Bernhard Kau (@kau-boy) – WordPress user profile

Bio

Web developer from Berlin, blogging about WordPress and other technical topics, active member of the WP Meetup Berlin and WP Meetup Potsdam, former organization of different WordPress events in Berlin and WordCamp Europe as well as current organizer of WP Meetup Berlin.

WordPress Origin Story

The first time I get my hands on WordPress was … writing my first plugin 😉

Not the typical way, but only two days after that, I started my first personal blog. The rest is history 😀

Badges

CODE

4 badges

Core Contributor '15 Meta Contributor '15 Pattern Author '23 Plugin Developer

CONTENT

1 badge

Photo Contributor '23

COMMUNITY

3 badges

Meetup Organizer '18 WordCamp Organizer '18 WordCamp Speaker '16

POLYGLOTS

2 badges

Translation Contributor '15 Translation Editor '16

Current Job

Tech Lead

Present

Syde GmbH

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

4contributions

high2

medium2

score8

Last 90 days

10contributions

high2

medium8

score14

Last 12 months

23contributions

high10

medium13

score43

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 8 releases

Time commitment

6 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

Syde

Contributions

Type

May 2026

May 30 Sat · 17:16

Polyglots high

Translated 7 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

May 29 Fri · 19:24

Forums med

Posted a reply to Dashboard fatal: _n() given formatted string instead of integer, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for the bug report and patch. This was fixed in version 2.11.12 released just…

May 26 Tue · 09:33

Forums med

Posted a reply to How to clean exist comment spam ?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Looking at your screenshot, you seem to have some very obvious spam comments. To help…

May 15 Fri · 14:53

Polyglots high

Translated 12 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

April 2026

Apr 28 Tue · 15:40

Forums med

Posted a reply to Must Have for the Daily Blogger, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for your nice review and thanks again for the bug report!

Apr 26 Sun · 06:23

Forums med

Posted a reply to Not Working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for your feedback. I'm happy I could help. Maybe you want to also leave…

Apr 25 Sat · 19:21

Forums med

Posted a reply to Not Working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@gallopingcow thanks for your issue report. You are right that in some cases the plugin…

March 2026

Mar 19 Thu · 17:14

Forums med

Posted a reply to Bugfix: Missing Authorization Vulnerability in AJAX Handlers (CVE-2024), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
For one of my own projects, I resolved this issue in a personal repository until…

Mar 19 Thu · 17:13

Forums med

Posted a reply to VG WORT METIS <= 2.0.1 – Missing Authorization, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
For one of my own projects, I resolved this issue in a personal reporitory, until…

Mar 19 Thu · 17:13

Forums med

Posted a reply to Pixel is loaded lazily in WordPress 6.9, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
For one of my own projects, I resolved this issue in a personal reporitory, until…