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Greg Ichneumon Brown
@gibrown on WordPress.org and Slack
Bio
I work on search, stats, and scaling data products. Occasionally I try to do some analytics and data science.
WordPress Origin Story
Started working at Automattic in 2011. I hadn’t really touched WordPress before that.
- Member Since: July 21st, 2011
- Location: Boulder, CO, USA
- Job Title: Search Wrangler and team lead.
- Employer: Automattic
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Contribution History
Greg Ichneumon Brown’s badges:- Meta Contributor
- Plugin Developer
- WordCamp Speaker
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Created ticket #7743 on Meta Trac:
Plugin review filters by number of stars are incorrect. -
Wrote a comment on the post The Plugin Directory gets a refresh, on the site Make WordPress.org:
I believe this is the max number of plugins the query returns for a broad… -
Wrote a comment on the post Gutenberg Phase 2, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Very excited about phase two. Maybe more phase 2+, but I think it is worth… -
Closed ticket #2626 on Meta Trac:
Time and date missing from make P2 emails that use the [time] shortcode -
Created ticket #3389 on Meta Trac:
Build Elasticsearch Index: Developer Hub -
Created ticket #3388 on Meta Trac:
Build Elasticsearch Index: Support Forums -
Created ticket #3387 on Meta Trac:
Build Elasticsearch Index: WordPress.tv -
Posted a reply to Apache Solr/ElasticSearch on heavy load wp-jobmanager-sites (++5k records), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
We use Elasticsearch on a lot of WordPress.com VIP sites when they are not performing… -
Reopened ticket #2754 on Meta Trac:
Plugin directory search highlighting -
Reopened ticket #2797 on Meta Trac:
Plugins: Suggest related plugins when the current plugin hasn't been ... -
Created ticket #3014 on Meta Trac:
Plugins: Translate all plugin readmes with Google Translate -
Wrote a comment on the post What’s new in Gutenberg? (June 30), on the site Make WordPress Core:
You folks are crushing it. Nice work. -
Closed ticket #2832 on Meta Trac:
Search result not working properly -
Reopened ticket #2812 on Meta Trac:
I can't find my plugin in search results of plugin directory use the ... -
Created ticket #2797 on Meta Trac:
Plugins: Suggest related plugins when the current plugin hasn't been ... -
Closed ticket #2712 on Meta Trac:
Plugin Search: New search algorithm does not show expected results -
Created ticket #2755 on Meta Trac:
404s for Plugins should return search results -
Created ticket #2715 on Meta Trac:
Jetpack sync for plugin updates not working -
Wrote a comment on the post The New Directory Is (Mostly) Live, on the site Make WordPress Plugins:
That data is not currently available publicly as far as I know. -
Wrote a comment on the post The New Directory Is (Mostly) Live, on the site Make WordPress Plugins:
@dmitriy because you posted a link to the Russian version of the site, I'm going… -
Wrote a comment on the post The New Directory Is (Mostly) Live, on the site Make WordPress Plugins:
BTW, I've opened up a ticket to discuss doing a better job of exact matches:… -
Created ticket #2642 on Meta Trac:
Better boosting for phrase matches (or add support for the user to specify ... -
Wrote a comment on the post The New Directory Is (Mostly) Live, on the site Make WordPress Plugins:
@edo88 responding here. can you share more info about what people search? There is an… -
Wrote a comment on the post The New Directory Is (Mostly) Live, on the site Make WordPress Plugins:
I'd say there is pretty good data/reasoning as to why we shouldn't do exact matching… -
Created ticket #2604 on Meta Trac:
Plugin Search ranking for plugins with more than 1 million installs broken -
Closed ticket #2318 on Meta Trac:
The new search results are less usable than the old -
Closed ticket #2301 on Meta Trac:
Cannot find plugin by name -
Created ticket #2425 on Meta Trac:
New Plugin Search Mostly Broken for Multi-Lingual -
Created ticket #2424 on Meta Trac:
Add text of reviews to plugin search to improve search -
Created ticket #2416 on Meta Trac:
Plugin Search Should Autocorrect when few results -
Wrote a comment on the post Editor Technical Overview, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I think one other thing to add to the list is speed on the front… -
Wrote a comment on the post What makes a great editor?, on the site Make WordPress Design:
Somewhat related to different workflows, we've had some conversations about the WordPress.com Reader and how… -
Mentioned in [4627] on Meta SVN:
Plugin directory search: adjust the active_installs weighting curve (props @gibrown). -
Wrote a comment on the post Preferred Languages: Research, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I was recently looking at how to do better language guessing on WP.com so let… -
Wrote a comment on the post Plugin Directory User Testing – Round 1, on the site Make WordPress.org:
It doesn’t appear that the search will have some of these cool things built into… -
Wrote a comment on the post Plugin Directory User Testing – Round 1, on the site Make WordPress.org:
This is really great. Thanks for running these. Some things I noticed: - First user… -
Wrote a comment on the post Plugin Directory User Testing – Round 1, on the site Make WordPress.org:
I think this is good to point out. There are 23 plugins with more than… -
Wrote a comment on the post Please create a sandbox for…, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
@barry can I get this sandbox created. I've hit a bug where I can't figure… -
Wrote a comment on the post Preferred Languages, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Have you already looked at HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE? I don't see it used anywhere in core. Those… -
Wrote a comment on the post Please create a sandbox for…, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
"Required". I'm not sure. Breaking into the two things: 1. Sandbox: most of my work… -
Wrote a new post, Initial Analysis of Plugin Search Logs, on the site Make WordPress.org:
In preparing to do some relevancy testing of the new wp.org plugin search here is… -
Wrote a comment on the post Plugin Directory Prototypes (Single View), on the site Make WordPress.org:
Assuming the "built for" taxonomy is added, it may be nice to include a list… -
Wrote a comment on the post Plugin Directory Prototypes, on the site Make WordPress.org:
A couple of ideas on the search page: How about instant search results? Search as… -
Created ticket #34886 on Core Trac:
Search Form should not submit empty strings -
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp US 2015
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Wrote a comment on the post WP REST API: Merge Proposal, on the site Make WordPress Core:
The v2 docs mention 3 types of authentication: cookie auth, oath1, and basic auth. You… -
Wrote a comment on the post The Plan for Passwords, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Etsy also got some interesting results due to interactions with autocorrect in browsers (esp on… -
Committed [690769] to Plugins SVN:
Notifications: add the post types to sync after WP init. - custom post ... -
Committed [618742] to Plugins SVN:
Merge 1.9.1 sync post update to trunk. -
Committed [618701] to Plugins SVN:
Update readme for 1.9.1 update to fix syncing issue of comments
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Jetpack - WP Security, Backup, Speed, & Growth
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