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Dave Hilditch

Founder at Super Speedy Plugins

@dhilditch Greece joined Mar 2012

superspeedyplugins.com github.com/dhilditch Slack: @davehilditch

    Bio

    Scottish WordPress performance expert based in Greece, founder of WP Intense, creator of Scalability Pro, Super Speedy Search and Super Speedy Filters amongst other plugins.

    I love making things faster and I love talking at WordCamps.

    Interests

    WordPress performance, WooCommerce performance, Affiliate websites

    WordPress Origin Story

    Left Skyscanner in 2011 to build my own business, eventually found my way to WordPress to build out affiliate websites but found WooCommerce to be slow at scale.

    Solved the various problems with custom code and eventually turned this custom code into the plugins available on my website.

    Badges

    CODE
    2 badges
    Core Contributor '22 Plugin Developer
    COMMUNITY
    1 badge
    WordCamp Speaker '19

    Current Job

    Founder
    Jan 2016 – Present
    Super Speedy Plugins · Full-time

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    4contributions
    high3
    medium1
    score10
    Last 90 days
    5contributions
    high3
    medium2
    score11
    Last 12 months
    5contributions
    high3
    medium2
    score11

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 1 release
    • 6.1

    Contributions

    Type
    October 2026
    Oct 06 Tue · 11:31
    Plugins high
    Committed [3730670] to Plugins SVN:
    Readme: accurate URL, FTP and migration wording; catalogue sync, large files, FAQ; unlimited banner
    Oct 06 Tue · 08:39
    GitHub med
    Created issue #517 in the WordPress/sqlite-database-integration repository:
    IF() always returns the else branch
    Oct 05 Mon · 12:43
    Plugins high
    Committed [3728896] to Plugins SVN:
    Readme: real links; changelog links to superspeedyplugins.com
    Oct 05 Mon · 12:33
    Plugins high
    Committed [3728880] to Plugins SVN:
    Super Speedy Imports Lite 2.99.21
    July 2026
    Jul 19 Sun · 22:18
    Forums med
    Created a topic, PSA: If you used the MCP meta feature check your data, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I was using 3.5.9 July 1st version - and this bug was …
    November 2024
    Nov 27 Wed · 18:36
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Speed not great, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    A transient would help, keep it short lived, I think even just using the single…
    Nov 27 Wed · 14:34
    Forums med
    Created a topic, Speed not great, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    The customtaxorder_get_settings function gets called a…
    June 2023
    Jun 16 Fri · 13:22
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Worst payments plugin EVER, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    The only reason to use Reference Transactions instead of regular PayPal subscriptions is so that…
    Jun 15 Thu · 11:55
    Forums med
    Created a topic, Worst payments plugin EVER, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Regularly get error messages in the logs, they broke a…
    August 2022
    Aug 13 Sat · 21:53
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Need help, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Many themes come with required plugins that you must enable. Visit your plugins page and…

    Developer

    1 plugin