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.

Badges

CODE

3 badges

Core Contributor '18 Meta Contributor '22 Plugin Developer

PRACTICE

1 badge

Support Contributor '26

POLYGLOTS

1 badge

Translation Contributor '19

Current Job

Present

Automattic

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

11contributions

high4

medium7

score19

Last 90 days

37contributions

high12

medium25

score61

Last 12 months

232contributions

high44

medium188

score320

WordPress releases

Contributed to 8 releases

Contributions

Type

September 2026

Sep 01 Tue · 13:13

Forums med

Posted a reply to 5.10.0 error on 7.4, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ah, WP Engine, of course. They do seem to use an aggressive caching system. You…

Sep 01 Tue · 06:03

Forums med

Posted a reply to 5.10.0 error on 7.4, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
How did you update the plugin? api/api.php does not exist in the plugin and I…

August 2026

Aug 29 Sat · 15:15

Plugins high

Committed [3671661] to Plugins SVN:
Tagging version 5.10.0

Aug 29 Sat · 15:15

Plugins high

Committed [3671658] to Plugins SVN:
Tighten capability checks and improve proxy IP address handling

Aug 29 Sat · 13:19

Plugins high

Committed [3671568] to Plugins SVN:
Tagging version 3.4.4

Aug 29 Sat · 13:19

Plugins high

Committed [3671567] to Plugins SVN:
<a class="wiki" href="http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/wiki/WordPress">WordPress</a> 7.1 compatibility

Aug 27 Thu · 16:12

Forums med

Posted a reply to Large table, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What do you mean by it didn't change size - were the items not deleted?…

Aug 26 Wed · 17:13

Forums med

Posted a reply to Thousands of Redirects for PDFs That We Didn’t Setup, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The plugin will only auto create redirects if you have monitoring enabled. Otherwise they are…

Aug 26 Wed · 15:54

Forums med

Posted a reply to Thousands of Redirects for PDFs That We Didn’t Setup, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I couldn't say. Do you have URL monitoring enabled and it's auto-creating redirects for URLs…

Aug 26 Wed · 10:42

Forums med

Posted a reply to Currently not working with WP 7.1 on my end, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You can use either the forum here: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/redirection/ or direct at https://redirection.me/contact/ If all pages…