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Jeffrey Paul

VP of Open Source at Fueled

@jeffpaul Chicagoland joined Dec 2009

jeffpaul.com github.com/jeffpaul Slack: @jeffpaul
    Maintains AI Notes
    Team Rep Tide
    Teams Core AI Core Tide

    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
    63contributions
    high22
    medium41
    score107
    Last 90 days
    193contributions
    high65
    medium128
    score323
    Last 12 months
    745contributions
    high276
    medium469
    score1297

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 24 releases
    • 7.0
    • 6.9
    • 6.8
    • 6.7
    • 6.6
    • 6.5
    • 6.4
    • 6.3
    • 6.2
    • 6.1
    • 6.0
    • 5.9
    • 5.8
    • 5.7
    • 5.6
    • 5.5
    • 5.4
    • 5.3
    • 5.2
    • 5.1
    • 5.0
    • 4.9
    • 4.8
    • 4.7

    Time commitment

    45 hours per week

    Contributions

    Type
    July 2026
    Jul 16 Thu · 22:59
    GitHub med
    Created issue #876 in the WordPress/ai repository:
    New Experiment: Suggest permalink slugs
    Jul 16 Thu · 22:42
    GitHub med
    Created issue #875 in the WordPress/ai repository:
    New Experiment: Suggest internal links within post content
    Jul 15 Wed · 19:33
    GitHub med
    Created issue #870 in the WordPress/ai repository:
    Adjust order of Admin Experiments
    Jul 14 Tue · 18:36
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #868 into WordPress/ai:
    Release/1.2.0
    Jul 14 Tue · 18:36
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #864 on the WordPress/ai repository:
    Release version 1.2.0
    Jul 14 Tue · 17:36
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #868 to WordPress/ai:
    Release/1.2.0
    Jul 13 Mon · 22:52
    GitHub high
    Pull request #857 merged into WordPress/ai:
    Add/commit access docs
    Jul 13 Mon · 19:12
    GitHub med
    Created issue #864 in the WordPress/ai repository:
    Release version 1.2.0
    Jul 13 Mon · 18:31
    GitHub med
    Created issue #863 in the WordPress/ai repository:
    New Experiment: Abilities toggle
    Jul 10 Fri · 21:31
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #857 to WordPress/ai:
    Add/commit access docs

    Developer

    2 plugins

    Contributor

    22 plugins

    Support Rep

    5 plugins

    Photos

    139 contributions

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    Completed courses

    2 completed

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    Plugins

    105 favorites

    Themes

    6 favorites

    Translations

    7 locales
    es_ES Español (Spanish) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 2 projects.

    Publisher Media Kit Simple Podcasting

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    art_xemoji 🌏🌍🌎 (Emoji) (Emoji) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 1 project.

    Embed Block for GitHub

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    de_DE Deutsch (German) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 1 project.

    Eight Day Week Print Workflow

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    de_DE / formal Deutsch (German) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 1 project.

    Eight Day Week Print Workflow

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    fr_FR Français (French) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 1 project.

    Retro Winamp Block

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    ja 日本語 (Japanese) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 1 project.

    Restricted Site Access

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    sk_SK Slovenčina (Slovak) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 1 project.

    Safe Redirect Manager

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