Eduard Doloc (@rwky) – WordPress user profile

Bio

Software Developer based in Romania, founter of Uprise, specialising in high-performance WordPress and WooCommerce development.

Interests

High Performance Websites, especially ecommerce ones (powered by Woo)., WooCommerce

WordPress Origin Story

My journey with WordPress began back in high school (2008) when I was working on various projects that required HTML. Like any student trying to manage deadlines and avoid repetitive work, I started looking for tools that could make my life easier. That’s when I discovered Macromedia Dreamweaver, which helped streamline some of the HTML work, but it still had its limitations.

As I progressed, I realized the need for dynamic content in my projects. Static HTML pages weren’t enough anymore, and I started exploring how to incorporate a database to make my projects more flexible and interactive. It was a steep learning curve, but it sparked my curiosity to dive deeper into web development.

At that point, WordPress felt revolutionary. It eliminated the need for me to write code from scratch for every single project or copy-paste from older ones. With the time I saved, I could focus more on the presentation and overall quality of my projects. For me, WordPress wasn’t just a tool; it was a way to work smarter, not harder, and it shaped my path as a developer moving forward.

Now, more than 15 years later, I still work with WordPress daily.

Badges

CODE

1 badge

Plugin Developer

COMMUNITY

1 badge

Meetup Organizer '26

PRACTICE

1 badge

Support Contributor '26

POLYGLOTS

1 badge

Translation Contributor '18

Current Job

CEO / Founder

Present

Uprise

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

10contributions

high6

medium4

score22

Last 90 days

38contributions

high22

medium16

score82

Last 12 months

106contributions

high51

medium55

score208

Time commitment

4 hours per week

On my own time 4 hrs/wk

Contributions

Type

September 2026

Sep 07 Mon · 08:49

Forums med

Created a topic, req. markdown negotiation header, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello, I know that your plugin allows markdown …

Sep 02 Wed · 13:21

Forums med

Created a topic, wp cli soon?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello, Can you please add a wp cli batch conver…

August 2026

Aug 30 Sun · 07:54

Polyglots high

Translated 26 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

Aug 28 Fri · 08:48

Plugins high

Committed [3670054] to Plugins SVN:
update 1.0.5 - tweak for order source (webhoook) + user role (logged in only)

Aug 27 Thu · 12:16

Plugins high

Committed [3668811] to Plugins SVN:
version 1.0.4 - tax and sale price adjustment

Aug 27 Thu · 08:57

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: A Secrets API for WordPress 7.2, on the site Make WordPress Core:
that is a really good idea, idk why we (as a community) haven't came up…

Aug 25 Tue · 18:04

Plugins high

Committed [3665806] to Plugins SVN:
fixed a warning in some older php versions

Aug 24 Mon · 07:21

Forums med

Created a topic, switched from wp rocket to this, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
as the title suggests, after the last crash on wp 7.1 …

Aug 12 Wed · 16:25

Plugins high

Committed [3643760] to Plugins SVN:
version 1.0.2 - rocketloader fix

Aug 09 Sun · 19:55

Plugins high

Committed [3639751] to Plugins SVN:
version 1.0.1 release (tweak)