Jeffrey Paul (@jeffpaul) – WordPress user profile

Bio

VP of Open Source at Fueled (formerly 10up). WordPress 4.7 release deputy, 4.8 release lead, 4.9 release deputy, 5.8 release coordinator, 6.1 release core tech lead, 6.8 release coordinator. Tide product maintainer. Founder of Race For Vets.

Formerly @jbpaul17 and member since April 10th, 2007. Migrated to @jeffpaul on May 10, 2018.

Interests

beer, bourbon, triathlons, veterans, technology, digital media, agile, WordPress, product management, RaceForVets.com, GotYour6.org, TeamRWB.org

WordPress Origin Story

Many moons ago I ran my personal site off Geeklog when one day host, CMS, and data all went… kaboom! I took a look at the ecosystem and on March 9th, 2007 I went with WordPress. Haven’t looked back since.

Badges

CODE

13 badges

C Core AI Contributor '25 C Core AI Team '25 Core Contributor '18 C Core Performance Contributor '22 C Core Performance Team '22 Core Team '20 Meta Contributor '19 P Playground Contributor '25 Plugin Developer Security Contributor '22 Security Team '22 Tide Contributor '19 Tide Team '19

CONTENT

2 badges

Documentation Contributor '18 Photo Contributor '23

COMMUNITY

1 badge

WordCamp Speaker '19

PRACTICE

2 badges

Support Contributor '26 Test Contributor '22

POLYGLOTS

1 badge

Translation Contributor '18

Current Job

VP of Open Source

Jan 2025 – Present

Fueled

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

43contributions

high19

medium24

score81

Last 90 days

140contributions

high51

medium89

score242

Last 12 months

784contributions

high293

medium491

score1370

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 24 releases

Time commitment

45 hours per week

10up 40 hrs/wk
On my own time 5 hrs/wk

Contributions

Type

August 2026

Aug 19 Wed · 20:34

GitHub med

Submitted pull request #960 to WordPress/ai:
Update/screenshotz

Aug 19 Wed · 18:40

Plugins high

Committed [3655168] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 0.1.2 from GitHub

Aug 19 Wed · 16:25

GitHub med

Created issue #960 in the WordPress/two-factor repository:
Test compatibility with WordPress 7.1

Aug 19 Wed · 16:08

Forums med

Posted a reply to erformance regression: AI/Type-Ahead feature forces loading of heavy editor depe, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@pointnet yes, that's generally where we'll take feedback here to funnel back to the team…

Aug 19 Wed · 15:25

Forums med

Posted a reply to Generate Meta Description, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Note that this went out in yesterday's 1.3.0 release, thanks!

Aug 19 Wed · 15:25

Forums med

Posted a reply to erformance regression: AI/Type-Ahead feature forces loading of heavy editor depe, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Note that this was fixed in the 1.2.0 release.

Aug 19 Wed · 14:34

GitHub high

Merged pull request #959 into WordPress/ai:
Add missing 1.3.0 contributor to CREDITS.md

Aug 19 Wed · 14:33

GitHub med

Submitted pull request #959 to WordPress/ai:
Add missing 1.3.0 contributor to CREDITS.md

Aug 18 Tue · 22:33

Meta high

Wrote a new post, What’s new in AI 1.3.0 (18 AUGUST 2026)?, on the site WordPress AI:
WordPress AI 1.3.0 adds content translation and slug generation, introduces opt-in custom abilities and settings…

Aug 18 Tue · 20:19

GitHub med

Closed issue #924 on the WordPress/ai repository:
Release version 1.3.0