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

7contributions

high2

medium5

score11

Last 90 days

33contributions

high10

medium23

score53

Last 12 months

224contributions

high46

medium178

score316

WordPress releases

Contributed to 8 releases

Contributions

Type

September 2026

Sep 19 Sat · 13:45

Plugins high

Committed [3703336] to Plugins SVN:
Tagging version 5.10.1

Sep 19 Sat · 13:45

Plugins high

Committed [3703335] to Plugins SVN:
Fix error on the error page

Sep 19 Sat · 11:58

Forums med

Posted a reply to WordPress import creates duplicate redirects, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This will be fixed in the next release.

Sep 15 Tue · 14:06

Forums med

Posted a reply to My redirects only work with a / at the end, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The plugin has no control over this, and it is your server/host that is controlling…

Sep 15 Tue · 13:41

Forums med

Posted a reply to My redirects only work with a / at the end, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
See https://redirection.me/support/problems/url-not-redirecting/ for more details.

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