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derickschaefer

Developer, Author, Consultant, Leader at Indendent Plugin Creator

@derickschaefer Dallas, TX joined Apr 2008

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    Bio

    Derick Schaefer is a technology leader, consultant, and author experienced in large scale, highly regulated SaaS businesses. He joined the WordPress community in 2007, founded WebSynthesis hosting for WordPress (merged with StudioPress and now WPEngine), and has contributed to the community via performance focus plugin contributions and writing.

    Interests

    Command-line interfaces, Go programming language, plugins, PHP, WordPress.

    WordPress Origin Story

    Joined the WordPress community in 2007, first WordCamp in 2008, co-authored “The Truth About WordPress Performance” with F. Townes (https://copyblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/The-Truth-About-WordPress-Performance.pdf), released “>CLI: A Practical Guide to Creating Modern Command-Line Interfaces” in 2025 which has a Spotlight chapter on the WP-CLI.

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    Plugin Developer

    Current Job

    Developer, Author, Consultant, Leader
    Present
    Indendent Plugin Creator

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    0contributions
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    score0
    Last 90 days
    8contributions
    high8
    medium0
    score24
    Last 12 months
    55contributions
    high55
    medium0
    score165

    Contributions

    Type
    May 2026
    May 17 Sun · 22:17
    Plugins high
    Committed [3534897] to Plugins SVN:
    Tag version 2.1.1
    May 17 Sun · 22:17
    Plugins high
    Committed [3534896] to Plugins SVN:
    Update trunk to version 2.1.1
    May 17 Sun · 19:42
    Plugins high
    Committed [3534820] to Plugins SVN:
    Tag version 1.1.1
    May 17 Sun · 19:42
    Plugins high
    Committed [3534819] to Plugins SVN:
    Update trunk to version 1.1.1
    May 17 Sun · 19:33
    Plugins high
    Committed [3534813] to Plugins SVN:
    Fix changelog entry in readme.txt for 2.1.7
    May 17 Sun · 19:32
    Plugins high
    Committed [3534810] to Plugins SVN:
    Fix changelog entry in readme.txt for 2.1.7
    May 17 Sun · 19:23
    Plugins high
    Committed [3534803] to Plugins SVN:
    Tag version 2.1.7 for release
    May 17 Sun · 19:23
    Plugins high
    Committed [3534802] to Plugins SVN:
    Update trunk to version 2.1.7
    March 2026
    Mar 19 Thu · 23:32
    Plugins high
    Committed [3486874] to Plugins SVN:
    Tag version 2.1.6 for release
    Mar 19 Thu · 23:31
    Plugins high
    Committed [3486873] to Plugins SVN:
    Update trunk to version 2.1.6

    Developer

    6 plugins