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Joseph Scott

Performance Team Lead at Automattic at Automattic

@josephscott Utah joined May 2004

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    Bio

    Lead of the Performance team at Automattic.

    Badges

    CODE
    2 badges
    Core Contributor '15 Plugin Developer
    COMMUNITY
    2 badges
    WordCamp Organizer '14 WordCamp Speaker '14

    Current Job

    Performance Team Lead at Automattic
    Present
    Automattic

    Recent impact

    Score weights high-impact work (commits, releases, approved translations, props) at 3x routine activity.

    Last 30 days
    32contributions
    high19
    medium13
    score70
    Last 90 days
    70contributions
    high43
    medium27
    score156
    Last 12 months
    86contributions
    high52
    medium34
    score190

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 13 releases
    • 7.1
    • 7.0
    • 6.9
    • 6.8
    • 6.6
    • 5.3
    • 5.1
    • 4.6
    • 3.7
    • 3.6
    • 3.5
    • 3.4
    • 3.3

    Contributions

    Type
    October 2026
    Oct 06 Tue · 09:31
    Core high
    Mentioned in [64122] on WordPress SVN:
    I18N: Ignore non-string values in the locale getters.
    Oct 02 Fri · 10:22
    GitHub high
    Pull request #129 merged into WordPress/ipsum:
    Set sizeSlug to large for featured images
    Oct 01 Thu · 17:30
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #129 to WordPress/ipsum:
    Set sizeSlug to large for featured images
    September 2026
    Sep 28 Mon · 01:56
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63958] on WordPress SVN:
    Options, Meta APIs: Ensure meta cache is an array before use.
    Sep 25 Fri · 01:55
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63927] on WordPress SVN:
    XML-RPC: Reject non-scalar login credentials.
    Sep 24 Thu · 18:34
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #13721 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Check that menu items are objects in _wp_menu_item_classes_by_context()
    Sep 24 Thu · 18:31
    Core med
    Created ticket #66177 on Core Trac:
    Check that menu items are objects in _wp_menu_item_classes_by_context()
    Sep 23 Wed · 19:05
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63901] on WordPress SVN:
    XML-RPC: Return faults for malformed multicall requests.
    Sep 23 Wed · 18:59
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #13692 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Check for non-scalar username and password in wp_xmlrpc_server::login()
    Sep 23 Wed · 18:56
    Core med
    Created ticket #66168 on Core Trac:
    Check for non-scalar username and password in wp_xmlrpc_server::login()

    Developer

    4 plugins

    Contributor

    2 plugins

    Plugins

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