Jonathan Bossenger
Developer Advocate at Automattic
@psykro Cape Town, South Africa joined Jan 2011
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Developer Advocate
May 2022 –
Present
Automattic
Recent impact
Score weights high-impact work (commits, releases, approved translations, props) at 3x routine activity.
Last 30 days
5contributions
high3
medium2
score11
Last 90 days
16contributions
high10
medium6
score36
Last 12 months
253contributions
high133
medium120
score519
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Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days
WordPress releases
Contributed to 12 releases
- 7.1
- 7.0
- 6.9
- 6.8
- 6.7
- 6.6
- 6.5
- 6.2
- 6.1
- 5.9
- 5.6
- 5.5
Time commitment
20 hours per week of sponsored contribution time
Contributions
Type
October 2026
Oct 10
Sat · 19:15
GitHub
med
Oct 10
Sat · 15:46
high
Wrote a new post, Feature Notifications: status update and plan for 0.3.0, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Feature Notifications is the project exploring a unified notifications system for WordPress (#43484). It has…
Feature Notifications is the project exploring a unified notifications system for WordPress (#43484). It has…
Oct 10
Sat · 14:18
Core
high
September 2026
Sep 23
Wed · 07:52
high
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Vienna 2027
Sep 22
Tue · 06:38
med
Wrote a comment on the post From Abilities to AI Agents: Introducing the WordPress MCP Adapter, on the site WordPress Developer Blog:
Not when you consider that the MCP adapter was officially announced in July 2025 and…
Not when you consider that the MCP adapter was officially announced in July 2025 and…
August 2026
Aug 24
Mon · 13:19
GitHub
high
Merged pull request #597 into WordPress/wp-feature-notifications:
Composer: bump wp-coding-standards/wpcs from 3.3.0 to 3.4.1
Composer: bump wp-coding-standards/wpcs from 3.3.0 to 3.4.1
Aug 21
Fri · 09:00
Forums
med
Created a topic, One to try out, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Great plugin to try out AI functionality, worth giving…
Great plugin to try out AI functionality, worth giving…
Aug 12
Wed · 10:12
high
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Belgrade 2026
Aug 12
Wed · 10:12
high
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Belgrade 2026
Aug 06
Thu · 07:47
high
Wrote a new post, What’s new in Gutenberg 23.7? (05 August), on the site Make WordPress Core:
“What’s new in Gutenberg…” posts (labeled with the #gutenberg-new tag) are posted following every Gutenberg…
“What’s new in Gutenberg…” posts (labeled with the #gutenberg-new tag) are posted following every Gutenberg…
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Developer
7 plugins-
AI Provider for OpenRouter
400+ active installs -
List all URLs
4,000+ active installs -
Seriously Simple Podcasting Genesis Support
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Seriously Simple Speakers
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Seriously Simple Stats
5,000+ active installs -
Seriously Simple Transcripts
900+ active installs -
Stand With Ukraine
10+ active installs
Contributor
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ModelTrestle AI Connector for Nano-GPT
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Seriously Simple Podcasting
30,000+ active installs
Completed courses
8 completed-
Introduction to developing with the WordPress REST API*Completed May 24, 2023
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Completed May 18, 2022
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Completed May 18, 2022
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Completed May 18, 2022
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Completed May 17, 2022
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Completed May 17, 2022
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Completed May 17, 2022
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Completed May 16, 2022
*Course is no longer available.
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af
Afrikaans
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Contributed translations to 1 project.
en_ZA
English (South Africa) (English)
Translation Contributor
Contributed translations to 1 project.