Jeffrey Paul (@jeffpaul) – WordPress user profile

Bio

VP of Open Source at Fueled (formerly 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

CODE

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

2 badges

Support Contributor '26 Test Contributor '22

POLYGLOTS

1 badge

Translation Contributor '18

Current Job

VP of Open Source

Jan 2025 – Present

Fueled

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

40contributions

high15

medium25

score70

Last 90 days

206contributions

high69

medium137

score344

Last 12 months

705contributions

high256

medium449

score1217

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 24 releases

Time commitment

45 hours per week

10up 40 hrs/wk
On my own time 5 hrs/wk

Contributions

Type

June 2026

Jun 29 Mon · 18:16

GitHub med

Created issue #805 in the WordPress/ai repository:
Release version 1.1.0

Jun 29 Mon · 18:16

GitHub high

Pull request #804 merged into WordPress/ai:
Fix label syntax in feature request template

Jun 29 Mon · 18:07

GitHub med

Submitted pull request #804 to WordPress/ai:
Fix label syntax in feature request template

Jun 26 Fri · 22:34

Forums med

Posted a reply to Inline-SVG block with link, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
That should be covered by work related to https://github.com/10up/safe-svg/issues/282.

Jun 26 Fri · 21:07

GitHub high

Pull request #796 merged into WordPress/ai:
Convert feature request to YML format

Jun 26 Fri · 20:58

GitHub med

Submitted pull request #796 to WordPress/ai:
Convert feature request to YML format

Jun 26 Fri · 17:23

GitHub med

Created issue #795 in the WordPress/ai repository:
Update Playground PR to start on AI settings page

Jun 26 Fri · 16:37

GitHub med

Created issue #793 in the WordPress/ai repository:
New Developer Tool: Customize experiments

Jun 26 Fri · 16:19

GitHub med

Created issue #791 in the WordPress/ai repository:
Add loading animation/custom cursor for Type Ahead

Jun 25 Thu · 16:17

Meta high

Wrote a new post, AI Contributor Weekly Summary – 24 June 2026, on the site WordPress AI:
This week's AI Team meeting focused on preparing AI infrastructure for WordPress 7.1, including discussions…