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Derek Herman

Chief Technology Officer at XWP

@valendesigns Portland, OR joined Feb 2008

xwp.co Slack: @valendesigns
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    Bio

    I’m a WordPress Core contributor & Customize component maintainer. I began contributing in the middle of 4.1 and also have been developing GPL licensed WordPress themes & plugins since 1.5.

    Badges

    CODE
    4 badges
    Core Contributor '15 Plugin Developer Tide Contributor '19 Tide Team '19
    COMMUNITY
    3 badges
    bbPress Contributor '20 B BuddyPress Contributor '19 WordCamp Speaker '18

    Current Job

    Chief Technology Officer
    Present
    XWP

    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
    2contributions
    high2
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    score6

    Team focus

    Across 1 team, with no team-attributable contributions in the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 12 releases
    • 6.5
    • 5.6
    • 5.2
    • 4.9
    • 4.7
    • 4.6
    • 4.5
    • 4.4
    • 4.3
    • 4.2
    • 4.1
    • 3.3

    Contributions

    Type
    October 2025
    Oct 27 Mon · 16:33
    Core high
    Mentioned in [61074] on WordPress SVN:
    Multisite: Improve wording when creating a user with a reserved email address.
    Oct 21 Tue · 13:58
    Core high
    Mentioned in [61034] on WordPress SVN:
    Comments: Ensure custom comment form fields appear for logged-in users
    January 2024
    Jan 09 Tue · 16:32
    Core high
    Mentioned in [57257] on WordPress SVN:
    Tests: Add hook priority call order tests.
    November 2020
    Nov 26 Thu · 23:56
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Has the support ended on this plugin?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    They will tell you no. If you want to fix it then contribute a patch…
    October 2020
    Oct 08 Thu · 22:12
    Core high
    Mentioned in [49109] on WordPress SVN:
    REST API: Introduce Application Passwords for API authentication.
    July 2019
    Jul 03 Wed · 06:53
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post What should the next PHP version recommendation be?, on the site Make WordPress Hosting:
    Tide has the data needed for seeing where the plugin/theme repositories stand, we have over…
    June 2019
    Jun 27 Thu · 23:27
    Meta high
    Wrote a new post, WordCamp EU Contributor Day!, on the site Tide:
    WordCamp Europe 2019 Contributor Day was on June 20th. A very big thank you to…
    May 2019
    May 19 Sun · 05:04
    Plugins high
    Committed [2090666] to Plugins SVN:
    May 19 Sun · 05:04
    Plugins high
    Committed [2090665] to Plugins SVN:
    May 16 Thu · 09:42
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Inline style removing with iframe tag, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    @fxvisuals It should be available for download shortly. Please test it and let me know.

    Developer

    3 plugins

    Contributor

    1 plugin

    Plugins

    1 favorite