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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
    228contributions
    high163
    medium65
    score554
    Last 90 days
    617contributions
    high459
    medium158
    score1535
    Last 12 months
    2152contributions
    high1485
    medium667
    score5122

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 35 releases
    • 7.1
    • 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
    September 2026
    Sep 15 Tue · 23:26
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63633] on WordPress SVN:
    Build/Test Tools: Use the null coalescing assignment operator in the test suite.
    Sep 15 Tue · 20:29
    Core med
    Closed pull request #13500 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Code Quality: Correct @param annotation for variadic parameter in WP_Block_Processor::opens_block()
    Sep 15 Tue · 20:29
    Core high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
    Code Quality: Fix the variadic `@param` in `opens_block()`.
    Sep 15 Tue · 20:27
    Core high
    Committed [63630] to WordPress SVN:
    Code Quality: Fix the variadic `@param` in `opens_block()`.
    Sep 15 Tue · 17:52
    Core high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
    Customize: Apply the `admin_body_class` filter.
    Sep 15 Tue · 17:50
    Core med
    Closed ticket #65796 on Core Trac:
    The Customizer doesn't use the admin_body_class filter
    Sep 15 Tue · 17:50
    Core high
    Committed [63626] to WordPress SVN:
    Customize: Apply the `admin_body_class` filter.
    Sep 15 Tue · 17:04
    Core high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
    Docs: Explain why `array_last()` is not used in the block…
    Sep 15 Tue · 17:03
    Core med
    Closed pull request #13487 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Docs: Explain why `array_last()` is not used in `WP_Block_Parser::add_inner_block()`
    Sep 15 Tue · 17:02
    Core high
    Committed [63624] to WordPress SVN:
    Docs: Explain why `array_last()` is not used in the block parser.

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