
    Jul 11 Sat · 15:14
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Atom feed has empty content, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Neat, glad I could help! ;-)
    Jul 07 Tue · 22:01
    Plugins high
    Committed [3599621] to Plugins SVN:
    Deploy version 1.7.0
    Jul 07 Tue · 13:48
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to WP Offload SES queue not processing when WP-CLI memory_limit is -1, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    WP Offload SES Lite v1.8.1 has been released with a fix for this issue, and…
    Jul 07 Tue · 13:48
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to memory_limit = -1 keeps SES messages from sending, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    WP Offload SES Lite v1.8.1 has been released with a fix for this issue, and…
    Jul 06 Mon · 20:45
    Plugins high
    Committed [3598319] to Plugins SVN:
    Deploy version 1.6.3
    Jul 06 Mon · 20:40
    Plugins high
    Committed [3598313] to Plugins SVN:
    Deploy version 1.6.3
    Jul 06 Mon · 20:35
    Plugins high
    Committed [3598306] to Plugins SVN:
    Update assets
    Jul 06 Mon · 18:56
    Plugins high
    Committed [3598227] to Plugins SVN:
    Update assets
    Jul 06 Mon · 18:51
    Plugins high
    Committed [3598220] to Plugins SVN:
    Deploy version 1.3.1
    June 2026
    Jun 06 Sat · 21:57
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Atom feed has empty content, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I tried a couple of other plugins that purport to support reading Atom feeds, and…