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Iain Poulson

Senior Product Manager at WP Engine

@polevaultweb Bournemouth, UK joined Jan 2012

polevaultweb.com github.com/polevaultweb Slack: @polevaultweb

    Bio

    I’m a WordPress developer based on the south coast of England. I develop plugins like Intagrate and WP User Manager. I also run WP App Store for deals on WordPress plugins, themes and hosting.

    Badges

    CODE
    2 badges
    Core Contributor '15 Plugin Developer
    COMMUNITY
    1 badge
    Meetup Organizer '18
    PRACTICE
    1 badge
    Support Contributor '26

    Current Job

    Senior Product Manager
    Present
    WP Engine

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    7contributions
    high3
    medium4
    score13
    Last 90 days
    10contributions
    high3
    medium7
    score16
    Last 12 months
    17contributions
    high5
    medium12
    score27

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 7 releases
    • 6.3
    • 6.2
    • 4.7
    • 4.6
    • 4.5
    • 4.4
    • 4.3

    Contributions

    Type
    September 2026
    Sep 29 Tue · 21:05
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to How to circumvent the forced redirect on an individual basis, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi, Thanks for the clear description. You can keep the site lock on and exempt…
    Sep 22 Tue · 21:35
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Security Vulnerability Premmerce Permalink Manager for WooCommerce, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi @hassan024, @janhenrydesign and @danielbmxd, Following up to close this out. The vulnerability reported by…
    Sep 22 Tue · 21:32
    Plugins high
    Committed [3708132] to Plugins SVN:
    Update <a class="wiki" href="http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/wiki/WordPress">WordPress</a> tested up to version 7.1
    Sep 22 Tue · 21:28
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Freemius XSS alert (Wordfence), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi @danielbmxd, To answer your questions here for anyone else who finds this thread: Versions…
    Sep 22 Tue · 11:14
    Plugins high
    Committed [3707147] to Plugins SVN:
    Update to version 1.4.1 from GitHub
    Sep 22 Tue · 06:57
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Unable to log in to Instagram with Intagrate Lite 1.4, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi @omusubikorokoro Sorry for the wait. We saw several reports of this in late August,…
    Sep 21 Mon · 14:56
    Plugins high
    Committed [3705817] to Plugins SVN:
    Update WP tested up to version 7.1
    August 2026
    Aug 27 Thu · 20:46
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Gutenberg block in edit mode in content totally broken on WP 7.1, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thanks for the continued discussion here. A couple of updates since this thread was posted.…
    Aug 27 Thu · 07:57
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Huge security risk unless you pay in perpetuity, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Iain here, the product manager for ACF over at WP Engine 👋 Just to clarify:…
    July 2026
    Jul 15 Wed · 11:42
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Custom fields in default search?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    @jacejace Hi, ​Iain here, the product manager for ACF over at WP Engine 👋 As…