Felix Arntz – @flixos90

Member Since: November 28th, 2012
Location: San Francisco, USA
Website: 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

Contributions Sponsored

Felix Arntz contributes 5 hours per week to the Core team.

Contribution History

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

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Reopened ticket #52783, in Core Trac:
Health Check mis-reports https functionality in certain situations

4 days ago
Committed [2509754] to Plugins Trac:
tagged version 1.0.0-beta.1

6 days ago
Committed [2509753] to Plugins Trac:
publish initial release 1.0.0-beta.1

6 days ago
Committed [2509752] to Plugins Trac:
publish plugin assets

6 days ago
Committed [2508389] to Plugins Trac:
tagged version 1.0.0-rc.1

1 week ago
Committed [2508388] to Plugins Trac:
updated version to 1.0.0-rc.1

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Prevent from logging in (even log in blocking is disabled), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for the feedback, and apologies for the long delay here. This has been a…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Cache Plugin Problems, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello there, and thanks for the request. The plugin submits a nonce in the wp_gdpr_cookie_notice_nonce…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Probleme beim WordPress Admin Login In, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hallo, danke für das Feedback, und sorry für die späte Antwort. Benutzt die Website AMP?…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to visible and bugged on the login page, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for the report! This was a known issue which I have just fixed (see…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to AMP Legacy Personalization, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@milindmore22 Apologies for the delay. I just added support in the plugin (https://github.com/felixarntz/wp-gdpr-cookie-notice/issues/14) and will…

1 week ago
Committed [2505439] to Plugins Trac:
tagged version 1.29.0

2 weeks ago
Committed [2505437] to Plugins Trac:
updated to version 1.29.0.

2 weeks ago
Committed [2496297] to Plugins Trac:
tagged version 1.28.0

4 weeks ago
Committed [2496296] to Plugins Trac:
updated to version 1.28.0.

4 weeks ago
Committed [2483774] to Plugins Trac:
tagged version 1.27.0

1 month ago
Closed ticket #20037, in Core Trac:
Introduce 'noindex' filter for robots meta tag

2 months ago
Wrote a new post, Improved HTTPS detection and migration in WordPress 5.7, on the site Make WordPress Core:
WordPress 5.7 will feature a number of enhancements which simplify the migration of a site…

2 months ago
Closed ticket #52542, in Core Trac:
HTTPS local html detection RSD check is protocol specific

2 months ago
Committed [50391] to Core Trac:
Security: Fix bug in `wp_is_local_html_output()`. Prior to this ...

2 months ago
Wrote a new post, Lazy-loading iframes in 5.7, on the site Make WordPress Core:
In WordPress 5.7, iframes will be lazy-loaded by default, using the browser-level loading attribute. This…

2 months ago
Closed ticket #51511, in Core Trac:
Introduce Robots API and Media Search Engine Visibility setting

2 months ago
Closed ticket #51437, in Core Trac:
Streamline migrating from HTTP to HTTPS

2 months ago
Committed [50131] to Core Trac:
Security, Site Health: Make migrating a site to HTTPS a one-click ...

2 months ago
Reopened ticket #51511, in Core Trac:
Introduce Robots API and Media Search Engine Visibility setting

2 months ago
Closed ticket #51511, in Core Trac:
Introduce Robots API and Media Search Engine Visibility setting

2 months ago
Committed [50078] to Core Trac:
Robots: Add `max-image-preview:large` directive by default. This ...

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Enhancing image preview: core proposal, on the site Make WordPress Core:
As to the other two parts of the proposal, I’m opposed to those. That API…

7 months ago
Posted a reply to Plugin causing redirect login loop, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @jlott33, thanks for flagging this problem. I've noticed this on my end too occasionally.…

8 months ago
Posted a reply to Status of Bootstrap for Contact Form 7?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thank you for reminding me of what's long overdue @hommealone! I've opened a thread: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-for-maintenance/

8 months ago
Created a topic, Request for maintenance, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
First of all, thank you for using this plugin! If you…

8 months ago
Posted a reply to Images are squished in 5.5, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You can follow along the Trac ticket where this issue has been reported too. It…

8 months ago
Wrote a new post, Lazy-loading images in 5.5, on the site Make WordPress Core:
In WordPress 5.5, images will be lazy-loaded by default, using the native HTML loading attribute…

9 months ago
Wrote a new post, Lazy-Loading Update, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Since lazy-loading images via the native loading attribute was proposed for addition to WordPress core,…

1 year ago
Posted a reply to Only works on chrome, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@mddsharp It is, but note that it only makes sense for you if parts of…

1 year ago
Wrote a new post, Lazy-Loading Images in WordPress Core, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Lazy-loading images has been a commonly used mechanism to significantly improve pageload performance for several…

1 year ago
Posted a reply to Room for Improvement – Specify Dimensions, suggested by JavaScript Console, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, this message appears because that image likely doesn’t have width and height attributes specified.…

1 year ago
Posted a reply to Images not loading, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, thanks for the report. Which browser, and which version of it are you using?…

1 year ago
Posted a reply to Site images does not show, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for the report. Can you provide me with some more context? Which browser, and…

1 year ago
Posted a reply to Gravity Forms AJax Iframe 404, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for the report. I will have a look at this soon to see whether…

1 year ago
Posted a reply to PageSpeeds insight reports slower load, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, there might be multiple reasons for this. First of all, I'm not entirely sure…

1 year ago
Posted a reply to Stopped images loading, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sorry for the late reply, I'm happy to help and figure out the issue. Can…

1 year ago
Posted a reply to ‘Intervention’ message in Lighthouse audit, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, this message appears because that image likely doesn't have width and height attributes specified.…

1 year ago
Posted a reply to if the plugin works?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, the way that Chrome uses lazy-loading with the loading attribute depends on various factors,…

1 year ago
Posted a reply to Disable JavaScript file, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You can add this code to either a custom plugin file you create, or alternatively…

1 year ago
Posted a reply to Prevents images loading in Safari and Firefox, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for the report. Can you provide me with some more context on what happened…

1 year ago
Posted a reply to Latest update doesn’t display images on homepage, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Can you see any error messages being logged in your browser's developer console? I wonder…

1 year ago
Posted a reply to Update 1.0.1 had opposite effect for me, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Which browser and version of it are you using? When using the plugin, can you…

1 year ago
Posted a reply to Looks like it is made in a hurry, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Molly, can you provide me with some more context on what happened for you?…

1 year ago
Posted a reply to Breaks your site, beware!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I'm happy to help and figure out the issue. Can you provide me with some…

1 year ago