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Weston Ruter

Principal Software Engineer at WP Engine

@westonruter Portland, OR, USA joined May 2007

weston.ruter.net github.com/westonruter Slack: @westonruter
    Maintains Customize Script Loader
    Teams Core Core Performance

    Bio

    Working on making WordPress fast!

    WordPress Origin Story

    See https://weston.ruter.net/?p=34264

    Badges

    CODE
    7 badges
    C Core AI Contributor '26 Core Contributor '15 C Core Performance Contributor '23 C Core Performance Team '23 Core Team '15 Meta Contributor '15 Plugin Developer
    CONTENT
    1 badge
    Documentation Contributor '17
    COMMUNITY
    2 badges
    B BuddyPress Contributor '25 WordCamp Speaker '17
    PRACTICE
    2 badges
    Support Contributor '26 Test Contributor '26

    Current Job

    Principal Software Engineer
    Aug 2025 – Present
    WP Engine · Full-time
    Working full time contributing to making WordPress.

    Job History

    Developer Relations Engineer
    Oct 2018 – Jun 2025
    Google
    Head of WordPress => CTO
    Apr 2013 – Sep 2018
    XWP
    Senior Web Developer
    May 2010 – Apr 2013
    X-Team
    Note: My role transitioned from X-Team to our newly-founded sister company, XWP.
    Sr. Web Application Developer
    Oct 2007 – May 2010
    Shepherd Interactive

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    211contributions
    high152
    medium59
    score515
    Last 90 days
    480contributions
    high332
    medium148
    score1144
    Last 12 months
    1913contributions
    high1279
    medium634
    score4471

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 34 releases
    • 7.0
    • 6.9
    • 6.8
    • 6.7
    • 6.6
    • 6.5
    • 6.4
    • 6.3
    • 6.2
    • 6.1
    • 6.0
    • 5.9
    • 5.8
    • 5.7
    • 5.6
    • 5.5
    • 5.4
    • 5.3
    • 5.2
    • 5.1
    • 5.0
    • 4.9
    • 4.8
    • 4.7
    • 4.6
    • 4.5
    • 4.4
    • 4.3
    • 4.2
    • 4.1
    • 4.0
    • 3.9
    • 3.8
    • 3.7

    Contributions

    Type
    July 2026
    Jul 30 Thu · 04:45
    Core high
    Committed [62939] to WordPress SVN:
    Build/Test Tools: Verify hook docblocks statically.
    Jul 30 Thu · 04:45
    Core med
    Closed ticket #65376 on Core Trac:
    Build/Test Tools: Statically verify that hook documentation and ...
    Jul 29 Wed · 22:01
    Core high
    Committed [62935] to WordPress SVN:
    Docs: Correct the type of the `image_editor_output_format` map.
    Jul 29 Wed · 21:31
    Core high
    Committed [62934] to WordPress SVN:
    Docs: Attach three hook doc comments to their filter calls.
    Jul 29 Wed · 21:18
    Core high
    Committed [62933] to WordPress SVN:
    XML-RPC: Pass the missing args to the `enable_xmlrpc` filters.
    Jul 29 Wed · 20:43
    Core high
    Committed [62932] to WordPress SVN:
    Plugins: Pass the missing `$paged` to `install_plugins_upload`.
    Jul 29 Wed · 20:26
    Core high
    Committed [62931] to WordPress SVN:
    Plugins: Pass the missing `$network_wide` to `activate_{$plugin}`.
    Jul 29 Wed · 19:48
    Core high
    Committed [62930] to WordPress SVN:
    Networks and Sites: Pass the missing `$site_id` to bulk actions.
    Jul 29 Wed · 19:37
    Core high
    Committed [62928] to WordPress SVN:
    Comments, REST API: Drop undocumented args from content filters.
    Jul 29 Wed · 19:05
    Core high
    Committed [62927] to WordPress SVN:
    REST API: Pass the missing `$is_update` param to the `wp_creating_autosave` action.

    Developer

    33 plugins

    Contributor

    3 plugins

    Plugins

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