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Robert O'Rourke

Principal WordPress Engineer at Human Made

@sanchothefat Sheffield joined Mar 2006

röb.co github.com/roborourke slack: @rob

    Bio

    Principal Engineer at Human Made. From Liverpool UK originally. I’m going to say I’m a full stack engineer, having worked on all aspects of website builds over the years, but ultimately focused on building cool digital products and doing whatever needs to be done to achieve that goal!

    Interests

    Boxing, Climbing, Origami, Mixology

    WordPress Origin Story

    WP was my gateway into Web Development back in 2006, initially making small sites or using it in conjunction with other PHP tools like phpbb. It’s the tool that stuck, and the community that brings everyone along for the ride that really kickstarted my career. I wish I could say I don’t have to google things as often, but WordPress keeps you on your toes! There’s always more to learn.

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    CODE
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    Core Contributor '15 Plugin Developer
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    WordCamp Speaker '25

    Current Job

    Principal WordPress Engineer
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    Human Made

    Recent impact

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    Contributions

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    April 2026
    Apr 20 Mon · 10:01
    Meta high
    Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Europe 2026
    July 2025
    Jul 17 Thu · 10:31
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Low quality custom map marker images on Windows, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    SVG I imagine is not possible to render into a canvas element, lets double Mauricio…
    Jul 16 Wed · 15:49
    Forums med
    Created a topic, Low quality custom map marker images on Windows, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi, there's a map near the bottom of the page linked t…
    June 2025
    Jun 26 Thu · 08:53
    Meta high
    Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Europe 2025
    April 2025
    Apr 03 Thu · 08:59
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Performance issue – displaying a map causes several database updates, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    @mapster easily done, it's an annoying quirk of WP. Amazing turnaround on the resolution -…
    Apr 02 Wed · 16:41
    Forums med
    Created a topic, Performance issue – displaying a map causes several database updates, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi, I found the following code: $set = get_option( …
    November 2022
    Nov 09 Wed · 13:35
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Bug with map_meta_cap filter, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Sorry, I found some other offending code that was calling current_user_can() instead of just passing…
    Nov 09 Wed · 13:06
    Forums med
    Created a topic, Bug with map_meta_cap filter, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi, I've found some compatibility issues - there are c…
    October 2022
    Oct 12 Wed · 15:54
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post Performance improvements to the REST API, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    If `_links` isn't there by default any more that could break a lot of existing…
    September 2017
    Sep 07 Thu · 13:05
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to UTF Warning on utf-8, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hey, do you know if there are any unicode characters in your directory structure at…

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