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John Godley

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@johnny5 London, UK joined Mar 2005

johngodley.com github.com/johngodley

    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.

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    Core Contributor '18 Meta Contributor '22 Plugin Developer
    POLYGLOTS
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    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
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    Last 90 days
    38contributions
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    Last 12 months
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    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 8 releases
    • 6.9
    • 6.7
    • 6.6
    • 5.9
    • 5.8
    • 5.6
    • 5.1
    • 5.0

    Contributions

    Type
    June 2026
    Jun 06 Sat · 15:02
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Filters for postmeta does not seem to work, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Can you give a more specific example?
    Jun 06 Sat · 15:01
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Creating Critical Error When I Select an action, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    This is caused by PHP 7.4 not supporting some of the features in the plugin.…
    May 2026
    May 29 Fri · 13:53
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to preg_match(): Compilation failed: missing closing parenthesis, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    If you can list an example I'll check to see whether the importer might be…
    May 29 Fri · 13:39
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to preg_match(): Compilation failed: missing closing parenthesis, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    You can use the filters to show you just the regular expression redirects. There shouldn't…
    May 29 Fri · 13:21
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to preg_match(): Compilation failed: missing closing parenthesis, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Probably it is a problem with one of your regular expressions. Redirection doesn't validate them,…
    May 28 Thu · 05:55
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to WordPress 7.0 Support Status, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    It already works on WP 7.0. At some point I will update the compatibility data,…
    May 27 Wed · 17:51
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Rediection last accessed seems not enforced, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Ok, then you'll need to enable some of the options to get logging. Full details…
    May 26 Tue · 18:28
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Rediection last accessed seems not enforced, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Have you enabled tracking? https://redirection.me/support/options/
    May 26 Tue · 17:11
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to The plugin has started to slow down, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    How is it slowing down? How are links not being removed or added? What are…
    May 22 Fri · 11:52
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Auto-clearing 404 logs?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    You can set the log expiry: https://redirection.me/support/options/

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