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Santosh Kori

Senior Technical Lead at Encora

@santoshkori26 Mumbai, India joined Dec 2010

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    Bio

    Santosh Kori is a seasoned fullstack technical leader with 17+ years of experience, including extensive work with WordPress. He brings deep expertise in customizing themes, developing performance-optimized plugins, and integrating WordPress with modern frontend frameworks. Known for solving complex technical challenges, Santosh leverages WordPress not just as a CMS but as a flexible platform to build scalable, secure, and user-friendly digital solutions.

    Interests

    WordPress themes

    WordPress Origin Story

    My journey with WordPress began back in 2008, shortly after it started gaining traction. It all started with helping a friend set up a personal blog—simple, clean, and easy to use. That experience sparked my curiosity. I was impressed by how accessible WordPress made publishing on the web.

    From there, I began exploring it more deeply—first using it for content-driven CMS websites, then extending it into more complex use cases like custom applications and intranet portals. As my experience grew, so did the challenges. I started diving into theme development, plugin creation, performance tuning, and deep customization of WordPress core functionality to meet unique business needs.

    What started as a small blog setup evolved into a powerful platform in my toolkit. WordPress became a key part of my fullstack development journey—flexible enough for rapid development, yet robust enough for enterprise-grade solutions.

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    Current Job

    Senior Technical Lead
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    Encora

    Recent impact

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    Contributions

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    November 2024
    Nov 16 Sat · 10:20
    Polyglots med
    Suggested 10 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
    Nov 16 Sat · 07:23
    Plugins high
    Committed [3190018] to Plugins SVN:
    Added languages
    October 2024
    Oct 28 Mon · 09:16
    Plugins high
    Committed [3176771] to Plugins SVN:
    Updated
    Oct 28 Mon · 06:09
    Plugins high
    Committed [3176603] to Plugins SVN:
    Heading updated
    Oct 28 Mon · 06:06
    Plugins high
    Committed [3176601] to Plugins SVN:
    Updated plugin heading
    Oct 28 Mon · 05:53
    Plugins high
    Committed [3176597] to Plugins SVN:
    Updated banner
    Oct 28 Mon · 05:42
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    Committed [3176592] to Plugins SVN:
    tested up updated
    Oct 27 Sun · 17:57
    Plugins high
    Committed [3176439] to Plugins SVN:
    banner
    Oct 27 Sun · 17:56
    Plugins high
    Committed [3176436] to Plugins SVN:
    Banner updated
    Oct 27 Sun · 14:25
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    Committed [3176380] to Plugins SVN:
    Banner updated

    Developer

    1 plugin

    Completed courses

    2 completed

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    Plugins

    8 favorites

    Translations

    1 locale
    es_ES Español (Spanish) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 1 project.

    GoToMenu – Menu Navigator

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