Weston Ruter WP Engine

Portland, OR, USA Loading time... English, Spanish

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First WordPress version 1.x

Contribution hours (sponsored) 2 teams, 40 hours per week

Contributed to WordPress releases2.9, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, 5.9, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 6.9

Attended/ing 2 events

Developed 31 plugins

Weston's local community (100 miles):

Cami Kaos

Oregon, United States

0 miles away

Nik McLaughlin

Portland, OR, USA

0 miles away

Paul Stoute

Portland, OR, USA

0 miles away

Ben Martinez-Bateman

Gresham, OR, USA

11.8 miles away

Collin R

Glenwood, OR, USA

30.1 miles away

Wendell Harness

Salem, OR, USA

43.2 miles away

Gerald Hutchman

Lebanon, OR, USA

68.5 miles away

Kevin Miller

Long Beach, WA, USA

87.8 miles away

WordPress.org Badges9

BuddyPress Contributor
Core Contributor
Core Performance Contributor
Core Performance Team
Core Team
Documentation Contributor
Meta Contributor
Plugin Developer
WordCamp Speaker

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Speaker Videos

Recordings from speaking sessions at events.

The Site Speed Frontier with Performance Lab and Beyond

🇺🇸 WordCamp US 2025

August 27, 2025

Boosting Performance with Optimization Detective

🇵🇭 WordCamp Asia 2025

February 21, 2025

Plugins

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Accessibility (a11y) Speech Synthesis

version 0.2.0

<100 active installs

AMP

(3.8)

version 2.5.5

400,000+ active installs

Customize Comments

version 0.1.0

<100 active installs

Customize Inline Editing

(5)

version 0.2.1

<100 active installs

Customize Object Selector

version 0.4.2

<100 active installs

Customize Posts

(4.7)

version 0.9.1

1,000+ active installs

Customize Snapshots

(5)

version 0.7.0

500+ active installs

Customize Widgets Plus

version 0.2

<100 active installs

Customizer Browser History

(5)

version 0.5.2

<100 active installs

Customizer Dev Tools

version 0.1.1

<100 active installs

Customizer Everywhere

version 0.1.2

<100 active installs

Customizer Responsive Server-Side Components Device Preview

version 0.1.1

<100 active installs

Dependency Minification

(4)

version 0.9.8

<100 active installs

Force Featured Image

version 0.2.0

<100 active installs

Instant Back/Forward

(5)

version 1.3.1

10,000+ active installs

JS Widgets

version 0.4.3

<100 active installs

Lazy Loading oEmbed Iframes

version 1.0.1

<100 active installs

Listenability

(5)

version 0.1.1

<100 active installs

Load Combined Core Block Assets

(5)

version 1.0.0

800+ active installs

Media Placeholders

(5)

version 0.9.2

<100 active installs

Override Post Title with First Content Heading

version 0.2.5

<100 active installs

Private Page Forbidden

version 0.2

<100 active installs

PWA

(4.3)

version 0.8.2

20,000+ active installs

Sectionize

version 1.1

<100 active installs

Spoken Word

(4.7)

version 1.0.1

<100 active installs

Strict CSP

version 0.3.2

<100 active installs

Syntax-highlighting Code Block (with Server-side Rendering)

(5)

version 1.5.1

1,000+ active installs

User Photo

(4.3)

version 0.9.10

4,000+ active installs

View Transitions

(5)

version 1.1.2

10,000+ active installs

Widget Favorites

version 0.2

<100 active installs

XHTML5 Support

version 0.2.4

<100 active installs

Latest Posts

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Would Jesus have found refuge in the United States?

When Mary and Joseph fled Judea to protect Jesus from Herod, would they have been welcomed as refugees in America if he had been born today?

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WordPress 6.9 Performance Landings

Celebrating the performance improvements in the latest release, and reflecting on the effort to make it happen.

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Joining WP Engine

I’ve joined WP Engine to contribute full time to WordPress core, continuing the performance work I started while at Google.

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Let's meet in-person!

Here are the events I've attended and ones I'll be attending in the future (in bold).

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