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Pascal Birchler

Member Since: February 25th, 2008
Zurich, Switzerland
https://pascalbirchler.com
Web Developer
@swissspidy on WordPress.org and Slack

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Bio/Description

Web developer with lots of ideas. WordPress Core Committer. Founder of wptalents.com. Former co-organizer of WordCamp Switzerland.

Interests

Entrepreneurship, Social Media, Web Development, WordPress, Movies

WordPress Origin Story

Began blogging as a 12-year-old back in 2006. Started blogging about WordPress in 2008. Began organizing WordCamps and local meetups. Fell in love with the community.

Posted a reply to Where are pages located?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yes, that should work. Note that if the URLs of your local and live site…

2 days ago
Posted a reply to ERROR: This feed is ivalid (after update WP 4.7), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi everyone, It seems like this is caused by a recent change in WordPress 4.7…

2 days ago
Posted a reply to SVN not updating plugin?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The sidebar says "Last Updated: 14 hours ago" so everything looks good to me.

2 days ago
Posted a reply to Seeing a graph/list of times when posts are made to my site?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Good question. I think some statistics plugins let you do this, like Jetpack Stats. I…

2 days ago
Posted a reply to Menu in Flex auf Aligment Bottom, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey Peer, Für Support auf Deutsch empfehle ich https://de.wordpress.org/support/. As for your styling question, have…

2 days ago
Posted a reply to Example of Button that calls API?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I haven't used the WooCommerce API, but your example sounds like you don't necessarily need…

2 days ago
Posted a reply to Endless new plugin search uninstall error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
> But since then the search for a new plugin starts in endless loop, and…

3 days ago
Posted a reply to ERROR: This feed is ivalid (after update WP 4.7), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Howdy, Which feed are you trying to open when you get this error message? http://mysite.com/feed/?…

3 days ago
Posted a reply to Access Denied when trying to create a new user, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Is that "Access Denied" message coming from WordPress or perhaps from the web server? A…

3 days ago
Posted a reply to Problem with Class ‘_WP_Dependency’, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Howdy, Which PHP version are you using? Since you mentioned that you've replaced all files…

3 days ago
Posted a reply to howto find index of item in WP_Post, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey there, Can you perhaps share some code to demonstrate how you are currently displaying…

3 days ago
Posted a reply to Joining Galleries, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey there With expanding/opening are you referring to some kind of lightbox modal that opens…

3 days ago
Posted a reply to Where are pages located?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey there, I'm not sure I fully understood, but WordPress isn't a file-based CMS so…

3 days ago
Posted a reply to wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron – results in a Database “Duplicate entry”, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
That's very interesting. Term splitting was introduced in WordPress 4.3 and there wasn't any change…

4 days ago
Posted a reply to WordPress 4.7 Fatal Error Cannot redeclare get_paged_template(), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@acidrazor Awesome! Great to hear that worked. I'll note that on the Trac ticket referenced…

4 days ago
Posted a reply to Use laternate language if not available, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Howdy, To achieve this right now, I'd recommend you to use a plugin like Language…

4 days ago
Posted a reply to WordPress 4.7 Fatal Error Cannot redeclare get_paged_template(), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Oops, I forgot the most important part! Put the following in your flush_opcache.php file: <?php…

4 days ago
Posted a reply to WordPress 4.7 Fatal Error Cannot redeclare get_paged_template(), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Howdy, Thanks for your report! In WordPress 4.7, get_paged_template() was moved to wp-includes/deprecated.php. The fatal…

4 days ago
Closed ticket #37985, in Core Trac:
Allow all arguments to be passed to an action or filter callback

4 days ago
Closed ticket #39169, in Core Trac:
Error 500 after 4.7 update.

