Pascal Birchler
@swissspidy on WordPress.org and Slack
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Interests
WordPress Origin Story
Contributions Sponsored
- Member Since: February 25th, 2008
- Location: Zurich, Switzerland
- Website: pascalbirchler.com
- GitHub: swissspidy
- Job Title: Developer Relations Engineer
- Employer: Google
Contribution History
Pascal Birchler’s badges:- 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 -
Closed issue #189 on the WordPress/plugin-check-action repository:
Check always failed with Exit Code = 1 -
Closed pull request #48368 on WordPress/gutenberg:
i18n: Fix node version compatible -
Merged pull request #217 into WordPress/plugin-check-action:
Bump @typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin from 8.15.0 to 8.17.0 -
Merged pull request #218 into WordPress/plugin-check-action:
Bump @typescript-eslint/parser from 8.16.0 to 8.17.0 -
Merged pull request #219 into WordPress/plugin-check-action:
Bump eslint-plugin-github from 5.1.3 to 5.1.4 -
Merged pull request #216 into WordPress/plugin-check-action:
Bump prettier from 3.4.1 to 3.4.2 -
Pushed 1 commit to wp-cli/wp-cli-dev:
Update `wp-cli/php-cli-tools` dependency -
Closed pull request #7965 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Refactored wp_get_post_autosave function to use WP_Query for query -
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… -
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… -
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… -
Submitted pull request #7963 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Add Canva oEmbed support -
Closed ticket #44972 on Core Trac:
wp_get_current_user() misbehavior -
Closed ticket #62393 on Core Trac:
doing it wrong for user used too early -
Closed pull request #7756 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Feature: Add `get_month_genitive` function -
Closed ticket #58658 on Core Trac:
WP_Locale add get_month_genitive() method -
Committed [59494] to Core SVN:
I18N: Add new `WP_Locale::get_month_genitive()` method. Complements ... -
Closed pull request #7422 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Fix thumbnail height on embeds. -
Closed ticket #62094 on Core Trac:
/wp-json/oembed/1.0/embed returns too big thumbnail_url -
Committed [59493] to Core SVN:
Embeds: ensure correct thumbnail height. Use height 0 instead of 9999 ... -
Closed pull request #54330 on WordPress/gutenberg:
Media Utils to Typescript -
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.… -
Closed pull request #7945 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Keep including file from `wp-admin/includes` -
Closed ticket #62244 on Core Trac:
Just-in-time translation loading for plugins/themes not in the directory -
Committed [59488] to Core SVN:
Plugins: Load `wp-admin/includes/plugin.php` earlier. Partially ... -
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.… -
Submitted pull request #7945 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Keep including file from `wp-admin/includes` -
Committed [3201504] to Plugins SVN:
Updating readme/assets from GitHub -
Closed pull request #7900 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Move more plugin functions to `wp-includes` -
Committed [59479] to Core SVN:
Plugins: Make more plugin-related functions available early on. This ... -
Closed pull request #7931 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
I18N: Load admin translation during auto-update -
Closed ticket #62496 on Core Trac:
Automatic Plugin Update Notifications Don't Use Admin Locale -
Committed [59478] to Core SVN:
I18N: Load admin translations for auto update emails. As a follow-up ... -
Submitted pull request #7931 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
I18N: Load admin translation during auto-update -
Merged pull request #213 into WordPress/plugin-check-action:
Bump eslint from 8.57.1 to 9.16.0 -
Merged pull request #214 into WordPress/plugin-check-action:
Bump @typescript-eslint/parser from 8.15.0 to 8.16.0 -
Merged pull request #215 into WordPress/plugin-check-action:
Bump prettier from 3.3.3 to 3.4.1 -
Merged pull request #212 into WordPress/plugin-check-action:
Bump @types/node from 22.9.3 to 22.10.1 -
Merged pull request #211 into WordPress/plugin-check-action:
Bump eslint-plugin-github from 5.1.1 to 5.1.3 -
Closed ticket #62626 on Core Trac:
Documentation link error -
Closed issue #802 on the WordPress/plugin-check repository:
"Security" warnings about unescaped output -
Closed issue #79 on the wp-cli/find-command repository:
Install failed due to wp-cli 2.12 rquired -
Created issue #194 in the wp-cli/package-command repository:
Bump `composer/composer` requirement -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
Closed pull request #7901 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Do not reuse `$theme` variable name -
Committed [59466] to Core SVN:
I18N: Do not reuse `$theme` variable name after loading a theme's ...
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