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Peter Westwood

Solution Blacksmith

@westi uk joined Feb 2005

blog.ftwr.co.uk Slack: @westi

    Bio

    One of the Lead Developers of WordPress | Plugin Developer | Photographer | Music lover

    Interests

    wordpress css xhtml php .NET uml software engineering i18n xml-rpc

    Badges

    CODE
    3 badges
    Core Contributor '15 Meta Contributor '21 Plugin Developer
    COMMUNITY
    2 badges
    bbPress Contributor '19 WordCamp Speaker '14
    POLYGLOTS
    2 badges
    Translation Contributor '15 Translation Editor '15

    Current Job

    Solution Blacksmith
    Present

    Recent impact

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

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    Last 90 days
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    Last 12 months
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    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 10 releases
    • 6.9
    • 6.8
    • 6.5
    • 6.3
    • 6.1
    • 6.0
    • 5.5
    • 5.4
    • 4.9
    • 4.6

    Contributions

    Type
    November 2025
    Nov 11 Tue · 02:34
    Core high
    Mentioned in [61201] on WordPress SVN:
    Mail: Improve multipart message handling in `wp_mail()`.
    February 2025
    Feb 17 Mon · 11:22
    Core high
    Mentioned in [59828] on WordPress SVN:
    Security: Switch to using bcrypt for hashing user passwords and BLAKE2b for hashing application passwords and security keys.
    February 2024
    Feb 06 Tue · 23:44
    Core high
    Mentioned in [57545] on WordPress SVN:
    Upgrade/Install: Introduce Plugin Dependencies.
    April 2023
    Apr 18 Tue · 11:48
    Core high
    Mentioned in [55657] on WordPress SVN:
    Users: Cache database queries within `WP_User_Query` class.
    September 2022
    Sep 16 Fri · 22:37
    Core high
    Mentioned in [54190] on WordPress SVN:
    Docs: Update `wp_rand` docblock to clarify that it returns a non-negative number.
    August 2022
    Aug 03 Wed · 12:18
    Core high
    Mentioned in [53815] on WordPress SVN:
    Administration: Change default site tagline to an empty string.
    March 2022
    Mar 02 Wed · 15:10
    Core high
    Mentioned in [52814] on WordPress SVN:
    Bootstrap/Load: Stop unnecessary queries when using the `do_parse_request` filter.
    January 2021
    Jan 14 Thu · 23:34
    Meta high
    Mentioned in [10583] on Meta SVN:
    Browse Happy: Restore WikiQuery query clause that additionally requires the "preferred" software version to also explicitly have the "version type" qualifier set as "stable version".
    June 2020
    Jun 01 Mon · 18:47
    Core high
    Mentioned in [47878] on WordPress SVN:
    Canonical: Add the ability to disable `redirect_guess_404_permalink()`.
    April 2020
    Apr 29 Wed · 16:58
    Core high
    Mentioned in [47662] on WordPress SVN:
    User: Invalidate `user_activation_key` on password update.

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