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Jacob Smith

Product Manager at WordPress VIP

@smithjw1 joined Mar 2015

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    Recent impact

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    Last 30 days
    1contribution
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    medium1
    score1
    Last 90 days
    6contributions
    high2
    medium4
    score10
    Last 12 months
    27contributions
    high4
    medium23
    score35

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 3 releases
    • 7.0
    • 6.7
    • 6.6

    Contributions

    Type
    May 2026
    May 26 Tue · 21:13
    Core med
    Created issue #78700 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    RTC: Same user with the post open in multiple tabs appears multiple…
    May 07 Thu · 10:12
    Playground high
    Pull request #179 merged into WordPress/blueprints:
    Add blueprint to enable Gutenberg Guidelines experiment
    May 01 Fri · 04:39
    Playground med
    Submitted pull request #179 to WordPress/blueprints:
    Add blueprint to enable Gutenberg Guidelines experiment
    April 2026
    Apr 16 Thu · 16:57
    Core med
    Created issue #77431 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    RTC: [Interface] Allow limiting Real-Time Collaboration to specific post statuses
    March 2026
    Mar 20 Fri · 17:59
    Documentation med
    Created issue #2200 in the WordPress/Documentation-Issue-Tracker repository:
    [HelpHub] Documentation for real-time collaboration
    Mar 16 Mon · 16:49
    Core high
    Pull request #75983 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
    RTC: Auto-register custom taxonomy rest_base values for CRDT sync
    Mar 07 Sat · 03:12
    Core high
    Mentioned in [61864] on WordPress SVN:
    Editor: Bump the database version to `61833`.
    Mar 06 Fri · 21:40
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Real-time collaboration: Early user feedback, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    The discussion about the default enabled/disabled state of real-time collaboration is happening on this Trac…
    Mar 03 Tue · 22:05
    Core med
    Created issue #76111 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    RTC: Relax disconnect dialog timing
    February 2026
    Feb 26 Thu · 22:47
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #75983 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    RTC: Auto-register custom taxonomy rest_base values for CRDT sync

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