tobifjellner (Tor-Bjorn “Tobi” Fjellner) (@tobifjellner) – WordPress user profile

Bio

Poet, Writer, Project Manager, Mobile Telecom Marketing specialist, Translator, and more… Being Swedish native, I know how to mount furniture from IKEA. 🙂 Oh, and I’m interested in amateur radio, although currently inactive (check your logs from 1980-s for SM0RYB).

The great and versatile tool WordPress can be free thanks to the contributions from thousands of users. And I think it’s great that one can “give back” to WordPress and the community in so many different ways. I’m not a coder (although I may be able to find and fix some small and simple errors in PHP/CSS/JavaScript). But where I really can make a difference, that’s in making WordPress available in Swedish.

Later I even became a global mentor for WordPress translation, so one could say that I support the processes that make WordPress available in more than 70 language versions. Did you know, that 56% (these figures are for June 2023) of all WordPress installations are using a translated version of WordPress? I’m proud to be a part of that!

I was on the organizing team for WordCamp Stockholm 2016, where we successfully introduced the “Micro Sponsor” level for participation.

In June 2023, I was a speaker at WordCamp Europe, with the title: “Enable truly global use of your code – Avoid the typical i18n pitfalls”. It was mainly based on the most important parts of my article about some common i18n-errors developers make: https://gsm.fjellner.com/hints-about-i18n-let-your-code-to-shine-all-over-the-world/

In 2023, I started pursuing ways to drastically improve quality and reuse of content translation for handbooks, documentation, training materials, etc. I’m also on the pilot team for mentoring of new WordPress contributors.

I’d love to contribute more to WordPress, if I just could find the right partners to make it sustainable for me. I want to spend more time on:
– Making it easier for WordPress users to find out about contributing to the project.
– Helping new contributors finding their way in and around the project.
– Re-vitalizing the Swedish community (Yes, I live in Spain, but I’ve got a stable internet connection).
– Encouraging locale teams to publish more relevant content.
– Organizing meetups/WordCamps.
– Smart reuse of translations and content.
– Support for multilingual content in WordPress core.
– … and probably several other things.

Additional links:
– https://facebook.com/fjellner
– https://linkedin.com/in/fjellner
– https://mastodon.social/@tobifjellner

WordPress Origin Story

Ended up with WordPress when I wanted to migrate my blog in Russian about working as an expat in Oman to my own domain and made it a tri-lingual site. Since then I’ve helped lots of friends to get started, too.
When I noted that the themes I loved and some plugins I wanted weren’t available in the languages i needed, I started translating them.
Now I’m one of the global mentors for the WordPress translation efforts and an active participant in the Swedish WordPress community, although I live in Barcelona, Spain.

Since April 2025 I’m sponsored 3 hrs per week by Kinsta. (Happy to discuss more hours with other companies!)

Contributions

tobifjellner (Tor-Bjorn “Tobi” Fjellner) contributes 5 hours per week to the following teams: Community, Polyglots, and Support.

Member Since: March 18th, 2011
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Website: gsm.fjellner.com
GitHub: tobifjellner
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Contribution History

BuddyPress Contributor
Community Contributor
Core Contributor
Meta Contributor
Photo Contributor
Plugin Developer
Support Contributor
Support Team
Translation Contributor
Translation Editor
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Speaker

