John Godley (@johnny5) – WordPress user profile

Bio

Long-term plugin developer with many WordPress plugins (and some bbPress ones too), as well as several guides and articles stretching back into the misty past.

Employed by Automattic to bring more WordPress to the world.

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Automattic

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

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Last 90 days

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Last 12 months

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WordPress releases

Contributed to 8 releases

Contributions

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June 2026

Jun 14 Sun · 18:41

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Posted a reply to Removing redirections in bulk, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You can use the checkboxes to select multiple redirects, and then the bulk action dropdown…

Jun 14 Sun · 13:43

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Posted a reply to No more 404s, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Could you detail what part of the UI looks old school? That's not the usual…

Jun 10 Wed · 18:14

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Posted a reply to Redirect plugin ignores trailing slash, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
https://redirection.me/support/matching-a-url/

Jun 09 Tue · 12:06

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Posted a reply to Something went wrong, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What does? There are no details.

Jun 09 Tue · 09:36

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Posted a reply to Something went wrong, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
How are you trying to redirect it? If the page is not in WordPress then…

Jun 06 Sat · 15:02

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Posted a reply to Filters for postmeta does not seem to work, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Can you give a more specific example?

Jun 06 Sat · 15:01

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Posted a reply to Creating Critical Error When I Select an action, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This is caused by PHP 7.4 not supporting some of the features in the plugin.…

May 2026

May 29 Fri · 13:53

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Posted a reply to preg_match(): Compilation failed: missing closing parenthesis, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If you can list an example I'll check to see whether the importer might be…

May 29 Fri · 13:39

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Posted a reply to preg_match(): Compilation failed: missing closing parenthesis, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You can use the filters to show you just the regular expression redirects. There shouldn't…

May 29 Fri · 13:21

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Posted a reply to preg_match(): Compilation failed: missing closing parenthesis, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Probably it is a problem with one of your regular expressions. Redirection doesn't validate them,…