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

106contributions

high54

medium52

score214

Last 90 days

208contributions

high91

medium117

score390

Last 12 months

890contributions

high347

medium543

score1584

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 25 releases

Time commitment

45 hours per week

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

Contributions

Type

October 2026

Oct 14 Wed · 19:42

GitHub med

Created issue #1185 in the WordPress/ai repository:
Key Encryption: undecryptable secrets cause a fatal error on every request, and…

Oct 14 Wed · 19:38

GitHub med

Submitted pull request #1184 to WordPress/ai:
Render snackbar notices on the AI Request Logs page

Oct 14 Wed · 19:07

GitHub high

Pull request #1182 merged into WordPress/ai:
Logging: Replace "Purge All Logs" with an age-based delete control

Oct 14 Wed · 18:54

Forums med

Posted a reply to So many issues!!!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@webkiwinz Why is code in this state part of a default WordPress install? The AI…

Oct 14 Wed · 13:34

GitHub med

Submitted pull request #1182 to WordPress/ai:
Logging: Replace "Purge All Logs" with an age-based delete control

Oct 14 Wed · 13:33

GitHub med

Submitted pull request #1181 to WordPress/ai:
Abilities Explorer: move to DataViews and REST (from #1074)

Oct 14 Wed · 13:28

GitHub med

Submitted pull request #1180 to WordPress/ai:
Add privacy policy text and a personal data exporter/eraser for AI request…

Oct 14 Wed · 03:43

GitHub med

Closed issue #643 on the WordPress/ai repository:
"AI" plugin 1.0.1 – Connectors and AI settings pages load blank (JavaScript…