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John James Jacoby

Software Developer at Awesome Motive

@johnjamesjacoby East Troy, WI joined Mar 2008

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    Bio

    WordPress. BuddyPress. bbPress.

    Interests

    Puppies, WordPress, BuddyPress, bbPress, BackPress, Video Games, Home Automation, PHP, MySQL, Blogging, Photography

    WordPress Origin Story

    In 2005 I discovered bbPress looking for GPL forum software that came with profile pages and hierarchical categories. I found BuddyPress shortly thereafter, and finally WordPress as a result. I logged into IRC, introduced myself, and started patching bugs – everything’s been awesome ever since!

    Badges

    CODE
    5 badges
    Core Contributor '15 Meta Contributor '15 Meta Team '16 Plugin Developer Theme Developer
    CONTENT
    1 badge
    Documentation Contributor '16
    COMMUNITY
    6 badges
    bbPress Contributor '19 bbPress Team '19 B BuddyPress Contributor '19 B BuddyPress Team '19 WordCamp Organizer '15 WordCamp Speaker '24

    Current Job

    Software Developer
    Present
    Awesome Motive

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    8contributions
    high5
    medium3
    score18
    Last 90 days
    31contributions
    high27
    medium4
    score85
    Last 12 months
    327contributions
    high290
    medium37
    score907

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 39 releases
    • 7.0
    • 6.9
    • 6.8
    • 6.7
    • 6.6
    • 6.5
    • 6.4
    • 6.3
    • 6.2
    • 6.1
    • 6.0
    • 5.9
    • 5.8
    • 5.7
    • 5.6
    • 5.5
    • 5.4
    • 5.3
    • 5.2
    • 5.1
    • 5.0
    • 4.9
    • 4.8
    • 4.7
    • 4.6
    • 4.5
    • 4.4
    • 4.3
    • 4.2
    • 4.1
    • 4.0
    • 3.9
    • 3.8
    • 3.7
    • 3.6
    • 3.5
    • 3.4
    • 3.3
    • 3.2

    Time commitment

    40 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

    Contributions

    Type
    May 2026
    May 20 Wed · 19:30
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #41 on bbpress/bbPress:
    Replies: avoid bool-increment deprecation in bbp_get_reply_position_raw()
    May 20 Wed · 19:29
    bbPress med
    Closed ticket #3672 on bbPress Trac:
    bbp_get_reply_position_raw() triggers PHP 8.3 deprecation: increment ...
    May 20 Wed · 19:29
    bbPress high
    Committed [7409] to bbPress SVN:
    Replies: avoid bool-increment deprecation in `bbp_get_reply_position_raw()`
    May 20 Wed · 19:24
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #42 on bbpress/bbPress:
    Extend - Akismet: store time() in history events instead of microtime() float
    May 20 Wed · 19:23
    bbPress med
    Closed ticket #3671 on bbPress Trac:
    Akismet history stores microtime float, triggers PHP 8.1 deprecation
    May 20 Wed · 19:23
    bbPress high
    Committed [7408] to bbPress SVN:
    Extend - Akismet: store `time()` in history events instead of `microtime()` float.
    May 20 Wed · 19:16
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #43 on bbpress/bbPress:
    Build: migrate CI from Travis to GitHub Actions
    May 20 Wed · 19:14
    bbPress high
    Committed [7407] to bbPress SVN:
    Build: migrate CI from Travis to GitHub Actions
    May 09 Sat · 02:44
    bbPress med
    Closed ticket #3669 on bbPress Trac:
    [HackerOne] - Public ticket for report 3540109
    May 09 Sat · 02:44
    bbPress high
    Committed [7406] to bbPress SVN:
    Admin - Converters: harden imported password verification.

    Developer

    33 plugins

    Contributor

    4 plugins

    Themes

    1 theme

    Plugins

    6 favorites