Felix Arntz – @flixos90

Member Since: November 28th, 2012
Location: Zürich, Switzerland
Website: https://felix-arntz.me
Job Title: Developer Programs Engineer
Employer: Google
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Bio

Developer Programs Engineer at Google. WordPress Core Committer. Previously Yoast. Runner, musician, movie geek. Aprendiendo español. Fueled by Mountain Dew.

Interests

Music Production. Movies. Brostep. WWE. Cocktails. Soccer. Running.

WordPress Origin Story

September 2012: Started working with WordPress
November 2012: Signed up for wordpress.org
March 2013: Published his first plugin on wordpress.org
October 2014: Reviewed a WordPress book
November 2014: Started working with WordPress multisite
June 2015: Attended his first WordCamp (WCEU in Sevilla)
June 2015: Did his first contribution to WordPress core
October 2015: Became co-organizer of the WordPress meetup Cologne
February 2016: Started contributing to WordPress core regularly
May 2016: Became a component maintainer of Multisite
May 2016: Gave his first session at a WordCamp
September 2016: Became co-organizer of the WordPress meetup Dusseldorf
October 2016: Co-organized WordCamp Cologne
November 2016: Became a WordPress core committer
June 2017: Attended his first WordPress community summit
August 2017: Became a component maintainer of Roles/Capabilities
February 2018: Gave a session at LoopConf
April 2018: Started working part-time at Yoast
April 2018: Became a component maintainer of REST API
November 2018: Started as DPE in the Web Content Ecosystems team at Google

Contribution History

Core Contributor
Core Contributor
Core Team
Core Team
Documentation Contributor
Documentation Contributor
Meta Contributor
Meta Contributor
Translation Contributor
Translation Contributor
Translation Editor
Translation Editor
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Speaker
WordCamp Speaker
Plugin Developer
Plugin Developer

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Committed [2117541] to Plugins Trac:
Publish version 0.1.0.

2 months ago
Created a new ticket, #47577, in Core Trac:
Streamline detecting and enabling HTTPS

2 months ago
Closed ticket #47282, in Core Trac:
Use font-display for Google Fonts in core themes

3 months ago
Committed [45485] to Core Trac:
Bundled Theme: Load Google fonts with `display=fallback` parameter for ...

3 months ago
Posted a reply to How to check that Feature-Policy Header is correct and working?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @oyda, thanks for your request. The plugin should only send the Feature-Policy header for…

3 months ago
Committed [2080598] to Plugins Trac:
tagged version 1.0.0-beta.2

4 months ago
Committed [2080597] to Plugins Trac:
updated version to 1.0.0-beta.2

4 months ago
Wrote a new post, Fatal Error Recovery Mode in 5.2, on the site Make WordPress Core:
WordPress 5.2 will allow administrators to fix or mitigate fatal errors on their site that…

4 months ago
Committed [2069208] to Plugins Trac:
Tagging 0.2.0

4 months ago
Committed [2069207] to Plugins Trac:
Committing 0.2.0 to trunk

4 months ago
Closed ticket #46595, in Core Trac:
Allow more than one valid recovery mode link

4 months ago
Committed [45211] to Core Trac:
Bootstrap/Load: Allow more than one recovery link to be valid at a ...

4 months ago
Closed ticket #46811, in Core Trac:
White screen for admins on handled fatal errors

4 months ago
Committed [45210] to Core Trac:
General: Display fatal error handler notice in admin backend even if ...

4 months ago
Committed [45117] to Core Trac:
Administration: Improve user experience and clarify when in recovery ...

5 months ago
Committed [45116] to Core Trac:
Bootstrap/Load: Do not redefine constants because tests don't like it. ...

5 months ago
Closed ticket #46812, in Core Trac:
Recovery mode: Plugin not removed from paused list when fatal error is ...

