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Joe McGill

Director of Engineering at Fueled

@joemcgill St. Louis, MO joined Mar 2008

joemcgill.net github.com/joemcgill Slack: @joemcgill
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    Bio

    WordPress Core Committer / Director of Engineering at 10up

    WordPress Origin Story

    Boone committed my patch to #29696

    Badges

    CODE
    6 badges
    Core Contributor '15 C Core Performance Contributor '23 C Core Performance Team '24 Core Team '16 Meta Contributor '24 Plugin Developer
    CONTENT
    1 badge
    Documentation Contributor '17
    COMMUNITY
    3 badges
    Meetup Organizer '18 WordCamp Organizer '19 WordCamp Speaker '17
    PRACTICE
    1 badge
    Accessibility Contributor '19

    Current Job

    Director of Engineering
    Present
    Fueled

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    26contributions
    high26
    medium0
    score78
    Last 90 days
    27contributions
    high27
    medium0
    score81
    Last 12 months
    32contributions
    high32
    medium0
    score96

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 31 releases
    • 7.1
    • 7.0
    • 6.9
    • 6.8
    • 6.7
    • 6.6
    • 6.5
    • 6.4
    • 6.3
    • 6.2
    • 6.1
    • 6.0
    • 5.9
    • 5.8
    • 5.7
    • 5.6
    • 5.5
    • 5.4
    • 5.3
    • 5.2
    • 5.1
    • 5.0
    • 4.9
    • 4.8
    • 4.7
    • 4.6
    • 4.5
    • 4.4
    • 4.3
    • 4.2
    • 4.1

    Time commitment

    2 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

    Contributions

    Type
    September 2026
    Sep 22 Tue · 15:29
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63830] on WordPress SVN:
    Themes: Restrict path traversal in `locate_template()`.
    Sep 22 Tue · 15:29
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63829] on WordPress SVN:
    Themes: Restrict path traversal in `locate_template()`.
    Sep 22 Tue · 15:28
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63828] on WordPress SVN:
    Themes: Restrict path traversal in `locate_template()`.
    Sep 22 Tue · 15:28
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63827] on WordPress SVN:
    Themes: Restrict path traversal in `locate_template()`.
    Sep 22 Tue · 15:28
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63826] on WordPress SVN:
    Themes: Restrict path traversal in `locate_template()`.
    Sep 22 Tue · 15:28
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63825] on WordPress SVN:
    Themes: Restrict path traversal in `locate_template()`.
    Sep 22 Tue · 15:27
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63824] on WordPress SVN:
    Themes: Restrict path traversal in `locate_template()`.
    Sep 22 Tue · 15:27
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63823] on WordPress SVN:
    Themes: Restrict path traversal in `locate_template()`.
    Sep 22 Tue · 15:27
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63822] on WordPress SVN:
    Themes: Restrict path traversal in `locate_template()`.
    Sep 22 Tue · 15:27
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63821] on WordPress SVN:
    Themes: Restrict path traversal in `locate_template()`.

    Developer

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    Contributor

    1 plugin

    Plugins

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