Pascal Birchler
@swissspidy on WordPress.org and Slack
Bio
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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Mentioned in [59171] on Core SVN:
Bootstrap/Load: Prevent loopback scraping errors when there is no key or nonce. -
Mentioned in [59170] on Core SVN:
Build/Test Tools: Resolve access failure to continue sending commit performance data to Code Vitals dashboard. -
Created issue #1575 in the WordPress/performance repository:
Improve video poster image URL based on actual dimensions -
Created issue #112 in the wp-cli/.github repository:
Facilitate testing workflow changes before merging -
Closed pull request #7480 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Soft-deprecate `load_*_textdomain()` functions -
Committed [59157] to Core SVN:
I18N: Do not load translations directly in `load_*_textdomain`. In ... -
Closed ticket #62155 on Core Trac:
[WP 6.7 beta1] Block editor translation issue in sub-directory enabled ... -
Reopened ticket #62016 on Core Trac:
The .json files with theme translations are loaded only if they are ... -
Closed ticket #62157 on Core Trac:
load_script_translations does not search in plugins translation path -
Posted a reply to Yoast SEO metabox missing in story builder, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It sounds like some of your existing users don't have the same capabilities as other… -
Merged pull request #75 into wp-cli/find-command:
Regenerate README file -
Merged pull request #74 into wp-cli/find-command:
Allow manually dispatching tests & disable composer lock file -
Submitted pull request #74 to wp-cli/find-command:
Allow manually dispatching tests & disable composer lock file -
Submitted pull request #247 to wp-cli/scaffold-package-command:
Allow manually dispatching tests & disable composer lock file -
Submitted pull request #272 to wp-cli/core-command:
Tests: Silence Requests deprecation -
Submitted pull request #7480 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Soft-deprecate `load_*_textdomain()` functions -
Merged pull request #225 into wp-cli/wp-cli-tests:
Update WP Versions Data -
Merged pull request #130 into wp-cli/checksum-command:
Add blank space when trimming the version -
Closed issue #223 on the WordPress/plugin-check repository:
Show message if plugin is run in production envoriment -
Submitted pull request #665 to wp-cli/wp-cli-bundle:
Fix workflow trigger to allow manual dispatch -
Created issue #177 in the wp-cli/php-cli-tools repository:
Rename main branch to `main` -
Merged pull request #5991 into wp-cli/wp-cli:
PHP 8.4 | Fix CSV escaping deprecation notices -
Mentioned in [59153] on Core SVN:
Interactivity API: Fix code formatting and add better types in docstrings. -
Merged pull request #5994 into wp-cli/wp-cli:
PHPUnit: convert deprecations to exceptions -
Merged pull request #664 into wp-cli/wp-cli-bundle:
Bump wp-cli/wp-cli-tests from 4.3.2 to 4.3.4 -
Merged pull request #5997 into wp-cli/wp-cli:
UtilsTest: fix the test failure -
Submitted pull request #663 to wp-cli/wp-cli-bundle:
Address deprecation warnings in Behat tests -
Merged pull request #224 into wp-cli/wp-cli-tests:
PHPUnit: Fix regex in bootstrap file -
Posted a reply to How to add tags to Web stories, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
There is currently no built-in way on the settings page to add Google Tag Manager… -
Submitted pull request #224 to wp-cli/wp-cli-tests:
PHPUnit: Fix regex in bootstrap file -
Merged pull request #220 into wp-cli/wp-cli-tests:
Tests: Replace `mysql_native_password` with `caching_sha2_password` -
Merged pull request #222 into wp-cli/wp-cli-tests:
Add extra arguments to PHPUnit 10+ -
Merged pull request #110 into wp-cli/.github:
Let Dependabot update GitHub Actions dependencies -
Merged pull request #5996 into wp-cli/wp-cli:
Skip Requests v1 test on PHP 8.2+ -
Pushed 1 commit to wp-cli/.github:
Fix syntax issue in workflow -
Merged pull request #109 into wp-cli/.github:
Fix duplicate workflow step ID -
Submitted pull request #109 to wp-cli/.github:
Fix duplicate workflow step ID -
Merged pull request #223 into wp-cli/wp-cli-tests:
Composer: prevent a lock file from being created -
Submitted pull request #223 to wp-cli/wp-cli-tests:
Composer: prevent a lock file from being created -
Submitted pull request #222 to wp-cli/wp-cli-tests:
Add extra arguments to PHPUnit 10+ -
Submitted pull request #5996 to wp-cli/wp-cli:
Skip Requests v1 test on PHP 8.2+ -
Merged pull request #5995 into wp-cli/wp-cli:
Fix tests against WordPress trunk -
Merged pull request #108 into wp-cli/.github:
GH Actions/tests: prevent warning about outdated configuration being used -
Merged pull request #107 into wp-cli/.github:
GH Actions/testing: minor simplification/maintainability improvement -
Merged pull request #106 into wp-cli/.github:
GH Actions/linting: show deprecations when linting -
Merged pull request #105 into wp-cli/.github:
GH Actions/tests: set error reporting to display all notices -
Merged pull request #171 into WordPress/wordpress-importer:
Start using WordPressCS 3.1 -
Merged pull request #413 into wp-cli/i18n-command:
PHPUnit: convert deprecations to exceptions -
Merged pull request #170 into WordPress/wordpress-importer:
Composer: prevent a lock file from being created -
Merged pull request #221 into wp-cli/wp-cli-tests:
PHPUnit: convert deprecations to exceptions
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