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 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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Wrote a new post, XML Sitemaps Meeting: April 14th, 2020, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Meeting Recap: April 7th For reference, check out the previous blog post from April 7th:…2 hours ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Hi, I am Marco,, on the site Translate WordPress:
Hi there I don't see any de_CH translations (nor de_DE) for this plugin from you…6 days ago
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Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: When langpack is created, always send the new updates on the the project translation (even if below 95%), on the site Translate WordPress:
+1 from me; though I'd also argue that we should give a lower threshold a…6 days ago
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Wrote a comment on the post CLPTE Request, on the site Translate WordPress:
Thanks @tobifjellner! I'll have another look at that plugin.1 week ago
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Wrote a new post, XML Sitemaps Meeting: April 6th, 2020, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Meeting Recap: March 24th & 31st For reference, check out the previous blog post from…1 week ago
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Closed ticket #49796, in Core Trac:
wpmu_new_blog is deprecated since version 5.1.0 warning2 weeks ago
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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…2 weeks ago
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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 weeks ago
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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 weeks ago
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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 weeks ago
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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…2 weeks ago
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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…3 weeks ago
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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…3 weeks ago
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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…4 weeks ago
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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!4 weeks ago
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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)…1 month ago
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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…1 month ago
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Committed [2258014] to Plugins Trac:
Tagging version 0.2.01 month ago
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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…1 month ago
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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…1 month ago
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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…1 month ago
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Closed ticket #49607, in Core Trac:
Broken Link in Developer Docs1 month ago
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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
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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
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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…2 months ago
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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…2 months ago
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Closed ticket #49508, in Core Trac:
Edit Pull Request description2 months ago
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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…2 months ago
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Closed ticket #49430, in Core Trac:
XSS scripting in Post title2 months ago
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Committed [2236154] to Plugins Trac:
Tagging version 0.1.02 months ago
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Committed [2236153] to Plugins Trac:
Initial commit2 months ago
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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
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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
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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
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Committed [2215135] to Plugins Trac:
Update 'Tested up to' value4 months ago
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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
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