Olaf Lederer (@finalwebsites) – WordPress user profile

Bio

My name is Olaf Lederer and I’m building PHP powered web applications since 2002. My first blog was built with WordPress in 2006 and today most of my web development jobs are done by using WordPress. Beside building websites, I spend a lot of time on online marketing, blogging and other “geeky” internet stuff.

Interests

WordPress, building websites, online marketing, writing blogs

WordPress Origin Story

I remember me that a friend asked me in 2005 why I didn’t have a blog (of course using WordPress). He mentioned: “That would be a great update for your website about PHP web development”. It took some time to work on that idea and finally in 2006 I published my first article “Parse html with PHP, a preg_match_all tutorial” on my Web Development Blog. The funny thing is that it took ~6 month to get some visitors for this website. While my first website finalwebsites.com had already a ~400 visitors a day, it was sometimes very hard to continue blogging. It took also some time before I tweaked or developed my first own WordPress theme. During the first years I used free and premium themes and finally in 2009 I programmed a custom theme for my dutch website on finalwebsites.nl. That was also the time that I wrote several plugins for the standalone version of bbPress. Today 90% of my personal and customer’s websites are based on WordPress and I write a lot of custom code to tweak these WordPress websites to the next level.

Badges

CODE

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Core Contributor '24 Plugin Developer

COMMUNITY

2 badges

WordCamp Organizer '19 WordCamp Speaker '18

PRACTICE

1 badge

Support Contributor '26

POLYGLOTS

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Translation Contributor '19

Current Job

Web Developer

Present

finalwebsites.com

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

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medium2

score2

Last 90 days

4contributions

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Last 12 months

79contributions

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WordPress releases

Contributed to 2 releases

Contributions

Type

July 2026

Jul 17 Fri · 12:58

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Posted a reply to [NinjaFirewall (WP Edition) - Advanced Security Plugin and Firewall] Problem with Elementor URL’s, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The problem was a custom rule in the .htninja file.Please close.

Jul 17 Fri · 12:21

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Created a topic, Problem with Elementor URL’s, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi,I get a 403 error with URL's like:https:// domain.c…

June 2026

Jun 29 Mon · 09:56

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Posted a reply to [EO4WP: EmailOctopus for WordPress] Conflict with Email Octopus official plugin?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Honey,Thanks for your question. As far as I know, there is no conflict between…

May 2026

May 18 Mon · 17:25

Polyglots high

Translated 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.

April 2026

Apr 30 Thu · 08:58

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Created a topic, How to whitelist specific json API requests, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi,For most websites, I use the "WordPress REST API" o…

Apr 30 Thu · 08:57

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Created a topic, PHP mail function, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, On a large number of hosting platforms, the PHP…

Apr 26 Sun · 15:22

Polyglots high

Translated 16 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

Apr 26 Sun · 14:05

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Suggested 60 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

March 2026

Mar 31 Tue · 13:08

Polyglots high