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

6contributions

high3

medium3

score12

Last 90 days

29contributions

high11

medium18

score51

Last 12 months

59contributions

high26

medium33

score111

WordPress releases

Contributed to 4 releases

Contributions

Type

July 2026

Jul 16 Thu · 21:20

Plugins high

Committed [3610746] to Plugins SVN:
tagging and releasing 8.7.4

Jul 16 Thu · 20:48

Plugins high

Committed [3610731] to Plugins SVN:
tagging and releasing 4.3.5

Jul 10 Fri · 23:44

Forums med

Posted a reply to can’t view some saved patterns or insert unsynced pattern, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks, that was super helpful! Adding the missing 'buttons' wrapper resolves the issue for me,…

Jul 09 Thu · 20:34

Plugins high

Committed [3601949] to Plugins SVN:
tagging and releasing 8.7.3

Jul 08 Wed · 20:24

Forums med

Posted a reply to can’t view some saved patterns or insert unsynced pattern, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I did a completely fresh site/install, created a pattern with the code from my unsynced…

Jul 08 Wed · 20:19

Forums med

Created a topic, can’t view some saved patterns or insert unsynced pattern, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi folks, Having a bit of trouble with my patterns.…

June 2026

Jun 17 Wed · 16:42

Forums med

Posted a reply to GOOD! I just clicked to start the process without checking any options, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for the great review. As I think Adam mentioned in the other threads, that…

Jun 10 Wed · 19:25

Plugins high

Committed [3567996] to Plugins SVN:
tagging and releasing 8.7.2

Jun 09 Tue · 21:38

Forums med

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 09 Tue · 20:50

Plugins high

Committed [3566543] to Plugins SVN:
tagging and releasing 2.9.2