Matthias Pfefferle – @pfefferle

Member Since: December 1st, 2006
Location: Karlsruhe, Germany
Website: notiz.blog
Job Title: Head of Product Development WordPress
Employer: IONOS
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Bio

A fullstack developer, blogger, podcaster, OpenWeb advocate, citizen of the IndieWeb, working on ActivityPub, OStatus and IndieWeb for WordPress!

Interests

IndieWeb, Fediverse, ActivityPub, OpenWeb, Microformats, Webstandards, biking

WordPress Origin Story

– In 2002 I installed my first blog using the WordPress predecessor b2.
– 2004 I switched to WordPress.
– I worked on my first theme in 2006 and my first plugin in 2007.
– I uploaded a first theme (SemPress) to WordPress.org in 2011.
– Two years later, SemPress was added to the WordPress.com theme directory by Automattic.
– 2015 was my first “Core Contribution” (OEmbed).
– I held my first WordCamp talk in 2016.
– I held my first WordPress Meetup talk in 2019.

Full story: https://notiz.blog/2018/06/19/15-jahre-wordpress/ (german)

Contributions Sponsored

Matthias Pfefferle contributes 4 hours per week to the following teams: Core, Hosting, Polyglots.

Contribution History

Core Contributor
Hosting Contributor
Hosting Team
Plugin Developer
Theme Developer
Translation Contributor
Translation Editor
WordCamp Speaker

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Created a new ticket, #5447, in Meta Trac:
Update `phpunit-test-reporter` Plugin for Make/Hosting to 0.1.3.

6 days ago
Posted a reply to Critical error when people comment, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
:)

6 days ago
Posted a reply to Critical error when people comment, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Not really, but we had merged a lot into the Webmention lately, to work on…

6 days ago
Posted a reply to Critical error when people comment, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I released a new Webmention version, can you recheck with v4.0.5?

6 days ago
Committed [2386928] to Plugins Trac:
Update to version 4.0.5 from GitHub

6 days ago
Posted a reply to Critical error when people comment, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Can you enable WP_DEBUG on your server and see, if you receive some more detailed…

6 days ago
Posted a reply to Critical error when people comment, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hmmm, I saw this, when I commented lately. I sadly can not reproduce it on…

6 days ago
Committed [2383090] to Plugins Trac:
Update to version 4.0.4 from GitHub

2 weeks ago
Committed [2382874] to Plugins Trac:
Update to version 1.0.5 from GitHub

2 weeks ago
Committed [2382846] to Plugins Trac:
Take snapshot of 3.0.3

2 weeks ago
Committed [2382845] to Plugins Trac:
commit version 3.0.3

2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Is the “first appeared on” text configurable?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
SEO plugins often do way too much magic 😉

1 month ago
Posted a reply to Is the “first appeared on” text configurable?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The text is added by the Yoast SEO plugin, not by SemPress. Here is a…

1 month ago
Posted a reply to When web mentions aren not appropriate, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If you disable pingbacks/trackbacks for that page, you also won’t receive webmentions for that page.

1 month ago
Committed [2359821] to Plugins Trac:
Updating readme/assets from GitHub

2 months ago
Committed [2359818] to Plugins Trac:
Updating readme/assets from GitHub

2 months ago
Committed [2359812] to Plugins Trac:
Updating readme/assets from GitHub

2 months ago
Committed [2359803] to Plugins Trac:
Updating readme/assets from GitHub

2 months ago
Committed [2359797] to Plugins Trac:
Updating readme/assets from GitHub

2 months ago
Posted a reply to Only post title in Mastodon, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey @lopeztel I made a change to the plugin, so that you will be able…

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 5.6: What’s on your wishlist?, on the site Make WordPress Core:
+1

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 5.6: What’s on your wishlist?, on the site Make WordPress Core:
+1

2 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 5.6: What’s on your wishlist?, on the site Make WordPress Core:
+1

2 months ago
Posted a reply to Can’t reply?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It is a bug that it shows up in the comment section, because it is…

3 months ago
Posted a reply to Anyone know redirect recipe @name -> author/name, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Maybe a good idea to support that natively in the plugin...

3 months ago
Posted a reply to Anyone know redirect recipe @name -> author/name, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey @bixfrankonis you can try: Redirect /@bix https://bix.blog/author/bix

3 months ago
Posted a reply to Problem with mobile version, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for your feedback! It would be awesome if you could help and suggest some…

4 months ago
Posted a reply to Missing field “item” / breadcrumbs / Google Search Console, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Oh, it seems that you do not use SemPress for your mentioned site, but "Minimal…

4 months ago
Posted a reply to Missing field “item” / breadcrumbs / Google Search Console, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sorry, but I have no idea. SemPress does not add any Breadcrumbs. Have you installed…

4 months ago
Posted a reply to Asqure appears on top, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Sorry, I have not yet identified the root cause. It seems to be a weird…

4 months ago
Posted a reply to No Webmention Support, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
No problem 😊

4 months ago
Posted a reply to No Webmention Support, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I found the header on a single-post: view-source:https://kevq.uk/my-thoughts-on-pop-os-20-04-after-one-month/ but not on every post. Could it…

4 months ago
Posted a reply to BuddyPress Compatibility and OLKi integration, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
hey @indigetal thanks for thinking about using ActivityPub for such a project! But: The ActivityPub…

4 months ago
Posted a reply to User Doesn’t Appear in Mastodon, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Or it might be a setting. You might want to check the customizer.

5 months ago
Posted a reply to User Doesn’t Appear in Mastodon, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It might work if you simply add a second user to your WordPress... because the…

5 months ago
Posted a reply to User Doesn’t Appear in Mastodon, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This is not a WordPress core problem. I use get_author_posts_url to get the author URL:…

5 months ago
Posted a reply to User Doesn’t Appear in Mastodon, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Cloudflare is also a problem. You can try the following to see the issue. ##…

5 months ago
Posted a reply to User Doesn’t Appear in Mastodon, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Perhaps some other (SEO) plugins or your theme, that redirects your author page?

5 months ago
Posted a reply to User Doesn’t Appear in Mastodon, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
It seems that the author pages do redirect to the home page... Do you use…

5 months ago
Posted a reply to User Doesn’t Appear in Mastodon, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Can you post your webfinger handle, so that I can have a look?

5 months ago
Posted a reply to Asqure appears on top, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Can you share a screenshot?

5 months ago
Posted a reply to Homepage warning, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
no problem ;)

5 months ago
Posted a reply to Homepage warning, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This might be the case, but you are using a different OpenGraph plugin.

5 months ago
Posted a reply to Suddenly stopped working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Fixed :)

5 months ago
Posted a reply to update plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I use it with PHP 7.4 and the latest WP version, have you experienced any…

5 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 5.5: Call for Tickets, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I second this!

6 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post WordPress 5.5: Call for Tickets, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I would love to see https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/47595 in 5.5

6 months ago
Posted a reply to Can’r reply to existing comments when Webmention is activated, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hmmm, good point... thanks for reporting... seems to be a combination between your theme and…

6 months ago
Posted a reply to User opted out of Facebook, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
There is an other thread here in the Forum, that might help you to fix…

6 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Host Feedback Requested Regarding SimpleXML, on the site Make WordPress Hosting:
IONOS also supports SimpleXML.

6 months ago