Shane Bishop (@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!

Badges

CODE

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Core Contributor '24 Plugin Developer

PRACTICE

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Support Contributor '26

POLYGLOTS

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Translation Contributor '15

Current Job

Founder

Present

Exactly WWW LLC

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

7contributions

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Last 90 days

17contributions

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Last 12 months

33contributions

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WordPress releases

Contributed to 4 releases

Contributions

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June 2026

Jun 09 Tue · 21:38

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Posted a reply to Fatal Error with 2.9.1 update, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Version 2.9.2 with the fix has been released. Unfortunately, wordpress.org just instituted a new 24-hour…

Jun 08 Mon · 16:01

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Posted a reply to Fatal Error with 2.9.1 update, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@glycymeris Thanks for your report, see my prior reply.

Jun 06 Sat · 13:01

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Posted a reply to Fatal Error with 2.9.1 update, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
We've identified the source of the issue in Imsanity and will push out an Imsanity…

Jun 06 Sat · 12:59

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Posted a reply to 2.2.8 Critical Error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
We've identified the source of the issue in Imsanity and will push out an Imsanity…

Jun 02 Tue · 21:54

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Posted a reply to memory issues, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Well, I remembered an issue I had way back on my staging site that I…

May 2026

May 21 Thu · 19:40

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Posted a reply to memory issues, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hmm, while that isn't ideal, it might help narrow things down. Besides error reporting, it's…

May 21 Thu · 15:23

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Created a topic, memory issues, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, I was working on something yesterday on a site …

May 12 Tue · 15:48

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Posted a reply to Support for MySQL PHP 8.4 / 8.3 / 8.2 / 8.1 / 8.0 ?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You're very welcome, glad to help!

May 12 Tue · 14:56

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Posted a reply to Support for MySQL PHP 8.4 / 8.3 / 8.2 / 8.1 / 8.0 ?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Piet, You can always find our minimum supported PHP at https://wordpress.org/plugins/force-regenerate-thumbnails/ Currently, we support…

May 08 Fri · 15:35

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Posted a reply to double thumb generation?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Looks good, no double regen anymore!