Jonathan Bossenger
Developer Advocate at Automattic
@psykro Cape Town, South Africa joined Jan 2011
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Developer Advocate
May 2022 –
Present
Automattic
Recent impact
Score weights high-impact work (commits, releases, approved translations, props) at 3x routine activity.
Last 30 days
42contributions
high29
medium13
score100
Last 90 days
53contributions
high36
medium17
score125
Last 12 months
267contributions
high147
medium120
score561
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Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days
WordPress releases
Contributed to 12 releases
- 7.1
- 7.0
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- 6.2
- 6.1
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Time commitment
20 hours per week of sponsored contribution time
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October 2026
Oct 23
Fri · 10:10
high
Wrote a new post, WP Feature Notifications weekly update: 2026-10-23, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This week was more of a maintenance week: 24 PRs merged, 23 of them Dependabot…
This week was more of a maintenance week: 24 PRs merged, 23 of them Dependabot…
Oct 23
Fri · 08:53
GitHub
high
Merged pull request #648 into WordPress/wp-feature-notifications:
Adding a note to the readme about the demo code plugin
Adding a note to the readme about the demo code plugin
Oct 23
Fri · 08:46
GitHub
med
Submitted pull request #648 to WordPress/wp-feature-notifications:
Adding a note to the readme about the demo code plugin
Adding a note to the readme about the demo code plugin
Oct 23
Fri · 08:21
high
Oct 23
Fri · 08:17
GitHub
high
Merged pull request #636 into WordPress/wp-feature-notifications:
npm: bump follow-redirects from 1.16.0 to 1.16.1
npm: bump follow-redirects from 1.16.0 to 1.16.1
Oct 23
Fri · 07:58
GitHub
high
Merged pull request #646 into WordPress/wp-feature-notifications:
npm: bump eslint-import-resolver-typescript from 4.4.4 to 4.4.5
npm: bump eslint-import-resolver-typescript from 4.4.4 to 4.4.5
Oct 23
Fri · 07:57
GitHub
med
Oct 23
Fri · 07:36
GitHub
high
Merged pull request #623 into WordPress/wp-feature-notifications:
npm: bump compression from 1.8.1 to 1.8.2
npm: bump compression from 1.8.1 to 1.8.2
Oct 23
Fri · 06:47
GitHub
high
Merged pull request #621 into WordPress/wp-feature-notifications:
npm: bump handlebars from 4.7.9 to 4.7.10
npm: bump handlebars from 4.7.9 to 4.7.10
Oct 22
Thu · 18:42
GitHub
high
Merged pull request #620 into WordPress/wp-feature-notifications:
npm: bump proxy-addr from 2.0.7 to 2.0.8
npm: bump proxy-addr from 2.0.7 to 2.0.8
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Completed courses
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Introduction to developing with the WordPress REST API*Completed May 24, 2023
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*Course is no longer available.
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af
Afrikaans
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Contributed translations to 1 project.
en_ZA
English (South Africa) (English)
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