John James Jacoby – @johnjamesjacoby

Member Since: March 18th, 2008
Location: East Troy, WI
Website: jjj.blog
Job Title: Core Contributor
Employer: WordPress.org
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Bio

WordPress. BuddyPress. bbPress.

Interests

Puppies, WordPress, BuddyPress, bbPress, BackPress, Video Games, Home Automation, PHP, MySQL, Blogging, Photography, Local politics

WordPress Origin Story

I found bbPress & BuddyPress while looking for an alternative to phpBB that had hierarchical categories. Turns out that WordPress-thing was pretty neat too, and the rest is history.

Contributions Sponsored

John James Jacoby contributes 10 hours per week to the following teams: Core, Meta.

Contribution History

bbPress Contributor
bbPress Contributor
bbPress Team
bbPress Team
BuddyPress Contributor
BuddyPress Contributor
BuddyPress Team
BuddyPress Team
Core Contributor
Core Contributor
Documentation Contributor
Documentation Contributor
Meta Contributor
Meta Contributor
Meta Team
Meta Team
Theme Developer
Theme Developer
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Speaker
WordCamp Speaker
Plugin Developer
Plugin Developer

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Committed [7071] to bbPress Trac:
Suggestions: various performance improvements & user request checks. ...

21 hours ago
Committed [7070] to bbPress Trac:
Suggestions: various performance improvements & user request checks. ...

21 hours ago
Created a new ticket, #3336, in bbPress Trac:
Unable to assign an anonymous topic/reply to registered user

1 day ago
Created a new ticket, #49385, in Core Trac:
wp_remote_get() cannot retrieve webcal URIs

3 days ago
Committed [7069] to bbPress Trac:
Templates: avoid `$wp_query` global touches. This commit replaces ...

3 days ago
Committed [7068] to bbPress Trac:
Templates: avoid `$wp_query` global touches. This commit replaces ...

3 days ago
Committed [7067] to bbPress Trac:
Templates: avoid possible fatal error in `is_bbpress()`. This commit ...

3 days ago
Closed ticket #3334, in bbPress Trac:
is_bbpress() should check if WordPress is initialized first

3 days ago
Committed [7066] to bbPress Trac:
Templates: avoid possible fatal error in `is_bbpress()`. This commit ...

3 days ago
Committed [7065] to bbPress Trac:
Bump stable tag in trunk 2.6.4, and also update an node dependency.

2 weeks ago
Committed [7064] to bbPress Trac:
Bump 2.6 branch to 2.6.5-alpha-1.

2 weeks ago
Committed [2235773] to Plugins Trac:
bbPress: Release 2.6.4.

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Error showing on backend of site, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
2.0.13 was just released to fix this and another small bug. Sorry again, and thank…

3 weeks ago
Committed [2231200] to Plugins Trac:
Sugar Calendar: Release 2.0.13.

3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Error showing on backend of site, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey Jon! Sorry about this. WordPress 5.3.1 changed something, and we'll be pushing out a…

3 weeks ago
Created a new ticket, #49213, in Core Trac:
Hovering over Gutenberg toolbar buttons shows a weird arrow

3 weeks ago
Created a new ticket, #49212, in Core Trac:
960px'ish width screen collapses admin menu but not Gutenberg

4 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Help Understanding Available Filters, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You'll need to use the Post Type Attributes of your foo Post Type to help…

4 weeks ago
Wrote a new post, Can I please have commit…, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
Can I please have commit access granted to bbpress.svn.wordpress.org for the WordPress.org username casiepa? Pascal…

4 weeks ago
Created a new ticket, #49072, in Core Trac:
Move readme.html & license.txt out of project root (maybe into Uploads?)

2 months ago
Committed [2213983] to Plugins Trac:
Sugar Calendar: Bump stable tag to 2.0.12.

2 months ago
Committed [2211853] to Plugins Trac:
bbPress: bump 2.6 branch and trunk to latest from Dev.

2 months ago
Committed [9344] to Meta Trac:
bbPress: general code updating & improvements to recount tool.

2 months ago
Committed [9343] to Meta Trac:
bbPress: when recounting a topic, also recalculate its engagements.

2 months ago
Committed [9342] to Meta Trac:
bbPress: update the tool that forum moderators use to mark Users as ...

2 months ago
Posted a reply to Sticky tag remains, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
As a work-around, if you can quick run a function somewhere (like a plugin, or…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to Sticky tag remains, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey @ajtruckle! This is an interesting quirk. I'd argue that WordPress should know better than…

2 months ago
Created a new ticket, #48954, in Core Trac:
"Sticky" post state shows even for non-Post post-types

2 months ago
Committed [9337] to Meta Trac:
Forums: unhook forum reply recounts when un/approving topics. This ...

2 months ago
Created a topic, Testing Topic Approvals, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ignore me 👻

2 months ago
Posted a reply to Getting subscription email from every forum post here, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sorry for the confusion. This issue is now resolved. Thank you for understanding! 💚

2 months ago
Posted a reply to I’m receiving forum notifications about other posts, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sorry again everyone. This issue has now been resolved! 🐝

2 months ago
Committed [2210431] to Plugins Trac:
bbPress: change cache key for Users strategy engamement back-compat. ...

2 months ago
Created a topic, Testing Subscriptions, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey @otto42 why don't you head over here and reply to …

2 months ago
Committed [2210235] to Plugins Trac:
bbPress: reinstate caching in back-compat User engagements strategy. ...

2 months ago
Committed [2210174] to Plugins Trac:
bbPress: roll back engagements caching across 2.6.3 versions. This ...

2 months ago
Committed [2209563] to Plugins Trac:
bbPress: Tag 2.6.3. Also updates trunk and 2.6 branch.

2 months ago
Posted a reply to many spams –, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Make sure BuddyPress is up-to-date also!

2 months ago
Committed [2200086] to Plugins Trac:
bbPress: roll back Engagements User caching from 2.6.3. This commit ...

3 months ago
Committed [2199851] to Plugins Trac:
bbPress: use a more syntactically friendly engagements nullifier. ...

3 months ago
Committed [9279] to Meta Trac:
BuddyPress/bbPress: more responsive improvements, and remove Open Sans ...

3 months ago
Committed [9278] to Meta Trac:
BuddyPress/bbPress: responsive improvements, and tube-tv avatar radii.

3 months ago
Posted a reply to Not work with bbpress 2.6, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sorry y’all for the bbPress 2.6 trouble. Glad to see it was an easy fix.…

3 months ago
Committed [12497] to BuddyPress Trac:
Admin: add `..$args` to Nav Walker to match signature in WordPress ...

3 months ago
Committed [9266] to Meta Trac:
bbPress.org: Update front page tagline and description based on user ...

3 months ago
Reopened ticket #42201, in Core Trac:
Admin Sidebar Text length Issue

4 months ago
Posted a reply to Need a degree in php !, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
On behalf of the BuddyPress team, I'll second all of the above for BuddyPress. Thank…

4 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Enhancements to the Network Sites Screen in WordPress 5.3, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Great work multisite team. Very proud of everything we've accomplished this release!

4 months ago
Closed ticket #37684, in Core Trac:
Allow sites to have filterable "states" akin to posts & media

4 months ago
Committed [46441] to Core Trac:
Network Admin: Improve Site States in List Table rows. This commit ...

4 months ago