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 lead, 4.9 release lead, 5.8 release coordinator, 6.1 release core tech lead. 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
Test Contributor
Tide Contributor
Tide Team
Translation Contributor
WordCamp Speaker

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Posted a reply to Just curious.., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@angrywarrior not all WordPress site owners have easy access to their file systems nor the…
2 days ago
Received props from @desrosj in Slack:
Props to @robinwpdeveloper @SergeyBiryukov @Bernhard Reiter @kebbet @hellofromTonya @JeffPaul @pbiron @davidbaumwald @dansoschin @jpantani @bph @ndiego…
3 days ago
Closed ticket #42592 on Core Trac:
Twenty Fifteen: Broken footer width when looking at individual post
3 days ago
Posted a reply to Redirection no longer working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@mikegibbons4 are you able to confirm that your external authentication system is getting the input…
3 days ago
Received props from @JeffPaul in Slack:
Props to @desrosj @davidbaumwald @pbiron @bph @tahmidulkarim @eboxnet @courane01 @nithins53 @webcommsat @chaion07 @fuadragib @costdev @petitphp…
1 week 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 …
1 week 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 …
1 week 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 …
1 week 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 …
1 week 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 …
1 week 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 …
1 week 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 …
1 week 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 …
1 week ago
Received props from @audrasjb in Slack:
Props to @JeffPaul, @pbiron, @eboxnet, @whyisjake, @davidbaumwald, @peterwilsoncc for their help to test the release…
2 weeks ago
Closed ticket #56826 on Core Trac:
Twenty Twenty Three 6.1 beta: Site editor Whisper style displays with ...
2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Clear Recommendation, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@aurban thanks for the kind words. I've opened an enhancement issue to look into the…
2 weeks ago
Gave props in Slack:
Props to @priethor @dansoschin @davidbaumwald @pbiron @ironprogrammer @courane01 @webcommsat @Bernhard Reiter @robinwpdeveloper @eboxnet @annezazu @ndiego…
2 weeks ago
Gave props in Slack:
Props to @priethor @desrosj @dansoschin @poliuk @davidbaumwald @annezazu @costdev @webcommsat @pbiron @Bernhard Reiter @ndiego @cavalierlife…
2 weeks ago
Gave props in Slack:
Props to @dansoschin, @audrasjb, @davidbaumwald, @SergeyBiryukov, @marybaum, @pbiron, @webcommsat, @ugyensupport, @costdev, @hellofromTonya, @robinwpdeveloper, @annezazu, @azaozz…
2 weeks ago
Mentioned in [54499] on Core SVN:
Help/About: Update the About page for 6.1.
2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to A good plugin., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@naveenyouth thanks for the kind words; let us know if there’s anything that would make…
3 weeks ago
Created ticket #56750 on Core Trac:
Bump Akismet (6.1 Edition)
3 weeks ago
Received props from @marybaum in Slack:
And thanks for the props, @JeffPaul!
3 weeks ago
Gave props in Slack:
Props to @marybaum @audrasjb for being such active and helpful Team Reps in core, our…
3 weeks ago
Mentioned in [54379] on Core SVN:
Security: Additional translations of salt default phrase.
4 weeks ago
Posted a reply to New version requiring PHP 7.4, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@webteambd note that WordPress itself recommends PHP version 7.4 or greater and that PHP 7.3…
1 month ago
Received props from @priethor in Slack:
Props to @JeffPaul for helping coordinate the Beta1 release and facilitating the release parties :community:…
1 month ago
Updated a handbook page on Make WordPress Core.
1 month ago
Gave props in Slack:
Props to @desrosj @davidbaumwald @dansoschin @audrasjb @ironprogrammer @SergeyBiryukov @antpb @hellofromTonya @Bernhard Reiter @webcommsat @courane01 @fabiankaegy…
1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post Dev Chat agenda, September 21, 2022, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Yes, I can speak on it as I should be in attendance... thanks!
1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post Dev Chat agenda, September 21, 2022, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Adding that we want to ensure that https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/56400 (and the related https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/19898) gets attention during…
1 month ago
Created issue #461 in the WordPress/two-factor repository:
Bumping minimum WordPress and PHP versions supported
1 month ago
Closed ticket #56041 on Core Trac:
Port Audit Full Page Cache from performance plugin to core
1 month ago
Closed ticket #30130 on Core Trac:
Normalize characters with combining marks to precomposed characters
1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordCamp US Contributor Day 2022 Recap, on the site Team Updates:
I suspect the Core item "revisited economical plugins" was more likely "revisited canonical plugins" perhaps?
1 month ago
Wrote a new post, WordPress 6.1 Beta 1 delayed, on the site Make WordPress Core:
WordPress 6.1 Beta 1 release delayed until Wednesday, September 21st at 16:00 UTC.
1 month ago
Created ticket #6492 on Meta Trac:
Add org SVN secrets to two-factor repo
1 month ago
Created issue #459 in the WordPress/two-factor repository:
Log or alert on failed 2FA codes
1 month ago
Posted a reply to great plugin!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@maoflager thanks for the kind words and review, please let us know if you run…
2 months ago
Created issue #456 in the WordPress/two-factor repository:
Add ability to re-encrypt secrets
2 months ago
Created issue #455 in the WordPress/two-factor repository:
Add support for encrypting TOTP secrets
2 months ago
Mentioned in [54109] on Core SVN:
Twenty Fifteen: Increase the font size used for `h5` headings.
2 months ago
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/
2 months 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…
2 months 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 months 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…
2 months 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…
2 months ago
Posted a reply to Greek characters display as “?”, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Noto: https://fonts.google.com/noto
3 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
3 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.
3 months ago