Niels Lange – @nielslange

Member Since: October 1st, 2015
Location: Heidelberg, Germany
Website: nielslange.com
GitHub: nielslange
Job Title: Timezone Wrangler
Employer: Automattic
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Bio

Niels works as a Happiness Engineer for Automattic where he provides support for WordPress.com customers. Outside work he organises WordCamps and WordPress Meetups both in Europe and Asia.

After his study in computer science in Germany, he moved to the Netherlands, where he worked for several companies as a web developer and a business analyst. Since mid-2014 he’s been travelling through South-East Asia where he fights bugs between palm trees and rice fields.

WordPress Origin Story

First contact with WordPress 2.0 in 2005. After years of abstinence rediscovered WordPress 4.0 in 2014. Since then 100% committed to serving clients with custom-built websites as well as to contribute to the global WordPress community. Translation contributor since the first quarter of 2015 and plugin contributor since the second quarter of 2015. Also since 2015, he’s a WordCamp Organiser, WordCamp Speaker and WordPress.tv Contributor. In 2017 he got hired by Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, and in 2018 he became a Core Contributor.

Contribution History

Core Contributor
Core Contributor
Meetup Organizer
Meetup Organizer
Translation Contributor
Translation Contributor
Translation Editor
Translation Editor
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Speaker
WordCamp Speaker
WordPress.tv Contributor
WordPress.tv Contributor
Plugin Developer
Plugin Developer
Theme Developer
Theme Developer

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Committed [2265957] to Plugins Trac:
Fixed security issue

6 hours ago
Committed [2264962] to Plugins Trac:
Fix pseudo-markdown issue

2 days ago
Committed [2264961] to Plugins Trac:
Fix pseudo-markdown issue

2 days ago
Committed [2264960] to Plugins Trac:
Fix pseudo-markdown issue

2 days ago
Committed [2264959] to Plugins Trac:
Fix pseudo-markdown issue

2 days ago
Committed [2264958] to Plugins Trac:
Fix pseudo-markdown issue

2 days ago
Committed [2264957] to Plugins Trac:
Fix pseudo-markdown issue

2 days ago
Committed [2264956] to Plugins Trac:
Update to version 1.2 from GitHub

2 days ago
Committed [2264921] to Plugins Trac:
Update to version 1.1 from GitHub

2 days ago
Created a new ticket, #82066, in Themes Trac:
THEME: SMNTCS Retro – 1.4

3 days ago
Posted a reply to I love it!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello @ivan-blazevic 👋 I'm happy to hear that you love the theme! That means a…

3 days ago
Committed [2263754] to Plugins Trac:
Fix security issue

5 days ago
Posted a reply to Custom Product Options, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You're very welcome, @khubaib927. 🙌

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Custom Product Options, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello @khubaib927, the SMNTCS WooCommerce Quantity Buttons does not add the functionality as seen on…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Switch + and –, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Just saw that the quotes were missing for the filter name. This is the correct…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Switch + and –, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello @prokops 👋 Based on your comment, I updated the plugin and added a new…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Side by Side again, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello @taubeundspatz, I'm glad to hear that! 🙌

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Just works, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for your great review, @prokops! I'm glad to hear that the plugins works as…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Side by Side again, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello @taubeundspatz, not sure what causes the current issue, but you can fix it by…

4 weeks ago
Posted a reply to AB colums broken, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Same issue here. The latest update to 2.5.1 broke the AB Blocks when using Chrome…

1 month ago
Posted a reply to Not working with WooCommerce Min Max Quantity & Step Control Single, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I close and marked this issue as solved based on the discussion we had in…

2 months ago
Closed ticket #73858, in Themes Trac:
THEME: WPBricks – 1.0.1

3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Tentative Release Calendar 2020-2021, on the site Make WordPress Core:
As far as I know, the exact birthday of Johannes Gutenberg is unknown. People assume…

