Pascal Birchler
@swissspidy on WordPress.org and Slack
- Member Since: February 25th, 2008
- Location: Zurich, Switzerland
- Website: pascalbirchler.com
- GitHub: swissspidy
- Job Title: Developer Programs Engineer
- Employer: Google
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Pascal Birchler’s badges:- Core Contributor
- Core Team
- Documentation Contributor
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- Meta Contributor
- Plugin Developer
- Translation Contributor
- Translation Editor
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- WordCamp Speaker
- WP-CLI Contributor
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Posted a reply to Not a valid Web Story, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Quick update, there is apparently also a recent change in the AMP validator that causes…3 days ago
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Posted a reply to [Bug] story esta fixo na head do site, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there, You can disable Web Stories from appearing in that position by going to…4 days ago
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Posted a reply to PHP Fatal error in web-stories/includes/Integrations/AMP.php:259, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Seems like we should be able to add some hardening for this case in our…4 days ago
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Closed ticket #53273, in Core Trac:
need to update sodium_compat, please refer the github issue link on ...5 days ago
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Posted a reply to Analytics of Stories, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Not yet! But this is something we are looking into supporting, for example through the…6 days ago
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Posted a reply to After updating stories, content is lost in backend (still shows in frontend), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
That's an interesting answer, given that the post_content_column is a native WordPress core component. I…6 days ago
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Posted a reply to Not a valid Web Story, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The issue is that their solution is inserting custom JavaScript, which is not allowed in…6 days ago
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Posted a reply to Not a valid Web Story, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there, Thanks for reaching out! The offending piece in the source code is referring…6 days ago
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Posted a reply to Time Stamp, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Another possibility that just came to mind: Did you start creating the story on Thursday,…6 days ago
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Posted a reply to Time Stamp, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hmm, that's very strange. In the REST API there's the same 2021-05-21T13:05:16 (GMT) / 2021-05-21T09:05:16…1 week ago
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Posted a reply to Restoring post_content_filtered from post_content, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Unfortunately that's not possible, only the other way around. Perhaps there's a database backup you…1 week ago
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Posted a reply to Time Stamp, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there, The story's source code says 2021-05-21T13:05:16+00:00, which is indeed just ~1hr ago. I…1 week ago
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Posted a reply to exit button, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
There's documentation on amp.dev on how to add an exit button to <amp-story-player> and attaching…1 week ago
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Posted a reply to Animated text not appearing on stories in Desktop view after update, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
In addition to that, could you perhaps check the "Reduce Motion" or "Show Animations" setting…1 week ago
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Posted a reply to Do AdSense Auto-Ads Don’t Show on Google Web Stories, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@naman1516 No, in that case Site Kit will configure AdSense for Web Stories.1 week ago
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Committed [2535136] to Plugins Trac:
Releasing version 1.7.21 week ago
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Committed [2535135] to Plugins Trac:
Committing version 1.7.21 week ago
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Posted a reply to Best Practices for Video Hosting, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there, Excellent question! While embedding videos from platforms like Vimeo or YouTube is not…1 week ago
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Posted a reply to Customizer won’t show option to turn on webstories + they disappeared from site, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Chris, I was made aware of a change today that caused the Web Stories…2 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to exit button, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there, I see that you've embedded a web story on that page in an…2 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to Adsense ads not showing, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@brbrburak No need to put any AMP ads code anywhere, the plugin does it all…2 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to After updating stories, content is lost in backend (still shows in frontend), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for sharing this information. It does indeed sound like there is some conflicting plugin…2 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to Language “German swiss”, not “German”, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@mawiti Please check out https://de-ch.wordpress.org/team/ to learn how translating to de-CH usually works and how…2 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to How do I add a canonical tag to my story?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there Just like for regukar posts, WordPress will automatically add a self-referencing canonical tag…2 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to VIDEOPRESS/JETPACK videos not recognized, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Nico, Sorry about the confusion in that other thread regarding VideoPress. While we've made…2 weeks ago
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Committed [2531118] to Plugins Trac:
Releasing version 1.7.12 weeks ago
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Committed [2531116] to Plugins Trac:
Committing version 1.7.12 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to Images blurry when published, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
We've received a related report about this and I've created a ticket for us to…3 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to Published Web Stories Link Not Redirecting Properly, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Could you please try the following: 1. Go to Settings -> Permalinks 2. Click on…3 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to No video clips will up load into my WordPress., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for the update! Our goal is to save you some valuable time, so if…3 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to Plugin Questions, Comments, and Concerns, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for the link and the explanation! What you see there is the expected behavior:…3 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to Deregister image sizes?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The plugin's image sizes are registered on init with priority 10 (the default). If you…3 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to No video clips will up load into my WordPress., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Once you've airdropped the videos to your computer, have you tried dragging & dropping the…3 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to Individual Image URLs – How important to index?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Thanks for the clarification! This has nothing to do with Web Stories, really. thenewsvoice.com/<image path>…4 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to After updating stories, content is lost in backend (still shows in frontend), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Re-reading your original post again, particularly this bit: What might be happening here is that…4 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to Individual Image URLs – How important to index?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Could you perhaps elaborate on what's the issue is with that? Google indexes images for…4 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to where to find the embed code, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Apologies, I haven't read it too carefully it seems! The button in the classic editor…4 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to Again, for the third time, my editor is not working, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there, Is the error message the same this time or slightly different? Have you…4 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to Google Analytics Setup, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Worth noting that the Web Stories plugin already comes with many of the configurations mentioned…4 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to After updating stories, content is lost in backend (still shows in frontend), on the site WordPress.org Forums:
You can temporarily turn off the WAF in the Cloudflare settings for all users or…4 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to where to find the embed code, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Note that in the latest version of a plugin, there's also a button in the…4 weeks ago
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Posted a reply to Plugin not loading on website with version 1.6.0, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi Denis, The new video optimization feature in version 1.6.0 of the plugin requires a…1 month ago
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Posted a reply to translation of an inscription, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there, Could you elaborate on which text you would like to translate?1 month ago
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Posted a reply to .gif support is broken, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Hi there, Thanks a lot for reaching out! This is unfortunately a known issue with…1 month ago
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Committed [2514392] to Plugins Trac:
Releasing version 1.6.02 months ago
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Committed [2514391] to Plugins Trac:
Committing version 1.6.02 months ago
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Posted a reply to Invalid Stories due to i-amphtml-version, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
> However, since it started happening 2 days ago while the plugin hadn’t changed at…2 months ago
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Posted a reply to 35K AMP Erros from webstories, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
@thenewsvoice Where are you seeing these errors? Could you perhaps share a link to an…2 months ago
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