Pascal Birchler – @swissspidy

Member Since: February 25th, 2008
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Website: pascalbirchler.com
GitHub: swissspidy
Job Title: Developer Programs Engineer
Employer: Google
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Bio

Software Engineer based in Switzerland. WordPress Core Committer. Traveller. Foodie. Polyglot. WordCamp and WordPress Meetup Organizer. Developer Programs Engineer at Google.

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Interests

WordPress, Web, Social Media, Movies

WordPress Origin Story

Started blogging as a 12-year-old back in 2006. Have been hacking on my own sites ever since. Fell in love with the community.

Contributions Sponsored

Pascal Birchler contributes 6 hours per week to the following teams: CLI, Core, Polyglots.

Contribution History

Core Contributor
Core Contributor
Core Team
Core Team
Documentation Contributor
Documentation Contributor
Meetup Organizer
Meetup Organizer
Meta Contributor
Meta Contributor
Translation Contributor
Translation Contributor
Translation Editor
Translation Editor
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Speaker
WordCamp Speaker
WP-CLI Contributor
WP-CLI Contributor
Plugin Developer
Plugin Developer

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Closed ticket #49796, in Core Trac:
wpmu_new_blog is deprecated since version 5.1.0 warning

1 day ago
Wrote a comment on the post Hello Polyglots, I am the…, on the site Translate WordPress:
Thanks, I added you now as PTE. Please note that not all of your translations…

1 day ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Delete project’s language pack when below specific percentage, on the site Translate WordPress:
Which user experience would be worse: Having an incomplete language pack (and thus only partial…

2 days ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Delete project’s language pack when below specific percentage, on the site Translate WordPress:
As many others here I don't see a reason for deleting language packs when they're…

2 days ago
Wrote a comment on the post Hello Polyglots, I am the…, on the site Translate WordPress:
Hi there @werbeagenturcommotion, I'd like to follow my Austrian colleagues here. Please first submit de_CH…

2 days ago
Posted a reply to PHP Warning: Use of undefined constant LIBXML_HTML_NODEFDTD – assumed ‘LIBXML_H, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This reminds me of the INTL_IDNA_VARIANT_2003 reports we sometimes see due to outdated libraries. In…

4 days ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for [CleverReach® WP], on the site Translate WordPress:
Added you now. Please join the wpch.slack.com workspace using your WordPress.org email address (@chat.wordpress.org) if…

1 week ago
Wrote a new post, XML Sitemaps Meeting: March 24th, 2020, on the site Make WordPress Core:
In case you were looking for an blog post about the XML Sitemaps feature project…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Different URL Path than amphtml, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there Could you please share the URL to your website so we can better…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Still maintained?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for the ping @pipdig I'll try to update the readme in a bit!

2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post XML Sitemaps Meeting: March 10th, 2020, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Please note that we are already tracking this (disabling sitemaps when this option is set)…

4 weeks ago
Wrote a new post, XML Sitemaps Meeting: March 10th, 2020, on the site Make WordPress Core:
A lot has happened since last week's meeting for the XML Sitemaps feature project. Here's…

4 weeks ago
Committed [2258014] to Plugins Trac:
Tagging version 0.2.0

4 weeks ago
Posted a reply to google amp, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks a lot, that makes it much easier to test! I can now see that…

4 weeks ago
Posted a reply to google amp, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@eddievet According to that link to the forums they claim to have a separate addon…

4 weeks ago
Posted a reply to google amp, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@eddievet You are using a few plugins that are not AMP compatible, for example one…

4 weeks ago
Closed ticket #49607, in Core Trac:
Broken Link in Developer Docs

4 weeks ago
Wrote a new post, XML Sitemaps Meeting: March 3rd, 2020, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Another week passed by with quite a productive meeting for the XML Sitemaps feature project.…

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post Feature Plugin: WP Auto-updates, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Awesome to hear that there is some progress in this regard! The few things that…

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post Block Collections, on the site Make WordPress Core:
It's not something a user can do. Developers would assign their block to a collection…

