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Roy Tanck

Senior WordPress developer

@roytanck Huizen, The Netherlands joined Jul 2009

roytanck.com github.com/roytanck Slack: @Roy Tanck
    Languages nl_NL

    Bio

    I’m a WordPress developer, photography enthusiast and open source advocate from The Netherlands.

    WordPress Origin Story

    I’m one of the people who jumped ship when Movable Type changed its pricing structure back in 2004. I migrated the movie review blog that I maintained to WordPress, and haven’t looked back.

    In the early days of WordPress I wrote themes and plugins, some of which were quite popular. I try to contribute to WP by working on core, releasing useful plugins and helping people out wherever I can.

    I’m an avid photographer, and I was on the WordCamp Europe photography team in 2022. I hope to be able to volunteer again at future WordCamps.

    Currently, I’m part of a team that builds highly customized WordPress websites for the Dutch government.

    Badges

    CODE
    3 badges
    Core Contributor '19 Meta Contributor '22 Plugin Developer
    CONTENT
    2 badges
    Photo Contributor '22 Photos Team '25
    COMMUNITY
    1 badge
    WordCamp Speaker '14
    POLYGLOTS
    2 badges
    Translation Contributor '15 Translation Editor '19

    Current Job

    Senior WordPress developer
    Present

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
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    Last 90 days
    0contributions
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    Last 12 months
    3contributions
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    score9

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 9 releases
    • 7.0
    • 6.8
    • 6.7
    • 6.6
    • 6.5
    • 6.2
    • 5.5
    • 5.4
    • 5.3

    Contributions

    Type
    February 2026
    Feb 23 Mon · 06:29
    Core high
    Mentioned in [61718] on WordPress SVN:
    Docs: Improve accuracy of `@return` type and description for `get_post_custom()`.
    Feb 19 Thu · 09:42
    Core high
    Mentioned in [61687] on WordPress SVN:
    Administration: Warn when open registration and new user default is privileged.
    August 2025
    Aug 02 Sat · 14:28
    Plugins high
    Committed [3338249] to Plugins SVN:
    Updated the readme.txt.
    May 2025
    May 06 Tue · 10:29
    Polyglots high
    Translated 35 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
    May 06 Tue · 07:37
    Polyglots med
    Suggested 15 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
    May 05 Mon · 10:19
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to No tools page on multisite, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi @mnttech . Thank you looking into this. I checked, and the WP Opcache page…
    May 02 Fri · 09:36
    Forums med
    Created a topic, No tools page on multisite, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    This is a really useful plugin when troubleshooting OP…
    April 2025
    Apr 03 Thu · 16:50
    Plugins high
    Committed [3266527] to Plugins SVN:
    Remove the adopt-me tag and adoption message.
    Apr 03 Thu · 16:49
    Plugins high
    Committed [3266524] to Plugins SVN:
    Added sdobreff as contributor.
    March 2025
    Mar 04 Tue · 13:40
    Plugins high
    Committed [3250447] to Plugins SVN:
    Added the adopt-me tag and a maintenance notice.

    Contributor

    2 plugins

    Photos

    137 contributions

    View all 137 photos in the Photo Directory

    Plugins

    10 favorites

    Translations

    2 locales
    nl_NL Nederlands (Dutch) Plugins Translation Editor Translation Contributor

    Translation editor for 1 project.

    Plugin Report

    Contributed translations to 11 projects.

    Disable Topics API WP OPcache Mail Caesar! Plugin Report Restricted Site Access Surge Tag Pages WP Robots Txt WordPress 4.9.x WordPress 5.3.x WordPress 7.0.x - Development

    View all on translate.wordpress.org

    nl_NL / formal Nederlands (Dutch) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 3 projects.

    Mail Caesar! Plugin Report WP 2FA – Two-factor authentication for WordPress

    View all on translate.wordpress.org