Rick is the founder and lead developer/designer at R-Cubed Design Forge (R3DF). Rick is a creative, artistic, and entrepreneurial engineer with a passion for finding solutions to challenging design problems.

Rick specializes in developing custom: websites, plugins, themes and applications as well as multilingual websites.

Developing solutions in hardware and software design for over 30 years, has given Rick extensive experience with leading-edge custom software applications, object-oriented languages, open source frameworks and content management systems (CMS’s) allowing him to forge unique, high quality, solutions for his clients.

What people are saying about Rick:

Rob Marriage ‏@robmarriage

Thanks for great talk on child themes and plugins. I have some cleanup to do on my sites. (yes I’m on of those people)

Mitch Vandenborn ‏@mitchvandy

Thanks again for your WordPress presentation yesterday. The screen options display tip has saved me so much time.

Linn Øyen Farley ‏@LinnOyenFarley

I solemnly swear to stop shoving stuff into functions.php and code a Site Plugin instead. has shown me the light.

Robin Macrae ‏@Robin_Macrae

Another excellent Rick Radko presentation – dev sites & migration –

iRoseha ‏@iroseha

Intro to WordPress Plugin Development, one of my favorite sessions at with

Yorgo ‏@yorgo67

shared a wealth of information on setting up & getting going both locally and thru a host – thanks for this!

Rick began building web sites and applications in 1996, using HTML and Perl. Since then, he has worked with many open source PHP/MySQL systems including WordPress, Drupal, Joomla!, MediaWiki, Lime Survey and CiviCRM. He now focuses on WordPress.

He is active in the WordPress community, where he contributes and shares WordPress knowledge and resources.  Rick is a founder and co-leader of the Ottawa WordPress Group (http://wpottawa.org), where he often speaks on WordPress topics. He also presents at WordCamps (http://central.wordcamp.org) and was the founding organizer of WordCamp Ottawa.  He was lead organizer for WordCamp Ottawa 2013, and WordCamp Ottawa 2014, and a co-organizer of WordCamp Ottawa 2016, and WordCamp Ottawa 2017. Rick is a co-organizer for the inaugural WordCamp Canada 2024.

Rick is an avid skier

Rick is an NCCP certified ski coach and CSIA certified instructor. The structured training and coaching concepts learned for the instructing on slopes are equally applicable when training content creators in WordPress.