jeffpaul (@jeffpaul) – WordPress user profile

Member Since: December 23rd, 2009
Location: Chicagoland
Website: jeffpaul.com
GitHub: jeffpaul
Job Title: Director of Open Source
Employer: 10up
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Bio

Open Source Practice Manager at 10up. WordPress 4.7 release deputy, 4.8 release co-lead, 4.9 release deputy, 5.8 release coordinator. Tide product maintainer. Founder of Race For Vets. Formerly @jbpaul17 and member since April 10th, 2007. Migrated to @jeffpaul on May 10, 2018.

Interests

beer, bourbon, triathlons, veterans, technology, digital media, agile, WordPress, product management, RaceForVets.com, GotYour6.org, TeamRWB.org

WordPress Origin Story

Many moons ago I ran my personal site off Geeklog when one day host, CMS, and data all went… kaboom! I took a look at the ecosystem and on March 9th, 2007 I went with WordPress. Haven’t looked back since.

Contributions Sponsored

10up sponsors jeffpaul to contribute 25 hours per week to the following teams: Core, Tide.

Contribution History

Core Contributor
Core Performance Contributor
Core Performance Team
Core Team
Documentation Contributor
Meta Contributor
Plugin Developer
Security Contributor
Security Team
Tide Contributor
Tide Team
Translation Contributor
WordCamp Speaker

