Dennis Ploetner (@realloc) – WordPress user profile

Bio

Dennis is an experienced PHP web developer who is passionate about WordPress and open source. He is curious when it comes to new trends in computer science and spends much of his free time updating and maintaining his WordPress plugins and supporting users. He is a native German speaker and speaks fluent Italian as he lives in Italy. He is also an active member of the Milan WordPress community, where he contributes as co-organiser of the WordPress Meetup.

Interests

WordPress, software engineering, blogging, travel, fitness, and jamming on the guitar

Contributions Sponsored

Dennis Ploetner contributes 4 hours per week to the Core team.

Member Since: April 19th, 2010
Location: Milan, Italy
Website: ploetner.io
GitHub: lloc
Job Title: WordPress Engineer
Employer: Syde GmbH
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Community Contributor
Core Contributor
Documentation Contributor
Meetup Organizer
Plugin Developer
Translation Contributor
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Speaker

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Wrote a comment on the post Call for 6.8.x Release Managers, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I’d be happy to help with the 6.8.x releases! My focus is on WordPress Multisite…
3 days ago
Posted a reply to Problem with multiple sites having an identical locale, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
OK, thanks for pointing it out.
3 days ago
Posted a reply to Problem with multiple sites having an identical locale, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I have a similar setup using multi networks: https://ploetner.io/de/von-multisites-zu-multi-networks/ On the other hand,.you could use…
3 days ago
Posted a reply to Plugin add # symbol in url, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for reaching out and for the detailed example. The Multisite Language Switcher plugin itself…
1 week ago
Posted a reply to Content import not working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Glad it works! :-)
3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Content import not working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey @belomat, please, test version 2.9.6 which was build to solve your issue. Cheers!
3 weeks ago
Committed [3287198] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 2.9.6 from GitHub
3 weeks ago
Committed [3287196] to Plugins SVN:
Updating readme/assets from GitHub
3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Content import not working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I'm not sure if you follow the development of the plugin but I wouldn't state…
3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Content import not working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks, for pointing that out. I will check and come back with further info! Cheers!
3 weeks ago
Is the 50th person to arrive at WordCamp Vienna 2025
4 weeks ago
Committed [3276122] to Plugins SVN:
Updating readme/assets from GitHub
1 month ago
Submitted pull request #8633 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Proposal to use a short circuit filter
2 months ago
Submitted pull request #8632 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Add check for BLOGUPLOADDIR and return 500 error on misconfiguration
2 months ago
Started mentoring WordCamp Gdynia 2025
2 months ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Vienna 2025
2 months ago
Mentioned in [59878] on Core SVN:
Comments: Remove bulk action dropdown depending on user caps.
3 months ago
Translated 14 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
3 months ago
Suggested 46 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
3 months ago
Posted a reply to SKU in dropdown – again, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
What can the Multisite Language Switcher do in your use-case? It is not clear to…
4 months ago
Posted a reply to Content import does not work, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thank you! Guten Rutsch! :-)
5 months ago
Posted a reply to Content import does not work, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for pointing this out. Looks like I introduced a bug in the last minor…
5 months ago
Posted a reply to How to add to subheader menu, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I would suggest a slight change, because it would give you more flexibility and it…
5 months ago
Posted a reply to Manually create association, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Great! We can maybe give the importer some of the love it deserves. I will…
5 months ago
Posted a reply to How to add to subheader menu, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Where did you add the code? To a functions.php file in your theme or a…
5 months ago
Posted a reply to Manually create association, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I wrote something in the past that can illustrate a bit what you want to…
5 months ago
Posted a reply to msls with custom post type, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I guess that your code has a small flaw. The expected input for that function…
5 months ago
Posted a reply to How to add to subheader menu, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The MslsMenu add-on is doing this for classical NavMenus. Here an example (taken from the…
5 months ago
Posted a reply to msls with custom post type, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You should be able to see an icon whenever you write a post (or other…
5 months ago
Posted a reply to Content import not working., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If you also see a Japanese flag (or label) on the English website and vice…
5 months ago
Posted a reply to Content import not working., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The most important things are that you have at least 2 websites with different languages,…
5 months ago
Posted a reply to Content import not working., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I will try to reproduce it. Is there anything I should know: What theme is…
5 months ago
Committed [3199861] to Plugins SVN:
Update to version 2.9.5 from GitHub
6 months ago
Committed [3199859] to Plugins SVN:
Updating readme/assets from GitHub
6 months ago
Posted a reply to Call to undefined method lloc\\Msls\\MslsPlugin::get_output(), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
With version 2.9.2, I did start to provide more API functions and less access to…
6 months ago
Posted a reply to Hreflang tag issues, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I guess I answered that here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-wanted-to-add-x-default-tag-to-every-page-of-my-website/But I don't know what you want to do…
6 months ago
Posted a reply to peebam.com home page can’t switch to English language, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It looks like some JS is not working as expected. At least I see some…
6 months ago
Posted a reply to International SEO, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Please, remain in the thread that you started already: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-wanted-to-add-x-default-tag-to-every-page-of-my-website/
6 months ago
Posted a reply to i wanted to add x-default tag to every page of my website, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
How can you conditionally check if a translation exists? How can you retrieve the URL…
6 months ago
Posted a reply to i wanted to add x-default tag to every page of my website, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
For the question that started the thread: MSLS will add "alternate" links for the "hreflang"…
6 months ago
Posted a reply to Hreflang tag issues, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey, thanks for the message. Can you elaborate a bit what you'd like to achieve?
6 months ago
Posted a reply to New Japanese Posts Overwriting Previous Posts, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I would need more information. How is your setup, which version uses it? How are…
6 months ago
Posted a reply to Wrong links for Archive pages and Custom Slugs, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks a lot!
6 months ago
Committed [3187746] to Plugins SVN:
Updating readme/assets from GitHub
6 months ago
Committed [3187442] to Plugins SVN:
Updating readme/assets from GitHub
6 months ago
Posted a reply to Hreflang Missing Return Links, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I'm not sure that I get the problem correctly. The code generated by MSLS in…
6 months ago
Posted a reply to Languages invisble on main site, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It should also show admins. The filter msls_get_users can be used to change the user-query:…
6 months ago
Posted a reply to Too much escaping, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I believe that this issue should be solved with the last version. Thanks for pointing…
6 months ago
Posted a reply to Wrong links for Archive pages and Custom Slugs, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey, let's have proper issue tracking on GitHub: https://github.com/lloc/Multisite-Language-SwitcherI will clean there a bit up…
6 months ago
Suggested 4 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
6 months ago