tobifjellner (Tor-Bjorn Fjellner) (@tobifjellner) – WordPress user profile

Member Since: March 18th, 2011
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Website: tobi3.se
GitHub: tobifjellner
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Bio

Poet, Writer, Project Manager, Mobile Telecom Marketing specialist, Translator, and more… Being Swedish native, I know how to mount furniture from IKEA. 🙂 Oh, and I’m interested in amateur radio, although currently inactive (check your logs from 1980-s for SM0RYB).

WordPress Origin Story

Ended up with WordPress when I wanted to migrate my blog in Russian about working as an expat in Oman to my own domain and made it a tri-lingual site. Since then I’ve helped lots of friends to get started, too.
When I noted that the themes I loved and some plugins I wanted weren’t available in the languages i needed, I started translating them.
Now I’m one of the global mentors for the WordPress translation efforts and an active participant in the Swedish WordPress community, although I live in Barcelona, Spain.

The great and versatile tool WordPress can be free thanks to the contributions from thousands of users. And I think it’s great that one can “give back” to WordPress and the community in so many different ways. I’m not a coder (although I may be able to find and fix some small and simple errors in PHP/CSS/JavaScript). But where I really can make a difference, that’s in making WordPress available in Swedish.

Later I even became a global mentor for WordPress translation, so one could say that I support the processes that make WordPress available in more than 70 language versions. Did you know, that 55% (these figures are for June 2021) of all WordPress installations are using a translated version of WordPress? I’m proud to be a part of that!

I’ve drafted an article about some common i18n-errors developers make: https://gsm.fjellner.com/hints-about-i18n-let-your-code-to-shine-all-over-the-world/

Contributions

tobifjellner (Tor-Bjorn Fjellner) contributes 8 hours per week to the following teams: Polyglots, Support.

Contribution History

BuddyPress Contributor
Core Contributor
Meta Contributor
Plugin Developer
Support Contributor
Support Team
Translation Contributor
Translation Editor
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Speaker

