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Jesse Friedman

VP of Innovation and Partnership Success at Automattic

@professor44 Rhode Island joined Jul 2008

jesse.blog github.com/jessefriedman Slack: @Jesse

    Bio

    I am a long-time innovator and currently the VP of Innovation and Partnership Success on Jetpack for Automattic. I am the author of Web Designers Guide to WordPress and a member of the New Riders, “Voices that Matter” series, and I’ve been a frequent writer for notable publications like Smashing Magazine, CreativeBloq, Search Engine Journal, Jetpack, and more.

    In my time, I’ve written several books, taught 100’s of students as a professor, and organized dozens of local meetups along with a few WordCamps. I’ve spoken at events around the world and I’ve consulted for dozens of businesses from small agencies to billion-dollar international companies

    Interests

    WordPress, writing, speaking, woodworking, legos

    WordPress Origin Story

    In a world where good content management systems were hard to find a friend said 2 simple words “Try WordPress”.

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    WordCamp Organizer '14 WordCamp Speaker '17

    Current Job

    VP of Innovation and Partnership Success
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    Automattic

    Recent impact

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    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 1 release
    • 5.1

    Contributions

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    December 2025
    Dec 07 Sun · 17:00
    Forums med
    Created a topic, Transcript doesn’t show, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I have installed the Seriously Simple Transcripts plug…
    Dec 05 Fri · 00:14
    Forums med
    Created a topic, Spotify doesn’t recognize email in feed, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    As you can see, Spotify rejects the feed url because i…
    June 2025
    Jun 08 Sun · 23:43
    Forums med
    Created a topic, Can’t get inline comments working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I installed the plugin on WordPress 6.8.1 with Twenty …
    December 2023
    Dec 13 Wed · 21:52
    Forums med
    Created a topic, Great plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I love it when a plugin does exactly what it says. It …
    November 2022
    Nov 09 Wed · 18:03
    Forums med
    Created a topic, 30 second restore undid 2 hour gaff, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I made a rookie mistake. I cloned my site so I could r…
    December 2020
    Dec 07 Mon · 17:31
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Learn WordPress: Blue sky thinking, on the site Make WordPress Training:
    First of all, wow! Great work everyone on this. Lesson plans available in formats that…
    January 2020
    Jan 15 Wed · 13:38
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Related Posts can’t detect reusable blocks, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thanks @fstat
    Jan 14 Tue · 02:13
    Forums med
    Created a topic, Related Posts can’t detect reusable blocks, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I think I found a bug. When I put a Related Posts Gut…
    March 2019
    Mar 07 Thu · 16:05
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Incompatibility with Jetpack?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi @davidanderson and @philclothier, We don't see it that way. We've had a lot of…
    Mar 06 Wed · 17:13
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    Posted a reply to Incompatibility with Jetpack?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    We released Jetpack 7.1.1, which fixes this issue. Thank you again pointing it out.

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