Felix Arntz (@flixos90) – WordPress user profile

Member Since: November 28th, 2012
Location: San Francisco, USA
Website: felix-arntz.me
GitHub: felixarntz
Job Title: Developer Relations Engineer
Employer: Google
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Bio

Developer Relations Engineer at Google. WordPress Core Committer. Previously Yoast. Runner, musician, movie geek. Aprendiendo español. Fueled by Mountain Dew.

Interests

Music Production. Movies. Brostep. WWE. Cocktails. Soccer. Running.

WordPress Origin Story

September 2012: Started working with WordPress
November 2012: Signed up for wordpress.org
March 2013: Published his first plugin on wordpress.org
October 2014: Reviewed a WordPress book
November 2014: Started working with WordPress multisite
June 2015: Attended his first WordCamp (WCEU in Sevilla)
June 2015: Did his first contribution to WordPress core
October 2015: Became co-organizer of the WordPress meetup Cologne
February 2016: Started contributing to WordPress core regularly
May 2016: Became a component maintainer of Multisite
May 2016: Gave his first session at a WordCamp
September 2016: Became co-organizer of the WordPress meetup Dusseldorf
October 2016: Co-organized WordCamp Cologne
November 2016: Became a WordPress core committer
June 2017: Attended his first WordPress community summit
August 2017: Became a component maintainer of Roles/Capabilities
February 2018: Gave a session at LoopConf
April 2018: Started working part-time at Yoast
April 2018: Became a component maintainer of REST API
November 2018: Started as DPE in the Web Content Ecosystems team at Google

Contributions Sponsored

Google sponsors Felix Arntz to contribute 5 hours per week to the Core team.

Contribution History

Core Contributor
Core Team
Documentation Contributor
Meta Contributor
Plugin Developer
Translation Contributor
Translation Editor
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Speaker

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Merged pull request #260 into WordPress/performance:
Update documentation to match expected types
2 hours ago
Merged pull request #327 into WordPress/performance:
Correct typo in image edit documentation comment.
1 day ago
Merged pull request #302 into WordPress/performance:
add logic to select smaller image size when enabled
3 days ago
Submitted pull request #322 to WordPress/performance:
Add Performance Lab generator meta tag to `wp_head` output
3 days ago
Created issue #321 in the WordPress/performance repository:
Add generator tag with plugin version and modules
3 days ago
Merged pull request #317 into WordPress/performance:
Define module owners and add them to CODEOWNERS file
3 days ago
Merged pull request #316 into WordPress/performance:
Replace the featured image with WebP version when available
4 days ago
Created issue #320 in the WordPress/performance repository:
Define plugin release cadence
4 days ago
Closed issue #300 on the WordPress/performance repository:
Define plugin versioning approach
4 days ago
Committed [2715077] to Plugins SVN:
tagged version 1.73.0
1 week ago
Committed [2715076] to Plugins SVN:
updated to version 1.73.0.
1 week ago
Created ticket #6292 on Meta Trac:
Surface last supported plugin/theme update if latest version(s) not ...
2 weeks ago
Submitted pull request #317 to WordPress/performance:
Define module owners and add them to CODEOWNERS file
2 weeks ago
Merged pull request #313 into WordPress/performance:
Update Site Health Autoloaded options documentation link
2 weeks ago
Merged pull request #308 into WordPress/performance:
Update CODEOWNERS
2 weeks ago
Created issue #310 in the WordPress/performance repository:
Define owners for each module
2 weeks ago
Wrote a new post, Version 1.0.0 of the Performance Lab plugin published, on the site Make WordPress Core:
The first stable version 1.0.0 of the Performance Lab plugin has been released. You can…
3 weeks ago
Created issue #306 in the WordPress/performance repository:
Fix command line utilities to sort modules correctly
3 weeks ago
Merged pull request #305 into WordPress/performance:
Merge 1.0.0 release branch back into trunk
3 weeks ago
Submitted pull request #305 to WordPress/performance:
Merge 1.0.0 release branch back into trunk
3 weeks ago
Merged pull request #304 into WordPress/performance:
Prepare 1.0.0 release
3 weeks ago
Submitted pull request #304 to WordPress/performance:
Prepare 1.0.0 release
3 weeks ago
Created issue #300 in the WordPress/performance repository:
Define plugin versioning approach
3 weeks ago
Merged pull request #298 into WordPress/performance:
Break apart single massive WebP Uploads file into multiple more manageable files
3 weeks ago
Submitted pull request #298 to WordPress/performance:
Break apart single massive WebP Uploads file into multiple more manageable files
3 weeks ago
Created issue #297 in the WordPress/performance repository:
Break down WebP uploads module into more manageable files
3 weeks ago
Merged pull request #235 into WordPress/performance:
Update secondary image mime types when editing original image
3 weeks ago
Created issue #295 in the WordPress/performance repository:
Ensure edited image sources are backed up when restoring the original image
3 weeks ago
Merged pull request #287 into WordPress/performance:
Introduce `webp_uploads_prefer_smaller_image_file` filter allowing to opt in to preferring the smaller image...
3 weeks ago
Closed issue #286 on the WordPress/performance repository:
Only use smaller file size based on opt-in since it is not...
3 weeks ago
Merged pull request #284 into WordPress/performance:
Fix wrong version from the previous release
3 weeks ago
Created issue #293 in the WordPress/performance repository:
Implement mechanism to not load module if core version is available
3 weeks ago
Created issue #292 in the WordPress/performance repository:
Refine logic to select smaller image size
3 weeks ago
Committed [2708726] to Plugins SVN:
tagged version 1.72.0
3 weeks ago
Committed [2708725] to Plugins SVN:
updated to version 1.72.0.
3 weeks ago
Mentioned in [53149] on Core SVN:
Media: Run the `wp_content_img_tag` filter once per image.
4 weeks ago
Submitted pull request #2568 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Ensure that a single image or iframe within content blob is only...
4 weeks ago
Submitted pull request #287 to WordPress/performance:
Introduce `webp_uploads_prefer_smaller_image_file` filter allowing to opt in to preferring the smaller image...
4 weeks ago
Created issue #286 in the WordPress/performance repository:
Only use smaller file size based on opt-in since it is not...
4 weeks ago
Created issue #285 in the WordPress/performance repository:
Prepare 1.0.0 release
4 weeks ago
Merged pull request #272 into WordPress/performance:
Update Site Health reports copy for more clarity and consistency
4 weeks ago
Merged pull request #240 into WordPress/performance:
Define the plugin's version support and backward compatibility policy
4 weeks ago
Mentioned in [53098] on Core SVN:
Networks and Sites: Improve cache key generation in `WP_Network_Query` class.
4 weeks ago
Mentioned in [53097] on Core SVN:
Networks and Sites: Improve cache key generation in `WP_Site_Query` class.
4 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Enabling WebP by default, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Most of your comment has already been addressed by other replies, but I wanted to…
1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post Enabling WebP by default, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Problem remains I have e-commerce sites with 50,000 image files in a single directory There…
1 month ago
Closed issue #228 on the WordPress/performance repository:
Restore and backup Image sizes with sources when an image is edited
1 month ago
Merged pull request #242 into WordPress/performance:
Restore and backup image sizes alongside the sources properties
1 month ago
Mentioned in [53037] on Core SVN:
Taxonomy: Improve performance by taxonomy queries by adding a limitting requested terms.
1 month ago
Closed pull request #2394 on WordPress/wordpress-develop:
Wp img tag add adjust
1 month ago