powereight (@powereight) – WordPress user profile

Bio

Developer of SPOSCOR — WordPress plugins that help sports teams and local organizations publish match results, standings, and tournaments.

I run a small IT company in Shizuoka, Japan. After a decade of volunteering with local sports federations, I build the tools I wished they had: simple, fast, and focused on what actually gets used.

SPOSCOR is the main project, but I plan to release other plugins as I run into problems worth solving.

WordPress Origin Story

I run a small IT company in Shizuoka, Japan, and I’ve spent over a decade volunteering with local sports organizations — including a soccer federation for players with intellectual disabilities.

Every season, I watched the same thing happen: they wanted to share match results on their website, but ended up posting PDFs or plain blog entries because the existing tools were too heavy.

I started building WordPress sites for these organizations, and eventually realized the plugin they actually needed didn’t exist. So I decided to build it.

That’s SPOSCOR, and it’s where most of my time goes. But the same pattern keeps showing up in other work — something that should be simple isn’t, and the plugin that would fix it isn’t there. When I hit one of those, I’ll build that too.

WordPress gave a one-person company in a small Japanese city the ability to build something for the whole world. That still amazes me.

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September 2026

Sep 14 Mon · 19:27

Polyglots high

Translated 7 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

Sep 09 Wed · 07:26

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Translated 143 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

Sep 08 Tue · 10:51

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Suggested 8 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

Sep 08 Tue · 10:48

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Translated 8 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

Sep 07 Mon · 10:58

Polyglots high

Translated 2 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

Sep 07 Mon · 03:14

Plugins high

Committed [3684111] to Plugins SVN:
Tagging version 1.3.34

Sep 07 Mon · 03:13

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Committed [3684109] to Plugins SVN:
Release 1.3.34

Sep 06 Sun · 01:44

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Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for SPOSCOR Padel…, on the site Translate WordPress:
Thank you for the review and for granting PTE. Much appreciated!

Sep 06 Sun · 01:42

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Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for SPOSCOR Padel…, on the site Translate WordPress:
Thank you for the review and for granting PTE. I've fixed the half-width brackets in…

Sep 06 Sun · 01:25

Polyglots high

Translated 695 strings on translate.wordpress.org.