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

67contributions

high23

medium44

score113

Last 90 days

199contributions

high70

medium129

score339

Last 12 months

740contributions

high275

medium465

score1290

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

July 2026

Jul 13 Mon · 19:12

GitHub med

Created issue #864 in the WordPress/ai repository:
Release version 1.2.0

Jul 13 Mon · 18:31

GitHub med

Created issue #863 in the WordPress/ai repository:
New Experiment: Abilities toggle

Jul 10 Fri · 21:31

GitHub med

Submitted pull request #857 to WordPress/ai:
Add/commit access docs

Jul 10 Fri · 16:43

Meta high

Wrote a new post, AI Contributor Weekly Summary – 8 July 2026, on the site WordPress AI:
This week’s AI contributor meeting focused on WordPress 7.1 release readiness, PHP AI Client embeddings…

Jul 10 Fri · 12:03

Core high

Mentioned in [62685] on WordPress SVN:
Administration: Show part of the excerpt for untitled posts in the list table Compact view.

Jul 09 Thu · 15:15

Meta med

Created ticket #8354 on Meta Trac:
AI team profile tracking

Jul 08 Wed · 20:10

GitHub med

Created issue #845 in the WordPress/ai repository:
New Experiment: Markdown feeds (powered by `html-to-md`)

Jul 08 Wed · 19:54

GitHub med

Created issue #844 in the WordPress/ai repository:
New Experiment: Semantic search in wp admin

Jul 08 Wed · 17:48

GitHub high

Merged pull request #814 into WordPress/ai:
Fix markdown formatting in feature request template

Jul 08 Wed · 15:49

Meta high

Wrote a new post, What’s new in AI 1.1.0 (30 JUNE 2026)?, on the site WordPress AI:
AI 1.1.0 introduces new Type-ahead Text and Key Encryption experiments, improves content readiness checks and…