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Jonathan Bossenger

Developer Advocate at Automattic

@psykro Cape Town, South Africa joined Jan 2011

jonathanbossenger.com github.com/jonathanbossenger Slack: @Jonathan
    Teams Core AI Documentation Plugins Training

    Bio

    I like to get stuff done. Husband and father of two energetic boys. Brazilian jiu-jitsu for fun and stress release.

    Interests

    Gaming
    Brazilian jiu-jitsu

    WordPress Origin Story

    In 2015 I attended my first WordCamp in Cape Town, met some amazing people, discovered WordPress as a development tool, and I’ve not looked back since.

    Badges

    CODE
    7 badges
    C Core AI Contributor '25 Core Contributor '20 Core Team '22 Meta Contributor '21 Meta Team '21 P Playground Contributor '25 Plugin Developer
    CONTENT
    3 badges
    Documentation Contributor '18 Photo Contributor '22 WordPress.tv Contributor '23
    COMMUNITY
    4 badges
    Community Team '17 Meetup Organizer '18 WordCamp Organizer '18 WordCamp Speaker '18
    PRACTICE
    2 badges
    Training Contributor '22 Training Team '23
    POLYGLOTS
    1 badge
    Translation Contributor '16

    Current Job

    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
    17contributions
    high14
    medium3
    score45
    Last 90 days
    36contributions
    high23
    medium13
    score82
    Last 12 months
    268contributions
    high124
    medium144
    score516

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 11 releases
    • 7.0
    • 6.9
    • 6.8
    • 6.7
    • 6.6
    • 6.5
    • 6.2
    • 6.1
    • 5.9
    • 5.6
    • 5.5

    Time commitment

    20 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

    Contributions

    Type
    June 2026
    Jun 06 Sat · 13:26
    Training high
    Pushed 1 commit to wptrainingteam/wp-ai-workshop-demo:
    Remove composer autoloader from Workshop steps
    Jun 02 Tue · 10:20
    Meta high
    Wrote a new post, WCEU 2026 Core Ai Contributor Day, on the site WordPress AI:
    The Core AI Team is excited to be part of Contributor Day at WordCamp Europe…
    Jun 01 Mon · 14:17
    Training high
    Pushed 1 commit to wptrainingteam/wp-ai-workshop-demo:
    Workshop steps cleanup
    May 2026
    May 30 Sat · 15:32
    Training high
    Pushed 1 commit to wptrainingteam/wp-ai-workshop-demo:
    Version update
    May 30 Sat · 15:23
    Training high
    Pushed 1 commit to wptrainingteam/wp-ai-workshop-demo:
    Adding Request Timeout Test
    May 30 Sat · 15:16
    Training high
    Pushed 2 commits to wptrainingteam/wp-ai-workshop-demo:
    Adding timeout to workshop steps
    May 30 Sat · 11:43
    Training high
    Pushed 1 commit to wptrainingteam/wp-ai-workshop-demo:
    Make sure admin page renders regardless
    May 30 Sat · 11:37
    Training high
    Pushed 1 commit to wptrainingteam/wp-ai-workshop-demo:
    Workshop prep
    May 30 Sat · 11:12
    Training high
    Merged pull request #6 into wptrainingteam/wp-ai-workshop-demo:
    Update final plugin to match new photo-to-post functionality
    May 30 Sat · 11:12
    Training med
    Submitted pull request #6 to wptrainingteam/wp-ai-workshop-demo:
    Update final plugin to match new photo-to-post functionality

    Developer

    Contributor

    Total photo contributions: 3

    View all photos contributed by Jonathan Bossenger to the WordPress Photo Directory →

    Completed Courses

    Total completed courses: 8

    Plugins

    Afrikaans Translation Contributor - #af

    WordPress 7.0.x - Development

    English (South Africa) Translation Contributor - #en_ZA

    Seriously Simple Podcasting