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Joe Fusco

Software Engineer, Sr at WP Engine

@joefusco Rochester, New York joined Sep 2014

josephfus.co github.com/josephfusco Slack: @joefusco
    Teams Core

    Bio

    Building WordPress

    Interests

    Open Source Software, Civic Tech, Access to Justice, Amateur Arborist, Dad.

    WordPress Origin Story

    I started using WordPress in 2013 with version 3.5. What began as building plugins and themes for agencies led to managing multisites in higher ed, then architecting headless WordPress applications for a door manufacturer in Florida. Now I’m back home in New York, contributing to Core, sponsored by WP Engine.

    Badges

    CODE
    3 badges
    Core Contributor '16 Meta Contributor '16 Plugin Developer
    CONTENT
    1 badge
    Photo Contributor '23
    COMMUNITY
    1 badge
    WordCamp Speaker '17

    Current Job

    Software Engineer, Sr
    Present
    WP Engine · Full-time

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    191contributions
    high109
    medium82
    score409
    Last 90 days
    1404contributions
    high580
    medium824
    score2564
    Last 12 months
    1904contributions
    high796
    medium1108
    score3496

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 5 releases
    • 7.1
    • 7.0
    • 6.5
    • 4.7
    • 4.5

    Contributions

    Type
    November 2026
    Nov 11 Wed · 02:16
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #940 to WordPress/presence-api:
    fix: draw the admin bar icons as WordPress 7.2 SVG icons
    Nov 10 Tue · 19:27
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #835 on the WordPress/presence-api repository:
    The plugin hasn't been through user testing
    Nov 10 Tue · 19:26
    GitHub med
    Closed pull request #869 on WordPress/presence-api:
    docs: draft call for testing for Make/Test
    Nov 06 Fri · 21:37
    Plugins high
    Committed [3788762] to Plugins SVN:
    Update to version 0.20.1 from GitHub
    Nov 06 Fri · 21:33
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #939 into WordPress/presence-api:
    chore(main): release 0.20.1
    Nov 06 Fri · 21:30
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #927 on the WordPress/presence-api repository:
    Saving a form can remove the person's fresh presence row
    Nov 06 Fri · 21:30
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #931 into WordPress/presence-api:
    fix: keep presence during in-site navigation
    Nov 05 Thu · 20:10
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #921 on the WordPress/presence-api repository:
    Live surfaces get another tab's answer when tabs on one screen send…
    Nov 05 Thu · 20:10
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #932 into WordPress/presence-api:
    fix: let follower tabs ask for live surfaces that have a request()
    Nov 05 Thu · 20:04
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #926 on the WordPress/presence-api repository:
    The stale-screen notice keeps its first "time ago"