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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
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    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
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    Last 90 days
    14contributions
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    score24
    Last 12 months
    36contributions
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    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 9 releases
    • 7.1
    • 6.0
    • 5.9
    • 5.8
    • 5.7
    • 5.4
    • 5.3
    • 4.2
    • 4.1

    Contributions

    Type
    September 2026
    Sep 03 Thu · 12:47
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Divi 5 Visual Builder, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    @kairey1964 we did some further testing of WP Offload Media 3.4.0 (Pro) with Divi 5…
    Sep 03 Thu · 12:45
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Running uploads from command line, and media not removing., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    WP Offload Media 3.4.0 is out with a fix for not reporting issues with initializing…
    Sep 03 Thu · 12:41
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Fatal ArgumentCountError in Remove_Local_Handler::handle_item() on PHP 8.x, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    WP Offload Media 3.4.0 is out with a fix for this.
    Sep 03 Thu · 12:37
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Pictures not showing in Media Library when WP Offload Media is activated, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    This was a server configuration error that we helped @josvlaar debug via a support request they submitted.
    Sep 03 Thu · 12:35
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Compatibility issues with Gutenberg 22.6.0, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    WP Offload Media 3.4.0 has been released with support for WordPress 7.1, including the newly…
    August 2026
    Aug 30 Sun · 21:26
    Plugins high
    Committed [3673140] to Plugins SVN:
    Deploy version 1.3.1
    Aug 30 Sun · 21:15
    Plugins high
    Committed [3673132] to Plugins SVN:
    Deploy version 1.7.1
    Aug 18 Tue · 21:12
    Plugins high
    Committed [3653538] to Plugins SVN:
    Deploy version 1.3.1
    Aug 18 Tue · 20:43
    Plugins high
    Committed [3653514] to Plugins SVN:
    Deploy version 1.7.1
    Aug 14 Fri · 09:04
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Running uploads from command line, and media not removing., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hey @aquaphase, Thanks for the debug.log file, that really helped. It looks like for whatever…