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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
    384contributions
    high163
    medium221
    score710
    Last 90 days
    469contributions
    high204
    medium265
    score877
    Last 12 months
    529contributions
    high231
    medium298
    score991

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 4 releases
    • 7.0
    • 6.5
    • 4.7
    • 4.5

    Contributions

    Type
    August 2026
    Aug 15 Sat · 17:09
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #81697 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Add gutenberg_sync_storage filter for pluggable storage backends
    Aug 15 Sat · 01:42
    GitHub med
    Created issue #287 in the WordPress/presence-api repository:
    screen-stale-demo-helper.php's demo bump no-ops on post screens
    Aug 14 Fri · 23:33
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #286 into WordPress/presence-api:
    chore: drop the YouTube demo link, lead with Playground instead
    Aug 14 Fri · 23:06
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #286 to WordPress/presence-api:
    chore: drop the YouTube demo link, lead with Playground instead
    Aug 14 Fri · 22:57
    Plugins high
    Committed [3648032] to Plugins SVN:
    Update to version 0.1.20 from GitHub
    Aug 14 Fri · 22:56
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #282 into WordPress/presence-api:
    chore(main): release 0.1.20
    Aug 14 Fri · 22:39
    GitHub med
    Created issue #285 in the WordPress/presence-api repository:
    get_rooms() hydrates every room before paginating
    Aug 14 Fri · 22:35
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #204 on the WordPress/presence-api repository:
    Screen revision counter uses a read-modify-write on a single shared option
    Aug 14 Fri · 22:31
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #283 into WordPress/presence-api:
    fix: stop funneling screen-revision bumps through one shared option
    Aug 14 Fri · 20:26
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #134 on the WordPress/presence-api repository:
    Resolve double-entry behavior in post editor rooms