Jesse Friedman – @professor44

Member Since: July 19th, 2008
Location: Rhode Island
Website: jes.se.com
Job Title: Experience Advocate
Employer: Automattic
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Bio

Jesse Friedman has been building websites for 17 years, and exclusively with WordPress since 2006. Since then he has written several books, taught 100’s of students as a professor, and organized dozens of local meetups along with a few WordCamps. He has spoken at tech conferences worldwide and has utilized his expertise as a consultant for small agencies and billion dollar international companies. Today he’s a proud team member of Jetpack at Automattic.

Interests

WordPress, writing, speaking, woodworking, legos

WordPress Origin Story

In a world where good content management systems were hard to find a friend said 2 simple words “Try WordPress”.

Contribution History

Core Contributor
Core Contributor
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Speaker
WordCamp Speaker
Plugin Developer
Plugin Developer

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Posted a reply to Incompatibility with Jetpack?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @davidanderson and @philclothier, We don't see it that way. We've had a lot of…

8 months ago
Posted a reply to Incompatibility with Jetpack?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
We released Jetpack 7.1.1, which fixes this issue. Thank you again pointing it out.

8 months ago
Posted a reply to Jetpack over-writing plugin search results?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Jetpack 7.1.1 went out this morning fixing this issue. Thank you again for pointing it…

8 months ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Portland, Maine 2018 coming up on November 3rd

1 year ago
Created a new ticket, #45019, in Core Trac:
Add a link to configure static home page on Welcome Panel

1 year ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Boston 2018 coming up on July 21st

1 year ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Providence, Rhode Island 2017 coming up on September 22nd

2 years ago
Joined the organizing team for WordCamp Providence, Rhode Island 2017 coming up on September 22nd

2 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Portland, Maine USA 2017 coming up on May 26th

3 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Orlando 2016 coming up on November 12th

3 years ago
Posted a reply to Can’t close or exit jpo-welcome-panel, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thank you for sharing such detailed feedback, all of which will help us improve everyone's…

3 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Boston 2015 coming up on July 18th

4 years ago
Committed [1158200] to Plugins Trac:
tagging version 2.0

4 years ago
Created a new ticket, #982, in Meta Trac:
Plugin downloads still show on profile pages

5 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Minneapolis 2015 coming up on April 25th

5 years ago
Joined the organizing team for WordCamp Providence 2014 coming up September 26th

5 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Providence 2014 coming up on September 26th

5 years ago
Wrote a new post, Call for Speakers, on the site WordCamp Providence:
More speaker info coming soon! [contact-form to='enter-your-address-here@example.net' subject='WordCamp Speaker Request'][contact-field label='Name' type='text' required='1'/][contact-field label='Email' type='email' required='1'/][contact-field…

5 years ago
Wrote a new post, Call for Sponsors, on the site WordCamp Providence:
More sponsor info coming soon! [contact-form to='enter-your-address-here@example.net' subject='WordCamp Sponsor Request'][contact-field label='Contact Name' type='text' required='1'/][contact-field label='Company…

5 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Maine 2014 coming up on August 15th

5 years ago
Wrote a comment on the post Meetup Sponsorships and Other Local Community Stuff, on the site Make WordPress Community:
I understand why why the second example would be over the top. How about $X…

5 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Chicago 2014 coming up on June 13th

6 years ago
Committed [852667] to Plugins Trac:
fixing a bug with an API address and updating to 1.1.3

6 years ago
Committed [852628] to Plugins Trac:
updating the screenshots section of the readme.txt and uploading the ...

6 years ago
Committed [852625] to Plugins Trac:
updating the screenshots section of the readme.txt and uploading the ...

6 years ago
Committed [852623] to Plugins Trac:
updating the screenshots section of the readme.txt and uploading the ...

6 years ago
Committed [852621] to Plugins Trac:
deleted screenshot-4

6 years ago
Committed [852619] to Plugins Trac:
updating the screenshots section of the readme.txt and uploading the ...

6 years ago
Committed [852617] to Plugins Trac:
updating the screenshots section of the readme.txt and uploading the ...

6 years ago
Committed [852616] to Plugins Trac:
updating the screenshots section of the readme.txt and uploading the ...

6 years ago
Committed [852609] to Plugins Trac:
hopefully updating the desc on plugin page for the last time

6 years ago
Joined the organizing team for WordCamp Providence 2013

6 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Providence 2013

6 years ago
Created a new ticket, #24398, in Core Trac:
Bulk Deleting Sites from Network Admin, No Confirmation message

6 years ago
Created a new ticket, #22173, in Core Trac:
media uploader closes when adding a featured image

7 years ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp New York City 2012

7 years ago
Created a new ticket, #20544, in Core Trac:
WordPress MultiSite/Network SiteURL error

8 years ago
Suggested an idea, Widgets and Sidebars should work like Menus

8 years ago