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Iain Poulson

Senior Product Manager at WP Engine

@polevaultweb Bournemouth, UK joined Jan 2012

polevaultweb.com github.com/polevaultweb Slack: @polevaultweb

    Bio

    I’m a WordPress developer based on the south coast of England. I develop plugins like Intagrate and WP User Manager. I also run WP App Store for deals on WordPress plugins, themes and hosting.

    Badges

    CODE
    2 badges
    Core Contributor '15 Plugin Developer
    COMMUNITY
    1 badge
    Meetup Organizer '18
    PRACTICE
    1 badge
    Support Contributor '26

    Current Job

    Senior Product Manager
    Present
    WP Engine

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    13contributions
    high3
    medium10
    score19
    Last 90 days
    26contributions
    high9
    medium17
    score44
    Last 12 months
    33contributions
    high11
    medium22
    score55

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 7 releases
    • 6.3
    • 6.2
    • 4.7
    • 4.6
    • 4.5
    • 4.4
    • 4.3

    Contributions

    Type
    October 2026
    Oct 29 Thu · 21:50
    Forums med
    Created a topic, Still maintained? Happy to take it on, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi, I sent a message through the code4life.it contact …
    Oct 29 Thu · 21:49
    Forums med
    Created a topic, Plugin adoption?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi @cmc3215, I sent you a LinkedIn message on 12 Oct, …
    Oct 24 Sat · 08:50
    Forums med
    Created a topic, Maintained again: 4.0.6 is out, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi everyone, Peter has passed Smart Attachment Page…
    Oct 24 Sat · 08:49
    Forums med
    Created a topic, Maintained again: 5.0.4 is out, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi everyone, Peter has passed Smart Custom Display …
    Oct 24 Sat · 08:48
    Forums med
    Created a topic, Maintained again: 5.1.4 is out, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi everyone, Peter has passed Smart Archive Page Re…
    Oct 23 Fri · 17:52
    Forums med
    Created a topic, Maintained again: 4.0.7 is out, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi everyone, Peter has passed Smart User Slug Hider…
    Oct 23 Fri · 17:51
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Adoption – Smart User Slug Hider, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Update: 4.0.7 is out. The "Undefined array key SERVER_ADDR" warning I mentioned had already been…
    Oct 23 Fri · 17:50
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Maintenance question, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi @ioannislazaridis , Thanks for raising this, and sorry it went unanswered. Peter has since…
    Oct 20 Tue · 06:38
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Adoption – Smart User Slug Hider, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thanks @petersplugins , that's very kind. Sorted by email. For anyone using the plugin: once…
    Oct 16 Fri · 21:09
    Plugins high
    Committed [3751136] to Plugins SVN:
    readme: drop duplicate open graph tag