Francisco Torres (@frantorres) – WordPress user profile

Bio

I’m a computer engineer who works mainly as a WordPress back-end*er* and consultant. I have worked for over 10 years creating websites, themes and plugins, planning and developing customized solutions for their needs, aligning development teams, convincing them to not open a PHP declaration with just <? and giving WordPress’s touch of pink to my clients.

WordPress Origin Story

While studying, around 2009, I started collaborating with an online media about public transport and sustainable mobility, at that moment I was both journalist and the IT guy. They installed WordPress one month before I joined because it was something they could do. As the medium grew up, we had challenges related to hosting, WPO, SEO, WP Multisite, Multi language and I learned to face them step by step. I started to love WP, some friends already loved it and I joined them at WordCamp Seville 2012. That’s where everything begun.

Badges

CODE

4 badges

Core Contributor '25 Meta Contributor '23 Plugin Developer Plugins Team '23

COMMUNITY

3 badges

Meetup Organizer '18 WordCamp Organizer '19 WordCamp Speaker '14

POLYGLOTS

1 badge

Translation Contributor '15

Current Job

CTO

Present

GIGA4

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

8contributions

high8

medium0

score24

Last 90 days

21contributions

high19

medium2

score59

Last 12 months

103contributions

high90

medium13

score283

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 1 release

Time commitment

15 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

SiteGround

Contributions

Type

July 2026

Jul 20 Mon · 17:42

Meta high

Wrote a new post, Plugins Team: 20 Jul 2026, on the site Team Updates:
Plugin Status Change Stats Plugins requested : 816 Plugins rejected : 190 Plugins closed :…

Jul 17 Fri · 16:22

Meta high

Mentioned in [14979] on Meta SVN:
Plugin Directory: Better prevention against duplicate plugin submissions

Jul 15 Wed · 22:29

Meta high

Mentioned in [14974] on Meta SVN:
Plugin Directory: Clarify guidlines on "Add your plugin" page.

Jul 13 Mon · 15:18

Meta high

Wrote a new post, Plugins Team: 13 Jul 2026, on the site Team Updates:
Plugin Status Change Stats Plugins requested : 791 Plugins rejected : 218 Plugins closed :…

Jul 07 Tue · 16:03

Meta high

Wrote a new post, Plugins Team: 6 Jul 2026, on the site Team Updates:
Plugin Status Change Stats Plugins requested : 791 Plugins rejected : 119 Plugins closed :…

June 2026

Jun 30 Tue · 11:23

Meta high

Updated the handbook page Plugin Developer FAQ on WordPress Developer Resources.

Jun 29 Mon · 17:37

Meta high

Wrote a new post, Plugins Team: 29 Jun 2026, on the site Team Updates:
Plugin Status Change Stats Plugins requested : 705 Plugins rejected : 155 Plugins closed :…

Jun 26 Fri · 12:30

Meta med

Closed ticket #8334 on Meta Trac:
Notifal: Active Versions chart frozen at v1.3 for 5 months despite ...

Jun 22 Mon · 16:29

Meta high

Wrote a new post, Plugins Team: 22 Jun 2026, on the site Team Updates:
Plugin Status Change Stats Plugins requested : 719 Plugins rejected : 164 Plugins closed :…

Jun 15 Mon · 14:09

Meta high

Wrote a new post, Plugins Team: 14 Jun 2026, on the site Team Updates:
Plugin Status Change Stats Plugins requested : 759 Plugins rejected : 302 Plugins closed :…