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

26contributions

high23

medium3

score72

Last 12 months

104contributions

high93

medium11

score290

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

September 2026

Sep 03 Thu · 13:01

Meta high

Mentioned in [15133] on Meta SVN:
Plugin Directory: New endpoints to integrate reviewers tools.

Sep 01 Tue · 11:52

Meta high

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

August 2026

Aug 31 Mon · 16:00

Meta high

Wrote a new post, Plugins Team: 31 Aug 2026, on the site Team Updates:
Plugin Status Change Stats Plugins requested : 815 Plugins rejected : 318 Plugins closed :…

Aug 30 Sun · 11:28

Meta high

Made 2 updates to handbook pages on WordPress Developer Resources.

Aug 25 Tue · 23:14

Meta high

Received props from @lukecarbis in Slack:
Props to @frantorres for making regular improvements to the internal tools used by the Plugin…

Aug 24 Mon · 12:43

Meta high

Wrote a new post, Plugins Team: 24 Aug 2026, on the site Team Updates:
Plugin Status Change Stats Plugins requested : 827 Plugins rejected : 292 Plugins closed :…

Aug 17 Mon · 15:51

Meta high

Wrote a new post, Plugins Team: 17 Aug 2026, on the site Team Updates:
Plugin Status Change Stats Plugins requested : 805 Plugins rejected : 322 Plugins closed :…

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 :…