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Willem Prins

WordPress Product Lead at Really Simple Plugins / team.blue

@somtijds Herzsprung, Brandenburg, Germany joined Jun 2012

willemprins.me github.com/somtijds Slack: @Willem

    Bio

    I am Willem, a Dutch cultural historian turned web professional based in Germany. I care deeply about language and people, and in my work I am always looking to create thoughtful online solutions with good writing and meaningful interactions.

    Interests

    Music and dancing, reading and writing, tinkering with code, the individual components of a triathlon, and people.

    WordPress Origin Story

    In 2009, I created a WordPress blog to store the research notes for my MA thesis. I believe it was hosted on my NAS first, later I made it accessible on a doesntexist.org domain. Not too long after that, a friend asked me if I could help her build their website. This became my second WordPress project, and the beginning of my freelancing career and the moniker SOMTIJDS.

    Badges

    CODE
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    Core Contributor '18
    POLYGLOTS
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    Translation Contributor '25

    Current Job

    WordPress Product Lead
    Sep 2026 – Present
    Really Simple Plugins / team.blue · Full-time

    Job History

    Developer and Project lead
    Mar 2025 – Sep 2026
    SOMTIJDS · Freelance
    Developer / Project Lead
    Sep 2018 – Feb 2025
    Syde (previously Inpsyde) · Full-time

    Recent impact

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    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 1 release
    • 5.0

    Contributions

    Type
    September 2026
    Sep 15 Tue · 11:32
    Meta med
    Wrote a comment on the post WordPress Playground and WebMCP: bringing AI agents into your browser workflow, on the site WordPress Playground:
    Hi Fellyph! Powerful stuff! Very cool to see the WebMCP in action on Playground —…
    February 2025
    Feb 06 Thu · 22:20
    Polyglots high
    Translated 12 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
    Feb 06 Thu · 12:55
    Forums med
    Created a topic, Great for custom meta options!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thanks for this helpful plugin! I initially set out to…
    Feb 06 Thu · 11:06
    Polyglots med
    Suggested 42 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
    April 2021
    Apr 17 Sat · 15:30
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Error message styling improvements, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    And I hope it's okay if I point out something else: the 2 seconds to…
    Apr 17 Sat · 15:00
    Forums med
    Created a topic, Error message styling improvements, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi! First of all, thanks for making this plugin publi…
    December 2018
    Dec 14 Fri · 05:11
    Core high
    Mentioned in [44165] on WordPress SVN:
    Editor: Merge some minor bug fixes.
    February 2017
    Feb 06 Mon · 20:04
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Scan did not complete, will try again, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    It still throws the error, but marches on nicely. Thanks for moving this forward so…
    Feb 03 Fri · 11:34
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Scan did not complete, will try again, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    @nosilver4u: I've sent you a debug file (ran Bulk Optimize with all plugins active this…
    Feb 02 Thu · 12:11
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Scan did not complete, will try again, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    If I can chip in: I had the same issue w/ 700 images in the…

    Plugins

    1 favorite

    Translations

    1 locale
    nl_NL Nederlands (Dutch) Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 1 project.

    Twentig Supercharged Block Editor – Blocks, Patterns, Starter Sites, Portfolio

    View all on translate.wordpress.org