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Aaron D. Campbell

VP Product at Monarx

@aaroncampbell Seminole, OK joined Dec 2006

aarondcampbell.com github.com/aaroncampbell Slack: @aaroncampbell
    Maintains Shortcodes
    Teams Core

    Bio

    Aaron is an international speaker, open source advocate, and outgoing introvert. He is currently the VP of Product at Monarx and has been helping companies create, and bring to market, compelling and competitive product offerings for the last 10 years for brands such as GoDaddy, Newfold Digital, A2Hosting, and hosting.com.

    He’s been a regular contributor to the WordPress open source project for nearly two decades and applies his knowledge of, and passion for, open source to align companies with those projects to improve their own products and offerings while providing better and more secure open source solutions to their customers.

    Badges

    CODE
    6 badges
    Core Contributor '15 Core Team '16 Hosting Contributor '18 Meta Contributor '17 Plugin Developer Theme Developer
    COMMUNITY
    3 badges
    B BuddyPress Contributor '19 WordCamp Organizer '19 WordCamp Speaker '19

    Current Job

    VP Product
    Aug 2025 – Present
    Monarx · Full-time

    Job History

    Director of Product Strategy
    Apr 2025 – Aug 2025
    hosting.com · Full-time
    Director of Product
    Aug 2023 – Apr 2025
    A2 Hosting · Full-time
    Head of Product
    Jan 2023 – Aug 2023
    A2 Hosting · Full-time
    Sr Product Manager
    Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
    Newfold · Full-time
    Head of WordPress Core/Ecosystem
    Sep 2016 – Jan 2021
    GoDaddy · Full-time

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    1contribution
    high1
    medium0
    score3
    Last 90 days
    28contributions
    high28
    medium0
    score84
    Last 12 months
    28contributions
    high28
    medium0
    score84

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 27 releases
    • 7.1
    • 7.0
    • 6.4
    • 6.2
    • 6.1
    • 5.9
    • 5.7
    • 5.6
    • 5.5
    • 5.3
    • 5.2
    • 4.9
    • 4.8
    • 4.7
    • 4.5
    • 4.4
    • 4.3
    • 4.2
    • 4.1
    • 4.0
    • 3.9
    • 3.7
    • 3.6
    • 3.5
    • 3.4
    • 3.3
    • 3.2

    Time commitment

    3 hours per week

    Contributions

    Type
    September 2026
    Sep 18 Fri · 19:19
    Meta high
    Received props from @jorbin in Slack:
    Props to @adamsilverstein @desrosj @andraganescu @pbiron @abduremon @ugyensupport @rfaile313 @lancewillett @aaroncampbell @obenland @peterwilsoncc @azharderaiya @SergeyBiryukov…
    August 2026
    Aug 12 Wed · 16:36
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63254] on WordPress SVN:
    Media: Prevent loading images into Imagick which might be PostScript.
    Aug 12 Wed · 16:35
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63253] on WordPress SVN:
    Media: Prevent loading images into Imagick which might be PostScript.
    Aug 12 Wed · 16:35
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63252] on WordPress SVN:
    Media: Prevent loading images into Imagick which might be PostScript.
    Aug 12 Wed · 16:35
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63251] on WordPress SVN:
    Media: Prevent loading images into Imagick which might be PostScript.
    Aug 12 Wed · 16:34
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63250] on WordPress SVN:
    Media: Prevent loading images into Imagick which might be PostScript.
    Aug 12 Wed · 16:34
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63249] on WordPress SVN:
    Media: Prevent loading images into Imagick which might be PostScript.
    Aug 12 Wed · 16:33
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63248] on WordPress SVN:
    Media: Prevent loading images into Imagick which might be PostScript.
    Aug 12 Wed · 16:32
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63247] on WordPress SVN:
    Media: Prevent loading images into Imagick which might be PostScript.
    Aug 12 Wed · 16:32
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63246] on WordPress SVN:
    Media: Prevent loading images into Imagick which might be PostScript.

    Developer

    2 plugins

    Contributor

    1 plugin

    Themes

    1 theme

    Completed courses

    1 completed
    • WordPress Community Team Program Supporter Training*
      Completed July 2, 2019

    *Course is no longer available.

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    Plugins

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