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Ben Word
Since April 2026 61 views
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Developer
First WP Version Used
Before 3.0
Joined WP.org
June 2011
Joined WPFolks
April 2026
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Plugin Developer
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roots.io

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@retlehs

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WordPress releases

Credited in 4 releases
  • 6.5 Core Contributor
  • 5.6 Core Contributor
  • 5.5 Core Contributor
  • 3.6 Core Contributor

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Last 30 days 0 contributions high 0 medium 0 score 0
Last 90 days 0 contributions high 0 medium 0 score 0
Last 12 months 10 contributions high 2 medium 8 score 14

Recent contributions on WordPress.org

  • May 8 2026
    Forums med
    Created a topic, Latest version not tagged in SVN, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi! Friendly heads-up: the latest release appears to b…
    5 months ago
  • Apr 27 2026
    Forums med
    Created a topic, The only SEO plugin I trust, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I migrated off Yoast in 2016 after the v3.0 release we…
    6 months ago
  • Apr 21 2026
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Docker -> Colima?, on the site Make WordPress.org:
    👍 Colima is solid and built on Lima Lima was a little rough and buggy…
    6 months ago
  • Apr 3 2026
    Meta med
    Created ticket #8214 on Meta Trac:
    Plugin/Theme Info API: Include closure reason and permanence for ...
    7 months ago
  • Mar 8 2026
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #11200 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Add JSON as an alternative to PHP/CSS file headers for plugin and…
    7 months ago
  • Mar 5 2026
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Markdown now available on WordPress.org, on the site Make WordPress.org:
    Great work! I made my own plugin back in October for this: https://github.com/roots/post-content-to-markdown It's really…
    8 months ago
  • Feb 15 2026
    GitHub high
    Pull request #474 merged into wp-cli/i18n-command:
    Extract translatable strings from Blade component prop bindings
    8 months ago
  • Feb 14 2026
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #474 to wp-cli/i18n-command:
    Extract translatable strings from Blade component prop bindings
    8 months ago
  • Dec 6 2025
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Coding Standard Proposal: Allow the use of the PHP short echo tag, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    [code]<?= ?>[/code] tags*
    11 months ago
  • Dec 6 2025
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Coding Standard Proposal: Allow the use of the PHP short echo tag, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    PSR-1 (over 13 years old) explicitly allows `` tags, and PER-CS (the current standard) inherits…
    11 months ago

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