Pascal Birchler
@swissspidy on WordPress.org and Slack
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- 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
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- Security Team
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- WP-CLI Contributor
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Merged pull request #237 into wp-cli/wp-cli-tests:
Use existing `WpOrgApi` helper class -
Merged pull request #283 into wp-cli/core-command:
Use existing `WpOrgApi` helper class -
Submitted pull request #237 to wp-cli/wp-cli-tests:
Use existing `WpOrgApi` helper class -
Submitted pull request #283 to wp-cli/core-command:
Use existing `WpOrgApi` helper class -
Submitted pull request #258 to WordPress/plugin-check-action:
Retry wp-env start in case of failure -
Posted a reply to export into video, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there, Good find, but we don't use that spreadsheet anymore :) All our planned… -
Posted a reply to How does it work? I tried multiple times, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there I should probably improve the description a little bit or maybe actually add… -
Mentioned in [59783] on Core SVN:
General: Introduce polyfills for new array related functions in PHP 8.4. -
Mentioned in [59775] on Core SVN:
Editor: Update packages for 6.8 pre-Betas. -
Closed issue #4616 on the wp-cli/wp-cli repository:
Reinvestigate command-line input of associative arrays -
Submitted pull request #69090 to WordPress/gutenberg:
Excerpt block: remove filter hack, use `excerpt_length` -
Mentioned in [59769] on Core SVN:
Import: Remove Importer plugin related unit tests. -
Merged pull request #684 into wp-cli/wp-cli-bundle:
Update wp-cli framework -
Mentioned in [59766] on Core SVN:
Query: Increase `WP_Query` cache hits for equivalent arguments. -
Mentioned in [59765] on Core SVN:
Docs: Update comments in `wp-includes/formatting.php` per the documentation standards. -
Merged pull request #683 into wp-cli/wp-cli-bundle:
Update wp-cli framework -
Closed pull request #7993 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Cache `count_user_posts()` -
Mentioned in [59759] on Core SVN:
Administration: Fix pagination in categories, tags, and plugins tables. -
Closed issue #256 on the WordPress/plugin-check-action repository:
ignore-warnings and exclude-checks don't work -
Mentioned in [59752] on Core SVN:
Build/Test Tools: Fix the source code path handling when installing the local development environment. -
Merged pull request #255 into WordPress/plugin-check-action:
Bump @typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin from 8.21.0 to 8.22.0 -
Merged pull request #254 into WordPress/plugin-check-action:
Bump eslint-plugin-github from 5.1.5 to 5.1.7 -
Merged pull request #253 into WordPress/plugin-check-action:
Bump @typescript-eslint/parser from 8.21.0 to 8.22.0 -
Merged pull request #252 into WordPress/plugin-check-action:
Bump @types/node from 22.10.10 to 22.13.0 -
Submitted pull request #108 to wp-cli/dist-archive-command:
Remove existing files in zip file -
Closed pull request #61888 on WordPress/gutenberg:
Fix Post Excerpt length when there's no excerpt and post content is... -
Closed issue #107 on the wp-cli/dist-archive-command repository:
Regenerate readme action not working -
Posted a reply to Web Stories backgroud image vs bleeding vs regular image, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I don't know why you would necessarily do that, but I don't see why that… -
Closed issue #104 on the wp-cli/dist-archive-command repository:
--force is not documented -
Merged pull request #106 into wp-cli/dist-archive-command:
Update readme file -
Mentioned in [59749] on Core SVN:
Build/Test Tools: Parallelise the performance tests. -
Merged pull request #61 into wp-cli/wp-cli-dev:
Fix wp-cli-bundle branch name -
Submitted pull request #61 to wp-cli/wp-cli-dev:
Fix wp-cli-bundle branch name -
Merged pull request #6042 into wp-cli/wp-cli:
Ensure code after `wp-settings.php` call is loaded -
Merged pull request #111 into wp-cli/cron-command:
Harden test checking for log file -
Submitted pull request #111 to wp-cli/cron-command:
Harden test checking for log file -
Submitted pull request #6042 to wp-cli/wp-cli:
Ensure code after `wp-settings.php` call is loaded -
Closed issue #6038 on the wp-cli/wp-cli repository:
Improve `wp-settings.php` detection in runner -
Merged pull request #6039 into wp-cli/wp-cli:
Improve regex for detecting `wp-settings.php` -
Submitted pull request #6041 to wp-cli/wp-cli:
Allow collecting PHPUnit coverage -
Mentioned in [59740] on Core SVN:
Security: Introduce Grunt task for updating Root Certificates. -
Submitted pull request #6039 to wp-cli/wp-cli:
Improve regex for detecting `wp-settings.php` -
Posted a reply to Web Stories backgroud image vs bleeding vs regular image, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
An image is an image, no matter where you place it :-) I'd focus on… -
Merged pull request #553 into wp-cli/handbook:
Update URL for True-False Hosting -
Merged pull request #67 into wp-cli/role-command:
Regenerate README file -
Merged pull request #66 into wp-cli/role-command:
Docs: add missing `$` -
Submitted pull request #236 to wp-cli/wp-cli-tests:
Allow collecting PHPUnit coverage -
Mentioned in [59735] on Core SVN:
Options/Meta APIs: Rename `setted_(site_)_transient` to `set_...`. -
Mentioned in [59731] on Core SVN:
Editor: Relax restrictions around registration of block metadata collections. -
Mentioned in [59730] on Core SVN:
Editor: Relax restrictions around registration of block metadata collections.
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