Lisa Schuyler (@lschuyler) – WordPress user profile

Bio

Lisa is a Code Wrangler at Automattic, working from her home in Dawson City in the Yukon Territory of Canada.

While professionally trained in Forestry, Lisa was always directed back to the computer for her database and programming skills. This altered her career path from the woods to a desk chair as a database manager and web developer for the Canadian Forest Service. For several years she was the voice behind a popular (okay, the only) Canadian forestry news blog, and was even briefly as a Drupal support tech at a University before landing at Automattic in 2013.

Lisa has been blogging since 2005.

Interests

Camping, hiking, local history, ATV’ing, bonfires, photography, blogging, road trips

WordPress Origin Story

Lisa stopped programming everything from scratch (Perl/CGI) and embraced b2evolution for her personal blog and for her failed affiliate marketing empire.

Over time, she outgrew b2evolution’s growth and switched all her personal blog and interest sites to WordPress.

Badges

CODE

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Core Contributor '20 Plugin Developer

Current Job

Code Wrangler

Present

Automattic

Recent impact

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Last 90 days

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Last 12 months

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WordPress releases

Contributed to 2 releases

Contributions

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May 2026

May 29 Fri · 23:33

Forums med

Posted a reply to Compatibility with custom registration forms?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @lindsay65, Great question - it's smart to think about this before you start building!…

May 29 Fri · 23:26

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Posted a reply to Spam check question, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @jazmyn30, Yes, moving a comment out of the spam folder helps Akismet learn and…

May 15 Fri · 00:58

Core high

Pull request #70575 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
Prevent images from appearing squished when only one dimension is set

April 2026

Apr 06 Mon · 17:03

Forums med

Posted a reply to Question About Spam Filtering Performance, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @jamarcus32 - You can improve Akismet's spam filtering by marking any spam that is…

November 2025

Nov 19 Wed · 16:14

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Posted a reply to API key, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @esmo53! You can use this form to have your API sent to you:https://akismet.com/resend/ Here's…

July 2025

Jul 01 Tue · 05:21

Core med

Submitted pull request #70575 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Prevent images from appearing squished when only one dimension is set

June 2025

Jun 10 Tue · 21:13

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Posted a reply to Unused styles queues on every page since, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks Timo, we have a fix ready that will be released in the next version…

Jun 10 Tue · 21:01

Plugins high

Committed [3309445] to Plugins SVN:
Akismet: Only add widget CSS to page if widget is in use

January 2025

Jan 30 Thu · 20:33

Plugins high

Committed [3232287] to Plugins SVN:
Akismet: enqueue widget inline styles

November 2024

Nov 19 Tue · 02:23

Forums med

Posted a reply to Askimet 5.3.4 caused critical/fatal error on my blogs., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for reporting this @aldesigner ! We have just released Akismet 5.3.5 with a fix…