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

117contributions

high57

medium60

score231

Last 90 days

217contributions

high93

medium124

score403

Last 12 months

899contributions

high350

medium549

score1599

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 15 Thu · 18:20

GitHub high

Pull request #1184 merged into WordPress/ai:
Render snackbar notices on the AI Request Logs page

Oct 15 Thu · 17:18

GitHub med

Submitted pull request #1192 to WordPress/ai:
Comment AI features: keep gated post context and non-comment types out of…

Oct 15 Thu · 17:18

GitHub med

Created issue #1191 in the WordPress/ai repository:
Comment AI features send more than intended: gated post context in Suggest…

Oct 15 Thu · 17:17

GitHub med

Submitted pull request #1190 to WordPress/ai:
Alternative to #1187: show usage details in an info popover in Settings…

Oct 15 Thu · 17:04

GitHub high

Pull request #1189 merged into WordPress/ai:
Docs: Add handbook update step to post-release checklist

Oct 15 Thu · 16:45

GitHub med

Submitted pull request #1189 to WordPress/ai:
Docs: Add handbook update step to post-release checklist

Oct 15 Thu · 16:41

Forums med

Posted a reply to Alt text creation issue (“double quotes”), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ok, in testing with that image, enabling the Anthropic connector and the alt text experiment…

Oct 15 Thu · 16:33

Forums med

Posted a reply to Alt text creation issue (“double quotes”), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I went ahead and had ChatGPT generate an image from that Alt Text, generated image…

Oct 15 Thu · 16:26

Meta high

Made 2 updates to handbook pages on WordPress AI.

Oct 15 Thu · 16:08

GitHub med

Created issue #1188 in the WordPress/ai repository:
Markdown Feeds: detect and warn when another plugin already serves Markdown to…