Pascal Birchler (@swissspidy) – WordPress user profile | WordPress.org

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

Contribution History

Core Contributor
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

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Translations

Closed pull request #364 on wp-cli/i18n-command:
make-pot: Add TypeScript support
4 days ago
Pull request #187 merged into WordPress/phpunit-test-runner:
Report more PHP extensions
6 days ago
Pull request #736 merged into WordPress/performance:
Make `Server-Timing` header output more robust
6 days ago
Submitted pull request #736 to WordPress/performance:
Make `Server-Timing` header output more robust
6 days ago
Closed ticket #52856 on Core Trac:
Auto Embed Products on Posts using links
6 days ago
Submitted pull request #4525 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Support TikTok profile embeds
6 days ago
Closed ticket #47442 on Core Trac:
Twitter auto-embed fails if twitter username contains Emoji icon
6 days ago
Submitted pull request #4524 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Add Anghami as trusted oEmbed provider
6 days ago
Closed ticket #46399 on Core Trac:
WordPress Embeds Block does not embed WordPress URL
6 days ago
Closed ticket #55577 on Core Trac:
Wrong Date Format on jQuery UI datepicker on the public side of ...
6 days ago
Closed ticket #39673 on Core Trac:
wp_dropdown_languages() shows wrong list of installed languages, when ...
6 days ago
Closed ticket #58429 on Core Trac:
Implementing Custom Taxonomy Post Count Variation for Different Post Types
6 days ago
Closed ticket #58425 on Core Trac:
Use wp_die in place of only die in `WP_Widget::widget()`
7 days ago
Closed pull request #4463 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
I18N: fix `_load_textdomain_just_in_time()` firing too often
1 week ago
Closed ticket #58321 on Core Trac:
`_load_textdomain_just_in_time()` firing too often for en_US sites
1 week ago
Committed [55865] to Core SVN:
I18N: Improve `_load_textdomain_just_in_time()` logic when there are ...
1 week ago
Posted a reply to Filter to edit the content of all stories, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there Thanks for reaching out! The recommended way to modify the HTML output like…
1 week ago
Closed pull request #4455 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Refactor determine_locale
1 week ago
Closed pull request #4510 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Refactor `determine_locale()` for performance and readability
1 week ago
Closed ticket #58317 on Core Trac:
Refactor determine_locale() for performance
1 week ago
Committed [55862] to Core SVN:
I18N: Refactor `determine_locale()` for performance and readability. ...
1 week ago
Merged pull request #546 into wp-cli/wp-cli-bundle:
Bump wp-cli/checksum-command from 2.2.0 to 2.2.1
1 week ago
Merged pull request #547 into wp-cli/wp-cli-bundle:
Bump wp-cli/cron-command from 2.2.1 to 2.2.2
1 week ago
Submitted pull request #4515 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Add separate admin locale
1 week ago
Submitted pull request #4510 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Refactor `determine_locale()` for performance and readability
2 weeks ago
Closed ticket #57427 on Core Trac:
WP_Locale doesn't initialize property arrays before using them
2 weeks ago
Closed ticket #50795 on Core Trac:
Strings are not automatically translated
2 weeks ago
Submitted pull request #187 to WordPress/phpunit-test-runner:
Report more PHP extensions
2 weeks ago
Closed ticket #36654 on Core Trac:
New function `has_terms`
2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Hide Web Stories in Site Search Results, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there Web Stories by default do not show up in site search. You don't…
2 weeks ago
Mentioned in [55851] on Core SVN:
General: Improve performance of the `_wp_array_get()` function.
2 weeks ago
Closed ticket #40598 on Core Trac:
PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function switch_to_locale() on null
2 weeks ago
Merged pull request #111 into wp-cli/checksum-command:
Regenerate README file
2 weeks ago
Created issue #38 in the WordPress/sqlite-database-integration repository:
SQLite: Incorrect `@access` annotations
2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Programmatic save in web stories editor, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey there, thanks for reaching out! It‘s an interesting use case, could you perhaps tell…
2 weeks ago
Closed ticket #58326 on Core Trac:
Separate WordPress Back-end language from front-end language
3 weeks ago
Submitted pull request #4463 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
I18N: fix `_load_textdomain_just_in_time()` firing too often
3 weeks ago
Created issue #731 in the WordPress/performance repository:
SQLite: Incorrect `@access` annotations
3 weeks ago
Created ticket #58321 on Core Trac:
`_load_textdomain_just_in_time()` firing too often for en_US sites
3 weeks ago
Created ticket #58318 on Core Trac:
Remove `load_theme_textdomain()` calls from default themes
3 weeks ago
Created issue #2239 in the WordPress/WordPress-Coding-Standards repository:
I18n: do not report `NonSingularStringLiteral` for low level functions
4 weeks ago
Submitted pull request #4444 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Add lazily evaluated translation calls
4 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Compatibility and 404 Error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You can test your story by pasting your URL either at validator.amp.dev or in the…
4 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Uploaded media is not previewing, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
So this is all on localhost instead of an actual live website? That makes it…
4 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Compatibility and 404 Error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Do you perhaps have some caching plugin or something that might cause stale results? I…
4 weeks ago
Submitted pull request #363 to wp-cli/i18n-command:
Add make-php command
1 month ago
Posted a reply to Using taxonomies filter if i use story block in traditional tag pages, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
So far we have not been able to reproduce this on our end. The story…
1 month ago
Posted a reply to Compatibility and 404 Error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Do this(compatibility) issue affecting the stories in search appearance? Yes. As per the Google Search…
1 month ago
Posted a reply to Serious Debug Issue, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there It looks like Ezoic is adding ads on your story in a way…
1 month ago
Posted a reply to Using taxonomies filter if i use story block in traditional tag pages, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Glad to hear that you like the new features! As for the issue with the…
1 month ago

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