Activity
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Translations

Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 6.1 Planning Roundup, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Note the updated v2 post here: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/07/26/wordpress-6-1-planning-roundup-v2/
6 days ago
Posted a reply to Really just awesome plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@asifulmamun thanks for the kind words and review, please let us know if you run…
1 week ago
Posted a reply to Nice work, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@conschneider thanks for the kind words and review, please let us know if you run…
2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Works, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@hansashift thanks for the kind words and review, please let us know if you run…
3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Help accessing images in Media Library via Tainacan plug-in, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Aloha folks, checking in here on behalf of the 10up team working on ClassifAI and…
3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Greek characters display as “?”, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Noto: https://fonts.google.com/noto
2 months ago
Posted a reply to Greek characters display as “?”, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@macadk see: https://wordpress.org/plugins/insert-special-characters/#how%20come%20i%20do%20not%20see%20all%20the%20special%20characters%3F
2 months ago
Mentioned in [53751] on Core SVN:
Media: enable generating multiple mime types for image uploads; specifically WebP versions for JPEG images by default.
2 months ago
Created a topic, Read this *BEFORE* you post, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there! Before you create your own thread on these …
2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 6.0 Retrospective Recap, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Always great to gather this feedback and continue to iterate on our processes, thanks for…
2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Centralized global do_action charity hackathons, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
FWIW whenever (if?) this proposal gets resuscitated I will be interested in contributing from a…
2 months ago
Merged pull request #39 into WordPress/gutenberg-license:
Updates from running script
2 months ago
Closed ticket #50810 on Core Trac:
Social block issues with Twenty Twenty
2 months ago
Closed ticket #46183 on Core Trac:
5.0.3 - Sticky Posts
2 months ago
Closed ticket #50937 on Core Trac:
Auto-backup in core
2 months ago
Closed ticket #50424 on Core Trac:
Privacy Page navigation link
2 months ago
Closed ticket #40698 on Core Trac:
The function wp.emoji.parse is available only after another function is run
2 months ago
Posted a reply to Solves real-world user profile issue, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@bikerbudmatt thanks for the kind words and review, please let us know if you run…
2 months ago
Closed ticket #55318 on Core Trac:
Do Something of site hack..
2 months ago
Closed ticket #40979 on Core Trac:
add_rewrite_endpoint() doesn't work when applied to unattached media
2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Making the Tech Editor Release Lead Role More Creative and Less Repetitive, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This is (1) fantastic work done within the 6.0 cycle and (2) fantastic thought, care,…
2 months ago
Merged pull request #38 into WordPress/gutenberg-license:
Updates from script
2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 6.1 Planning Roundup, on the site Make WordPress Core:
So I think what you're describing is how things used to work before the introduction…
3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 6.1 Planning Roundup, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Some of the stress originates in the difficulty to decide whether some fixes qualify as…
3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 6.1 Planning Roundup, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Happy to help co-lead on any of these as well, but also happy to help…
3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 6.1 Planning Roundup, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Amplifying David's note above, I'll note that I checked releases going back to 5.0 and…
3 months ago
Posted a reply to At first shot, looks good !, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@astr0wp thanks for the kind words and review, please let us know if you run…
3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Dev Chat Agenda, June 8, 2022, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I likely won't be able to make devchat, but with 6.0 behind us and 6.1…
3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Defining Five for the Future Pledges & Contributions, on the site WordPress.org Project:
Admitting my personal bias here in that I personally view the building and supporting of…
3 months ago
Merged pull request #37 into WordPress/gutenberg-license:
Updates from running script
3 months ago
Mentioned in [11893] on Meta SVN:
WordPress.org Main Theme: Update Roadmap page content for 2022.
3 months ago
Mentioned in [53440] on Core SVN:
Upgrade/Install: Update `$_old_files` for 6.0.
4 months ago
Mentioned in [53439] on Core SVN:
Upgrade/Install: Update `$_old_files` for 6.0.
4 months ago
Mentioned in [53408] on Core SVN:
Users: Fail gracefully when checking mapped capabilities without providing the required object ID.
4 months ago
Received props from @annezazu in Slack:
Props to @JeffPaul @pbiron @cbringmann @OllieJones @bph @boaticus @webcommsat @ndiego for help testing RC 3…
4 months ago
Merged pull request #36 into WordPress/gutenberg-license:
Note that we no longer need consent from jpjjulie
4 months ago
Posted a reply to Nice work, but needs improvement, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@ggedde @rdela note that Simple Local Avatars 2.3.0 was recently released and includes a "Settings"…
4 months ago
Posted a reply to it’s Free But it support wild card, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@yourfather thanks for the kind words; let us know if there’s anything that would make…
4 months ago
Posted a reply to Microsoft Azure Storage for WordPress Maintained and Supported, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@cgb37 yes, we've been working on a major update to a recent Azure Blob API…
4 months ago
Posted a reply to 404 Error in WordPress admin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This sounds like https://github.com/10up/simple-local-avatars/issues/116 which we're investigating and if necessary will get out a patch…
4 months ago
Mentioned in [53339] on Core SVN:
Help/About: Update the About section for 6.0.
4 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Make WordPress Team or Project Updates, on the site Make WordPress.org:
2. What site should this live on? Should it continue to live on /overview? My…
4 months ago
Received props from @annezazu in Slack:
Props to everyone who helped test 6.0 beta 3 during the release party @pbiron @JeffPaul…
4 months ago
Posted a reply to Essential functionality, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@clarus-dignus thanks for the kind words and review, please let us know if you run…
4 months ago
Posted a reply to PHP 8.0 – Undefined variable $viewbox_width, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Note that v2.0.1 was just released, would be curious if you're all still experiencing issues…
5 months ago
Posted a reply to Password reset URL, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@josselynj if you've updated to Restricted Site Access 7.3.0 you'll hopefully see this is resolved…
5 months ago
Posted a reply to Missing the Site visibility options., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@tsegal we're still waiting on proper screenshot of your Restricted Site Access settings as noted…
5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Editor Chat Agenda: 20 April 2022, on the site Make WordPress Core:
May not be back from meetings to make the open floor, so sharing this a11y…
5 months ago
Created a topic, Plugin Archived, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Note that with 1,571 all-time downloads and fewer than…
5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Follow-up on WebP by default proposal, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Thanks for the update @adamsilverstein, as always you've handled the feedback from the prior post…
5 months ago