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Translations

Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for smartarget-contact-us, on the site Translate WordPress:
@erezs since you mentioned her correctly here, I guess @fierevere will check when she gets…
22 hours ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for smartarget-contact-us, on the site Translate WordPress:
I just rolled that segment to fuzzy and back to approved, let's hope that fixes…
22 hours ago
Wrote a comment on the post I’ve suggested translations for this…, on the site Translate WordPress:
Hi @aliarjini I removed your comment here. Since the locale #fa_IR was correctly tagged, the…
22 hours ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for smartarget-contact-us, on the site Translate WordPress:
@erezs In this case I will just upload the translations and ask for reviews 🙂…
1 day ago
Wrote a comment on the post (Post Title) PTE Request for…, on the site Translate WordPress:
@vendidero I removed the entry for _formal since any locale variants are included when the…
1 day ago
Wrote a new post, Meddelande till @svedev Hej, Välkommen,…, on the site Swedish Team:
Meddelande till @svedev Hej, Välkommen, och tack för dina bidrag till den svenska översättningen av…
1 day ago
Translated 21 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
1 day ago
Reviewed 43 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
1 day ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for 3CX Free Live Chat, on the site Translate WordPress:
@fierevere #ru_RU ↑↑
2 days ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for smartarget-contact-us, on the site Translate WordPress:
Hi @erezs If a plugin developer enables community translation via https://translate.wordpress.org/, then the control over…
2 days ago
Created issue #264 in the WordPress/wporg-mu-plugins repository:
Global navigation: add link to "make"
3 days ago
Translated 14 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
5 days ago
Reviewed 5 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
5 days ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for Operátornaklik, on the site Translate WordPress:
Hi @operatornaklik The way we handle translations is that whatever strings are provided in the…
5 days ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for Openverse, on the site Translate WordPress:
I'm removing the to-do status of this request since there currently is nothing more left…
5 days ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for smartarget-contact-us, on the site Translate WordPress:
I'm removing the to-do status for #es_ES and #ru_RU since there currently is nothing more…
5 days ago
Wrote a comment on the post Hi dear mentors, We have…, on the site Translate WordPress:
Done!
5 days ago
Reviewed 12 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
6 days ago
Posted a reply to Butiken visar endast exklusive moms, on the site Svensk support:
Prova att fråga i delforumet för WooCommerce: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/woocommerce/ Du får troligen svar snabbare om du…
1 week ago
Posted a reply to Skapa conditional menu med egen kod, on the site Svensk support:
WordPress fungerar så att functions.php och alla aktiva tillägg anropas och körs innan WordPress-snurran över…
1 week ago
Posted a reply to Skapa conditional menu med egen kod, on the site Svensk support:
Om det funkar så är det väl ok. Om du lagt in detta i functions.php…
1 week ago
Posted a reply to How to translate the text in the appointment form, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey, I have nothing to do with this plugin, but I'm one of the volunteers…
1 week ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for SeatReg, on the site Translate WordPress:
I'm removing the to-do status of this request since there currently is nothing more left…
1 week ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for WooCommerce MyParcel, on the site Translate WordPress:
@edielemoine Based on the feedback above, I have removed your request for #nl_NL and #nl_BE
1 week ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for WooCommerce MyParcel, on the site Translate WordPress:
@richardperdaan I removed your similar request that was (also) in the queue of pending posts.…
1 week ago
Posted a reply to mobile page can scroll RIGHT, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @bitkahuna I'm sorry, we have strong guidelines against sharing any passwords in these forums.…
1 week ago
Posted a reply to Different homepage for different langauges, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @sitector I'm not related to Polylang, I just use a plugin with similar functionality…
1 week ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for [Themeinwp Import Companion], on the site Translate WordPress:
I'm removing the to-do status of this request since there currently is nothing more left…
1 week ago
Wrote a comment on the post Translation of Astra and RestroPress to Bulgarian language, on the site Translate WordPress:
@vloo #bg_BG ↑↑
1 week ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for Openverse, on the site Translate WordPress:
I need to mention #bn_BD here since the tag was added AFTER the post was…
1 week ago
Posted a reply to Svenska bokstäver i filter, on the site Svensk support:
Hej @peter0013 WordPress sparar allt textinnehåll och de flesta inställningarna i en databas. När ditt…
1 week ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for [Themeinwp Import Companion], on the site Translate WordPress:
Hi @darkmonster Before I published your pending post, I removed the email address, which you…
1 week ago
Reviewed 1 string on translate.wordpress.org.
2 weeks ago
Translated 6 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for alma-gateway-for-woocommerce I…, on the site Translate WordPress:
I have now approved the request for #de_AT #en_GB and #fr_BE , since the locale…
2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Hi dear mentors, We have…, on the site Translate WordPress:
Done!
2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for Post SMTP Mailer-Email, on the site Translate WordPress:
Hi @aloconecta Before I published your pending post, I corrected it a bit. The Polyglots…
2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Adding letters to the alphabet, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yep. You could post in the Swedish forum at https://sv.wordpress.org/support/ and we could try to…
2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Please make sentences easier to translateq, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @ays-pro Thank you for your reply. If you (or your developers) have any further…
2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Character Set/language, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi @peter0013 Did you see my reply on your similar question in https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-letters-to-the-alphabet/#post-15948554 ?
2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for alma-gateway-for-woocommerce I…, on the site Translate WordPress:
I'm removing the to-do status for #pt_PT since there currently is nothing more left for…
2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for gdpr-helper, on the site Translate WordPress:
Hi @bpassini Before publishing your pending post I removed the entry for _formal since locale…
2 weeks ago
Created a topic, Please make sentences easier to translateq, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, I'm currently looking at the Swedish translation o…
2 weeks ago
Translated 18 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
2 weeks ago
Reviewed 16 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Hi dear mentors, We have…, on the site Translate WordPress:
Done!
2 weeks ago
Posted a reply to Adding letters to the alphabet, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi, I'm not related with this particular plugin in any way (I don't even use…
2 weeks ago
Reviewed 121 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
2 weeks ago
Translated 38 strings on translate.wordpress.org.
2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for Open Links In New Tab, on the site Translate WordPress:
I'm removing the to-do status for #fr_FR since there currently is nothing more left for…
2 weeks ago