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Brandon Ernst

Founder at Gaucho Plugins

@brandonfire California joined Dec 2018

gauchoplugins.com github.com/brand-on-fire Slack: @Brandon

    Bio

    Founder at Gaucho Plugins
    Founder at Brand on Fire LLC
    Former Head of Marketing @ Freemius.com

    WordPress Origin Story

    Started developing in WordPress in 2011!

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    CODE
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    Plugin Developer
    COMMUNITY
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    WordCamp Speaker '20
    POLYGLOTS
    1 badge
    Translation Contributor '21

    Current Job

    Founder
    Present
    Gaucho Plugins

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    15contributions
    high15
    medium0
    score45
    Last 90 days
    47contributions
    high47
    medium0
    score141
    Last 12 months
    202contributions
    high199
    medium3
    score600

    Contributions

    Type
    September 2026
    Sep 27 Sun · 07:51
    Plugins high
    Committed [3715117] to Plugins SVN:
    Hold 3.8.5: keep 3.8.4 as the stable version until customer-site testing is done
    Sep 27 Sun · 07:49
    Plugins high
    Committed [3715115] to Plugins SVN:
    Release version 3.8.5
    Sep 27 Sun · 06:59
    Plugins high
    Committed [3715066] to Plugins SVN:
    Tag version 1.6.5
    Sep 27 Sun · 06:59
    Plugins high
    Committed [3715065] to Plugins SVN:
    Update to version 1.6.5
    Sep 18 Fri · 00:06
    Plugins high
    Committed [3701123] to Plugins SVN:
    Update docs links
    Sep 09 Wed · 18:59
    Plugins high
    Committed [3688886] to Plugins SVN:
    Replace long dashes with hyphens in readme
    Sep 09 Wed · 18:59
    Plugins high
    Committed [3688885] to Plugins SVN:
    Replace long dashes with hyphens in readme
    Sep 09 Wed · 18:58
    Plugins high
    Committed [3688884] to Plugins SVN:
    Replace long dashes with hyphens in readme
    Sep 09 Wed · 18:58
    Plugins high
    Committed [3688883] to Plugins SVN:
    Replace long dashes with hyphens in readme
    Sep 09 Wed · 18:58
    Plugins high
    Committed [3688881] to Plugins SVN:
    Replace long dashes with hyphens in readme

    Developer

    8 plugins

    Plugins

    17 favorites

    Translations

    4 locales
    es_ES Español (Spanish) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 2 projects.

    Domain Mapping System | Create Microsites with Multiple Alias Domains (multisite optional) Speed in China | Test Website Speed from Mainland China | GFW Optimization & Google Fonts

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    cs_CZ Čeština (Czech) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 1 project.

    Speed in China | Test Website Speed from Mainland China | GFW Optimization & Google Fonts

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    it_IT Italiano (Italian) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 1 project.

    Speed in China | Test Website Speed from Mainland China | GFW Optimization & Google Fonts

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    ja 日本語 (Japanese) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 1 project.

    Speed in China | Test Website Speed from Mainland China | GFW Optimization & Google Fonts

    View all on translate.wordpress.org