Roy Tanck (@roytanck) – WordPress user profile

Bio

I’m a WordPress developer, photography enthusiast and open source advocate from The Netherlands.

WordPress Origin Story

I’m one of the people who jumped ship when Movable Type changed its pricing structure back in 2004. I migrated the movie review blog that I maintained to WordPress, and haven’t looked back.

In the early days of WordPress I wrote themes and plugins, some of which were quite popular. I try to contribute to WP by working on core, releasing useful plugins and helping people out wherever I can.

I’m an avid photographer, and I was on the WordCamp Europe photography team in 2022. I hope to be able to volunteer again at future WordCamps.

Currently, I’m part of a team that builds highly customized WordPress websites for the Dutch government.

Badges

CODE

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Core Contributor '19 Meta Contributor '22 Plugin Developer

CONTENT

2 badges

Photo Contributor '22 Photos Team '25

COMMUNITY

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WordCamp Speaker '14

POLYGLOTS

2 badges

Translation Contributor '15 Translation Editor '19

Current Job

Senior WordPress developer

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Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

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Last 90 days

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Last 12 months

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WordPress releases

Contributed to 9 releases

Contributions

Type

February 2026

Feb 23 Mon · 06:29

Core high

Mentioned in [61718] on WordPress SVN:
Docs: Improve accuracy of `@return` type and description for `get_post_custom()`.

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 06 Tue · 10:29

Polyglots high

Translated 35 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

May 06 Tue · 07:37

Polyglots med

Suggested 15 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

May 05 Mon · 10:19

Forums med

Posted a reply to No tools page on multisite, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @mnttech . Thank you looking into this. I checked, and the WP Opcache page…

May 02 Fri · 09:36

Forums med

Created a topic, No tools page on multisite, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This is a really useful plugin when troubleshooting OP…

January 2025

Jan 13 Mon · 08:07

Forums med

Posted a reply to WordPress 6.7.1 compatible, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@rainer-r Sorry this is taking so long. I've created a Github issue to create a…

Jan 04 Sat · 13:38

Forums med

Posted a reply to WordPress 6.7.1 compatible, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @rainer-r I've been trying to reproduce the issue, but both OMGF and OMGF Pro…

December 2024

Dec 20 Fri · 12:31

Forums med

Posted a reply to Feature request: extensible environment types, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I've just released version 1.3.4 which adds the hook (and is properly tested with WP…

Dec 18 Wed · 14:29

Forums med

Posted a reply to Feature request: extensible environment types, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I think I agree that adding the hook would increase the plugin's flexibility. I'll add…