Jeffrey Paul (@jeffpaul) – WordPress user profile

Bio

VP of Open Source at Fueled + 10up. WordPress 4.7 release deputy, 4.8 release lead, 4.9 release deputy, 5.8 release coordinator, 6.1 release core tech lead, 6.8 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.

Badges

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13 badges

C Core AI Contributor '25 C Core AI Team '25 Core Contributor '18 C Core Performance Contributor '22 C Core Performance Team '22 Core Team '20 Meta Contributor '19 P Playground Contributor '25 Plugin Developer Security Contributor '22 Security Team '22 Tide Contributor '19 Tide Team '19

CONTENT

2 badges

Documentation Contributor '18 Photo Contributor '23

COMMUNITY

1 badge

WordCamp Speaker '19

PRACTICE

1 badge

Test Contributor '22

POLYGLOTS

1 badge

Translation Contributor '18

Current Job

VP of Open Source

Present

Fueled + 10up

Recent impact

Score weights high-impact work (commits, releases, approved translations, props) at 3x routine activity.

Last 30 days

97contributions

high27

medium70

score151

Last 90 days

256contributions

high83

medium173

score422

Last 12 months

663contributions

high231

medium432

score1125

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

Core 100% of contributions

Contributions

Type

May 2026

May 29 Fri · 13:20

Forums med

Posted a reply to Notice about logo URL, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This should be resolved in the 1.1.1 version of the plugin.

May 29 Fri · 13:19

Forums med

Posted a reply to How do I set Ollama model to use?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@nativebreed if I assume you're pairing this with the AI plugin (as this Ollama provider…

May 29 Fri · 13:16

Forums med

Posted a reply to Why exclude Ollama (local) in default package?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@nativebreed the exiting AI providers on the Connectors page (Anthropic, Google, OpenAI) are set there…

May 27 Wed · 21:44

GitHub med

Closed issue #624 on the WordPress/ai repository:
Release version 1.0.1

May 27 Wed · 21:44

GitHub high

Merged pull request #629 into WordPress/ai:
Release/1.0.1

May 27 Wed · 20:59

GitHub med

Submitted pull request #629 to WordPress/ai:
Release/1.0.1

May 27 Wed · 18:27

Forums med

Posted a reply to Elementor or Gutenberg Blocks only?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@surgicalexperts you don't need to activate Gutenberg, the primary experience there is updated with every…

May 27 Wed · 17:55

Forums med

Posted a reply to Elementor or Gutenberg Blocks only?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@surgicalexperts Elementor has their Angie AI service that's likely more fine-tuned for that plugin, we…

May 26 Tue · 18:26

GitHub med

Created issue #625 in the WordPress/ai repository:
New Experiment: Social Content Generation for platform-specific social posts

May 26 Tue · 18:21

GitHub med

Created issue #624 in the WordPress/ai repository:
Release version 1.0.1