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

16contributions

high6

medium10

score28

Last 90 days

31contributions

high6

medium25

score43

Last 12 months

223contributions

high36

medium187

score295

WordPress releases

Contributed to 8 releases

Contributions

Type

July 2026

Jul 03 Fri · 16:59

Forums med

Posted a reply to Reset Hit Count, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sure, you can select the items you want to reset, then use the 'bulk action'…

Jul 02 Thu · 07:45

Forums med

Posted a reply to severe error on settings, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It's caused by Quick Redirects data, which seems to have left data behind. I will…

Jul 02 Thu · 07:41

Forums med

Posted a reply to Groups, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
There shouldn't be any limitation. Where are you seeing this?

Jul 01 Wed · 18:33

Plugins high

Committed [3593116] to Plugins SVN:
Tagging version 5.8.1

Jul 01 Wed · 18:33

Plugins high

Committed [3593114] to Plugins SVN:
Escape CSV export values

June 2026

Jun 14 Sun · 18:41

Forums med

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

Forums med

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 14 Sun · 13:39

Plugins high

Committed [3571945] to Plugins SVN:
Tagging version 5.8.0

Jun 14 Sun · 13:39

Plugins high

Committed [3571943] to Plugins SVN:
Allow editing of disabled redirects

Jun 10 Wed · 18:14

Forums med

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