Pascal Birchler (@swissspidy) – WordPress user profile

Pascal Birchler

Software Engineer at Google

@swissspidy Zurich, Switzerland joined Feb 2008

pascalbirchler.com github.com/swissspidy

Teams Core AI Core Core Performance Polyglots CLI

Languages de-ch roh de_DE de-at

Bio

Software Engineer based in Switzerland. WordPress Core Committer. Traveller. Foodie. Polyglot. WordCamp and WordPress Meetup Organizer.

Interests

WordPress, Web, Internationalization, AI, Performance

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.

Badges

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12 badges

C Core AI Contributor '25 C Core AI Team '25 Core Contributor '15 C Core Performance Contributor '23 C Core Performance Team '24 Core Team '16 Meta Contributor '18 Plugin Developer Security Contributor '22 Security Team '22 WP-CLI Contributor '19 WP-CLI Team '23

CONTENT

1 badge

Documentation Contributor '17

COMMUNITY

3 badges

Meetup Organizer '18 WordCamp Organizer '19 WordCamp Speaker '19

PRACTICE

1 badge

Test Contributor '25

POLYGLOTS

2 badges

Translation Contributor '15 Translation Editor '15

Current Job

Software Engineer

Present

Google

Recent impact

Score weights high-impact work (commits, releases, approved translations, props) at 3x routine activity.

Last 30 days

3contributions

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medium3

score3

Last 90 days

10contributions

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medium10

score10

Last 12 months

84contributions

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score98

Specializations

share of activity across teams · last 365 days · 6 attributed contributions

Polyglots 100% of attributed activity

Contributions

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May 2026

May 06 Wed · 07:48

Forums med

Posted a reply to TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading ‘length’), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
I'll take the inactivity here as a sign that the error no longer occurs; marking…

April 2026

Apr 30 Thu · 11:16

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for PublishPress Permissions, on the site Translate WordPress:
Is that the right plugin or locale? I see zero suggested translations for press-permit-core for…

Apr 30 Thu · 08:20

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Redirect request for wp-cli.org, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
Thanks @barry! Can you turn the package-index redirect into a wildcard one please? wp-cli.org/package-index/(.*) ->…

Apr 27 Mon · 15:55

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Redirect request for wp-cli.org, on the site Make WordPress Systems:
In addition to wp-cli.org/ -> wordpress.org/cli/, I'd like to make sure the following redirects are…

Apr 13 Mon · 08:39

Forums med

Posted a reply to TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading ‘length’), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for your report!Could you perhaps provide some additional information about where this was happening…

March 2026

Mar 25 Wed · 21:34

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Rethinking Left Navigation, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Totally. The (never released) v2 of the plugin supported that out of the box. Great…

Mar 25 Wed · 09:58

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Rethinking Left Navigation, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Reminds me of https://wordpress.org/plugins/admin-menu-manager which allowed users to customize the admin menu to their liking…

Mar 23 Mon · 11:41

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Guidelines Lands in Gutenberg 22.7, on the site WordPress AI:
So categories don't use taxonomies, which are built for things like categorization?

Mar 09 Mon · 09:02

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Announcing the Featured Plugins Experiment, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Regarding tracking, are you measuring changes to active installations and support requests for the featured…

Mar 06 Fri · 08:08

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post PHP-only block registration, on the site Make WordPress Core:
How are the inspector controls labels for these PHP-only blocks translated? That appears to be…