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Konstantin Kovshenin

Platform Engineer at Human Made

@kovshenin UK joined Oct 2008

konstantin.blog github.com/kovshenin Slack: @kovshenin
    Languages ru_RU uk

    Bio

    WordPress Core Contributor, Speaker, Engineering and DevOps. Building hosting platforms and making things go fast. I break servers. I also break serverless.

    Interests

    music, piano, servers, python

    WordPress Origin Story

    Nothing fancy, started a blog in 2008, which looked like crap. Fiddled with it, built some themes, made some plugins, contributed some core patches, did some public speaking, organized some WordCamps. 16 years later blog still looks like crap.

    Badges

    CODE
    7 badges
    Core Contributor '15 Core Team '14 Meta Contributor '15 Meta Team '15 Plugin Developer Theme Developer Themes Team '14
    CONTENT
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    WordPress.tv Contributor '16
    COMMUNITY
    2 badges
    WordCamp Organizer '14 WordCamp Speaker '18
    PRACTICE
    2 badges
    Support Contributor '20 Support Team '20
    POLYGLOTS
    1 badge
    Translation Contributor '15

    Current Job

    Platform Engineer
    Present
    Human Made

    Recent impact

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

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    Last 12 months
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    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 21 releases
    • 6.6
    • 6.4
    • 6.1
    • 4.9
    • 4.8
    • 4.7
    • 4.6
    • 4.5
    • 4.4
    • 4.3
    • 4.2
    • 4.1
    • 4.0
    • 3.9
    • 3.8
    • 3.7
    • 3.6
    • 3.5
    • 3.4
    • 3.3
    • 3.2

    Contributions

    Type
    February 2026
    Feb 26 Thu · 20:19
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Cache 404s?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    You're very welcome!
    Feb 26 Thu · 16:34
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Cache 404s?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hey Jason, Surge definitely considers a 404 response for caching, however WordPress core sends nocache…
    December 2025
    Dec 17 Wed · 20:03
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Problem with The SEO Framework plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Looks like the SEO Framework plugin author has decided to simply disable caching for sitemap…
    Dec 17 Wed · 15:14
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Problem with The SEO Framework plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Both requests will eventually produce empty cached output due to the way The SEO Framework…
    Dec 17 Wed · 14:48
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Problem with The SEO Framework plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi @mafe65, thanks for reaching out! There is a problem with the SEO Framework plugin…
    August 2025
    Aug 12 Tue · 07:23
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to PHP Fatal error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi Alex, sounds like you're ending the response before the pluggables are loaded. I'll add…
    May 2024
    May 05 Sun · 10:06
    Core high
    Pull request #60962 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
    Update Node.js requirement in create-block docs.
    April 2024
    Apr 22 Mon · 13:41
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #60962 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Update Node.js requirement in create-block docs.
    February 2024
    Feb 28 Wed · 21:43
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to A tiny caching plugin that works and needs no adjustments!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thank you so much for the kind words Greg!
    October 2023
    Oct 12 Thu · 15:58
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Gives error message on Subdomain., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Top-level or subdomain doesn't really matter for Surge. If the message shows up it means…

    Developer

    16 plugins

    Contributor

    1 plugin

    Themes

    4 themes

    Plugins

    9 favorites

    Themes

    3 favorites

    Translations

    2 locales
    ru_RU Русский (Russian) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 15 projects.

    WordPress for iOS Maker WordPress 4.2.x WordPress 4.3.x WordPress 4.4.x WordPress 4.5.x WordPress 4.6.x WordPress 4.7.x WordPress 4.8.x WordPress 4.9.x WordPress 5.0.x WordPress 5.1.x WordPress 5.2.x WordPress 5.3.x WordPress 7.0.x - Development

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    uk Українська (Ukrainian) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 13 projects.

    WordPress 4.2.x WordPress 4.3.x WordPress 4.4.x WordPress 4.5.x WordPress 4.6.x WordPress 4.7.x WordPress 4.8.x WordPress 4.9.x WordPress 5.0.x WordPress 5.1.x WordPress 5.2.x WordPress 5.3.x WordPress 7.0.x - Development

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