Maciek Palmowski is a WordPress-focused software professional with over a decade of experience and more than seven years deep in the WordPress ecosystem, currently driving growth for Patchstack as mVDP Growth Manager and co-organizing CMS Conf. He blends hands-on PHP and backend development—contributing to notable open-source projects like wp2static and Timber—with security-minded community leadership as a former Security Community Manager. Maciek founded WordPressówka and runs WP Owls, showing a sustained commitment to educating and connecting the Polish WordPress community. His technical contributions include performance and crawling improvements for static site generation and enhanced ACF and SVG support in theme tooling, reflecting a pragmatic mix of performance, security, and UX. Based in Łódź, he pairs startup and advocacy experience with event organization, making him equally at home shipping code and building communities.
Create WordPress themes with beautiful OOP code and the Twig Template Engine
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:1 review, 81 commits, 23 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Maciek primarily contributed to the Timber library by adding support for Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) integrations, allowing for more flexible content management. They implemented methods like `get_field_object` and `is_svg` to extend the library's functionality. Furthermore, the user addressed several bugs and issues related to image handling, ensuring proper SVG support and improving the behavior of image operations such as resizing and retina display generation.
WordPress static site generator for security, performance and cost benefits
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 5 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Maciek primarily focused on improving the functionality of the WordPress static site generator. Their contributions include fixing bugs related to crawling sitemaps and merging code changes. They also implemented a feature to crawl concurrently, improving performance, and added advanced options for the user interface. They also made several code enhancements to the plugin's core features, including adding new advanced options and modifying the site information.
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Maciek Palmowski - CMS Conf Co-organizer at Patchstack