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Member Since: December 5th, 2006
Location: Torp, Norway
Website: nettvendt.no
GitHub: knutsp
Job Title: IT engineer
Employer: IT-ing Sparhell, Nettvendt
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Bio

Software developer, database and WordPress expert.

Interests

Transportation, IT

WordPress Origin Story

2005 – first download
2006 – first use – blog
2007 – editing my theme
2008 – developing templates
2009 – translating themes/plugins to Norwegian
2010 – first client
2011 – participated at WordCamp San Francisco
2012 – established business with co-founder
2013 – first major project
2015 – WP related projects major source of income
2016 – more than 50 clients on support and service plan
2017 – 100 web sites created or refurbished
2018 – General Translation Editor for Norwegian (bokmål)
2019 – WooCommerce has major focus
2020 – GiveWP has also much focus

Contributions Sponsored

Knut Sparhell contributes 5 hours per week to the following teams: Core, Polyglots.

Contribution History

Core Contributor
Meta Contributor
Plugin Developer
Translation Contributor
Translation Editor

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Plugins
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Translations

Created a new ticket, #50808, in Core Trac:
Plugins screen - The view 'Auto-updates Enabled' also counts not ...

12 hours ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for weDocs, on the site Translate WordPress:
Granted for #nb_NO

1 day ago
Closed ticket #50794, in Core Trac:
Block editor is saving tags, but not attaching them to posts

2 days ago
Created a topic, Please bring back custom time format, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
When seconds are wanted, wrap the time format in a tra…

1 week ago
Wrote a comment on the post New XML Sitemaps Functionality in WordPress 5.5, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Automattic controls WordPress.com and the Jetpack plugin. Many plugins have provided sitemaps for many years,…

1 week ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for Sarada Lite theme, on the site Translate WordPress:
#nb_NO Reviewed. In some cases strings are copied from the translation memory rather than the…

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Block editor error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I have the same error.

3 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post CL-PTE Request for Exodox, on the site Translate WordPress:
Just add some strings in Norwegian bokmål.

4 weeks ago
Posted a reply to The comments seems to stick to the whole document, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Nice improvement! May I suggest that showing all comments in a document is a function…

1 month ago
Posted a reply to The comments seems to stick to the whole document, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thank you for the update. Comments belonging to the current block are now focused, other…

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post Fullscreen mode enabled by default in the editor, on the site Make WordPress Core:
It's definitely a toggle. Turn it off once and it stays off forever. I'm an…

1 month ago
Posted a reply to The comments seems to stick to the whole document, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
As it is now there is no way to tell what block a comment is…

1 month ago
Created a topic, The comments seems to stick to the whole document, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
How do I attach comments to each block, as described? …

1 month ago
Closed ticket #50457, in Core Trac:
critical error

1 month ago
Reopened ticket #49518, in Core Trac:
Consider adding domain-specific i18N filter hooks

1 month ago
Created a new ticket, #50404, in Core Trac:
Provide language pack update information in auto-updates email ...

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post Merge Announcement: Extensible Core Sitemaps, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Don't deactivate sitemaps when site is "private". They are needed for testing, even for sites…

1 month ago
Closed ticket #50385, in Core Trac:
Post not published with updated data

2 months ago
Created a topic, Text capitialization in Customizer, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Please Do Not Capitialize All Strings In The Customize…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Merge Announcement: Extensible Core Sitemaps, on the site Make WordPress Core:
As for anything else in core, especially like templates for html, feeds (RSS/Atom), and now…

2 months ago
Created a topic, Search for archived orders doesn’t return any, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Search for order number, email, name etc. doesn't retu…

2 months ago
Created a new ticket, #50272, in Core Trac:
Move current admin footer reminder when running development version to ...

2 months ago
Posted a reply to Default date format, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Forget it. This is fixed. All dates now have either standard or custom format, and…

2 months ago
Created a topic, Default date format, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It is a bit cumbersome, and not easy to find it, to ch…

2 months ago
Created a new ticket, #5227, in Meta Trac:
Fuzzy column on stats always show 0

2 months ago
Created a topic, Blocked, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
My host still blocks this plugin by default due to htt…

3 months ago
Created a new ticket, #5203, in Meta Trac:
Stats for active plugins/themes per locale

3 months ago
Posted a reply to Yoast SEO was unable to create the database tables required and as such will not, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I have "utf8mbf_danish_ci" on all my (Norwegian/Dansih) sites, and this causes exact same error. Strange!…

3 months ago
Created a topic, Translate categories, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
When shown on front, the CSS class is constructed from…

3 months ago
Created a topic, Please update, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Need this plugin to be updated and searchable

3 months ago
Closed ticket #50023, in Core Trac:
major core flaw in comments system found today 28 April 2020 16:00 GMT +3

3 months ago
Created a topic, Please update, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
We like this plugin and are afraid it will be gone.

3 months ago
Created a topic, Very useful for collaboration and communication, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The whole idea behind this plugin is just very good. W…

3 months ago
Posted a reply to PHP session not closed interfering with loopback, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I can confirm this fixes the problem. Thank you for the quick response.

3 months ago
Created a topic, Translation of color schemes, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This plugin is not properly prepared for localization

3 months ago
Created a topic, PHP sesseon not closed interfering with loopback, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
From patch https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/4…

3 months ago
Closed ticket #48532, in Core Trac:
Sometimes image at the top of a page is not showing up in the editor

3 months ago
Created a topic, Please update compatibility version, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Seems to work fine, but there is a warning.

3 months ago
Closed ticket #49946, in Core Trac:
Twenty Seventeen: Missing Theme Options

3 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 5.4 Translation Status (March 16, 2020), on the site Translate WordPress:
#nb_NO Working on it, will finish to 100% today.

4 months ago
Created a topic, Best theme for modern WordPress, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This theme is no only perfect with the WordPress Block…

4 months ago
Created a topic, Simple and well made, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Does what it says. Instead of just notifying shop mana…

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Delete project’s language pack when below specific percentage, on the site Translate WordPress:
(HELP! Text lost again! This is buggy/unstable/bad. Use of less than character?) One: Less than…

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Delete project’s language pack when below specific percentage, on the site Translate WordPress:
(text lost when submitting comment, issues became meaningless, what is going on?) In short: 1.…

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: Delete project’s language pack when below specific percentage, on the site Translate WordPress:
Three issues: 1. When translated percentage drops very low, just a string here and there,…

5 months ago
Reopened ticket #5081, in Meta Trac:
Delete project's language pack when below specific percentage

5 months ago
Created a topic, Deprecated function in PHP 7.4, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
[29-Feb-2020 06:36:51 UTC] PHP Deprecated: array_key_…

5 months ago
Posted a reply to Fatal error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Reported as issue on Github

5 months ago
Created a topic, Fatal error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
When clicking Enable for a plugin: PHP Fatal error: U…

5 months ago
Created a topic, Just fantastic – a must at sometimes busy stores, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I use both virtual stock reduction and cart item expir…

5 months ago

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