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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
    8contributions
    high4
    medium4
    score16
    Last 90 days
    21contributions
    high12
    medium9
    score45
    Last 12 months
    29contributions
    high17
    medium12
    score63

    WordPress releases

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

    Contributions

    Type
    August 2026
    Aug 14 Fri · 09:04
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Running uploads from command line, and media not removing., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hey @aquaphase, Thanks for the debug.log file, that really helped. It looks like for whatever…
    Aug 14 Fri · 08:42
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Delivery provider status cannot be determined, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hey @jjcarlson, There are no such settings keys as 'copy-to-bucket' and 'serve-from-bucket', for legacy reasons,…
    Aug 14 Fri · 08:32
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Fatal ArgumentCountError in Remove_Local_Handler::handle_item() on PHP 8.x, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hey @victorhits, Thanks for the bug report. We noticed this bug too during development of…
    Aug 14 Fri · 08:24
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Divi 5 Visual Builder, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi KA, WP Offload Media (Pro) has built in support for Divi, WP Offload Media…
    Aug 04 Tue · 22:56
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63014] on WordPress SVN:
    Media: Skip server-side image scaling during client-side media processing.
    July 2026
    Jul 24 Fri · 15:27
    Core med
    Created ticket #65708 on Core Trac:
    Media: HEIC to JPG conversion can create an orphaned full size JPG ...
    Jul 22 Wed · 01:02
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62819] on WordPress SVN:
    Media: Exclude IMG tags from crossorigin injection in media templates.
    Jul 20 Mon · 15:23
    Core med
    Created ticket #65673 on Core Trac:
    Media: Previews for offloaded media broken by crossorigin="anonymous"
    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