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Jonathan Bossenger

Developer Advocate at Automattic

@psykro Cape Town, South Africa joined Jan 2011

jonathanbossenger.com github.com/jonathanbossenger Slack: @Jonathan
    Teams Core AI Documentation Plugins Training

    Bio

    I like to get stuff done. Husband and father of two energetic boys. Brazilian jiu-jitsu for fun and stress release.

    Interests

    Gaming
    Brazilian jiu-jitsu

    WordPress Origin Story

    In 2015 I attended my first WordCamp in Cape Town, met some amazing people, discovered WordPress as a development tool, and I’ve not looked back since.

    Badges

    CODE
    7 badges
    C Core AI Contributor '25 Core Contributor '20 Core Team '22 Meta Contributor '21 Meta Team '21 P Playground Contributor '25 Plugin Developer
    CONTENT
    3 badges
    Documentation Contributor '18 Photo Contributor '22 WordPress.tv Contributor '23
    COMMUNITY
    4 badges
    Community Team '17 Meetup Organizer '18 WordCamp Organizer '18 WordCamp Speaker '18
    PRACTICE
    2 badges
    Training Contributor '22 Training Team '23
    POLYGLOTS
    1 badge
    Translation Contributor '16

    Current Job

    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
    18contributions
    high4
    medium14
    score26
    Last 90 days
    44contributions
    high23
    medium21
    score90
    Last 12 months
    281contributions
    high130
    medium151
    score541

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 11 releases
    • 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
    June 2026
    Jun 26 Fri · 11:09
    Core med
    Closed issue #79521 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    Documentation: Images hosted on GitHub may break when synced to developer.wordpress.org
    Jun 26 Fri · 11:09
    Core high
    Merged pull request #79529 into WordPress/gutenberg:
    Updating image urls
    Jun 26 Fri · 09:00
    Training high
    Pushed 1 commit to wptrainingteam/wp-ai-workshop-demo:
    Improving media sideload image validation and documentation
    Jun 26 Fri · 07:57
    Training high
    Pushed 1 commit to wptrainingteam/wp-ai-workshop-demo:
    Updating ignore files
    Jun 26 Fri · 06:03
    Core med
    Created issue #79570 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    Add a check to make sure any new images are hosted on…
    Jun 26 Fri · 06:01
    Core med
    Created issue #79569 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    Documentation: Update Block Editor Handbook with guidance on storing images
    Jun 25 Thu · 10:02
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #79529 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Updating image urls
    Jun 25 Thu · 06:46
    Core med
    Created issue #79521 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    Documentation: Images hosted on GitHub may break when synced to developer.wordpress.org
    Jun 24 Wed · 13:31
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #20 on WordPress/agent-skills:
    Add Gemini CLI support for skillpacks
    Jun 23 Tue · 16:06
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #19 on WordPress/agent-skills:
    Add Firecrawl skill for web scraping, search, and content extraction

    Developer

    7 plugins

    Contributor

    1 plugin

    Photos

    3 contributions

    View all 3 photos in the Photo Directory

    Completed courses

    8 completed

    *Course is no longer available.

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    Plugins

    25 favorites

    Translations

    2 locales
    af Afrikaans Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 1 project.

    WordPress 7.0.x - Development

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    en_ZA English (South Africa) (English) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 1 project.

    Seriously Simple Podcasting

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