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James Mackie

Technical Team Lead at EZY.ai

@jamesmackie London joined Dec 2025

ezy.ai Slack: @James Mackie

    Bio

    Lover of deep-tech and physics.
    Coding since the age of 11 after I was lucky enough to receive an Amstrad computer from my Grandfather.
    Coding was not only an escape, it was also an obsessions and a place where I could create- the possibilities felt endless.
    I stopped coding full-time in 2004 to build my own tech company, and went on to employ around 100 developers. I exited from this company in 2015 after many years of hard work and dedication.

    Interests

    Physics, Quantum Field Theory, Astro Physics, deep-tech.
    SEO, AEO, AI SEO, LLM optimization.

    WordPress Origin Story

    Started coding back in 1990 with VB and C++, then went on to coding backend web applications in the 90’s using ASP Classic and PHP, and .NET in the early 2000’s.

    Back then I had heard of WordPress as a blogging website, I always remember the famous “pivot” when WordPress began offering CMS- I remember thinking “what’s the point in offering a CMS when anyone can code and host a frontend connected to a DB holding some images and text?”- boy was I wrong, considering 40-50% of the web CMS’s are hosted on WordPress! Great move.

    WordPress is really a kind of folk law now, solidified now in the World Wide Web history books. Hoping now to have some form of impact at a somewhat later stage.

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    Current Job

    Technical Team Lead
    Present
    EZY.ai

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    2contributions
    high2
    medium0
    score6
    Last 90 days
    11contributions
    high9
    medium2
    score29
    Last 12 months
    76contributions
    high74
    medium2
    score224

    Contributions

    Type
    September 2026
    Sep 21 Mon · 12:22
    Plugins high
    Committed [3705574] to Plugins SVN:
    2.4.1: FAQ hub removal reaches the site (delete_faq_hub); delivery fallback - EZY can ask the plugin to fetch content the host rejected (sync); Widgets Sync and fallback share one runner; Tested up to 7.1
    Sep 18 Fri · 12:38
    Plugins high
    Committed [3701980] to Plugins SVN:
    Release 2.4.0: Meta Titles widget. Generates and serves the title tag per page (SEO-plugin filter overrides for Yoast/AIOSEO/RankMath/SEOPress/TSF/Slim/Squirrly, og/twitter title parity, head-scoped strip that leaves inline SVG titles alone), per-page and global toggle, plugin reports meta_titles capability on connect/verify. Tag 2.4.0.
    August 2026
    Aug 31 Mon · 14:33
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to SPAM, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    hi @mirimarku, Thank you for the feedback. EZY.ai is a fully operational, AEO and AI…
    Aug 31 Mon · 14:28
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Terrible, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi @mpusa, thank you for the feedback. EZY.ai is a fully functional AEO and AI…
    Aug 31 Mon · 09:24
    Plugins high
    Committed [3673755] to Plugins SVN:
    readme: retire the $29 Starter tier, entry plan is now Growth at $49/month
    Aug 05 Wed · 13:22
    Plugins high
    Committed [3635434] to Plugins SVN:
    Release 2.3.2 - per-widget on/off toggles, physical-file removal fix, schema double-emit fix
    July 2026
    Jul 28 Tue · 09:27
    Plugins high
    Committed [3625687] to Plugins SVN:
    readme: update tags to aeo, ai seo, llms.txt, chatgpt, ai search
    Jul 28 Tue · 08:26
    Plugins high
    Committed [3625609] to Plugins SVN:
    Update banner artwork; readme: surface Yoast/Rank Math comparison in Description, add no-listing-fees point, bold pricing
    Jul 20 Mon · 09:39
    Plugins high
    Committed [3614486] to Plugins SVN:
    Release 2.3.0 — <a class="wiki" href="http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/wiki/WordPress">WordPress</a>.org review remediation
    Jul 15 Wed · 07:32
    Plugins high
    Committed [3608371] to Plugins SVN:
    2.2.5: Fix <a class="wiki" href="http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/wiki/WordPress">WordPress</a>.org guideline <a class="closed ticket" href="http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9" title="#9: defect: new kind of spam, which looks almost normal (closed: fixed)">#9</a> violation - removed inaccurate 'official <a class="wiki" href="http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/wiki/WordPress">WordPress</a>.org/Cloudflare partner' claim from readme. Also: Plugin Check standards/security fixes (escaping, i18n translators comment, input sanitization, script enqueuing, filesystem sniffs), tested up to 7.0.1.