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Jonathan Desrosiers

Principal Software Engineer at Bluehost

@desrosj New Bedford, Massachusetts joined Sep 2009

jonathandesrosiers.com github.com/desrosj Slack: @desrosj

Maintains Build/Test Tools Bundled Theme Emoji External Libraries General Media Notes Upgrade/Install

Teams Core Hosting

Languages art-xemoji

Bio

I’m passionate about WordPress, open source, and the open web!

Badges

CODE

9 badges

C Core AI Contributor '25 Core Contributor '15 Core Team '19 Hosting Contributor '21 Hosting Team '24 Meta Contributor '18 Plugin Developer Security Contributor '22 Security Team '19

CONTENT

2 badges

Documentation Contributor '17 Photo Contributor '24

COMMUNITY

3 badges

Meetup Organizer '24 WordCamp Organizer '19 WordCamp Speaker '19

PRACTICE

2 badges

Test Contributor '21 Test Team '21

POLYGLOTS

1 badge

Translation Contributor '16

Current Job

Principal Software Engineer

Aug 2024 – Present

Bluehost

Job History

Senior Software Engineer II

Apr 2022 – Aug 2024

Bluehost

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

1301contributions

high820

medium481

score2941

Last 90 days

2013contributions

high996

medium1017

score4005

Last 12 months

3513contributions

high2103

medium1410

score7719

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 30 releases

Time commitment

40 hours per week

Bluehost 40 hrs/wk

Contributions

Type

November 2026

Nov 10 Tue · 21:06

Core high

Mentioned in [65399] on WordPress SVN:
Database: Bump the recommended version of MySQL to 8.4.

Nov 10 Tue · 20:49

Core high

Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
External Libraries: Update `sodium_compat` to version `1.24.2`.

Nov 10 Tue · 20:47

Core med

Closed ticket #66650 on Core Trac:
Upgrade sodium_compat to version 1.24.2

Nov 10 Tue · 20:47

Core high

Committed [65398] to WordPress SVN:
External Libraries: Update `sodium_compat` to version `1.24.2`.

Nov 10 Tue · 19:24

GitHub med

Submitted pull request #231 to WordPress/wpdev-docker-images:
Add Xdebug to the PHP 8.6 image

Nov 10 Tue · 19:14

GitHub high

Merged pull request #230 into WordPress/wpdev-docker-images:
Replace PECL with PIE for PHP 8.1+ images

Nov 10 Tue · 16:45

Core high

Merged pull request #86592 into WordPress/gutenberg:
Bump the github-actions group across 1 directory with 3 updates

Nov 10 Tue · 16:08

GitHub high

Merged pull request #229 into WordPress/wpdev-docker-images:
Bump the github-actions group with 2 updates

Nov 10 Tue · 15:56

Core med

Closed ticket #31092 on Core Trac:
travis-ci builds skip lots of tests due to environment configuration

Nov 10 Tue · 15:44

Meta high

Mentioned in [15516] on Meta SVN:
Trac Watcher: Stop crediting names on Unprops lines as props

Plugins 11
Photos 154
Favorites 56
Translations 4

Developer

10 plugins

Classic Editor

8+ million active installs
Disable "BIG Image" Threshold

10,000+ active installs
In Stock Layered Nav for WooCommerce

10+ active installs
Mesh - Page Builder

80+ active installs
Post Type Spotlight

10+ active installs
Responsive Page Tester

10+ active installs
Simple Subtitles

30+ active installs
Simple WP Retina

1,000+ active installs
Toggle wpautop

9,000+ active installs
WP Evernote Site Memory

30+ active installs

Contributor

1 plugin

Courier Notices

50+ active installs

Photos

154 contributions

View all 154 photos in the Photo Directory

Plugins

56 favorites

Translations

4 locales

art_xemoji 🌏🌍🌎 (Emoji) (Emoji) Translation Contributor

Contributed translations to 6 projects.

WordPress 4.9.x WordPress 5.0.x WordPress 5.1.x WordPress 5.2.x WordPress 5.3.x WordPress 7.1.x - Development