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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
    8contributions
    high5
    medium3
    score18
    Last 90 days
    8contributions
    high5
    medium3
    score18
    Last 12 months
    28contributions
    high15
    medium13
    score58

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 12 releases
    • 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
    July 2026
    Jul 10 Fri · 22:19
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #12482 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    XML-RPC: mw_newMediaObject, check 4th arg is an array
    Jul 10 Fri · 21:12
    Core med
    Created ticket #65611 on Core Trac:
    XML-RPC: mw_newMediaObject, check 4th arg is an array
    Jul 09 Thu · 15:36
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #12462 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    XML-RPC: wp.getUsersBlogs, enforce arg string requirements
    Jul 09 Thu · 13:47
    Core med
    Created ticket #65600 on Core Trac:
    XML-RPC: wp.getUsersBlogs, enforce arg string requirements
    Jul 07 Tue · 00:20
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62650] on WordPress SVN:
    Editor: Skip parsing in prepend_to_selector() for simple selectors.
    June 2026
    Jun 24 Wed · 16:53
    Core high
    Pull request #76556 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
    prepend_to_selector: optimized with str_replace()
    Jun 24 Wed · 16:08
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #12306 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Editor: prepend_to_selector: optimized with str_replace()
    Jun 24 Wed · 15:17
    Core med
    Created ticket #65533 on Core Trac:
    Editor: prepend_to_selector: optimized with str_replace()
    March 2026
    Mar 16 Mon · 20:55
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #76556 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    prepend_to_selector: optimized with str_replace()
    Mar 06 Fri · 20:04
    Core high
    Mentioned in [61857] on WordPress SVN:
    Functions: Memoize `wp_normalize_path()`.

    Developer

    4 plugins

    Contributor

    2 plugins

    Plugins

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