François-xavier Bénard
CEO at WP-TRANSLATIONS
Soubran, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
Summary
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Top SchoolFrançois-xavier Bénard is a bilingual WordPress specialist and CEO with 14 years in the web industry who builds and scales localization-first products through WP-Translations and TranslationsPress. He combines hands-on WordPress development—contributing i18n/l10n fixes to notable projects like WP Rocket and backend work on Easy Digital Downloads—with leadership in the WordPress community as French GTE and WordCamp organizer. Passionate about making the web accessible in 25+ languages, he blends technical problem-solving with translation strategy to ship fully localized interfaces. Based in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, his background in film studies gives him a user-focused storytelling approach to product and content localization.
14 years of coding experience
Licence, Film/Cinema/Video Studies, Licence, Film/Cinema/Video Studies at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3
French, English
Github Skills (11)
i18n-js10
wordpress10
php10
ember-i18n10
rails-i18n10
translation10
wordpress-plugin10
ecommerce10
ed2551910
rocket9
plugin-development9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
awesomemotive/easy-digital-downloads
Jul 2012 - Sep 2015
Sell digital downloads through WordPress
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:151 commits, 12 PRs, 41 comments in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:François-xavier primarily contributed to the Easy Digital Downloads plugin by merging updates from remote tracking branches and addressing merge conflicts. These commits involved modifications to several PHP files, including template functions, admin pages, and payment processing files. The user's work focused on integrating updates and resolving conflicts related to various aspects of the plugin's functionality, from template rendering to payment gateways.
stripeecommercewordpress-apiwordpressphp
wp-media/wp-rocket
Jan 2014 - Dec 2016
Performance optimization plugin for WordPress
Role in this project:Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:87 commits, 2 PRs, 6 comments in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:François-xavier's commits primarily focus on internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) efforts within the WP Rocket plugin. They introduce and update translated strings, adjust code to support i18n, and translate various files, including options, FAQs, and tutorials. This work enhances the plugin's accessibility for users across different languages.
lazyloadperformance-optimizationwordpresscachingwordpress-performance
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