Googlier.com | 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

67contributions

high27

medium40

score121

Last 90 days

149contributions

high58

medium91

score265

Last 12 months

799contributions

high298

medium501

score1395

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

August 2026

Aug 26 Wed · 13:51

GitHub high

Merged pull request #39 into WordPress/ai-provider-for-openai:
ci: add php-ai-client PHPUnit matrix

Aug 26 Wed · 13:22

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: A Secrets API for WordPress 7.2, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Note that the POC plugin is the core of the Key Encryption experiment within the…

Aug 24 Mon · 20:59

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 7.2 Call for Volunteers, on the site Make WordPress Core:
@83alex please set up a WPORG Slack account so that you are able to join…

Aug 24 Mon · 20:03

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 7.2 Call for Volunteers, on the site Make WordPress Core:
@pincelkey93 please set up a WPORG Slack account so that you are able to join…

Aug 24 Mon · 17:51

Forums med

Posted a reply to critical erro, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
In confirming with @flixos90 this was not determined to be a bug, so perhaps you…

Aug 24 Mon · 17:51

GitHub med

Closed pull request #28 on WordPress/ai-provider-for-google:
Fix fatal error when ListModelsApiBasedProviderAvailability is absent from WordPress-bundled php-ai-client

Aug 24 Mon · 17:46

GitHub high

Merged pull request #4 into WordPress/ai-provider-for-anthropic:
Feature/token limit exception

Aug 24 Mon · 17:43

GitHub high

Merged pull request #37 into WordPress/ai-provider-for-anthropic:
ci: add 5-minute timeout to WordPress.org deploy job

Aug 24 Mon · 17:16

GitHub med

Closed issue #230 on the WordPress/php-ai-client repository:
Explicit model instantiation should not require live model-list metadata fetch

Aug 24 Mon · 17:16

GitHub high

Merged pull request #231 into WordPress/php-ai-client:
Avoid listing models for explicit text model IDs