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

18contributions

high10

medium8

score38

Last 90 days

39contributions

high16

medium23

score71

Last 12 months

227contributions

high52

medium175

score331

WordPress releases

Contributed to 8 releases

Contributions

Type

October 2026

Oct 16 Fri · 18:07

Forums med

Posted a reply to Archive redirection, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Everything in the plugin is instant. ^/wiki/.* to /articles/.* That is not a regular expression.…

Oct 16 Fri · 13:19

Plugins high

Committed [3750483] to Plugins SVN:
Tagging version 0.14.0

Oct 16 Fri · 13:18

Plugins high

Committed [3750481] to Plugins SVN:
Require <a class="wiki" href="http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/wiki/WordPress">WordPress</a> 7.1

Oct 16 Fri · 06:07

Forums med

Posted a reply to Archive redirection, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You can use regular expressions: https://redirection.me/support/redirect-regular-expressions/

Oct 13 Tue · 08:17

Plugins high

Committed [3743252] to Plugins SVN:
Tagging version 1.23.1

Oct 13 Tue · 08:17

Plugins high

Committed [3743251] to Plugins SVN:
Requires <a class="wiki" href="http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/wiki/WordPress">WordPress</a> 6.6+ and PHP 7.4+

Oct 13 Tue · 06:09

Forums med

Posted a reply to Dropdown setting not taking affect, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
When I change a dropdown menu setting – like Redirect Logs: No Logs there is…

Oct 08 Thu · 09:34

Forums med

Posted a reply to Can’t delete redirections, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You get that error if you try and delete a redirect that doesn't exist (i.e.…

Oct 06 Tue · 13:37

Plugins high

Committed [3730910] to Plugins SVN:
Tagging version 3.5.1

Oct 06 Tue · 13:36

Plugins high

Committed [3730907] to Plugins SVN:
Fix bug replacing shortcodes in some situations