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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
    154contributions
    high99
    medium55
    score352
    Last 90 days
    335contributions
    high208
    medium127
    score751
    Last 12 months
    1709contributions
    high1119
    medium590
    score3947

    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 25 Thu · 10:26
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62560] on WordPress SVN:
    Emoji: Use the `admin_print_footer_scripts` action for printing the emoji detection script in the admin.
    Jun 25 Thu · 09:49
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62558] on WordPress SVN:
    KSES: Decode style attribute before sending to safecss_filter_attr().
    Jun 24 Wed · 21:37
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62553] on WordPress SVN:
    Code Modernization: Use `array_all()` where appropriate.
    Jun 23 Tue · 08:26
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62546] on WordPress SVN:
    Editor: Hide Classic Block from inserter.
    Jun 23 Tue · 04:17
    Core high
    Pull request #2503 merged into WordPress/performance:
    Restore wordpress/plugin-check-action once upstream wp-env bug is fixed
    Jun 22 Mon · 06:08
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #2545 to WordPress/performance:
    [WIP] Update release scripts
    Jun 22 Mon · 06:06
    Meta high
    Updated the handbook page Releasing the Performance Lab Plugin on Core Performance.
    Jun 22 Mon · 05:56
    Core med
    Closed issue #776 on the WordPress/performance repository:
    Add phpstan-no-private to catch calls of seemingly private functions
    Jun 22 Mon · 05:55
    Core high
    Merged pull request #1729 into WordPress/performance:
    Update PHPStan to v2, improve code quality
    Jun 22 Mon · 05:33
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to “no_store” not removed at all, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I saw x-wp-cf-super-cache-cache-control and I thought maybe it was WP Super Cache. Maybe LiteSpeed cache…

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