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Jacob Smith

Product Manager at WordPress VIP

@smithjw1 joined Mar 2015

shoeinthedoor.com github.com/smithjw1 slack: @Jacob
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    evenly split across 1 team · no team-attributable activity in the last 365 days

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    March 2026
    Mar 06 Fri · 21:40
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Real-time collaboration: Early user feedback, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    The discussion about the default enabled/disabled state of real-time collaboration is happening on this Trac…
    February 2026
    Feb 23 Mon · 23:15
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    Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 7.0 Product Review Meeting with @matt, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    I've created GitHub issues to discuss/work on the three Collaboration issues that were identified: [Interface]…
    December 2025
    Dec 17 Wed · 22:48
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    Wrote a comment on the post Real-time collaboration: Early user feedback, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    VIP has, not sure if they still do, required code reviews by VIP for any…
    Dec 16 Tue · 16:56
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    Wrote a new post, Real-time collaboration: Early user feedback, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    Real-time collaboration—the ability for multiple users to edit the same post simultaneously, similar to Google…
    June 2020
    Jun 02 Tue · 05:02
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    Posted a reply to Why does my site load so slow?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    It's your images. You've got a ton and they are big. Think about a plugin…
    Jun 02 Tue · 04:57
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    Posted a reply to Subsite links reverts to main site pages, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Glad that worked! Updating permalinks does some secret magic.
    May 2020
    May 24 Sun · 05:40
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    Posted a reply to Subsite links reverts to main site pages, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    That is super weird! I wonder what would happen if you changed the permalink structure.…
    May 24 Sun · 05:36
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    Posted a reply to Categories with different parent categories mixing up, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    There isn't an easy way around this as all category links (regardless of being a…
    May 24 Sun · 05:28
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    Posted a reply to Questions concerning domain, WP UPL and Site URL, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Updating those values, won't update the DB. You'll need to do a find and replace.…
    May 18 Mon · 06:21
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    Posted a reply to Cookies for Multiple Sites, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Looks like PHP want's double quotes for defining a constant. try: define("COOKIE_DOMAIN", false); define("COOKIE_DOMAIN", $_SERVER[…

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