5 months ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Europe 2019 coming up on June 21st

5 months ago
Wrote a new post, The Improved Fatal Error Protection, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Following the post on Site Health mechanisms released in WordPress 5.1, the feature labelled “Fatal…

5 months ago
Committed [2051224] to Plugins Trac:
tagged version 0.1.1

5 months ago
Committed [2051223] to Plugins Trac:
updated version to 0.1.1

5 months ago
Committed [2044795] to Plugins Trac:
tagged version 0.1

6 months ago
Committed [2044794] to Plugins Trac:
tagged version 0.1

6 months ago
Committed [2044793] to Plugins Trac:
added assets

6 months ago
Wrote a new post, Multisite Support for Site Metadata in 5.1, on the site Make WordPress Core:
WordPress multisite introduces a new database table to store metadata associated with sites. This allows…

7 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post PHP Site Health Mechanisms in 5.1, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Right now the drop-in as you linked to is the way to disable it. I'm…

7 months ago
Wrote a new post, PHP Site Health Mechanisms in 5.1, on the site Make WordPress Core:
WordPress 5.1 will start showing notices to administrators of sites that run on long outdated…

7 months ago
Wrote a new post, X-posting: PHP Meeting Recap – December 17th, on the site Make WordPress Hosting:
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2018/12/19/php-meeting-recap-december-17th/

8 months ago
Wrote a new post, PHP Meeting Recap – December 17th, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This recap is a summary of our previous PHP meeting. It highlights the ideas and…

8 months ago
Created a new ticket, #4009, in Meta Trac:
Manage supported/recommended PHP versions in a central location

8 months ago
Created a new ticket, #4006, in Meta Trac:
Update breakpoint to trigger core notice about outdated PHP version in ...

8 months ago
Created a new ticket, #4005, in Meta Trac:
Rename Update PHP slug and redirect previous one

8 months ago
Created a new ticket, #4004, in Meta Trac:
Move content of Update PHP page to template file

8 months ago
Wrote a new post, PHP Meeting Recap – December 3rd, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This recap is a summary of our previous PHP meeting. It highlights the ideas and…

8 months ago
Wrote a new post, WP Rig at WCUS Contributor Day, on the site Theme Review Team:
At WordCamp Europe earlier this year, the new starter theme WP Rig (GitHub project) was…

9 months ago
Wrote a new post, PHP Meeting Recap – November 19th, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This recap is a summary of our previous PHP meeting. It highlights the ideas and…

9 months ago
Wrote a new post, PHP Meeting Recap – November 5th, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This recap is a summary of our previous PHP meeting. It highlights the ideas and…

9 months ago
Wrote a new post, PHP Meeting Recap – October 8th, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This recap is a summary of our previous PHP meeting. It highlights the ideas and…

10 months ago
Wrote a new post, PHP Meeting Recap – October 1st, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This recap is a summary of our previous PHP meeting. It highlights the ideas and…

10 months ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Portland, Oregon, USA 2018 coming up on November 3rd

11 months ago
Created a new ticket, #3789, in Meta Trac:
Implement plugin with Gutenberg block types for Update PHP page

12 months ago
Wrote a new post, PHP Meeting Recap – August 20th, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This recap is a summary of our previous PHP meeting. It highlights the ideas and…

12 months ago
Created a new ticket, #3769, in Meta Trac:
Detection mechanism for theme support incorrectly rejecting theme

1 year ago
Wrote a new post, PHP Meeting Recap – August 13th, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This recap is a summary of our previous PHP meeting. It highlights the ideas and…

1 year ago
Wrote a comment on the post Registering Metadata in 4.9.8, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Thanks for calling this out, we should have mentioned it in the post. It is…

1 year ago
Wrote a new post, PHP Meeting Recap – July 30th, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This recap is a summary of our previous PHP meeting. It highlights the ideas and…

1 year ago
Wrote a new post, Registering Metadata in 4.9.8, on the site Make WordPress Core:
With WordPress 4.9.8, the register_meta() function supports registration of metadata not only for an entire…

1 year ago
Wrote a new post, Servehappy: Roadmap Update and Priorities, on the site Make WordPress Core:
At WordCamp Europe 2018, representatives from different teams got together to discuss the state of…

1 year ago
Created a new ticket, #3718, in Meta Trac:
Theme Directory: Allow minimum WP and PHP version requirement

1 year ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Sevilla 2018 coming up on July 7th

1 year ago