4 days ago
Closed ticket #39162, in Core Trac:
Update TinyMCE to 4.5.1

5 days ago
Closed ticket #39161, in Core Trac:
Non existent changeset uuid

5 days ago
Wrote a comment on the post Post Type Templates in 4.7, on the site Make WordPress Core:
single-{post_type}.php applies to all posts of that post type. With post type templates, you can…

5 days ago
Closed ticket #39136, in Core Trac:
Remove email length check from rest api

5 days ago
Closed ticket #39002, in Core Trac:
Issue with $post and have_post() function

5 days ago
Closed ticket #39097, in Core Trac:
Links in embeds can't be opened in a new tab

6 days ago
Closed ticket #39114, in Core Trac:
Add Git Ignore

6 days ago
Wrote a comment on the post Name change request for roh locale, on the site Translate WordPress:
@petya 'Rumantsch' is actually correct/prefered 😬 See https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/2016/10/20/name-change-request-for-roh-locale/#comment-274275, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romansh_language and https://www.ethnologue.com/language/roh. Definitely not 'Rumantsch Vallader'…

7 days ago
Wrote a comment on the post Name change request for roh locale, on the site Translate WordPress:
@petya @ocean90: Still need help with that as I continue to see the wrong locale…

7 days ago
Closed ticket #39086, in Core Trac:
Major bug: wpdb->get_results always returns ARRAY_N

7 days ago
Reopened ticket #39075, in Core Trac:
wpdb return type constants broken in 4.7 RC2 - always returns ARRAY_N

7 days ago
Posted a reply to Update (user info), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey there, I guess that one's on me. Still need to fix issues with the…

2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post I’m the plugin author of…, on the site Translate WordPress:
Done for #de_CH.

2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Preferred Languages: Research, on the site Make WordPress Core:
> I thinks it is better to consider text direction (LTR vs RTL: Right To…

2 weeks ago
Wrote a new post, Preferred Languages: Research, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Following the first meeting of the Preferred Languages project, some time was spent on researching popular…

2 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Media Changes in 4.7, on the site Make WordPress Core:
There's a separate post about using custom bulk actions: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/10/04/custom-bulk-actions/ Not limited to media, that's…

3 weeks ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Geneva, Switzerland 2016 coming up on November 18th

3 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Preferred Languages Chat Summary: October 26, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Thanks for the link! Looks like 'langchooser.inc' is just a specific implementation for checking the…

3 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Name change request for roh locale, on the site Translate WordPress:
I do not have access to the general settings on roh.wordpress.org, so I assume I'm…

3 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Request for removing gsw locale, on the site Translate WordPress:
Actually I'm not a GTE for this locale (anymore?), so I can't speak on behalf…

3 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Name change request for roh locale, on the site Translate WordPress:
@ocean90 What about changing the name of the locale on translate.wordpress.org and on roh.wordpress.org?

4 weeks ago
Wrote a new post, Request to Join the roh Locale Team, on the site Translate WordPress:
I previously outlined the reasoning behind this request in this post. As @jachen said, he's…

4 weeks ago
Wrote a comment on the post Name change request for roh locale, on the site Translate WordPress:
Let's make it easier: simply "Rumantsch"

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post Name change request for roh locale, on the site Translate WordPress:
Pinging @jachen

1 month ago
Posted a reply to remove some form field, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You can forget about the "Swiss German" (gsw) locale. Use "German (Switzerland)" (de_CH) instead. Those…

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post Whitespace changes in navigation for 4.7, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Ah, I still remember #27762 / #35107. Good thing this is now easily controllable. Thanks…

1 month ago
Posted a reply to iframes still working after installation and allow fron url, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Yeah, so WordPress caches these embeds indefinitely. They will continue to work unless you manually…

1 month ago
Posted a reply to Disable only website links, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hey there, This plugin does exactly what you want. It disables embeds from other WordPress…

1 month ago
Wrote a new post, Attributes for Resource Hints in 4.7, on the site Make WordPress Core:
WordPress 4.6 added support for Resource Hints, a W3C specification that “defines the dns-prefetch, preconnect, prefetch,…

1 month ago
Wrote a comment on the post Post Type Templates in 4.7, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Thanks, fixed the code sample! Right now, there's no such way to make it available…

1 month ago

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