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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
    30contributions
    high17
    medium13
    score64
    Last 90 days
    67contributions
    high41
    medium26
    score149
    Last 12 months
    82contributions
    high49
    medium33
    score180

    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
    September 2026
    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()
    Sep 23 Wed · 02:34
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63886] on WordPress SVN:
    Comments: Skip descendant comments that no longer exist.
    Sep 22 Tue · 18:34
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #13663 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Check for non-array arguments in IXR_Server::call() and IXR_Server::multiCall()
    Sep 22 Tue · 18:27
    Core med
    Created ticket #66160 on Core Trac:
    Check for non-array arguments in IXR_Server::call() and ...
    Sep 22 Tue · 14:48
    Plugins high
    Committed [3707599] to Plugins SVN:
    Tag 0.6.0

    Developer

    4 plugins

    Contributor

    2 plugins

    Plugins

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