Shipon Karmakar (@shiponkarmakar) – WordPress user profile

Shipon Karmakar

WordPress Developer & Server Administrator at UnivaHost

@shiponkarmakar Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh joined Oct 2020

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Bio

Greetings, I’m Shipon Karmakar, a passionate WordPress developer and enthusiast. I have honed my skills in developing custom WordPress themes and plugins, optimizing website performance, and providing exceptional user experiences. Since 2014, I have been working on WordPress projects, both as a freelancer and as a part of a team. My portfolio includes websites for small businesses, e-commerce stores, and personal blogs, all built with WordPress. I love to share my knowledge and expertise with the WordPress community and I am an active contributor to the WordPress open-source project. In my free time, you can find me experimenting with new plugins or themes, or attending local WordPress meetups and conferences. Let’s connect and make the web a better place, one WordPress site at a time!

Interests

Programming, Badminton, Travelling, Singing, Photography

WordPress Origin Story

– Core Contribution to WordPress 6.3 “Lionel”, 6.5 “Regina”
– 2019 Join Dhaka WordCamp
– 2019 Published 1 Theme ( ArticlePress ) in WordPress.org
– 2020 Published 2 plugins in WordPress.org
– 2023 Join Asia WordCamp in Thailand
– 2023 Join Sylhet WordCamp
– 2023 Join Rangpur Mega Meetup
– 2024 Join Sylhet WordCamp
– 2025 Join Dhaka WordCamp
– 2025 Lead Organizer & Speaker WordPress Campus Connect Brahmanbaria
– 2025 Core Contribution to WordPress 6.9 “Gene”

Badges

CODE

8 badges

Core Contributor '23 C Core Performance Contributor '24 Hosting Contributor '26 Pattern Author '23 P Playground Contributor '25 Plugin Developer Theme Developer WP-CLI Contributor '24

CONTENT

3 badges

Documentation Contributor '24 Photo Contributor '22 WordPress.tv Contributor '24

COMMUNITY

4 badges

bbPress Contributor '24 WordCamp Organizer '25 WordCamp Speaker '25 WordCamp Volunteer '25

PRACTICE

4 badges

Accessibility Contributor '25 Test Contributor '23 Training Contributor '24 Training Team '25

POLYGLOTS

2 badges

Translation Contributor '23 Translation Editor '23

Current Job

WordPress Developer & Server Administrator

Present

UnivaHost

Key Accomplishments

Led WordPress Campus Connect in Brahmanbaria, organizing sessions, workshops, and community initiatives to introduce students to WordPress and open-source contribution.

Built a custom shell-based release automation system for WordPress.org plugins, reducing manual errors and speeding up deployment.

Developed and maintained multiple WordPress plugins, including a social sharing plugin used by live production websites.

Contributed to WordPress core by reviewing patches, testing releases, and improving overall stability and performance.

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

23contributions

high21

medium2

score65

Last 90 days

72contributions

high70

medium2

score212

Last 12 months

164contributions

high154

medium10

score472

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 3 releases

Time commitment

3 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

Contributions

Type

October 2026

Oct 15 Thu · 11:24

Plugins high

Committed [3748279] to Plugins SVN:
Release v1.1.1

Oct 13 Tue · 20:29

Plugins high

Committed [3744865] to Plugins SVN:
Release v1.1.2

Oct 13 Tue · 13:34

Plugins high

Committed [3744054] to Plugins SVN:
Update plugin assets

Oct 13 Tue · 10:00

Plugins high

Committed [3743505] to Plugins SVN:
Release v1.1.0

Oct 12 Mon · 20:13

Plugins high

Committed [3742461] to Plugins SVN:
Update plugin assets

Oct 12 Mon · 18:35

Plugins high

Committed [3742321] to Plugins SVN:
Update plugin assets

Oct 10 Sat · 20:27

Plugins high

Committed [3738673] to Plugins SVN:
Release v1.1.1

Oct 09 Fri · 08:51

Forums med

Posted a reply to Is it a suitable replacement for FluentSMTP?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @ve3meo , thanks for considering SendForce! Yes, SendForce's Email Queue supports per-connection throttling, configurable…

Oct 08 Thu · 19:31

Plugins high

Committed [3735409] to Plugins SVN:
Release v1.1.0

Oct 08 Thu · 07:07

Forums med

Posted a reply to User Friendly WordPress Plugin BackReload, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thank you so much for the kind words! ❤️ Glad to hear BackReload is making…