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ianmjones

Senior Staff Software Engineer at WP Engine

@ianmjones Somerset, UK joined Aug 2014

ianmjones.com github.com/ianmjones Slack: @ianmjones

    Bio

    Always developing.

    Senior Staff Software Engineer at WP Engine working on the WP Migrate, WP Offload Media, and WP Offload SES WordPress plugins.

    I also contribute to the WP Background Processing and WP Queue libraries, and occasionally find and fix bugs in WordPress, usually in the media components.

    WordPress Origin Story

    Started using WordPress with version 1.2 back in October 2004, probably attracted by the Mingus code name (I’m a fan of Charlie Mingus).
    I ran WordPress on my personal site for 5 years before trying other solutions for another 5 years, eventually coming back to WordPress when I joined Delicious Brains Inc in 2014.

    Badges

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    2 badges
    Core Contributor '15 Plugin Developer

    Current Job

    Senior Staff Software Engineer
    Present
    WP Engine

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    2contributions
    high0
    medium2
    score2
    Last 90 days
    6contributions
    high2
    medium4
    score10
    Last 12 months
    7contributions
    high2
    medium5
    score11

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 8 releases
    • 6.0
    • 5.9
    • 5.8
    • 5.7
    • 5.4
    • 5.3
    • 4.2
    • 4.1

    Contributions

    Type
    June 2026
    Jun 06 Sat · 21:57
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Atom feed has empty content, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I tried a couple of other plugins that purport to support reading Atom feeds, and…
    Jun 02 Tue · 20:41
    Forums med
    Created a topic, Atom feed has empty content, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi, this looks like a great plugin, and it almost work…
    March 2026
    Mar 25 Wed · 09:41
    Core med
    Closed ticket #64868 on Core Trac:
    Image previews in grid mode Media page and side panel for selected ...
    Mar 25 Wed · 09:39
    Core med
    Closed issue #76588 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    Viewing media fails with CORS error when media has remote URL
    Mar 17 Tue · 14:41
    Core med
    Created issue #76588 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    Viewing media fails with CORS error when media has remote URL
    Mar 16 Mon · 18:03
    Core med
    Created ticket #64868 on Core Trac:
    Image previews in grid mode Media page and side panel for selected ...
    September 2025
    Sep 08 Mon · 07:39
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Minimum PHP version (breaks 7.4)?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Oops, sorry about that @joho68. WP Cron Pixie v1.6.2 has just been released with a…
    November 2023
    Nov 09 Thu · 14:41
    Core med
    Created ticket #59868 on Core Trac:
    Database insert with emoji fails when table has columns with both ...
    July 2023
    Jul 13 Thu · 08:27
    Core med
    Closed pull request #4681 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Fix incorrect missing subsizes being reported during rotated image upload
    June 2023
    Jun 23 Fri · 12:43
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #4681 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Fix incorrect missing subsizes being reported during rotated image upload