Pascal Birchler (@swissspidy) – WordPress user profile

Bio

Software Engineer based in Switzerland. WordPress Core Committer. Traveller. Foodie. Polyglot. WordCamp and WordPress Meetup Organizer. Developer Relations Engineer at Google.

Interests

WordPress, Web, I18n

WordPress Origin Story

Started blogging as a 12-year-old back in 2006. Have been hacking on my own sites ever since. Fell in love with the community.

Contributions Sponsored

Google sponsors Pascal Birchler to contribute 24 hours per week to the following teams: CLI, Core, Core Performance, and Polyglots.

Member Since: February 25th, 2008
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Website: pascalbirchler.com
GitHub: swissspidy
Job Title: Developer Relations Engineer
Employer: Google
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Contribution History

Core Contributor
Core Performance Contributor
Core Performance Team
Core Team
Documentation Contributor
Meetup Organizer
Meta Contributor
Plugin Developer
Security Contributor
Security Team
Translation Contributor
Translation Editor
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Speaker
WP-CLI Contributor
WP-CLI Team

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Merged pull request #520 into WordPress/plugin-check:
Simplify PHPUnit setup
14 minutes ago
Closed issue #189 on the WordPress/plugin-check-action repository:
Check always failed with Exit Code = 1
1 hour ago
Closed pull request #48368 on WordPress/gutenberg:
i18n: Fix node version compatible
2 hours ago
Merged pull request #217 into WordPress/plugin-check-action:
Bump @typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin from 8.15.0 to 8.17.0
6 hours ago
Merged pull request #218 into WordPress/plugin-check-action:
Bump @typescript-eslint/parser from 8.16.0 to 8.17.0
6 hours ago
Merged pull request #219 into WordPress/plugin-check-action:
Bump eslint-plugin-github from 5.1.3 to 5.1.4
6 hours ago
Merged pull request #216 into WordPress/plugin-check-action:
Bump prettier from 3.4.1 to 3.4.2
6 hours ago
Pushed 1 commit to wp-cli/wp-cli-dev:
Update `wp-cli/php-cli-tools` dependency
3 days ago
Closed pull request #7965 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Refactored wp_get_post_autosave function to use WP_Query for query
3 days ago
Posted a reply to URGENT ERROR, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there, It sounds like that under Settings -> Reading you set "Blog pages show…
3 days ago
Posted a reply to Something went wrong! The editor has crashed. Please try reloading the page and, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for your report! We'll look into this and ensure that this doesn't happen again…
3 days ago
Posted a reply to Posts that Renew annually, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
There is no such feature in the Web Stories plugin itself, but there might be…
3 days ago
Submitted pull request #7963 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Add Canva oEmbed support
3 days ago
Closed ticket #44972 on Core Trac:
wp_get_current_user() misbehavior
3 days ago
Closed ticket #62393 on Core Trac:
doing it wrong for user used too early
3 days ago
Closed pull request #7756 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Feature: Add `get_month_genitive` function
4 days ago
Closed ticket #58658 on Core Trac:
WP_Locale add get_month_genitive() method
4 days ago
Committed [59494] to Core SVN:
I18N: Add new `WP_Locale::get_month_genitive()` method. Complements ...
4 days ago
Closed pull request #7422 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Fix thumbnail height on embeds.
4 days ago
Closed ticket #62094 on Core Trac:
/wp-json/oembed/1.0/embed returns too big thumbnail_url
4 days ago
Committed [59493] to Core SVN:
Embeds: ensure correct thumbnail height. Use height 0 instead of 9999 ...
4 days ago
Closed pull request #54330 on WordPress/gutenberg:
Media Utils to Typescript
4 days ago
Posted a reply to Poster Image slide of Web Story is not showing, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The poster image is something that people will see in places like Discover or Search.…
4 days ago
Closed pull request #7945 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Keep including file from `wp-admin/includes`
4 days ago
Closed ticket #62244 on Core Trac:
Just-in-time translation loading for plugins/themes not in the directory
4 days ago
Committed [59488] to Core SVN:
Plugins: Load `wp-admin/includes/plugin.php` earlier. Partially ...
4 days ago
Posted a reply to Poster Image slide of Web Story is not showing, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there, Can you please elaborate where images are missing? A screenshot would be helpful.…
4 days ago
Submitted pull request #7945 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Keep including file from `wp-admin/includes`
5 days ago
Committed [3201504] to Plugins SVN:
Updating readme/assets from GitHub
6 days ago
Closed pull request #7900 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Move more plugin functions to `wp-includes`
7 days ago
Committed [59479] to Core SVN:
Plugins: Make more plugin-related functions available early on. This ...
7 days ago
Closed pull request #7931 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
I18N: Load admin translation during auto-update
7 days ago
Closed ticket #62496 on Core Trac:
Automatic Plugin Update Notifications Don't Use Admin Locale
7 days ago
Committed [59478] to Core SVN:
I18N: Load admin translations for auto update emails. As a follow-up ...
7 days ago
Submitted pull request #7931 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
I18N: Load admin translation during auto-update
1 week ago
Merged pull request #213 into WordPress/plugin-check-action:
Bump eslint from 8.57.1 to 9.16.0
1 week ago
Merged pull request #214 into WordPress/plugin-check-action:
Bump @typescript-eslint/parser from 8.15.0 to 8.16.0
1 week ago
Merged pull request #215 into WordPress/plugin-check-action:
Bump prettier from 3.3.3 to 3.4.1
1 week ago
Merged pull request #212 into WordPress/plugin-check-action:
Bump @types/node from 22.9.3 to 22.10.1
1 week ago
Merged pull request #211 into WordPress/plugin-check-action:
Bump eslint-plugin-github from 5.1.1 to 5.1.3
1 week ago
Closed ticket #62626 on Core Trac:
Documentation link error
1 week ago
Closed issue #802 on the WordPress/plugin-check repository:
"Security" warnings about unescaped output
1 week ago
Closed issue #79 on the wp-cli/find-command repository:
Install failed due to wp-cli 2.12 rquired
1 week ago
Created issue #194 in the wp-cli/package-command repository:
Bump `composer/composer` requirement
1 week ago
Posted a reply to Dynamically insert the Slide# or slide name, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Great question! This is possible with a little PHP to modify the links for every…
1 week ago
Posted a reply to Support for quizzes / Polls, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for inquiring about this (again). We do not have any plans to add support…
1 week ago
Wrote a comment on the post Internationalization improvements in 6.7, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Luckily this is not necessarily a problem. With 6.7+, only calling `load_plugin_textdomain()` too early doesn't…
1 week ago
Posted a reply to RangeError: invalid language tag: “de-CH_informal”, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there, de_CH polyglot maintainer here. This sounds like a bug in WooCommerce. No matter…
2 weeks ago
Closed pull request #7901 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Do not reuse `$theme` variable name
2 weeks ago
Committed [59466] to Core SVN:
I18N: Do not reuse `$theme` variable name after loading a theme's ...
2 weeks ago