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Joseph Scott

Performance Team Lead at Automattic at Automattic

@josephscott Utah joined May 2004

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    Bio

    Lead of the Performance team at Automattic.

    Badges

    CODE
    2 badges
    Core Contributor '15 Plugin Developer
    COMMUNITY
    2 badges
    WordCamp Organizer '14 WordCamp Speaker '14

    Current Job

    Performance Team Lead at Automattic
    Present
    Automattic

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    20contributions
    high15
    medium5
    score50
    Last 90 days
    47contributions
    high30
    medium17
    score107
    Last 12 months
    59contributions
    high36
    medium23
    score131

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 13 releases
    • 7.1
    • 7.0
    • 6.9
    • 6.8
    • 6.6
    • 5.3
    • 5.1
    • 4.6
    • 3.7
    • 3.6
    • 3.5
    • 3.4
    • 3.3

    Contributions

    Type
    September 2026
    Sep 10 Thu · 21:48
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #13481 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Check cache return value in metadata_exists(), get_metadata_raw(), an…
    Sep 10 Thu · 21:43
    Core med
    Created ticket #66091 on Core Trac:
    Check cache return value in metadata_exists(), get_metadata_raw(), and ...
    Sep 10 Thu · 11:18
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63580] on WordPress SVN:
    I18N: Validate cached translation file lists.
    Sep 07 Mon · 19:44
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #13429 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Check cache return value in WP_Textdomain_Registry::get_language_file…
    Sep 07 Mon · 19:38
    Core med
    Created ticket #66063 on Core Trac:
    Check cache return value in ...
    August 2026
    Aug 31 Mon · 18:06
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #13339 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Core Needs a Validating Cache Get Function: wp_cache_get_valid()
    Aug 31 Mon · 17:56
    Core med
    Created ticket #66005 on Core Trac:
    Core Needs a Validating Cache Get Function
    Aug 28 Fri · 21:09
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63393] on WordPress SVN:
    XML-RPC: Require the `$fields` argument to be an array.
    Aug 27 Thu · 22:04
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #13299 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    XML-RPC: Fatal TypeError when the fields argument is not an array
    Aug 27 Thu · 22:01
    Core med
    Created ticket #65983 on Core Trac:
    XML-RPC: Fatal TypeError when the fields argument is not an array

    Developer

    4 plugins

    Contributor

    2 plugins

    Plugins

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