Benjamin Zekavica (@benjamin_zekavica) – WordPress user profile

Bio

My name is Benjamin Zekavica, 27 years old. I’m from Aachen, Germany.

– Founder of UnleashWP
– Author of UnleashWP Vol. 1 Book
– Web Developer since 2008 | 17 years
– WordPress User since 2013 | 12 years
– Community Member since 2015 | 10 years

Core Team
– Core Team global representative 2025
– WordPress 6.5 (April 2024) | Release Team: Design Lead
– Gutenberg Core Developer since WP version 5.0

Community Team
Mentor Q1 for Core Team

WordCamp Attendee:
Europe 2019, Europe 2023, Germany 2023, Europe 2024, Karlsruhe 2024

WordCamp Volunteer: Europe 2023, Europe 2024
WordCamp Organizer: Germany 2023
WordCamp Speaker: Germany 2023, Europe 2025
WordPress Meetup Organizer/Speaker: Aachen

Interests

WordPress Themes, WordPress Plugins, HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript

WordPress Origin Story

My first version was WP 3.0. I love WordPress because its so easy and works fantastic. Contributor of Gutenberg and WordPress Core.

Badges

CODE

11 badges

Core Contributor '18 C Core Performance Contributor '23 Core Team '24 Design Contributor '23 Hosting Contributor '23 Meta Contributor '23 Pattern Author '23 Plugin Developer Theme Developer Tide Contributor '24 WP-CLI Contributor '24

CONTENT

4 badges

Documentation Contributor '23 O Openverse Contributor '23 Photo Contributor '23 WordPress.tv Contributor '24

COMMUNITY

7 badges

bbPress Contributor '24 B BuddyPress Contributor '24 Community Contributor '24 Meetup Organizer '23 WordCamp Organizer '23 WordCamp Speaker '23 WordCamp Volunteer '26

PRACTICE

3 badges

Accessibility Contributor '24 Test Contributor '23 Training Contributor '24

POLYGLOTS

2 badges

Translation Contributor '17 Translation Editor '23

Current Job

Founder & Owner

Present

Morvance & Kreo Pulse

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

12contributions

high11

medium1

score34

Last 90 days

36contributions

high34

medium2

score104

Last 12 months

93contributions

high77

medium16

score247

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 10 releases

Contributions

Type

September 2026

Sep 08 Tue · 07:40

Meta high

Received props from @krupajnanda in Slack:
Props to @Benjamin_Zekavica for preparing and publishing the WordPress 7.1 Release retrospective post! :hero:

Sep 07 Mon · 16:44

Meta high

Wrote a new post, WordPress 7.1 Release Retrospective, on the site Make WordPress Core:
A huge congratulations, and a giant thank you to everyone who helped make WordPress 7.1…

August 2026

Aug 20 Thu · 00:34

Meta high

Gave props in Slack:
Props to @markoserb, @obenland, @bjmcsherry, @Joen, @sfougnier for their wonderful design and video assets, and…

Aug 20 Thu · 00:32

Meta high

Gave props in Slack:
Props to @annezazu, @krupajnanda, @wildworks, @joedolson, @adrianduffell, @sajjad67, @SergeyBiryukov, @huzaifaalmesbah, @nikunj8866 for their amazing work…

Aug 20 Thu · 00:31

Meta high

Gave props in Slack:
Props to @krupajnanda, @amykamala for their amazing coordinating work during the 7.1 release.

Aug 20 Thu · 00:27

Meta high

Received props from @amykamala in Slack:
Props to @Benjamin_Zekavica, @krupajnanda, @wildworks, @joedolson , @SergeyBiryukov, @desrosj, @JeffPaul,@milana_cap, @markoserb,@bjmcsherry, @obenland for facilitating the…

Aug 17 Mon · 17:24

Meta high

Received props from @krupajnanda in Slack:
Props to @Benjamin_Zekavica and @amykamala for their support during the 7.1 RC4 release. :hero:

Aug 17 Mon · 17:23

Meta high

Received props from @krupajnanda in Slack:
Props to @wildworks @joedolson @SergeyBiryukov @Benjamin_Zekavica @amykamala @desrosj @JeffPaul @milana_cap @markoserb and @westonruter for help…

Aug 17 Mon · 15:29

Meta high

Wrote a new post, WordPress 7.1 Release Candidate 4, on the site Make WordPress Core:
The fourth Release Candidate (“RC4”) for WordPress 7.1 is ready for download and testing! This…

Aug 14 Fri · 07:28

Polyglots high

Translated 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.