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ianmjones

Senior Staff Software Engineer at WP Engine

@ianmjones Somerset, UK joined Aug 2014

ianmjones.com github.com/ianmjones Slack: @ianmjones

    Bio

    Always developing.

    Senior Staff Software Engineer at WP Engine working on the WP Migrate, WP Offload Media, and WP Offload SES WordPress plugins.

    I also contribute to the WP Background Processing and WP Queue libraries, and occasionally find and fix bugs in WordPress, usually in the media components.

    WordPress Origin Story

    Started using WordPress with version 1.2 back in October 2004, probably attracted by the Mingus code name (I’m a fan of Charlie Mingus).
    I ran WordPress on my personal site for 5 years before trying other solutions for another 5 years, eventually coming back to WordPress when I joined Delicious Brains Inc in 2014.

    Badges

    CODE
    2 badges
    Core Contributor '15 Plugin Developer
    PRACTICE
    1 badge
    Support Contributor '26

    Current Job

    Senior Staff Software Engineer
    Present
    WP Engine

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    12contributions
    high9
    medium3
    score30
    Last 90 days
    16contributions
    high11
    medium5
    score38
    Last 12 months
    27contributions
    high19
    medium8
    score65

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 8 releases
    • 6.0
    • 5.9
    • 5.8
    • 5.7
    • 5.4
    • 5.3
    • 4.2
    • 4.1

    Contributions

    Type
    July 2026
    Jul 24 Fri · 15:27
    Core med
    Created ticket #65708 on Core Trac:
    Media: HEIC to JPG conversion can create an orphaned full size JPG ...
    Jul 22 Wed · 01:02
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62819] on WordPress SVN:
    Media: Exclude IMG tags from crossorigin injection in media templates.
    Jul 20 Mon · 15:23
    Core med
    Created ticket #65673 on Core Trac:
    Media: Previews for offloaded media broken by crossorigin="anonymous"
    Jul 11 Sat · 15:14
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Atom feed has empty content, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Neat, glad I could help! ;-)
    Jul 07 Tue · 22:01
    Plugins high
    Committed [3599621] to Plugins SVN:
    Deploy version 1.7.0
    Jul 07 Tue · 13:48
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to WP Offload SES queue not processing when WP-CLI memory_limit is -1, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    WP Offload SES Lite v1.8.1 has been released with a fix for this issue, and…
    Jul 07 Tue · 13:48
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to memory_limit = -1 keeps SES messages from sending, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    WP Offload SES Lite v1.8.1 has been released with a fix for this issue, and…
    Jul 06 Mon · 20:45
    Plugins high
    Committed [3598319] to Plugins SVN:
    Deploy version 1.6.3
    Jul 06 Mon · 20:40
    Plugins high
    Committed [3598313] to Plugins SVN:
    Deploy version 1.6.3
    Jul 06 Mon · 20:35
    Plugins high
    Committed [3598306] to Plugins SVN:
    Update assets