Felix Arntz (@flixos90) – WordPress user profile

Member Since: November 28th, 2012
Location: San Francisco, USA
Website: felix-arntz.me
GitHub: felixarntz
Job Title: Developer Relations Engineer
Employer: Google
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Bio

Developer Relations 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

Activity
Plugins
Favorites
Translations

Created issue #42 in the WordPress/performance repository:
Configure GitHub action for automated plugin deployment to wordpress.org

2 days ago
Created issue #41 in the WordPress/performance repository:
Define changelog approach / tooling

2 days ago
Created issue #40 in the WordPress/performance repository:
Add plugin `readme.txt`

2 days ago
Created issue #39 in the WordPress/performance repository:
Add docs on contributing to the performance plugin

2 days ago
Created issue #33 in the WordPress/performance repository:
Allow programmatic control of which modules are enabled

3 days ago
Merged pull request #29 into WordPress/performance:
Complete PHPUnit infrastructure for out-of-the-box local and CI testing, including initial tests

3 days ago
Merged pull request #26 into WordPress/performance:
Add module specification in documentation

3 days ago
Submitted pull request #30 to WordPress/performance:
Implement settings screen to toggle modules

4 days ago
Submitted pull request #29 to WordPress/performance:
Complete PHPUnit infrastructure for out-of-the-box local and CI testing, including initial tests

4 days ago
Created issue #28 in the WordPress/performance repository:
Complete PHP unit testing and linting infrastructure

4 days ago
Submitted pull request #26 to WordPress/performance:
Add module specification in documentation

4 days ago
Created issue #2 in the WordPress/performance repository:
Define basic module specification

2 weeks ago
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/performance:
Fix PHPCS config for non-existing folder.

2 weeks ago
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/performance:
Add composer.lock.

2 weeks ago
Created issue #1 in the WordPress/performance repository:
Define name for the performance plugin

2 weeks ago
Pushed 1 commit to WordPress/performance:
Initial commit.

2 weeks ago
Committed [2633642] to Plugins SVN:
tagged version 1.46.0

2 weeks ago
Committed [2633641] to Plugins SVN:
updated to version 1.46.0.

2 weeks ago
Pull request #36552 merged into WordPress/gutenberg:
Fix layout shift in `core/post-featured-image` block with `isLink` enabled

3 weeks ago
Submitted pull request #36552 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Fix layout shift in `core/post-featured-image` block with `isLink` enabled

3 weeks ago
Pull request #240 merged into WordPress/twentytwentytwo:
Preload main web font to improve LCP performance

3 weeks ago
Submitted pull request #240 to WordPress/twentytwentytwo:
Preload main web font to improve LCP performance

3 weeks ago
Created issue #239 in the WordPress/twentytwentytwo repository:
Improve LCP performance by preloading web font

3 weeks ago
Closed pull request #1580 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Refine lazy-loading implementation by not lazy-loading elements that are likely to appear...

4 weeks ago
Closed ticket #53675 on Core Trac:
Omit lazy-loading attribute on first content image/iframe

4 weeks ago
Committed [52065] to Core SVN:
Media: Refine the heuristics to exclude certain images and iframes ...

4 weeks ago
Committed [2626330] to Plugins SVN:
tagged version 1.45.0

4 weeks ago
Committed [2626328] to Plugins SVN:
updated to version 1.45.0.

4 weeks ago
Committed [2619717] to Plugins SVN:
tagged version 1.44.0

1 month ago
Committed [2619715] to Plugins SVN:
updated to version 1.44.0.

1 month ago
Committed [2612701] to Plugins SVN:
tagged version 1.43.0

2 months ago
Committed [2612700] to Plugins SVN:
updated to version 1.43.0.

2 months ago
Created issue #35477 in the WordPress/gutenberg repository:
Expand @wordpress/dom as viable DOM functions library to close jQuery gap in...

2 months ago
Wrote a new post, The performance impact of using jQuery in WordPress themes, on the site Make WordPress Themes:
While it has been widely known that you might not need jQuery for most of…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Implementing a Webfonts API in WordPress Core, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Follow-up question on the 3P API web fonts: I assume these web font CSS URLs…

2 months ago
Committed [2605825] to Plugins SVN:
tagged version 1.42.0

2 months ago
Committed [2605824] to Plugins SVN:
updated to version 1.42.0.

2 months ago
Created ticket #54172 on Core Trac:
Replace frontend jQuery usage with vanilla JS in Twenty Fifteen

2 months ago
Created ticket #54171 on Core Trac:
Replace frontend jQuery usage with vanilla JS in Twenty Twelve

2 months ago
Posted a reply to Error: Failed to construct ‘URL’: Invalid URL, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@westonruter Are there any odd-looking URL values in your Analytics top pages when checking your…

4 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Refining WordPress core’s lazy-loading implementation, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I think you may be looking for this one?

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Refining WordPress core’s lazy-loading implementation, on the site Make WordPress Core:
That's precisely what I had in mind and what I used in the prototype plugin…

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Refining WordPress core’s lazy-loading implementation, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Good point, I agree we should make sure `get_custom_logo()` isn't lazy-loaded either, at least the…

5 months ago
Wrote a new post, Refining WordPress core’s lazy-loading implementation, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Since the image lazy-loading feature was originally added to WordPress core in 5.5, by default…

5 months ago
Created ticket #53675 on Core Trac:
Omit lazy-loading attribute on first content image/iframe

5 months ago
Committed [51207] to Core SVN:
Media: Add lazy-loading support to block-based widgets. This ...

6 months ago
Reopened ticket #52783 on Core Trac:
Health Check mis-reports https functionality in certain situations

8 months 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…

8 months 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…

8 months 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?…

8 months ago