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Olaf Lederer

Web Developer at finalwebsites.com

@finalwebsites Doetinchem, the Netherlands joined Oct 2007

finalwebsites.nl github.com/finalwebsites Slack: @Olaf
    Languages nl_NL

    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
    2 badges
    Core Contributor '24 Plugin Developer
    COMMUNITY
    2 badges
    WordCamp Organizer '19 WordCamp Speaker '18
    PRACTICE
    1 badge
    Support Contributor '26
    POLYGLOTS
    1 badge
    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
    36contributions
    high21
    medium15
    score78
    Last 90 days
    57contributions
    high26
    medium31
    score109
    Last 12 months
    112contributions
    high40
    medium72
    score192

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 2 releases
    • 6.8
    • 6.7

    Contributions

    Type
    October 2026
    Oct 05 Mon · 06:51
    Polyglots med
    Suggested 6 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
    Oct 04 Sun · 11:05
    Polyglots high
    Translated 29 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
    Oct 04 Sun · 10:37
    Polyglots med
    Suggested 86 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
    Oct 04 Sun · 10:34
    Plugins high
    Committed [3727310] to Plugins SVN:
    Random name block
    Oct 03 Sat · 19:30
    Polyglots high
    Translated 126 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
    Oct 03 Sat · 18:36
    Plugins high
    Committed [3726620] to Plugins SVN:
    Translations
    Oct 03 Sat · 14:06
    Plugins high
    Committed [3726343] to Plugins SVN:
    First release
    Oct 03 Sat · 12:56
    Plugins high
    Committed [3726274] to Plugins SVN:
    Small improvements
    September 2026
    Sep 28 Mon · 15:21
    Polyglots high
    Translated 5 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
    Sep 28 Mon · 12:16
    Polyglots med
    Suggested 18 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

    Developer

    4 plugins

    Completed courses

    1 completed

    Browse courses on Learn WordPress

    Plugins

    26 favorites

    Translations

    2 locales
    nl_NL Nederlands (Dutch) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 6 projects.

    EO4WP: EmailOctopus for WordPress FW Tools for Elementor Forms Simple Contact Form – Accessible & Anti-Spam Simple SMTP by Maileroo Super Page Cache – Cloudflare Cache, Page Speed & Core Web Vitals OceanWP

    View all on translate.wordpress.org

    nl_NL / formal Nederlands (Dutch) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 1 project.

    EO4WP: EmailOctopus for WordPress

    View all on translate.wordpress.org