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Mike Hansen

VP, WordPress Product at Bluehost

@mikehansenme Orlando, FL joined Sep 2012

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    CODE
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    Core Contributor '15 Hosting Contributor '18
    COMMUNITY
    2 badges
    WordCamp Organizer '14 WordCamp Speaker '19

    Current Job

    VP, WordPress Product
    Present
    Bluehost

    Recent impact

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    Last 12 months
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    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 20 releases
    • 6.9
    • 6.1
    • 5.8
    • 5.4
    • 5.3
    • 4.9
    • 4.8
    • 4.7
    • 4.6
    • 4.5
    • 4.4
    • 4.3
    • 4.2
    • 4.1
    • 4.0
    • 3.9
    • 3.8
    • 3.7
    • 3.6
    • 3.5

    Time commitment

    Five for the Future sponsors

    Contributions

    Type
    November 2025
    Nov 11 Tue · 02:34
    Core high
    Mentioned in [61201] on WordPress SVN:
    Mail: Improve multipart message handling in `wp_mail()`.
    August 2022
    Aug 16 Tue · 18:16
    Core high
    Mentioned in [53900] on WordPress SVN:
    Mail: Prevent the last character of names in “From” headers from being trimmed.
    May 2021
    May 26 Wed · 02:16
    Core high
    Mentioned in [51027] on WordPress SVN:
    Posts, Post Types: Improve `post_exists()` query.
    September 2019
    Sep 26 Thu · 22:07
    Core high
    Mentioned in [46333] on WordPress SVN:
    Options: `register_uninstall_hook()` causes large amounts of unnecessary option updates.
    August 2019
    Aug 28 Wed · 00:51
    Core high
    Mentioned in [45901] on WordPress SVN:
    Date/Time: Introduce `wp_date()` to retrieve the date in localized format.
    July 2019
    Jul 02 Tue · 01:30
    Core high
    Mentioned in [45585] on WordPress SVN:
    Clean up stray `` tags added by `wpautop()` inside block level tags.
    December 2018
    Dec 09 Sun · 16:47
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to My Website has disappeared!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi Barry, if you do contact your webhost I would ask them what error is…
    October 2017
    Oct 10 Tue · 05:33
    Core high
    Mentioned in [41806] on WordPress SVN:
    File Editor: Add support for more than one sub-directory level.
    Oct 05 Thu · 00:54
    Core high
    Mentioned in [41763] on WordPress SVN:
    Posts, Post Types: Introduce `page_attributes_misc_attributes` action that fires before the help hint text in the 'Page Attributes' meta box.
    May 2017
    May 20 Sat · 15:08
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Site Crashes After Receiving Bigger Number Of Views On Bluehost Managed Host, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hey @Reeder_Mustaine it just pulled up the account notes and it looks like your site…