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

7contributions

high6

medium1

score19

Last 90 days

23contributions

high20

medium3

score63

Last 12 months

102contributions

high90

medium12

score282

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

August 2026

Aug 10 Mon · 21:54

Meta high

Wrote a new post, Plugins Team: 10 Aug 2026, on the site Team Updates:
Plugin Status Change Stats Plugins requested : 737 Plugins rejected : 29 Plugins closed :…

Aug 05 Wed · 16:54

Meta high

Wrote a new post, Plugins Directory Release Process Issues, on the site Make WordPress Plugins:
The Plugins Team is aware of an issue currently affecting plugin releases and is actively…

Aug 03 Mon · 17:18

Meta high

Wrote a new post, Plugins Team: 3 Aug 2026, on the site Team Updates:
Plugin Status Change Stats Plugins requested : 800 Plugins rejected : 227 Plugins closed :…

July 2026

Jul 27 Mon · 10:53

Meta high

Wrote a new post, Plugins Team: 27 Jul 2026, on the site Team Updates:
Plugin Status Change Stats Plugins requested : 807 Plugins rejected : 31 Plugins closed :…

Jul 27 Mon · 09:24

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post WordPress.org FreeScout Instance, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
Hello, the Plugins Team would need to prepare for the transition to a new tool,…

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 :…