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Mario Peshev

CEO at DevriX

@nofearinc Europe joined Dec 2008

mariopeshev.com github.com/mpeshev Slack: @nofearinc
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    Bio

    CEO @DevriX – a 50+ WordPress agency that pioneered “WordPress retainers”.

    We partner up with successful SMEs, publishers, and fast-growing startups through technical and marketing consulting, scaling publishers past 500 million monthly page views, complex multisite-driven SaaS applications, and diverse platforms for banks, telecoms, automotive vendors and more.

    I’ve started my career in programming in 1999 and built my first WordPress site in 2006. Since then, I’ve built hundreds of plugins, led 150+ theme reviews for WordPress.org, co-organized meetups & WordCamps, architected several powerful theme frameworks and SaaS membership solutions, and led the technical teams behind 3 billion monthly visitors combined.

    WordPress Core contributor since WP 3.7.

    Interests

    Platform development, business growth consulting, technical speaking. Find me on Twitter – @no_fear_Inc

    WordPress Origin Story

    Read my official origin story thanks to the WordPress marketing team – https://wordpress.org/news/2020/04/people-of-wordpress-mario-peshev/

    Badges

    CODE
    4 badges
    Core Contributor '15 Plugin Developer Theme Developer Themes Team '14
    CONTENT
    1 badge
    Documentation Contributor '17
    COMMUNITY
    4 badges
    B BuddyPress Contributor '19 Community Contributor '17 WordCamp Organizer '14 WordCamp Speaker '19
    POLYGLOTS
    2 badges
    Translation Contributor '15 Translation Editor '15

    Current Job

    CEO
    Present
    DevriX

    Recent impact

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

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    Last 90 days
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    Last 12 months
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    score8

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 10 releases
    • 6.8
    • 5.3
    • 4.5
    • 4.4
    • 4.3
    • 4.2
    • 4.1
    • 3.9
    • 3.8
    • 3.7

    Contributions

    Type
    December 2025
    Dec 08 Mon · 03:41
    GitHub high
    Pull request #140 merged into WordPress/php-ai-client:
    json_last_error() usage for json_decode validation for compliance
    Dec 08 Mon · 03:41
    GitHub high
    Pull request #139 merged into WordPress/php-ai-client:
    Removing an old Docblock as includeRequiredOption was previously deleted
    November 2025
    Nov 30 Sun · 11:59
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #140 to WordPress/php-ai-client:
    json_last_error() usage for json_decode validation for compliance
    Nov 30 Sun · 11:17
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #139 to WordPress/php-ai-client:
    Removing an old Docblock as includeRequiredOption was previously deleted
    January 2025
    Jan 21 Tue · 22:57
    Core high
    Mentioned in [59677] on WordPress SVN:
    Formatting: Preserve `target="_blank"` in Biographical Info and Category Description.
    July 2024
    Jul 04 Thu · 08:09
    Polyglots high
    Reviewed 76 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
    April 2024
    Apr 02 Tue · 21:47
    Marketing med
    Created issue #409 in the WordPress/Marketing-Team repository:
    6.5 Announcement Feedback (Suggested enhancements going forward)
    September 2023
    Sep 19 Tue · 20:07
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Analyzing the Core Web Vitals performance impact of WordPress 6.3 in the field, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    This is one of the best analyses I've read here. Thank you.
    March 2023
    Mar 22 Wed · 12:09
    Polyglots high
    Reviewed 80 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
    October 2020
    Oct 06 Tue · 16:54
    Meta high
    Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Bulgaria 2020

    Developer

    19 plugins

    Contributor

    4 plugins

    Themes

    3 themes

    Plugins

    36 favorites

    Translations

    1 locale
    bg_BG Български (Bulgarian) General Translation Editor Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 16 projects.

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