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It’s been a while since I have been involved with organizing a WordCamp. After a 4-year break, this is changing now. I am very excited that WordCamp Zurich is taking place on September 14, 2019. Back in 2014 and 2015, we already hosted two amazing WordPress conferences in Zurich. After a small local event in Switzerland in 2011, those were the first bigger WordCamps with a more international audience. We…
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WP-CLI is the official command line tool for interacting with and managing WordPress sites. With this introductory blog post I intend to show you how it easy it can be to use WP-CLI.
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A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to attend the CMS Security Summit in Chicago. For this event, Google brought together content management systems, security researchers, and hosting providers to talk about security. WordPress, powering a third of the web, was represented by security team lead Barry. As a WordPress core committer and Noogler, this was a very insightful event for me. All the discussions with the attendees…
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In my previous blog post I explained the importance of the text domain in WordPress internationalization. Today, I want to have a look at the bigger picture of the (new) internationalization features in WordPress 5.0 and beyond. This includes, but is not limited to, enhanced JavaScript internationalization. If you’re building a WordPress plugin or theme and want to make sure it can be fully localized, this post is for you. WordPress…
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Today I have some big personal news to share! I am very excited to announce that, starting in January, I will be joining Google as a Developer Programs Engineer here in Zurich. This is a quite a change for me after having worked at required for almost four years. Luckily, it doesn’t mean I won’t be working with WordPress anymore. Some have already heard about Google stepping into the WordPress…
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In this post I want to address a common question / misunderstanding about the role of the text domain when internationalizing WordPress plugins and themes. This topic has been addressed in the past, but it comes up again from time to time. Time to re-address it! Some Background Over the last few months I helped build and shape a new command for WP-CLI that makes it easier for developers to…
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I had the exciting opportunity to hold a talk at this year’s WordCamp Tokyo about a topic that is dear to my heart: internationalization. In particular, I talked about current internationalization workflows in WordPress and how things are changing. Amongst others, I covered things like Gutenberg with its focus on JavaScript internationalization, the new WP-CLI i18n-command, and Traduttore. Some of these things are still under development in an attempt to…
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I’ve decided to give Medium a go and published an article there about some learnings from the Young Creators Summit in Amsterdam, Netherlands. You can read the full article on Medium: How to Be a Successful Software Engineer
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As I am only studying computer science part-time, I was looking for a job a couple of months ago. Today I’ve been working with required for over a month now and I already managed to develop lots of new things. Working with required+ allows me to work more on WordPress and contribute back to the community. We released the WP Team List plugin in February and many other plugins are already in the pipeline. I’ll be also…