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Birgit Pauli-Haack

Developer Advocate at Automattic

@bph Munich, Germany joined Jan 2010

gutenbergtimes.com github.com/bph Slack: @bph
    Teams Community Core Documentation Playground
    Languages de_DE

    Bio

    WordPress Developer Advocate
    Curating community voices around the new editor on Gutenberg Times

    Badges

    CODE
    6 badges
    Core Contributor '18 Core Team '22 Meta Contributor '20 P Playground Contributor '25 P Playground Team '25 Plugin Developer
    CONTENT
    3 badges
    Documentation Contributor '20 Documentation Team '20 Photo Contributor '22
    COMMUNITY
    5 badges
    Community Contributor '19 Community Team '17 Meetup Organizer '18 WordCamp Organizer '19 WordCamp Speaker '18
    PRACTICE
    1 badge
    Test Contributor '21
    POLYGLOTS
    1 badge
    Translation Editor '26

    Current Job

    Developer Advocate
    Present
    Automattic

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    8contributions
    high5
    medium3
    score18
    Last 90 days
    60contributions
    high22
    medium38
    score104
    Last 12 months
    288contributions
    high136
    medium152
    score560

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 19 releases
    • 7.0
    • 6.9
    • 6.8
    • 6.7
    • 6.6
    • 6.5
    • 6.4
    • 6.3
    • 6.2
    • 6.1
    • 6.0
    • 5.9
    • 5.8
    • 5.7
    • 5.6
    • 5.5
    • 5.4
    • 5.0
    • 4.9

    Time commitment

    40 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

    Contributions

    Type
    July 2026
    Jul 04 Sat · 07:35
    Meta high
    Made 3 updates to handbook pages on Make WordPress Core.
    June 2026
    Jun 17 Wed · 09:56
    Themes high
    Pull request #826 merged into WordPress/create-block-theme:
    i18n: Localize label attribute of additional blocks
    Jun 17 Wed · 09:53
    Themes high
    Pull request #827 merged into WordPress/create-block-theme:
    i18n: Localise fileName and downloadButtonText of the File block
    Jun 11 Thu · 16:14
    GitHub med
    Created issue #480 in the WordPress/developer-blog-content repository:
    Building an AI powered chatbot for your WordPress site
    Jun 11 Thu · 15:51
    GitHub med
    Created issue #479 in the WordPress/developer-blog-content repository:
    Exploring Layered Fatal Error Recovery Patterns in WordPress
    Jun 11 Thu · 15:48
    GitHub med
    Created issue #478 in the WordPress/developer-blog-content repository:
    Enqueueing Editor-Only Scripts and Styles for Block Editor
    Jun 11 Thu · 12:22
    Meta high
    Made 4 updates to handbook pages on Make WordPress Core.
    Jun 10 Wed · 16:12
    Meta high
    Received props from @fatihkadirakin in Slack:
    Props to @bph and @greenshady for the What's new for developers June 2026 monthly roundup!…
    May 2026
    May 22 Fri · 11:13
    Themes med
    Created issue #846 in the WordPress/create-block-theme repository:
    Palette: auto-fill slug from Name with transliteration support
    May 21 Thu · 21:04
    Themes med
    Submitted pull request #845 to WordPress/create-block-theme:
    Add/Edit Color Settings + Palette to color tab

    Developer

    2 plugins

    Photos

    7 contributions

    View all 7 photos in the Photo Directory

    Completed courses

    2 completed

    Browse courses on Learn WordPress

    Plugins

    35 favorites

    Themes

    13 favorites

    Translations

    1 locale
    de_DE Deutsch (German) Plugins Translation Editor

    Translation editor for 2 projects.

    Podcast data for block themes GT Table Block

    View all on translate.wordpress.org