Ronald Huereca (@ronalfy) – WordPress user profile

Bio

Ronald loves creating WordPress plugins and writing. To break the ice, just talk about cats and karaoke.

Interests

WordPress plugins, WordPress themes, karaoke singer, author, gamer

WordPress Origin Story

Writer and software engineer Ronald Huereca has been a developer at noteable agencies like iThemes and 10up. His varied background has him working with WordPress since 2006, eventually creating his own plugin which, of course, lead to more. He spends quite a bit of his time volunteering with the WordPress project as a core and polyglot contributor.

With all of his passions, writing has been the way Ronald expresses himself best. He has written both technical books as well as fiction. Some of his works include Project Mayhem, Mindefusement, and WordPress and Ajax. “You can only delay the inevitable” is his favorite quote. Ronald enjoys reading Stephen King and John Grisham.

When he’s not writing, Ronald dreams of building websites filled with cats yawning, disclaimers his strong opinions, sings karaoke, and advocates for empathy surrounding mental health.
Say hi to Ron on Twitter at @ronalfy.

Badges

CODE

3 badges

Core Contributor '15 Meta Contributor '21 Plugin Developer

CONTENT

1 badge

Photo Contributor '26

COMMUNITY

1 badge

WordCamp Speaker '15

PRACTICE

1 badge

Support Contributor '26

POLYGLOTS

2 badges

Translation Contributor '15 Translation Editor '15

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

15contributions

high11

medium4

score37

Last 90 days

27contributions

high19

medium8

score65

Last 12 months

248contributions

high207

medium41

score662

WordPress releases

Contributed to 3 releases

Contributions

Type

October 2026

Oct 09 Fri · 15:29

Plugins high

Committed [3736978] to Plugins SVN:
Tagging 5.7.0 security release.

Oct 09 Fri · 15:29

Plugins high

Committed [3736977] to Plugins SVN:
Security fix: escape and allowlist allowed for XSS in block markup if edited and output.

Oct 09 Fri · 09:09

Plugins high

Committed [3736261] to Plugins SVN:
Testing up to 7.1.

Oct 07 Wed · 18:09

Plugins high

Committed [3733166] to Plugins SVN:
Tagging 6.4.0 security release.

Oct 07 Wed · 18:08

Plugins high

Committed [3733164] to Plugins SVN:
Security: Extra template hardening thanks to Plugin Check.

September 2026

Sep 23 Wed · 18:33

Plugins high

Committed [3709965] to Plugins SVN:
Tagging 6.3.5.

Sep 23 Wed · 18:33

Plugins high

Committed [3709964] to Plugins SVN:
Updating docs URLs to point to MediaRon.

Sep 21 Mon · 16:13

Forums med

Created a topic, Pattern Wrangler Has Been Adopted, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Pattern Wrangler has been adopted by Matt Cromwell. …

Sep 20 Sun · 13:03

Forums med

Posted a reply to Edit buttons not shown correctly, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@dannystaal I was able to reproduce this and have put together a code-fix on GitHub…

Sep 19 Sat · 18:25

Plugins high

Committed [3703544] to Plugins SVN:
Tagging 2.6.0.