Nagesh Pai (@nagpai) – WordPress user profile

Bio

A student of code | Live and Love WordPress

Interests

Full stack development, Customer Success, Music, Teaching.

WordPress Origin Story

Although i had first tried creating a personal blog on WordPress.com, my actual journey with WordPress.org took speed with my community project – http://www.radioidli.net . Trials and self-learning from this project gave me most of my lessons in Online media and marketing too.

The success and learning from this site attracted projects from community institutions, non-profits and small business clients. This grew from a hobby to a side business back in 2007 to freelance self-employment in 2012.

Fast-forward 5 years, worked full-time with WordPress.com as a support engineer and eventually followed the career path of a developer via WooCommerce. Worked at Automattic until April 2, 2025.

I now work on independent projects, and learn new things each day while at it!

Badges

CODE

2 badges

Core Contributor '22 Plugin Developer

CONTENT

2 badges

Marketing Contributor '17 Photo Contributor '22

COMMUNITY

2 badges

WordCamp Speaker '17 WordCamp Volunteer '26

PRACTICE

1 badge

Support Contributor '26

POLYGLOTS

1 badge

Translation Contributor '19

Current Job

Independent Software Developer

Apr 2025 – Present

Self-Employed · Freelance

I take up freelance projects in WordPress, WooCommerce, Drupal and open source. I love learning new platforms.

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

6contributions

high2

medium4

score10

Last 90 days

25contributions

high10

medium15

score45

Last 12 months

86contributions

high20

medium66

score126

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 2 releases

Time commitment

1 hour per week

On my own time 1 hr/wk

Contributions

Type

July 2026

Jul 31 Fri · 14:09

Plugins high

Committed [3630097] to Plugins SVN:
Update the correct plugin zip file link in Playground blueprint

Jul 31 Fri · 13:42

Forums med

Posted a reply to My “add to cart” buttons not working in shop page and home page, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Michael, This issue may be more appropriate for the WooCommerce support thread. Feel free…

Jul 31 Fri · 11:57

Forums med

Created a topic, Convert posts to a book, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I had an opportunity to test drive this plugin since i…

Jul 27 Mon · 09:04

Polyglots high

Translated 9 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

Jul 25 Sat · 13:50

Forums med

Posted a reply to Twenty Twenty-Five Navigation Submenu Background Color Cannot Be Overridden, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, I tried doing a similar change on a fresh playground website. It indeed feels…

Jul 21 Tue · 16:16

Polyglots med

Suggested 26 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

June 2026

Jun 18 Thu · 09:31

Polyglots med

Suggested 6 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

Jun 15 Mon · 12:48

Forums med

Posted a reply to I need “Offset”, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
(sorry about the i-Max sized screenshots effects at no additional cost LoL. something wrong with…

Jun 15 Mon · 12:46

Forums med

Posted a reply to I need “Offset”, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I just tested with WP 7.0 and latest version of the 2025 theme. You need…

Jun 15 Mon · 12:09

Forums med

Posted a reply to Search results return featured images, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi. @webgroup1 . You may want to edit the Search Results template. 1. Get into…