John Godley (@johnny5) – WordPress user profile

Bio

Long-term plugin developer with many WordPress plugins (and some bbPress ones too), as well as several guides and articles stretching back into the misty past.

Employed by Automattic to bring more WordPress to the world.

Badges

CODE

3 badges

Core Contributor '18 Meta Contributor '22 Plugin Developer

PRACTICE

1 badge

Support Contributor '26

POLYGLOTS

1 badge

Translation Contributor '19

Current Job

Present

Automattic

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

12contributions

high6

medium6

score24

Last 90 days

36contributions

high14

medium22

score64

Last 12 months

225contributions

high48

medium177

score321

WordPress releases

Contributed to 8 releases

Contributions

Type

October 2026

Oct 06 Tue · 13:37

Plugins high

Committed [3730910] to Plugins SVN:
Tagging version 3.5.1

Oct 06 Tue · 13:36

Plugins high

Committed [3730907] to Plugins SVN:
Fix bug replacing shortcodes in some situations

Oct 05 Mon · 17:57

Plugins high

Committed [3729403] to Plugins SVN:
Tagging version 3.5

Oct 05 Mon · 17:56

Plugins high

Committed [3729401] to Plugins SVN:
Fix 'remove' dropdown not enabling replace button

Oct 05 Mon · 15:02

Forums med

Posted a reply to Redirect creation date, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
No, the plugin doesn't store the creation date.

Oct 03 Sat · 11:36

Forums med

Posted a reply to Not searching within post_excerpt, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yes, the default search doesn't include excerpt. You need to add that by clicking 'Add'…

Oct 01 Thu · 15:38

Forums med

Posted a reply to Replace all greyed out when trying to remove or replace with blank, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This will be fixed in the next release.

September 2026

Sep 19 Sat · 13:45

Plugins high

Committed [3703336] to Plugins SVN:
Tagging version 5.10.1

Sep 19 Sat · 13:45

Plugins high

Committed [3703335] to Plugins SVN:
Fix error on the error page

Sep 19 Sat · 11:58

Forums med

Posted a reply to WordPress import creates duplicate redirects, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This will be fixed in the next release.