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Weston Ruter

Principal Software Engineer at WP Engine

@westonruter Portland, OR, USA joined May 2007

weston.ruter.net github.com/westonruter Slack: @westonruter
    Maintains Customize Script Loader
    Teams Core Core Performance

    Bio

    Working on making WordPress fast!

    WordPress Origin Story

    See https://weston.ruter.net/?p=34264

    Badges

    CODE
    7 badges
    C Core AI Contributor '26 Core Contributor '15 C Core Performance Contributor '23 C Core Performance Team '23 Core Team '15 Meta Contributor '15 Plugin Developer
    CONTENT
    1 badge
    Documentation Contributor '17
    COMMUNITY
    2 badges
    B BuddyPress Contributor '25 WordCamp Speaker '17
    PRACTICE
    2 badges
    Support Contributor '26 Test Contributor '26

    Current Job

    Principal Software Engineer
    Aug 2025 – Present
    WP Engine · Full-time
    Working full time contributing to making WordPress.

    Job History

    Developer Relations Engineer
    Oct 2018 – Jun 2025
    Google
    Head of WordPress => CTO
    Apr 2013 – Sep 2018
    XWP
    Senior Web Developer
    May 2010 – Apr 2013
    X-Team
    Note: My role transitioned from X-Team to our newly-founded sister company, XWP.
    Sr. Web Application Developer
    Oct 2007 – May 2010
    Shepherd Interactive

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    284contributions
    high230
    medium54
    score744
    Last 90 days
    688contributions
    high543
    medium145
    score1774
    Last 12 months
    2277contributions
    high1598
    medium679
    score5473

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 35 releases
    • 7.1
    • 7.0
    • 6.9
    • 6.8
    • 6.7
    • 6.6
    • 6.5
    • 6.4
    • 6.3
    • 6.2
    • 6.1
    • 6.0
    • 5.9
    • 5.8
    • 5.7
    • 5.6
    • 5.5
    • 5.4
    • 5.3
    • 5.2
    • 5.1
    • 5.0
    • 4.9
    • 4.8
    • 4.7
    • 4.6
    • 4.5
    • 4.4
    • 4.3
    • 4.2
    • 4.1
    • 4.0
    • 3.9
    • 3.8
    • 3.7

    Contributions

    Type
    October 2026
    Oct 05 Mon · 21:43
    Core high
    Mentioned in [64115] on WordPress SVN:
    Bootstrap/Load: Enable `WP_DEBUG` by default on local environments.
    Oct 05 Mon · 17:10
    Core med
    Closed ticket #66204 on Core Trac:
    Editor crashed the moment I tried to enter it
    Oct 05 Mon · 03:14
    Core high
    Mentioned in [64092] on WordPress SVN:
    Privacy: Correctly escape page title in `get_the_privacy_policy_link()`.
    Oct 03 Sat · 17:48
    Core high
    Merged pull request #2692 into WordPress/performance:
    Bump the wordpress-packages group with 4 updates
    Oct 03 Sat · 01:45
    Core high
    Mentioned in [64073] on WordPress SVN:
    Sitemaps: Remove XSL stylesheets.
    Oct 02 Fri · 04:47
    Core high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
    Code Quality: Declare the `$wpdb` global in wp-admin scripts.
    Oct 02 Fri · 04:46
    Core med
    Closed pull request #13886 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Code Quality: Declare the `$wpdb` global in wp-admin scripts
    Oct 02 Fri · 04:45
    Core high
    Committed [64046] to WordPress SVN:
    Code Quality: Declare the `$wpdb` global in wp-admin scripts.
    Oct 02 Fri · 01:59
    Core med
    Closed pull request #13872 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Pass the documented values for deprecated arguments
    Oct 02 Fri · 01:59
    Core high
    Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/WordPress:
    Code Quality: Pass documented values for deprecated arguments.

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