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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
    Teams Core Core Performance

    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
    0contributions
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    Last 90 days
    0contributions
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    Last 12 months
    15contributions
    high10
    medium5
    score35

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 29 releases
    • 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
    • 4.3
    • 4.2
    • 4.1

    Time commitment

    2 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

    Contributions

    Type
    February 2026
    Feb 10 Tue · 15:19
    Core high
    Mentioned in [61607] on WordPress SVN:
    Editor: Add support for pseudo elements for the block and its variations on theme.json.
    January 2026
    Jan 10 Sat · 06:36
    Core high
    Mentioned in [61465] on WordPress SVN:
    Menus: Ensure a `WP_Post` instance gets passed to `get_post_states()` in `wp_setup_nav_menu_item()`.
    November 2025
    Nov 04 Tue · 08:48
    Core high
    Mentioned in [61123] on WordPress SVN:
    Site Health: Improve messaging for PHP version status.
    October 2025
    Oct 15 Wed · 06:34
    Core high
    Mentioned in [60935] on WordPress SVN:
    Bundled Themes: Add `path` data to block theme stylesheets so they can be inlined.
    Oct 07 Tue · 06:22
    Core high
    Mentioned in [60910] on WordPress SVN:
    Media: Switch to enqueueing `contain-intrinsic-size` CSS fix for `IMG` tags having `sizes=auto`.
    August 2025
    Aug 19 Tue · 22:15
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Clarifying Core’s Database Support Policy, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    Thanks for the detailed writeup, @desrosj! In principle, I support this proposal to only consider…
    Aug 19 Tue · 02:12
    Core med
    Created issue #71245 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    Block comments: Add support for comments on published posts
    Aug 19 Tue · 02:07
    Core med
    Created issue #71244 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    Block comments: Highlight the related block when a comment is selected
    Aug 19 Tue · 01:57
    Core med
    Created issue #71243 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    Block comments: Add comment indicators in the block toolbar and block list
    Aug 19 Tue · 01:49
    Core med
    Created issue #71242 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    Block comments: Add the ability to reopen resolved comments