Pascal Birchler (@swissspidy) – WordPress user profile | WordPress.org

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

Interests

WordPress, Web, I18n

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

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Posted a reply to Make Web Stories Compatible with my theme?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I see your point, thanks for the suggestion. We do have an open feature request…

7 hours ago
Posted a reply to Template images duplicates in uploads folder, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there Thanks for raising this. This sounds like a bug or configuration issue. We…

2 days ago
Closed pull request #2228 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Deprecated: WP_User_Query was called with an argument that is deprecated since version...

4 days ago
Closed ticket #54926 on Core Trac:
Deprecated: WP_User_Query was called with an argument that is ...

4 days ago
Posted a reply to LCP issue: longer than 4s (mobile), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I cannot give you any concrete time. We continue to improve the plugin every month.

4 days ago
Posted a reply to LCP issue: longer than 4s (mobile), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
> Means, I have nothing to do to resolve this? Correct! Now back to your…

5 days ago
Posted a reply to Facing LCP issue on Web stories, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there We are aware of the issues that you are facing and we can…

5 days ago
Posted a reply to LCP issue: longer than 4s (mobile), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
That is not an error. Really nothing to worry about. That message is just debugging…

6 days ago
Posted a reply to LCP issue: longer than 4s (mobile), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You can upload screenshots on sites like https://imgur.com/upload and then sahre the link to them…

6 days ago
Posted a reply to Mass upload / API, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
If your current solution works fine then there's no need to change things I suppose.…

6 days ago
Posted a reply to LCP issue: longer than 4s (mobile), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Is this the full message that you are seeing? Could you perhaps share a screenshot…

6 days ago
Posted a reply to Make Web Stories Compatible with my theme?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
> Are you saying your plugin adds the needed styles/scripts by hooking into that call?…

6 days ago
Posted a reply to HTML Event attributes, aka ‘on*’, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there Could you please share the URL of your affected story/stories? From experience, this…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Mass upload / API, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there Thanks for raising this excellent question! Could you perhaps tell us a little…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Breadcrumb Issue – Invalid item detected, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hmm then the only other solution I could think of, which the Yoast SEO team…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Breadcrumb Issue – Invalid item detected, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there Indeed strange that this is only seems to be happening for one story…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Got an Error in my Web-stories, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there Can you please share exactly what kind of errors you are getting for…

1 week ago
Posted a reply to Pop-up Link When Not Using Elementor Embed, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there We don't provide any Elementor embedding option. Are you perhaps referring to the…

1 week ago
Closed ticket #54867 on Core Trac:
New argument `is_embeddable` for `register_post_type()`

1 week ago
Closed issue #187 on the wp-cli/i18n-command repository:
Avoid throwing a notice about `strpos(): Empty needle` when going through include...

2 weeks ago
Closed issue #251 on the wp-cli/i18n-command repository:
Having an issue with wp i18n make-pot

2 weeks ago
Closed issue #285 on the wp-cli/i18n-command repository:
Consecutive comments => String extraction fail in the js file

2 weeks ago
Closed issue #288 on the wp-cli/i18n-command repository:
Extract translatable string from any JSON-Files

2 weeks ago
Closed issue #216 on the wp-cli/i18n-command repository:
Line wrapping in make-pot

2 weeks ago
Merged pull request #302 into wp-cli/i18n-command:
Fix include logic where include path is subdirectory of excluded path.

2 weeks ago
Committed [2659591] to Plugins SVN:
Releasing version 1.16.0

2 weeks ago
Committed [2659590] to Plugins SVN:
Tagging version 1.16.0

2 weeks ago
Committed [2659589] to Plugins SVN:
Committing version 1.16.0

2 weeks ago
Merged pull request #37704 into WordPress/gutenberg:
i18n: Create new function `addLocaleData` to merge domain configuration

2 weeks ago
Closed issue #298 on the wp-cli/i18n-command repository:
wp i18n make-pot fails with Fragment short syntax

3 weeks ago
Merged pull request #37 into wp-cli/wp-config-transformer:
Add .editorconfig

3 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post State of the Customizer with block themes in WordPress 5.9, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Do you want to change the logo or the site icon? The site icon has…

3 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post New Capability Queries in WordPress 5.9, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Capabilities can be modified at runtime using the `user_has_cap` filter for example, plus there are…

3 weeks ago
Pull request #296 merged into wp-cli/i18n-command:
Fix JS string extraction with unsupported argument type

4 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Posts, Post types and Taxonomy changes in WordPress 5.9, on the site Make WordPress Core:
The wording is perhaps not super clear, as I don't think it's a PHP 8.1…

4 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Logo 1:1 Ratio Problem, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This is the story's publisher logo: https://whitjxoxo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/WHITJXOXO-sadiebanksphotography-144.jpg That's not a 1:1 aspect ratio. Is this…

4 weeks ago
Wrote a new post, New Capability Queries in WordPress 5.9, on the site Make WordPress Core:
WordPress 5.9 adds support for capability queries in WP_User_Query. Similar to the existing role/role__in/role__not_in query arguments, this adds…

4 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Javascript errors, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for investigating this! This sounds like a bug in the Web Stories AMP format…

4 weeks ago
Mentioned in [52437] on Core SVN:
Embeds: Fix oEmbed host script enqueueing on block-based themes.

4 weeks ago
Submitted pull request #296 to wp-cli/i18n-command:
Fix JS string extraction with unsupported argument type

1 month ago
Merged pull request #337 into wp-cli/entity-command:
Adding examples for updating multiple posts

2 months ago
Posted a reply to Can not stop audio loop, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Quick FYI, I'll put non-looping background audio for narration on our roadmap so we can…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to Audio and Page Advancements, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Got it, thanks! I'll put non-looping background audio for narration on our roadmap so we…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to I want to use as subscriber-restricted content., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
In theory it should definitely be possible to restrict web stories access to subscribers. Just…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to Audio and Page Advancements, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Unfortunately I can't access the link as the story seems to be a draft or…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to Can not stop audio loop, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there Background audio is currently looping and there is no option to turn that…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to Audio and Page Advancements, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there Background audio is not currently taken into account for page advancement because background…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to First Slide doesn’t animate, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Quick update: Disabling animations on the first page is part of an ongoing experiment in…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to Does not work: WP 5.8.2, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there What are you trying to achieve and what exactly isn't working? It's worth…

2 months ago
Posted a reply to How to create highlights like instagram?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
This plugin offers a dedicated "Web Stories" block that does exactly what you are looking…

2 months ago

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