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

85contributions

high48

medium37

score181

Last 90 days

188contributions

high86

medium102

score360

Last 12 months

861contributions

high339

medium522

score1539

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 25 releases

Time commitment

45 hours per week

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

Contributions

Type

October 2026

Oct 07 Wed · 17:24

GitHub med

Closed issue #42 on the WordPress/ai-provider-for-anthropic repository:
Bug: top-level oneOf/anyOf/allOf in tool input_schema breaks every request (API rejects combinators…

Oct 07 Wed · 17:24

GitHub high

Merged pull request #43 into WordPress/ai-provider-for-anthropic:
Fix: flatten top-level oneOf/anyOf/allOf in tool input schemas

Oct 06 Tue · 14:16

GitHub med

Created issue #1127 in the WordPress/ai repository:
Link to Learn WordPress course on AI from plugin readmes/settings screen

Oct 06 Tue · 14:09

Meta high

Wrote a new post, What’s new in AI 1.4.0 (5 OCTOBER 2026)?, on the site WordPress AI:
AI 1.4.0 introduces Markdown feeds, expanded embeddings and vector infrastructure, comment value scoring, and improvements…

Oct 05 Mon · 20:58

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post AI Contributor Weekly Summary – 16 September 2026, on the site WordPress AI:
@justlevine ^

Oct 05 Mon · 19:11

GitHub med

Closed issue #1072 on the WordPress/ai repository:
Release version 1.4.0

Oct 05 Mon · 19:11

GitHub high

Merged pull request #1111 into WordPress/ai:
Release/1.4.0

Oct 05 Mon · 18:56

GitHub med

Submitted pull request #1111 to WordPress/ai:
Release/1.4.0