Brandon Ernst (@brandonfire) – WordPress user profile

Bio

Founder at Gaucho Plugins
Founder at Brand on Fire LLC
Former Head of Marketing @ Freemius.com

WordPress Origin Story

Started developing in WordPress in 2011!

Badges

CODE

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Plugin Developer

COMMUNITY

1 badge

WordCamp Speaker '20

POLYGLOTS

1 badge

Translation Contributor '21

Current Job

Founder

Present

Gaucho Plugins

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

20contributions

high20

medium0

score60

Last 90 days

127contributions

high126

medium1

score379

Last 12 months

166contributions

high163

medium3

score492

Contributions

Type

July 2026

Jul 02 Thu · 09:36

Polyglots high

Translated 2 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

Jul 01 Wed · 08:57

Plugins high

Committed [3592367] to Plugins SVN:
Tag version 1.6.0

Jul 01 Wed · 08:57

Plugins high

Committed [3592366] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 1.6.0

June 2026

Jun 30 Tue · 21:47

Plugins high

Committed [3591969] to Plugins SVN:
Tag version 3.5.9

Jun 30 Tue · 21:47

Plugins high

Committed [3591968] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 3.5.9

Jun 24 Wed · 06:12

Plugins high

Committed [3584061] to Plugins SVN:
China Payments Plugin 3.5.8: restore WooCommerce-block payment-method bundles (interface/woocommerce-checkout-blocks/stripe/*/build/) that were stripped from the wp.org zip, so block checkout registers WeChat/Alipay/UnionPay again

Jun 24 Wed · 05:58

Plugins high

Committed [3584051] to Plugins SVN:
Tag version 3.5.8

Jun 24 Wed · 05:58

Plugins high

Committed [3584050] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 3.5.8

Jun 24 Wed · 04:03

Plugins high

Committed [3583984] to Plugins SVN:
Tag version 3.5.7

Jun 24 Wed · 04:03

Plugins high

Committed [3583983] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 3.5.7