nosilver4u (@nosilver4u) – WordPress user profile

Bio

I love God, my wife, and I like computers. I’m a bit of a Linux fanatic, and have used Gentoo, Fedora, LFS, RHEL, Debian, and Ubuntu. I develop plugins like the EWWW Image Optimizer, and also help with tech stuff at my local church.
And for the record, pineapple is disgusting on pizza, despite what Matt might think 😉

Interests

God, family, computers

WordPress Origin Story

I started with a hand-coded HTML blog where I got my feet wet with HTML and CSS back in 2004 (or earlier possibly). But when I moved from my own self-hosted server to a real web host, I found that there was actual blogging software you could install. I started playing with b2evolution and nucleus in 2005, the former seeming superior to WordPress from what I was reading online.
In early 2006, I installed WordPress for the first time, and started using it for my personal blog in pretty short order. Over the years, I had managed several websites on Joomla and Drupal, but by 2012 I was more comfortable with WordPress, and started building business sites on WordPress to get a side hustle going.
One of my first sites was for a greenhouse and we wanted to post a lot of photos. I began looking for an image optimization plugin, and didn’t find any that would work for us, so I rewrote the CW Image Optimizer to work on shared hosting. I decided to release it as EWWW Image Optimizer in case anyone else could use it, and now we have over a million sites using my “little side project”–which is, of course, no longer a side project!

Member Since: March 30th, 2008
Location: Glendive, MT
Website: ewww.io
GitHub: nosilver4u
Job Title: Founder
Employer: Exactly WWW LLC
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Contribution History

Core Contributor
Plugin Developer
Translation Contributor

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Posted a reply to plugin preventing update checks?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I chatted with WPE about the feature and what it does (in the core_anonymize_user_agent method).…
4 weeks ago
Posted a reply to plugin preventing update checks?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Aha, that's the ticket! Interestingly, I have that option enabled pretty much everywhere except for…
4 weeks ago
Created a topic, plugin preventing update checks?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I've recently discovered that Apocalypse Meow is someh…
4 weeks ago
Committed [3305989] to Plugins SVN:
tagging and releasing 2.2.2
1 month ago
Posted a reply to has saved my life, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You're very welcome, glad FRT could help you get all that sorted!
2 months ago
Mentioned in [60246] on Core SVN:
Media: fix degraded handling for 24 bit PNG uploads.
2 months ago
Committed [3294429] to Plugins SVN:
tagging and releasing 8.1.4
2 months ago
Posted a reply to please point stable tag to a tag, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Oh great, thanks! Confirmed that it is working now.
3 months ago
Created a topic, please point stable tag to a tag, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey, just ran into a weird quirk, won't bore you with …
3 months ago
Committed [3262301] to Plugins SVN:
tagging and releasing 8.1.3
4 months ago
Committed [3262286] to Plugins SVN:
tagging and releasing 4.1.0
4 months ago
Posted a reply to some small improvements, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hmm, that makes sense, though I can see some folks wanting it configurable, or not…
4 months ago
Posted a reply to some small improvements, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @centoasa, Thanks for your feedback! There is currently the ability to regenerate individual images…
4 months ago
Posted a reply to 502 Gateway Error When Updating WC Order Status, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You're very welcome, I'm glad I stumbled across your post shortly after seeing the same…
4 months ago
Committed [3251861] to Plugins SVN:
tagging and releasing 8.1.2
4 months ago
Posted a reply to 502 Gateway Error When Updating WC Order Status, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Ian, I ran into a similar issue myself a few weeks ago just in…
4 months ago
Committed [3247278] to Plugins SVN:
tagging and releasing 8.1.1
5 months ago
Committed [3242817] to Plugins SVN:
tagging and releasing 8.1.0
5 months ago
Committed [3242816] to Plugins SVN:
added plugin icons, and 8.1 changes
5 months ago
Mentioned in [59589] on Core SVN:
Media: improve Imagick handling of colors and alpha channel for PNG image uploads.
6 months ago
Posted a reply to IT WORKS, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You're very welcome!
6 months ago
Posted a reply to renegerating website with 100k media files?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@mcdeth and @discountpleasure, In the latest release of FRT, the nonce should never be a…
7 months ago
Posted a reply to renegerating website with 100k media files?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@discountpleasure, If there is a server problem, the process usually just continues on with the…
7 months ago
Posted a reply to Leider unbrauchbar, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @netspy! I'm sorry to hear it isn't working for you. However, we routinely run…
7 months ago
Committed [3206502] to Plugins SVN:
tagging and releasing 8.0.0
7 months ago
Created issue #1806 in the WordPress/Documentation-Issue-Tracker repository:
Incorrect source for functions on Developer documentation
7 months ago
Committed [3197623] to Plugins SVN:
tagging and releasing 4.0.0
8 months ago
Committed [3197618] to Plugins SVN:
tagging and releasing 2.8.6
8 months ago
Committed [3186675] to Plugins SVN:
tagging and releasing 2.8.5
8 months ago
Committed [3186670] to Plugins SVN:
tagging and releasing 2.2.1
8 months ago
Posted a reply to Works with other S3-compatible services?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It should, though I've never used R2 myself. See https://docs.ewww.io/article/22-how-to-use-s3-image-optimizer for instructions regarding custom endpoints…
8 months ago
Committed [3179573] to Plugins SVN:
tagging and releasing 7.9.1
8 months ago
Committed [3179564] to Plugins SVN:
tagging and releasing 3.9.4
8 months ago
Posted a reply to Regarding using advanced filter with CDN, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
FRT needs a (local and absolute) file path, not a URL, as FRT cannot operate…
9 months ago
Posted a reply to Exclude images from webp, but not from optimization?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Just a quick follow-up, as we'd never recommend replacing existing images with the same name.…
9 months ago
Posted a reply to Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading ‘w’), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Forgot to say, the exact line in wp-config.php should be this: define( 'SCRIPT_DEBUG', true );
9 months ago
Posted a reply to Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading ‘w’), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for reporting that, a lot changed in 7.2 though, as the script was completely…
9 months ago
Posted a reply to Regarding using advanced filter with CDN, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, that's a great question! Instead of a CDN URL though, you must provide a…
9 months ago
Posted a reply to renegerating website with 100k media files?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Just released the update to address these issues.
10 months ago
Committed [3153506] to Plugins SVN:
tagging and releasing 2.2.0
10 months ago
Committed [3150992] to Plugins SVN:
tagging and releasing 7.9.0
10 months ago
Committed [3150977] to Plugins SVN:
tagging and releasing 3.9.3
10 months ago
Posted a reply to Very basic, no support, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Fixing nonce expiration and resumability for FRT is next on my todo list. I'll be…
10 months ago
Posted a reply to Not working: Cannot load force-regenerate-thumbnails., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Aha, glad you found the issue!
10 months ago
Posted a reply to Not working: Cannot load force-regenerate-thumbnails., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
That does not appear to be an error generated by Force Regenerate Thumbnails itself, and…
10 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Guidance on plugins that install other plugins, on the site Make WordPress Plugins:
As long as the wizard states which plugin is going to be installed, and that…
10 months ago
Committed [3136282] to Plugins SVN:
tagging and releasing 2.6.1
11 months ago
Posted a reply to renegerating website with 100k media files?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sorry for missing this! As I mentioned in the review, that's something I'll be working…
11 months ago
Posted a reply to Very basic, no support, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for your feedback, it's good to hear what else people need in FRT! I'd…
11 months ago
Posted a reply to No longer recommended/sold out, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I would actually love to see those questions (you can email them via https://ewww.io/contact-us/), but…
11 months ago