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

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

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.

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 55% (these figures are for June 2021) of all WordPress installations are using a translated version of WordPress? I’m proud to be a part of that!

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

I’ve drafted an article about some common i18n-errors developers make: https://gsm.fjellner.com/hints-about-i18n-let-your-code-to-shine-all-over-the-world/

Contributions

tobifjellner (Tor-Bjorn Fjellner) contributes 8 hours per week to the following teams: Polyglots and Support.

Contribution History

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

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Translated 3 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
1 day ago
Wrote a comment on the post Can you please auto translate…, on the site Translate WordPress:
I can see that you have contributed to #de_DE (formal) and #de_CH Did you know…
2 days ago
Wrote a comment on the post Can you please auto translate…, on the site Translate WordPress:
Hi @pierrunoyt Machine translations must ALWAYS be checked by a human before they get approved/published.
2 days ago
Translated 19 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
3 days ago
Reviewed 322 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
3 days ago
Translated 13 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
4 days ago
Created a topic, Question from another user, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
A new user, @4lexo attempted to post a question in the…
5 days ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for Elementor+User Switching, on the site Translate WordPress:
PTE requests are handled by the volunteer teams for each language. Since the correct locale…
5 days ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for Elementor+User Switching, on the site Translate WordPress:
A PTE is supposed to personally know the target language well enough to vouch for…
5 days ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for Syrus I…, on the site Translate WordPress:
I'm removing the to-do status for #es_ES since there currently is nothing more left for…
5 days ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for Syrus I…, on the site Translate WordPress:
Joining this local Italian Slack workspace is a two-step process: 1. First, join the GLOBAL…
5 days ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for Elementor+User Switching, on the site Translate WordPress:
Hi @meetmehta1205 Before publishing your bunch of pending posts, I tried to merge them into…
5 days ago
Translated 2 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
5 days ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for Syrus I…, on the site Translate WordPress:
I'm removing the to-do status for #it_IT since there currently is nothing more left for…
5 days ago
Wrote a comment on the post Adding ChatGPT and DeepL in the Translation Memory, on the site Translate WordPress:
I haven't tried translations with ChatGPT, so I can't help directly with your question. Peter…
6 days ago
Reviewed 29 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
6 days ago
Translated 9 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
6 days ago
Posted a reply to Rörlig bild och ljud (audio/video), on the site Svensk support:
Rent tekniskt kan du ladda upp (och visa) ljud och video på precis samma sätt…
7 days ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for my plugin…, on the site Translate WordPress:
I'm removing the to-do status of this request since there currently is nothing more left…
1 week ago
Wrote a comment on the post Day 20: #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks, on the site Make WordPress.org Marketing:
Happy Birthday, WordPress and (most of all) WordPressers all over the world.
1 week ago
Wrote a new post, WordPress fyller 20 år idag, on the site Svenska:
Den allra första versionen av WordPress såg dagens ljus 27 maj 2003. Vill du vara…
1 week ago
Translated 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.
1 week ago
Reviewed 4 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
1 week ago
Wrote a comment on the post Hello, I have translated some…, on the site Translate WordPress:
@modelaid I've left this post as "to-do" because I decided for now to treat it…
1 week ago
Wrote a comment on the post Request to be a Somali…, on the site Translate WordPress:
Anyway. I've made the update for this time.
1 week ago
Wrote a comment on the post Request to be a Somali…, on the site Translate WordPress:
Yay. Good news. You probably have access, but simply don't know how to do it…
1 week ago
Wrote a comment on the post Request to be a Somali…, on the site Translate WordPress:
Hi @geedkanabada As you can see, we didn't get any response yet from the #so_SO…
1 week ago
Wrote a comment on the post Please help us to confirm…, on the site Translate WordPress:
I have now approved the request, since the #uk locale team(s) didn't respond yet. If…
1 week ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE for GeneratePress Theme, on the site Translate WordPress:
I have now approved the request, since the #el locale team(s) didn't respond yet. If…
1 week ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for Blocksy and…, on the site Translate WordPress:
I have now approved the request for #en_NZ , since the locale team(s) didn't respond…
1 week ago
Wrote a comment on the post Waiting strings to review in AIOSEO project, on the site Translate WordPress:
I’m removing the to-do status, since follow-up of requests in this blog mainly are meant…
1 week ago
Wrote a comment on the post Hi team,, on the site Translate WordPress:
I'm removing the to-do status of this request since there currently is nothing more left…
2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Validate translations for Kadence theme, on the site Translate WordPress:
Hi @ataypamart Let's continue this discussion under yesterday's post on the same topic, at https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/2023/05/21/hi-team-5/…
2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Loggar direkt in till Adminpanelen, fast jag inte vill, on the site Svensk support:
Om det bara är en enstaka sida skulle jag nog använda den inbyggda funktionen för…
2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Loggar direkt in till Adminpanelen, fast jag inte vill, on the site Svensk support:
Det är WordPress standard, att om någon går till /wp-login.php skickas de efter lyckad inloggning…
2 weeks ago
Translated 3 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
2 weeks ago
Mentioned in [12598] on Meta SVN:
Support Forums: Improve wording when posts are held for moderation.
2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for AI-Content-Creator and other plugins., on the site Translate WordPress:
I'm removing the to-do status of this request since there currently is nothing more left…
2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Request for Translation Review, on the site Translate WordPress:
Hi @nasirahashim In this global blog we do follow-up on requests to be assigned as…
2 weeks ago
Translated 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.
2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Hi all,, on the site Translate WordPress:
Hi @mbeelink We're waiting for feedback/comments from the relevant locale teams. But being one of…
2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Translate Plugin name, on the site Translate WordPress:
@hfranz Almost all language teams prefer to NOT translate plugin names. First of all, we…
2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Translate Plugin name, on the site Translate WordPress:
I removed the entry for _formal since all locale variants are included when the PTE…
2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for My Style Anytime, on the site Translate WordPress:
Hi @newfiesoft As you know, all our translation efforts here (at least from the WordPress…
3 weeks ago
Posted a reply to How to show all font & text styling options by default, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@dgross-1 I have hidden the response from @kerryangle since it seems to do he very…
3 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Hello Polyglots,, on the site Translate WordPress:
I have now approved the request, since the #es_CL #es_PR #es_PE #es_UY locale team(s) didn't…
3 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post GTE Request for Persian Language, on the site Translate WordPress:
#fa_IR team reminder: Please add a comment on this request for GTE role with your…
3 weeks ago
Translated 13 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
3 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post GTE Request for Persian Language, on the site Translate WordPress:
I have now approved the request, since the #fa_IR locale team(s) didn't respond yet. If…
3 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for Altis Accelerate, on the site Translate WordPress:
I have now approved the request, since the #ja locale team(s) didn't respond yet. If…
3 weeks ago