3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for SMNTCS Disable REST API User Endpoints, on the site Translate WordPress:
Thanks, @tobifjellner! 🙌

3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for SMNTCS Disable REST API User Endpoints, on the site Translate WordPress:
My bad, @jeroenrotty. I was referring to #nl_NL. 😀

3 months ago
Posted a reply to Disable Image Compression, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@sissyyee Better late than never. I just saw your post and I created a plugin…

3 months ago
Wrote a new post, PTE Request for SMNTCS Disable REST API User Endpoints, on the site Translate WordPress:
Hello Polyglots, I am the plugin author of https://wordpress.org/plugins/smntcs-disable-rest-api-user-endpoints/. I speak both Dutch and German…

3 months ago
Posted a reply to Markup validation, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@tictok Thank you for pointing out this issue in the first place! 🙌

3 months ago
Posted a reply to Does not work, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello @altcheb 👋 Can you provide more information on the issue you're facing? What theme…

3 months ago
Posted a reply to Perfect!!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@cloudhousecollective I'm glad to hear that and thanks for your great review!

4 months ago
Posted a reply to Thanks!!, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@sterezakis You're very welcome!

4 months ago
Posted a reply to not working with sydney, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@fatzenbolt I just release a new version of the plugin and it's now compatible with…

4 months ago
Posted a reply to not working with sydney, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@fatzenbolt You're referring to the following theme https://wordpress.org/themes/sydney/, correct?

4 months ago
Posted a reply to Markup validation, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@tictok Sorry for my late reply. Yesterday, I validated the markup and a few minutes…

4 months ago
Posted a reply to Buttons unresponsive within composite product, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@karyvalens Are you using a plugin to control the number of products that you allow…

4 months ago
Posted a reply to Is this plugin still operative?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@raquelh Thanks for letting me know. I'll mark this issue as solved then.

4 months ago
Posted a reply to doesn’t work, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@jwegera Are you using the plugin on https://fortemcoin.io/news/ in combination with the VoteStart theme?

4 months ago
Posted a reply to Quantity stepper randomly appearing, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@ojs81 Sounds like a good plan. Feel free to get back to me if you…

4 months ago
Posted a reply to woo coommerce Product Add-Ons issue, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@blackhawk001 I just looked up https://abdelcuci.com/product/bookingpage/ and I do see the plus and minus buttons…

4 months ago
Posted a reply to Grouped product breaks layout, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@ojs81 It seems that the grouped products limit the space of the quantity buttons. You…

4 months ago
Posted a reply to Override plugin template, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@math1991 I assume you haven't tried using the default WooCommerce hooks yet, have you? You…

4 months ago
Posted a reply to The Only Plugin that works, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello @naturalbodz 👋 Thanks for your great feedback! I'm very happy that the plugin works…

4 months ago
Posted a reply to Override plugin template, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hello @math1991, The file quantity-input.php is located in /wp-content/plugins/smntcs-woocommerce-quantity-buttons/template/global. May I ask what you're aiming…

4 months ago
Posted a reply to Quantity stepper randomly appearing, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@ojs81 Thanks for reporting this. Can you tell me which OS and browser you're using?…

4 months ago
Created a new ticket, #48762, in Core Trac:
Twenty Twenty: Add WooCommerce compatibility

4 months ago
Closed ticket #48723, in Core Trac:
Twenty Twenty: Editor Block Toolbar Icons “invisible” inside a block ...

4 months ago
Closed ticket #48569, in Core Trac:
Twenty Twenty: Theme-specific editor styles being improperly enqueued

4 months ago
Closed ticket #48690, in Core Trac:
WordPress 5.3 get_the_time() weird output

4 months ago
Posted a reply to Really bad theme, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@razyrx Does not force you to install and/or use it, right? 😉

4 months ago
Created a new ticket, #4851, in Meta Trac:
Update internal link to Text Editor within ...

4 months ago