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Jeff Matson

Minister of Propaganda at Pagely

@jeffmatson Virginia Beach, Virginia joined Sep 2013

jeffmatson.net github.com/JeffMatson Slack: @jeffmatson

    Bio

    Tinkerer, marketer, community guy, and lover of everything open source.

    Currently: Looking for work
    Past:
    – Senior Product Manager (Pagely/WordPress) @ GoDaddy
    – Unicorn / Minister of Propaganda @ Pagely
    – Head of Marketing and Content + Community Evangelist @ Gravity Forms
    – Content + WordPress Product @ InMotion Hosting

    Interests

    Arcade restoration, retro gaming

    Badges

    CODE
    2 badges
    Core Contributor '15 Plugin Developer
    COMMUNITY
    3 badges
    B BuddyPress Contributor '19 WordCamp Organizer '18 WordCamp Speaker '18

    Current Job

    Minister of Propaganda
    Present
    Pagely

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
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    Last 90 days
    0contributions
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    Last 12 months
    2contributions
    high2
    medium0
    score6

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 5 releases
    • 6.9
    • 6.2
    • 6.0
    • 5.6
    • 4.4

    Contributions

    Type
    November 2025
    Nov 11 Tue · 02:34
    Core high
    Mentioned in [61201] on WordPress SVN:
    Mail: Improve multipart message handling in `wp_mail()`.
    August 2025
    Aug 11 Mon · 16:16
    Core high
    Mentioned in [60623] on WordPress SVN:
    External Libraries: Upgrade PHPMailer to version 6.10.0.
    January 2023
    Jan 28 Sat · 22:15
    Core high
    Mentioned in [55159] on WordPress SVN:
    Media: Deprecate unused method `WP_Media_List_Table::column_desc()`.
    Jan 06 Fri · 19:56
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Is this plugin abandoned?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I’m the original author of Heartbeat Control. I hate to see this. When I handed…
    February 2022
    Feb 04 Fri · 16:51
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #38531 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Scripts: Fix copypasta typo in README file
    June 2021
    Jun 14 Mon · 16:29
    Plugins high
    Committed [2547593] to Plugins SVN:
    Jun 14 Mon · 16:17
    Plugins high
    Committed [2547587] to Plugins SVN:
    Jun 14 Mon · 16:15
    Plugins high
    Committed [2547585] to Plugins SVN:
    Jun 14 Mon · 16:06
    Plugins high
    Committed [2547578] to Plugins SVN:
    Jun 14 Mon · 16:05
    Plugins high
    Committed [2547577] to Plugins SVN:

    Developer

    6 plugins

    Plugins

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