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

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

21contributions

high20

medium1

score61

Last 90 days

27contributions

high25

medium2

score77

Last 12 months

88contributions

high73

medium15

score234

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 9 releases

Contributions

Type

August 2026

Aug 05 Wed · 19:25

GitHub med

Created issue #67 in the WordPress/wporg-make repository:
Core Blog | Fix Incorrect Closing Tag for Timezone Shortcode

Aug 05 Wed · 16:21

Meta high

Gave props in Slack:
Props to @jigar9998, @mindctrl, @clementpolito, @fandevelop, @shailu25, @rcorrales, @sonaliprajapati, @khokansardar, @vishitshah, @azharderaiya, @ugyensupport, @gajendrasingh, @noruzzaman,…

Aug 05 Wed · 16:21

Meta high

Gave props in Slack:
Props to @joedolson, @markoserb and @obenland for their great work designing and developing the About…

Aug 05 Wed · 16:20

Meta high

Gave props in Slack:
Props to @jorbin for the article "WordPress 7.1 Release Candidate Phase," publishing detailed committer information…

Aug 05 Wed · 16:20

Meta high

Gave props in Slack:
Props to @milana_cap, @adamsilverstein, @tyxla, @joedolson, @isabel_brison, @talldanwp, @aaronrobertshaw, @wildworks, @oandregal, @youknowriad, @0mirka00, @aduth, @fushar,…

Aug 05 Wed · 16:20

Meta high

Gave props in Slack:
Props to @krupajnanda, @amykamala for their support and feedback during the 7.1 RC 1 release.

Aug 05 Wed · 16:19

Meta high

Gave props in Slack:
Props to @wildworks, @joedolson and @desrosj for facilitating the 7.1 RC 1 release party!

Aug 05 Wed · 15:37

Meta high

Wrote a new post, WordPress 7.1 Release Candidate 1, on the site WordPress News:
The first Release Candidate (“RC1”) for WordPress 7.1 is ready for download and testing! This…

July 2026

Jul 29 Wed · 16:12

Meta high

Gave props in Slack:
Props to @kausaralm, @khokansardar and @softglaze for helping test during the 7.1 Beta 4 release…

Jul 29 Wed · 15:55

Meta high

Received props from @softglaze in Slack:
Props to me @softglaze for helping beta testing too @Benjamin_Zekavica :smile: