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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
    1 badge
    Support Contributor '26

    Current Job

    Principal Software Engineer
    Aug 2025 – Present
    WP Engine

    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
    151contributions
    high100
    medium51
    score351
    Last 90 days
    318contributions
    high205
    medium113
    score728
    Last 12 months
    1676contributions
    high1097
    medium579
    score3870

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 34 releases
    • 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
    June 2026
    Jun 16 Tue · 20:20
    Core med
    Closed ticket #46713 on Core Trac:
    Comment reply link uses inconvenient eventlistener
    Jun 16 Tue · 20:20
    Core high
    Committed [62511] to WordPress SVN:
    Comments: Remove `touchstart` event listeners from comment reply/cancel links.
    Jun 16 Tue · 17:10
    Meta high
    Made 2 updates to handbook pages on Make WordPress Core.
    Jun 16 Tue · 09:48
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62507] on WordPress SVN:
    HTML API: Correct and improve documentation issues.
    Jun 16 Tue · 03:17
    Core med
    Closed issue #79200 on the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
    Duplicate data-wp-bind--srcset="state.enlargedSrcset" in wp-includes/blocks/image.php
    Jun 16 Tue · 03:17
    Core high
    Merged pull request #79202 into WordPress/gutenberg:
    Image block: remove duplicate data-wp-bind--srcset in the lightbox overlay
    Jun 16 Tue · 00:27
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #12185 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Site Health: Fix false negative in opcode cache test for file cache…
    Jun 16 Tue · 00:22
    Core med
    Closed pull request #11018 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    64707
    Jun 15 Mon · 23:44
    Core med
    Created ticket #65466 on Core Trac:
    HTML API: Introduce helper function for parsing CSS class names from a ...
    Jun 15 Mon · 20:47
    Core med
    Closed ticket #65098 on Core Trac:
    get_site_icon_url() returns empty string even when fallback is ...

    Developer

    33 plugins

    Contributor

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