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

20contributions

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medium14

score32

Last 90 days

58contributions

high21

medium37

score100

Last 12 months

145contributions

high53

medium92

score251

Specializations

evenly split across 3 teams · no team-attributable activity in the last 365 days

Core AI Core Tide

Contributions

Type

May 2026

May 29 Fri · 13:20

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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

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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

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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 · 18:27

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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

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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 · 17:01

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Posted a reply to Good App, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@snv23229 thanks for the kind words and review, please let us know if you run…

May 26 Tue · 13:54

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Posted a reply to attractivenesstests, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@lijiukun thanks for the kind words and review, please let us know if you run…

May 26 Tue · 13:53

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Posted a reply to needed, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@cradlean thanks for the kind words and review, please let us know if you run…

May 21 Thu · 19:06

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Posted a reply to Does not seem to work on WP7 for me, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@pjsgsy do you have the Connector Approvals experiment enabled? If so, do you see that…

May 21 Thu · 19:04

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Posted a reply to Does not seem to work on WP7 for me, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Tagging @superdav42 as a heads up from the connector perspective