1 month ago
Posted a reply to Updated Plugin Error Message idn_to_utf8():INTL_IDNA_VARIANT_2003 is depcrecated, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Also, to clarify: the "A plugin or theme has disabled AMP support" message has nothing…

1 month ago
Closed ticket #49508, in Core Trac:
Edit Pull Request description

1 month ago
Wrote a new post, XML Sitemaps Meeting: February 25th, 2020, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Last week we held the first of many weekly meetings for the XML Sitemaps feature…

1 month ago
Posted a reply to Import AMP Stories, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @loano1 Unfortunately there is no such option to import stories from elsewhere at the…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to unistalling AMP plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there Would you mind sharing your website URL so we can better assist you?…

2 months ago
Wrote a new post, XML Sitemaps Kickoff Meeting Announcement, on the site Make WordPress Core:
A few weeks ago an update was posted for the XML Sitemaps feature project to…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to AMP Stories Preview Does not Show, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@mishig They should not be clashing. In fact, we are working on a new and…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to INTL_IDNA_VARIANT_2003, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Awesome, that's great to hear! If you're happy with the plugin otherwise we'd love for…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for Webling, on the site Translate WordPress:
Nothing else to add to this :-) Doesn't make sense to grant PTE for de_*…

2 months ago
Closed ticket #49430, in Core Trac:
XSS scripting in Post title

2 months ago
Posted a reply to INTL_IDNA_VARIANT_2003, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You could put that at the bototm, before the line that says /* That's all,…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for Webling, on the site Translate WordPress:
Hi there, Happy to add you for de_CH, but please note that your original strings…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to Loses its settings when moving language items, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there, Would you mind opening an issue over at https://github.com/swissspidy/preferred-languages with some details about…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to Please Disable Self-Domain Embeds, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I'm afraid I didn't get a notification for your previous message. It is unclear to…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to INTL_IDNA_VARIANT_2003, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there This sounds like you are using a version of PHPwhich was compiled with…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to Content don’t show up at mobile version, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there You seem to be using the WPTouch WordPress plugin which by default seems…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to Maximum call stack size exceeded, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there Thanks for your report! This sounds like a rare edge case that might…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to Close Story, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The stories template is hardcoded and enforced by the AMP stories runtime and cannot be…

2 months ago
Committed [2236154] to Plugins Trac:
Tagging version 0.1.0

2 months ago
Committed [2236153] to Plugins Trac:
Initial commit

2 months ago
Posted a reply to New version of Gutenberg breaks Stories layout, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for your report! It's sometimes difficult to keep up with development of the Gutenberg…

3 months ago
Posted a reply to AMP Error: “Only amp-boilerplate and amp-custom”, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there https://www.bestproxyproviders.com/blog/buy-residential-proxies/ is your regular version, that's why the AMP validator complains about it.…

3 months ago
Posted a reply to AMP Stories: image Full bleed option, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Edward Yes, you can set a background image or video for each page using…

4 months ago
Committed [2215135] to Plugins Trac:
Update 'Tested up to' value

4 months ago
Posted a reply to Extending the Story Block doesn’t work as expected, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @thrijith This kind of technical question is probably best suited for our GitHub repository…

4 months ago
Posted a reply to Images dissapeared, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there You seem to be using the "Lazy Load by WP Rocket WordPress" plugin.…

4 months ago
Posted a reply to I have disabled TOC plugin from the Plugin manager but it still shows up, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Ah indeed, @jamesosborne is right. Please head to https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/accelerated-mobile-pages/ to get support for that AMP…

5 months ago
Posted a reply to I have disabled TOC plugin from the Plugin manager but it still shows up, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@siter2 You appear to be using the WP Fastest Cache plugin, have you tried clearing…

5 months ago
Posted a reply to Bad request Missing Parameter:”name”, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Glad to hear everything works now! @garyoak Perhaps you'd need to re-authenticate again, but otherwise…

5 months ago
Posted a reply to site kit, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there, If you can't see the "Add New" menu item under "Plugins" it could…

5 months ago