Weston Ruter (@westonruter) – WordPress user profile | WordPress.org WordPress.org Showcase Plugins Themes Hosting News Resources Learn WordPress Documentation Education Forums Developers Blocks Patterns Photos Openverse ↗︎ WordPress.tv ↗︎ About About WordPress Make WordPress Events Five for the Future Enterprise Gutenberg ↗︎ Job Board ↗︎ Swag Store ↗︎ Get WordPress Search in WordPress.org Get WordPress Profiles Register Log In 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 187contributions high130 medium57 score447 Last 90 days 459contributions high308 medium151 score1075 Last 12 months 1885contributions high1255 medium630 score4395 Team focus Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days Core 100% WordPress releases Contributed to 34 releases Release Team 1 Noteworthy Contributor 15 Core Contributor 18 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 All Code Plugins Forums Meta July 2026 Jul 19 Sun · 20:24 Core med Closed pull request #12597 on WordPress/wordpress-develop: Build/Test Tools: Update PHPStan from 2.2.2 to 2.2.5 and phpstan-phpunit to 2.0.18 Jul 19 Sun · 20:22 Core high Committed [62798] to WordPress SVN: Build/Test Tools: Update `phpstan/phpstan` to 2.2.5 and `phpstan/phpstan-phpunit` to 2.0.18. Jul 19 Sun · 19:41 Core med Submitted pull request #12597 to WordPress/wordpress-develop: Build/Test Tools: Update PHPStan from 2.2.2 to 2.2.5 and phpstan-phpunit to 2.0.18 Jul 19 Sun · 16:54 Core med Closed pull request #12588 on WordPress/wordpress-develop: Improve typing and documentation for `wp_parse_list()`, `wp_parse_id_list()`, and `wp_parse_slug_list()` Jul 19 Sun · 16:53 Core high Committed [62797] to WordPress SVN: Code Quality: Improve typing for `wp_parse_list()` et al. Jul 19 Sun · 02:14 Core med Submitted pull request #12588 to WordPress/wordpress-develop: Improve typing and documentation for `wp_parse_list()`, `wp_parse_id_list()`, and `wp_parse_slug_list()` Jul 18 Sat · 17:04 Core med Closed pull request #12546 on WordPress/wordpress-develop: Add TypeScript checking and fix TS issues in `wp-tooltip.js` Jul 18 Sat · 17:03 Core high Committed [62794] to WordPress SVN: Administration: Add TypeScript checking and fix TS issues in `wp-tooltip.js`. Jul 18 Sat · 16:06 Core high Merged pull request #2556 into WordPress/performance: Add `prepare-release-notes` and `create-draft-release` scripts Jul 17 Fri · 16:36 Core high Mentioned in [62776] on WordPress SVN: Grouped backports to the 6.8 branch. No contributions in this category yet. 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