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Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for Unibiz Theme, on the site Translate WordPress:
I'm removing the tag for Japanese for now. If/when you need their attention, please add…
13 hours ago
Wrote a comment on the post I am the plugin author…, on the site Translate WordPress:
@davesidefyn I'm removing the to-do status of this post, since the German team has responded…
20 hours ago
Translated 13 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
1 day ago
Reviewed 114 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
1 day ago
Reviewed 11 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
2 days ago
Translated 57 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
2 days ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for Unibiz Theme, on the site Translate WordPress:
Rejected for #sv_SE We've already checked your contributions, and rejected around half of them.
2 days ago
Posted a reply to Byta till block, on the site Svensk support:
Det är enkelt att byta tema. Det är bara att installera och aktivera ett annat…
2 days ago
Translated 21 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
3 days ago
Reviewed 5 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
3 days ago
Posted a reply to Blockbaserat – totalt förvirrande, on the site Svensk support:
Det verkar som om just temat Björk döljer möjligheten att byta mall eller skapa ny…
3 days ago
Posted a reply to Byta till block, on the site Svensk support:
Jag tittade i HTML-koden för sidan. Nuvarande tema är Mesmerize ( https://wordpress.org/themes/mesmerize/ ) som i…
3 days ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for Base (formerly BaseLinker) – 300+ marketplaces, 150+ carriers & PIM & OMS & WMS in one, on the site Translate WordPress:
Rejected for Swedish, since you've submitted no strings, and most probably, you don't know Swedish.…
5 days ago
Reviewed 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.
5 days ago
Translated 32 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
5 days ago
Wrote a comment on the post I am the plugin author…, on the site Translate WordPress:
Hi @psauxit Based on the comment above, I've removed the to-do status for #tr_TR. If…
5 days ago
Wrote a comment on the post Request for PTE for 1881 Number Lookup, on the site Translate WordPress:
The locale tags where added after the post was published. Therefore I'm mentioning them here…
5 days ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE request for Wheel of Life into cs_CZ, on the site Translate WordPress:
@lubostomicek Update: At last I was able to join the WPCZ.slack.com, thus this is my…
7 days ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for old post message, on the site Translate WordPress:
@atsushicafek Since the locale team has responded, I'm removing the to-do status of this post…
1 week ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for old post message, on the site Translate WordPress:
Hi @atsushicafek The PTE role is awarded by each respective language team. Before publishing your…
1 week ago
Wrote a new post, Meddelande till @andlun57 Hallå där…., on the site Swedish Team:
Meddelande till @andlun57 Hallå där. Jag gjorde dig just till svensk översättningsredaktör för ditt eget…
1 week ago
Reviewed 89 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
1 week ago
Translated 12 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
1 week ago
Posted a reply to Popup maker, on the site Svensk support:
Provade nyss på min testwebbplats som kör WordPress 6.8. Blocket "Detaljer" finns redan med, så…
1 week ago
Translated 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.
1 week ago
Posted a reply to Popup maker, on the site Svensk support:
Popup Maker är ett marknadsföringsverktyg. Dess syfte är att informera/påminna besökare om produkter, tjänster osv.…
1 week ago
Posted a reply to Popup maker, on the site Svensk support:
Jag tror att det är avsiktligt, om en användare just har klickat bort en popup…
1 week ago
Translated 17 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Hello Polyglots team!, on the site Translate WordPress:
@zluck The check boxes here have no integration anywhere. I reverted your entries for #gu…
2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for beckin-post-notes, on the site Translate WordPress:
Hi @beckin It's great to see that you've joined Slack. Yep, you grasped my wishes…
2 weeks ago
Reviewed 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.
2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Kan inte uppdatera utseende på sajt med style.css, on the site Svensk support:
För en temautvecklare är det väldigt enkelt att låta en procedur mata ut CSS:en från…
2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for beckin-post-notes, on the site Translate WordPress:
Hi @beckin Thanks for a useful plugin. A couple of things you could do to…
2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Hello Polyglots team, I’ve completed…, on the site Translate WordPress:
I'm removing the to-do status of this post, since I know for sure that @robert681…
2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for ShopWay Theme, on the site Translate WordPress:
@wpfable I have now approved this request on behalf of #ar since they didn't respond…
2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE request for WooCommerce Reviews, on the site Translate WordPress:
@zeeha I have now approved the request on behalf of #fr_BE, since they didn't respond…
2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Hi dear mentors, We have…, on the site Translate WordPress:
Done!
2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE request for cs_CZ locale for multiple plugins, on the site Translate WordPress:
Hi @lubostomicek We use a special theme O2, and the corresponding plugin P2 in this…
2 weeks ago
Translated 17 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for beckin-post-notes, on the site Translate WordPress:
Hi @beckin No problem. We'll just remove the to-do status of this post. Welcome to…
2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Hello Polyglots team, I’ve completed…, on the site Translate WordPress:
@jbonello Perhaps you could join the global Slack team of WordPress contributors via https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ ?…
2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Hello Polyglots team, I’ve completed…, on the site Translate WordPress:
@jbonello specifically for WordPress core, uploading translations from a po-file is only available to translation…
2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for beckin-post-notes, on the site Translate WordPress:
Hi @beckin Before publishing your pending post, I fixed it a bit. The way you…
2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Hello Polyglots team, I’ve completed…, on the site Translate WordPress:
Hi @chrisdevriese Before publishing your post, which was pending, I corrected the locale tag to…
2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for Give Directions Plugin (Japanese Locale), on the site Translate WordPress:
@hidakaya I'm removing the to-do status of this post, since, there's nothing pending on the…
2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for Following Themes, on the site Translate WordPress:
I have removed the to-do tag of this request. Please follow the suggestions above if…
2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for Following Themes, on the site Translate WordPress:
@themesdaddy When the PTE role is granted for a locale, this includes all variants of…
2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Kan inte uppdatera utseende på sajt med style.css, on the site Svensk support:
Om du ser ditt kommando men det är gråmarkerat betyder det att egenskapen tilldelas ett…
2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Kan inte uppdatera utseende på sajt med style.css, on the site Svensk support:
CSS som du lägger in under "Extra CSS" läggs in "inline" med själva sidan. Om…
2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Kan inte uppdatera utseende på sajt med style.css, on the site Svensk support:
Om du använder någorlunda aktuell version av WordPress-kärnan går det att lägga in anpassad CSS…
2 weeks ago