Otto Kekäläinen (@ottok) – WordPress user profile

Bio

Ex-AWS and also former CEO of Seravo.com (Premium WordPress hosting and professional upkeep) and MariaDB.org (world’s fastest growing open source database for WordPress)

WordPress Origin Story

First WordPress blog published in 2005. WordPress.org member since 2012 and contributor since 2014. WordCamp speaker since 2015 and Core Contributor since 2016.

Currently not active in WordPress since departing Seravo in 2021.

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COMMUNITY

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WordCamp Speaker '19

POLYGLOTS

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Translation Contributor '16

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WordPress releases

Contributed to 3 releases

Contributions

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February 2026

Feb 19 Thu · 09:42

Core high

Mentioned in [61687] on WordPress SVN:
Administration: Warn when open registration and new user default is privileged.

May 2025

May 14 Wed · 03:02

Forums med

Created a topic, Document MariaDB support, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
These indexes presumably work indentically on MariaDB,…

May 07 Wed · 02:20

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Created a topic, Handy for MariaDB users, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The database is often the bottleneck for WordPress, so…

May 07 Wed · 02:11

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Created a topic, Must have for TiDB users, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This plugin is a must-have if you are running TiDB as …

August 2021

Aug 04 Wed · 05:28

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Created a topic, Best one of the custom search plugins, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Relevanssi is my go-to plugin when it comes to custom …

January 2021

Jan 27 Wed · 11:09

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Created a topic, Use with WordPress 5.5. and later?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello! Thanks Arnz for this plugin. In https://make.w…

November 2020

Nov 26 Thu · 13:03

Meta high

Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Finland Online 2020

October 2020

Oct 29 Thu · 10:42

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Posted a reply to Can’t log in after installing your plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I fixed this now with a mu-plugin: commit 4b6579336ab7e966c2fd5cc4c52c2fa0d3de737e (HEAD -> master) Author: Seravo Admin…

Oct 20 Tue · 18:15

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Posted a reply to Can’t log in after installing your plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
When I log in and it fails: set-cookie: wordpress_test_cookie=WP+Cookie+check; path=/; secure set-cookie: wordpress_sec_dcfecb4f7f4693ded9f0540a1d77266b=seravo%7C1603390318%7CWwBZ0e1TqBKjL6xX8qH0ZHW9sru0e0TNsgDnSgMHfGU%7C13e42107dd0073bf6a0b648f38ae4af81830b30c50f0d0a9e90a26b1333bd5df;expires=Thu, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:00…

Oct 20 Tue · 18:10

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Posted a reply to Can’t log in after installing your plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This seems like a duplicate of https://wordpress.org/support/topic/refreshes-login-screen-when-logging-in/ Login only works if “Remember Me” is selected,…