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

1 badge

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

51contributions

high12

medium39

score75

Last 90 days

204contributions

high67

medium137

score338

Last 12 months

676contributions

high247

medium429

score1170

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 23 releases

Time commitment

45 hours per week

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

Contributions

Type

June 2026

Jun 05 Fri · 15:08

GitHub high

Pull request #677 merged into WordPress/ai:
Add maintainers section to README

Jun 05 Fri · 14:39

GitHub med

Submitted pull request #677 to WordPress/ai:
Add maintainers section to README

Jun 02 Tue · 18:34

Meta high

Gave props in Slack:
Props @yani.iliev for great work on the updated http://WP.org Profile Page (and for adjusting for…

Jun 02 Tue · 15:12

Meta med

Created ticket #8277 on Meta Trac:
Update credits api on historical versions

May 2026

May 29 Fri · 13:20

Forums med

Posted a reply to Notice about logo URL, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This should be resolved in the 1.1.1 version of the plugin.

May 29 Fri · 13:19

Forums med

Posted a reply to How do I set Ollama model to use?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@nativebreed if I assume you're pairing this with the AI plugin (as this Ollama provider…

May 29 Fri · 13:16

Forums med

Posted a reply to Why exclude Ollama (local) in default package?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@nativebreed the exiting AI providers on the Connectors page (Anthropic, Google, OpenAI) are set there…

May 27 Wed · 21:44

GitHub med

Closed issue #624 on the WordPress/ai repository:
Release version 1.0.1

May 27 Wed · 21:44

GitHub high

Merged pull request #629 into WordPress/ai:
Release/1.0.1

May 27 Wed · 20:59

GitHub med

Submitted pull request #629 to WordPress/ai:
Release/1.0.1