Olaf Lederer (@finalwebsites) – WordPress user profile

Bio

My name is Olaf Lederer and I’m building PHP powered web applications since 2002. My first blog was built with WordPress in 2006 and today most of my web development jobs are done by using WordPress. Beside building websites, I spend a lot of time on online marketing, blogging and other “geeky” internet stuff.

Interests

WordPress, building websites, online marketing, writing blogs

WordPress Origin Story

I remember me that a friend asked me in 2005 why I didn’t have a blog (of course using WordPress). He mentioned: “That would be a great update for your website about PHP web development”. It took some time to work on that idea and finally in 2006 I published my first article “Parse html with PHP, a preg_match_all tutorial” on my Web Development Blog. The funny thing is that it took ~6 month to get some visitors for this website. While my first website finalwebsites.com had already a ~400 visitors a day, it was sometimes very hard to continue blogging. It took also some time before I tweaked or developed my first own WordPress theme. During the first years I used free and premium themes and finally in 2009 I programmed a custom theme for my dutch website on finalwebsites.nl. That was also the time that I wrote several plugins for the standalone version of bbPress. Today 90% of my personal and customer’s websites are based on WordPress and I write a lot of custom code to tweak these WordPress websites to the next level.

Badges

CODE

2 badges

Core Contributor '24 Plugin Developer

COMMUNITY

2 badges

WordCamp Organizer '19 WordCamp Speaker '18

PRACTICE

1 badge

Support Contributor '26

POLYGLOTS

1 badge

Translation Contributor '19

Current Job

Web Developer

Present

finalwebsites.com

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

21contributions

high5

medium16

score31

Last 90 days

24contributions

high5

medium19

score34

Last 12 months

94contributions

high24

medium70

score142

WordPress releases

Contributed to 2 releases

Contributions

Type

September 2026

Sep 08 Tue · 08:05

Forums med

Created a topic, Clearing cache after updates, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi,There is currently a feature that automatically cle…

Sep 08 Tue · 07:40

Forums med

Posted a reply to Contact not being passed from WooCommerce to Email Octopus, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Did you use the exact same spelling for the tag name?Maybe you can post a…

Sep 07 Mon · 06:27

Forums med

Posted a reply to Contact not being passed from WooCommerce to Email Octopus, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi,which version do you see in you plugins list, Is it 1.1.1? Perhaps you've auto-updates…

Sep 04 Fri · 13:40

Polyglots high

Translated 5 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

Sep 04 Fri · 09:51

Polyglots med

Suggested 16 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

Sep 04 Fri · 08:52

Forums med

Posted a reply to Checkbox appears but contact is not added to EmailOctopus, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi,When I tested the Woo integration yesterday, I noticed that in version 1.1.0, the status…

Sep 04 Fri · 08:43

Forums med

Posted a reply to Contact not being passed from WooCommerce to Email Octopus, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi,I have just published a new version.With this version, you can use this filter hook…

Sep 04 Fri · 08:33

Plugins high

Committed [3680897] to Plugins SVN:
Fix diverse

Sep 03 Thu · 06:51

Forums med

Posted a reply to Checkbox appears but contact is not added to EmailOctopus, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for the information. After checking the integration code I found out that the order…

Sep 03 Thu · 06:36

Forums med

Posted a reply to Contact not being passed from WooCommerce to Email Octopus, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi,Interesting option, that should be possible via a new filter hook that I need to…