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

2 badges

Core Contributor '24 Plugin Developer

PRACTICE

1 badge

Support Contributor '26

POLYGLOTS

1 badge

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

17contributions

high8

medium9

score33

Last 90 days

38contributions

high16

medium22

score70

Last 12 months

73contributions

high31

medium42

score135

WordPress releases

Contributed to 4 releases

Contributions

Type

August 2026

Aug 07 Fri · 22:28

Forums med

Posted a reply to Uncaught ImagickException: unable to open image in common.php:2864, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for the update! Since it doesn't seem to be consistent, I'll go ahead and…

Aug 05 Wed · 18:25

Plugins high

Committed [3635715] to Plugins SVN:
tagging and releasing 8.7.5

Aug 04 Tue · 20:48

Forums med

Posted a reply to Uncaught ImagickException: unable to open image in common.php:2864, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Gal, What we're trying to work out is how it gets to that point,…

July 2026

Jul 31 Fri · 20:37

Core med

Created issue #81041 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
cannot insert unsynced pattern and similar synced pattern not visible in pattern…

Jul 31 Fri · 20:04

Forums med

Posted a reply to can’t view some saved patterns or insert unsynced pattern, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Well, the filter for "contentOnly" mode didn't seem to do the trick, I'll report the…

Jul 30 Thu · 19:26

Plugins high

Committed [3629058] to Plugins SVN:
tagging and releasing 3.0.1

Jul 30 Thu · 17:36

Plugins high

Committed [3628969] to Plugins SVN:
tagging and releasing 3.0.1

Jul 29 Wed · 17:36

Plugins high

Committed [3627546] to Plugins SVN:
tagging and releasing 4.3.6

Jul 29 Wed · 12:00

Plugins med

Closed issue #1425 on the WordPress/plugin-check repository:
direct file access protection not needed for tests/bootstrap.php