George Nicolaou (@orionaselite) – WordPress user profile

Bio

My name is George Nicolaou and I am a Senior Software Engineer

I worked on a multitude of prestigious projects with many diverse requirements. From the development of software for the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Cyprus, Adapting FreeMed (an EMR System), Development of web-based applications regarding EMRs and many more. I have been in significant positions such a Webmaster for Oberon Explorations Ltd., as well as served as an ICT Teacher for the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Cyprus.

I am the recipient of the award “Most Innovative Dissertation of the Year” by the Media Laboratory of the University of Cyprus and among my Honors is an MSc in Educational Technology with the highest obtainable grade.

I enjoy getting involved with all kinds of new tech and software. I am delighted being involved in Startups and ideas that may seem crazy to the rest of the world.

WordPress Origin Story

I started using WordPress in 2010. I found the platform intuitive and very easily extendable. Initially I used it mostly for personal projects. In 2012 I used WordPress for a school I was working at and in 2014 I switched to freelancing where WordPress became my daily driver.

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Plugin Developer

POLYGLOTS

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Translation Contributor '23 Translation Editor '23

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

5contributions

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medium5

score5

Last 90 days

7contributions

high1

medium6

score9

Last 12 months

14contributions

high6

medium8

score26

Contributions

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June 2026

Jun 21 Sun · 11:51

Plugins med

Submitted pull request #1372 to WordPress/plugin-check:
Add trademark for-use regression test

Jun 21 Sun · 11:39

Plugins med

Submitted pull request #1371 to WordPress/plugin-check:
Suppress PHPCS auto_detect_line_endings deprecation notice

Jun 20 Sat · 20:05

Plugins med

Submitted pull request #1369 to WordPress/plugin-check:
Fix false positive for files with only require_once and class definitions

Jun 19 Fri · 21:42

Core med

Submitted pull request #12239 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Docs: Improve filter hook docblock in WP_Navigation_Fallback

Jun 18 Thu · 23:01

Core med

Submitted pull request #12221 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Docs: Correct grammar in wpdb insert/replace docblocks

May 2026

May 27 Wed · 18:08

Core med

Submitted pull request #11990 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Use wp_filesize() instead of filesize() throughout core

April 2026

Apr 29 Wed · 14:45

Plugins high

Committed [3518550] to Plugins SVN:
fixes requested by plugin team

February 2026

Feb 27 Fri · 11:39

Forums med

Posted a reply to Trying to get in touch with support as a Pro user, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Support did in fact answer my question and solve my issue

Feb 26 Thu · 21:02

Forums med

Created a topic, Trying to get in touch with support as a Pro user, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I have been trying to get in touch with support after …

Feb 06 Fri · 17:30

Plugins high

Committed [3455576] to Plugins SVN:
Fix readme structure so short description is parsed correctly