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Bio

Passionate WordPress developer from Gaza. 🇵🇸

Interests

Swimming, Road trips, Nature Walking

WordPress Origin Story

I’m that 14 years old kid from a refugee camp who finally got internet at home and the first thing I did was Google “how to build a website.” My very first site was actually built with vBulletin, I was so proud of it.

Then after a while I found WordPress, and that was it for me. After a while I built a site about tech news, but honestly I spent way more time making it look cool than actually writing anything. Changing fonts, picking colors, refreshing the page over and over just to see it live. I felt like I discovered something big. I started sharing what I learned on a famous Arabic forum (it was a forum for Arab developers, and I waited a whole year just to get a membership!) sometimes right after I learned it, barely understanding it myself. 😆

Many years later, I still have the same energy. Still excited when things work. And that kid now makes his living and his family’s from writing code with 14+ years of WordPress & WooCommerce experience, which is really just 14 years of “let me try one more thing”.

Badges

CODE
2 badges
Core Contributor '26 Plugin Developer
CONTENT
1 badge
Photo Contributor '25
COMMUNITY
1 badge
WordCamp Organizer '26
PRACTICE
1 badge
Support Contributor '26
POLYGLOTS
1 badge
Translation Contributor '25

Current Job

Senior WooCommerce developer
Present
Progressus.io

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days
8contributions
high5
medium3
score18
Last 90 days
27contributions
high24
medium3
score75
Last 12 months
85contributions
high57
medium28
score199

WordPress releases

Contributed to 1 release
  • 7.1

Time commitment

6 hours per week
  • On my own time 6 hrs/wk

Contributions

Type
October 2026
Oct 14 Wed · 19:17
Forums med
Posted a reply to Checkout Rates fail on cart page: rate.destination.city required, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @nixahardware , Thanks for the detailed report and the exact log line and thanks…
Oct 07 Wed · 13:06
Forums med
Posted a reply to Checkout Rates returns no rates during PayPal card flow, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @meroving The fix is now released in version 5.3.9. It covers both issues from…
Oct 06 Tue · 13:00
Forums med
Posted a reply to Checkout Rates returns no rates during PayPal card flow, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @meroving,Thank you for the detailed report. I was able to reproduce it.What is happening: the…
Oct 03 Sat · 15:19
Plugins high
Committed [3726419] to Plugins SVN:
Tag 2.4
Oct 03 Sat · 15:19
Plugins high
Committed [3726418] to Plugins SVN:
Update trunk to 2.4
September 2026
Sep 23 Wed · 08:52
Meta high
Joined the organizing team for WordCamp Europe 2027
Sep 15 Tue · 16:52
Plugins high
Committed [3697414] to Plugins SVN:
Tagging 5.9.12
Sep 15 Tue · 16:52
Plugins high
Committed [3697413] to Plugins SVN:
Updating trunk for 5.9.12
August 2026
Aug 31 Mon · 10:50
Plugins high
Committed [3673929] to Plugins SVN:
Tagging version 2.3
Aug 31 Mon · 10:50
Plugins high
Committed [3673928] to Plugins SVN:
Release 2.3 - keep the currency symbol out of machine-readable output; respect the store's Currency position setting

Developer

7 plugins

Completed courses

3 completed

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Translations

2 locales
ar العربية (Arabic) Translation Contributor
de_DE Deutsch (German) Translation Contributor