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Sudhir Gaikwad

@sudhirgaikwad517 on WordPress.org

Bio

A highly motivated software developer specializing in crafting robust and scalable web applications. Proficient
in PHP,Python,CRM and the Django framework, I build efficient back-end solutions integrated with
SQL,MongoDB databases. My front-end expertise lies in React ,HTML, Bootstrap , enabling me to deliver
seamless and engaging user experiences across platforms

Interests

Software Engineer

WordPress Origin Story

My journey with WordPress started when I wanted to help someone launch a course-selling website. I explored different tools but found WordPress to be the most flexible and beginner-friendly platform.

At first, I worked mainly with themes and plugins to build full sites without writing much code. But as I learned PHP, MySQL, and OOP concepts, I became curious about how WordPress worked under the hood.

That’s when I started developing custom plugins — my first one was a Course Progress Tracker, which I built from scratch and pushed to GitHub. From there, I got interested in contributing to open-source, and I recently made my first Pull Request to the Gutenberg project by fixing a label to match WordPress’s UX standards.

WordPress has helped me grow from a no-code beginner to someone who can write clean, meaningful code. Now, I want to keep learning and give back to the ecosystem that helped me start.

Contributions

Sudhir Gaikwad contributes 1 hour per week to the following teams: Core and Plugins.

  • Member Since: July 18th, 2025
  • Location: Pune , India
  • GitHub: sudhirgaikwad517
  • Job Title: Student
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  • Submitted pull request #70794 to WordPress/gutenberg:
    Fix: Use lowercase for "link to page" label in Featured Image block