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Nathan Rice

Manager, Engineering at WP Engine, Inc.

@nathanrice South Carolina, USA joined Sep 2007

nathanrice.me github.com/nathanrice Slack: @Nathan Rice

    Bio

    WP Engine via StudioPress

    Creator of GenesisWP

    Rockin’ WordPress since ’05

    Badges

    CODE
    2 badges
    Core Contributor '15 Plugin Developer

    Current Job

    Manager, Engineering
    Present
    WP Engine, Inc.

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    4contributions
    high2
    medium2
    score8
    Last 90 days
    4contributions
    high2
    medium2
    score8
    Last 12 months
    4contributions
    high2
    medium2
    score8

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 4 releases
    • 5.5
    • 4.7
    • 3.7
    • 3.2

    Contributions

    Type
    August 2026
    Aug 27 Thu · 19:45
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63367] on WordPress SVN:
    Code Quality: Narrow `$upgrader` type in upgrader skins.
    Aug 26 Wed · 22:02
    Core high
    Mentioned in [63353] on WordPress SVN:
    Code Quality: Remove empty `greater.invalid` PHPStan baseline file.
    Aug 26 Wed · 20:50
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #13285 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Build/Test Tools: Remove empty greater.invalid PHPStan baseline file
    Aug 26 Wed · 17:37
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #13283 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Code Quality: Resolve method.notFound PHPStan baseline errors
    December 2020
    Dec 11 Fri · 12:35
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to “Layouts” selector not Showing, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    One extra note, Atomic Blocks is no longer where we are dedicating time to active…
    June 2020
    Jun 06 Sat · 11:05
    Core high
    Mentioned in [47919] on WordPress SVN:
    Bootstrap/Load: Introduce `wp_get_environment_type()` to retrieve the current environment type.
    April 2020
    Apr 13 Mon · 15:25
    Plugins high
    Committed [2282495] to Plugins SVN:
    Apr 13 Mon · 15:20
    Plugins high
    Committed [2282494] to Plugins SVN:
    Apr 13 Mon · 13:58
    Plugins high
    Committed [2282456] to Plugins SVN:
    Apr 13 Mon · 13:56
    Plugins high
    Committed [2282455] to Plugins SVN:

    Developer

    7 plugins

    Contributor

    6 plugins