Pascal Birchler
@swissspidy on WordPress.org and Slack
- Member Since: February 25th, 2008
- Location: Zurich, Switzerland
- Website: pascalbirchler.com
- GitHub: swissspidy
- Job Title: Developer Programs Engineer
- Employer: Google
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Pascal Birchler’s badges:- Core Contributor
- Core Team
- Documentation Contributor
- Meetup Organizer
- Meta Contributor
- Plugin Developer
- Translation Contributor
- Translation Editor
- WordCamp Organizer
- WordCamp Speaker
- WP-CLI Contributor
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Posted a reply to Web Stories WP Block not showing Web Stories, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Terry, This is the same REST API issue as with your other topic. Let's…1 day ago
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Posted a reply to Web Stories Dashboard Error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Terry Thanks for reaching out! There appears to be some misconfiguration or plugin conflict…1 day ago
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Posted a reply to Permalink preview not matching editor preview, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Ben Could you share screenshots of what you see in the editor vs. what…3 days ago
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Committed [2623621] to Plugins SVN:
Releasing version 1.14.04 days ago
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Committed [2623620] to Plugins SVN:
Tagging version 1.14.04 days ago
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Committed [2623618] to Plugins SVN:
Committing version 1.14.04 days ago
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Reopened ticket #54358 on Core Trac:
Add URL Details endpoint from Gutenberg plugin into Core4 days ago
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Posted a reply to Embeds Stopped Working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@mdotk No updated information. As mentioned before, planning on releasing a new update this week.5 days ago
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Posted a reply to Invalid link, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If it works in incognito mode it sounds like you have a browser extension installed…5 days ago
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Posted a reply to Embeds Stopped Working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@tlmedien Not exactly sure what you mean. Could you please open a new topic and…5 days ago
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Posted a reply to background audio not working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for your swift response and your feature suggestion. We highly recommend setting up HTTPS…5 days ago
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Posted a reply to Older Web Stories Aren’t Displaying, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Good to know that you've already set up GSC, that's great! I do understand that…5 days ago
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Posted a reply to CORS error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You'll need to set up CORS on the Google Cloud Storage bucket. Follow the documentation…5 days ago
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Posted a reply to background audio not working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there, Can you share the URL to your story so we can better assist…5 days ago
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Posted a reply to Older Web Stories Aren’t Displaying, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
In addition to the URL Inspection Tool I'd also highly recommend setting up Google Search…1 week ago
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Closed pull request #1566 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Capability Queries1 week ago
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Closed ticket #16841 on Core Trac:
Manually created user roles not showing in author dropdown regardless ...1 week ago
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Committed [51943] to Core SVN:
Role/Capability: Add support for capability queries in ...1 week ago
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Posted a reply to Older Web Stories Aren’t Displaying, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there, Thanks for reaching out! That's quite an odd issue. Has something changed between…1 week ago
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Posted a reply to Web Stories are not indexing anymore =(, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If troubleshooting is not working for you, could you try to temporarily disable all other…1 week ago
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Posted a reply to Embeds Stopped Working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
We're planning on releasing a new plugin update next week. The goal is to have…2 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to grid-placeholder.png and blank story pages, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Absolutely. Not breaking existing stories is important to us. In this particular case, we were…2 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to 404 issues with the latest plug in update, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @benmyhre, if you could open a new support topic with some more details, that…2 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to Embeds Stopped Working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
We're actively working on fixing this issue! Sorry for any inconvenience caused.2 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to grid-placeholder.png and blank story pages, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
assets/images/editor/grid-placeholder.png is indeed a file that we used to have in the plugin but has…2 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to Google Universal Analytics or GA4?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Terry, GA4 is unfortunately not yet supported in stories. As far as I know,…2 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to 404 issues with the latest plug in update, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Great to hear that worked. That's what I meant when I said "try opening the…2 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to 404 issues with the latest plug in update, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for testing! The page source looks better already, but still missing the actual story…2 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to 404 issues with the latest plug in update, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for updating and sharing the URL. The source code of the page says <!--…2 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to Video Issues after updating to 1.13.0, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Glad to hear that it worked! In that case I'll mark this topic as resolved.…2 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to Asset Drag&Drop Import BUGGING, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for raising this. This looks like a bug. We'll pass this on to the…2 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to Video Optimization feature BUGGING, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
THat's what I mentioned in your previous topic at https://wordpress.org/support/topic/video-optimization-tool-bugging/#post-14980971: - If you upload via…2 weeks ago
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Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for ElementsKit, on the site Translate WordPress:
Do you speak all these languages? If your translations are provided by other users, we…2 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to Editor Crashed (Incompatibility with WPML Plugin), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there I don't see any issues with WPML on my site. Do you get…2 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to Video Issues after updating to 1.13.0, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The latest release contains various video-related improvements, e.g. video trimming. But I am surprised that…2 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to Impossible To Add Subtitles & Captions To Images, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there As previously mentioned in one of your earlier topics, we don't yet support…2 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to Video Issues after updating to 1.13.0, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Ben, Thanks for reaching out. I just replied to Lee via email earlier about…3 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to Web Story SEO Error “Title tag missing or empty”, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Glad to hear you were able to resolve the plugin conflict. Curious, which plugin was…3 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to LCP Issue in Google Search Console, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
LCP can be affected by multiple factors, external scripts like the ones from the Web…3 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to Video Optimization Tool BUGGING, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thank you! Same result here with that video. To clarify, did you first upload the…3 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to Video Optimization Tool BUGGING, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If you could upload the original video to Google Drive so we could test with…3 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to Video Optimization Tool BUGGING, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for reporting this. Looks like the check also flags videos with exact dimensions of…3 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to LCP Issue in Google Search Console, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
As per your other thread, it looks like there's a bigger issue with broken stories…3 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to Web Story SEO Error “Title tag missing or empty”, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there It looks like all your stories are somehow completely broken right now, so…3 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to Web Stories do not save any changes I made, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
That list of messages is already helpful. It looks like you've made some changes to…3 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to Categories and Tags, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You can bulk edit and categorise existing stories via the "All Stories" page.3 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to Categories and Tags, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there, The categories and tags supported for web stories are separate from the categories/tags…3 weeks ago
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Merged pull request #59 into wp-cli/find-command:
Regenerate README file3 weeks ago
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Merged pull request #289 into wp-cli/i18n-command:
Regenerate README file3 weeks ago
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Closed issue #177 on the wp-cli/i18n-command repository:
Wrong md5 hash generated by i18n-command3 weeks ago
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