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Member Since: November 28th, 2012
Location: Zürich, Switzerland
Website: https://felix-arntz.me
Job Title: Developer Programs Engineer
Employer: Google
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Bio

Developer Programs Engineer at Google. WordPress Core Committer. Previously Yoast. Runner, musician, movie geek. Aprendiendo español. Fueled by Mountain Dew.

Interests

Music Production. Movies. Brostep. WWE. Cocktails. Soccer. Running.

WordPress Origin Story

September 2012: Started working with WordPress
November 2012: Signed up for wordpress.org
March 2013: Published his first plugin on wordpress.org
October 2014: Reviewed a WordPress book
November 2014: Started working with WordPress multisite
June 2015: Attended his first WordCamp (WCEU in Sevilla)
June 2015: Did his first contribution to WordPress core
October 2015: Became co-organizer of the WordPress meetup Cologne
February 2016: Started contributing to WordPress core regularly
May 2016: Became a component maintainer of Multisite
May 2016: Gave his first session at a WordCamp
September 2016: Became co-organizer of the WordPress meetup Dusseldorf
October 2016: Co-organized WordCamp Cologne
November 2016: Became a WordPress core committer
June 2017: Attended his first WordPress community summit
August 2017: Became a component maintainer of Roles/Capabilities
February 2018: Gave a session at LoopConf
April 2018: Started working part-time at Yoast
April 2018: Became a component maintainer of REST API
November 2018: Started as DPE in the Web Content Ecosystems team at Google

Contributions

Core Contributor
Core Contributor
Core Team
Core Team
Documentation Contributor
Documentation Contributor
Meta Contributor
Meta Contributor
Translation Contributor
Translation Contributor
Translation Editor
Translation Editor
WordCamp Organizer
WordCamp Organizer
Plugin Developer
Plugin Developer

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Wrote a new post, WP Rig at WCUS Contributor Day, on the site Theme Review Team:
At WordCamp Europe earlier this year, the new starter theme WP Rig (GitHub project) was…

5 days ago
Wrote a new post, PHP Meeting Recap – November 19th, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This recap is a summary of our previous PHP meeting. It highlights the ideas and…

2 weeks ago
Wrote a new post, PHP Meeting Recap – November 5th, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This recap is a summary of our previous PHP meeting. It highlights the ideas and…

1 month ago
Closed ticket #44467, in Core Trac:
Ensure meta wrapper functions do not contain additional logic

2 months ago
Committed [43729] to Core Trac:
REST API: Move object type-specific metadata integrations from the ...

2 months ago
Created a new ticket, #45091, in Core Trac:
Ensure site meta wrapper functions do not contain additional logic

2 months ago
Wrote a new post, PHP Meeting Recap – October 8th, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This recap is a summary of our previous PHP meeting. It highlights the ideas and…

2 months ago
Reopened ticket #34183, in Core Trac:
Add context to `doing_it_wrong_trigger_error` filter

2 months ago
Reopened ticket #40364, in Core Trac:
Improve site creation in multisite

2 months ago
Reopened ticket #41191, in Core Trac:
Create browse happy type notice for PHP versions

2 months ago
Wrote a new post, PHP Meeting Recap – October 1st, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This recap is a summary of our previous PHP meeting. It highlights the ideas and…

2 months ago
Committed [43655] to Core Trac:
Multisite: Fix coding standard errors after [43654]. See #41333.

3 months ago
Closed ticket #41333, in Core Trac:
Implement `wp_initialize_site()` and `wp_uninitialize_site()`

3 months ago
Committed [43654] to Core Trac:
Multisite: Introduce a site initialization and uninitialization API. ...

3 months ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Portland, Oregon, USA 2018 coming up on November 3rd

3 months ago
Created a new ticket, #3789, in Meta Trac:
Implement plugin with Gutenberg block types for Update PHP page

3 months ago
Committed [1931111] to Plugins Trac:
tagged version 1.0.3

3 months ago
Committed [1931110] to Plugins Trac:
updated version to 1.0.3

3 months ago
Wrote a new post, PHP Meeting Recap – August 20th, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This recap is a summary of our previous PHP meeting. It highlights the ideas and…

4 months ago
Created a new ticket, #3769, in Meta Trac:
Detection mechanism for theme support incorrectly rejecting theme

4 months ago
Wrote a new post, PHP Meeting Recap – August 13th, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This recap is a summary of our previous PHP meeting. It highlights the ideas and…

4 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Registering Metadata in 4.9.8, on the site Make WordPress Core:
Thanks for calling this out, we should have mentioned it in the post. It is…

4 months ago
Wrote a new post, PHP Meeting Recap – July 30th, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This recap is a summary of our previous PHP meeting. It highlights the ideas and…

4 months ago
Wrote a new post, Registering Metadata in 4.9.8, on the site Make WordPress Core:
With WordPress 4.9.8, the register_meta() function supports registration of metadata not only for an entire…

5 months ago
Wrote a new post, Servehappy: Roadmap Update and Priorities, on the site Make WordPress Core:
At WordCamp Europe 2018, representatives from different teams got together to discuss the state of…

5 months ago
Created a new ticket, #3718, in Meta Trac:
Theme Directory: Allow minimum WP and PHP version requirement

5 months ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Sevilla 2018 coming up on July 7th

6 months ago
Wrote a new post, PHP Meeting Recap – June 11th, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This recap is a summary of our last PHP meeting. It highlights the ideas and…

6 months ago
Wrote a new post, PHP Meeting Recap – June 4th, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This recap is a summary of our last PHP meeting. It highlights the ideas and…

6 months ago
Committed [1882656] to Plugins Trac:
tagged version 1.0.0

7 months ago
Committed [1882655] to Plugins Trac:
updated version to 1.0.0

7 months ago
Wrote a new post, PHP Meeting Recap – May 21st, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This recap is a summary of our previous PHP meeting. It highlights the ideas and…

7 months ago
Committed [1880869] to Plugins Trac:
remove changelog.txt

7 months ago
Committed [1880806] to Plugins Trac:
tagged version 1.4.8

7 months ago
Committed [1880804] to Plugins Trac:
updated version to 1.4.8

7 months ago
Committed [1880799] to Plugins Trac:
Remove broken tag.

7 months ago
Committed [1880794] to Plugins Trac:
tagged version 1.4.8

7 months ago
Committed [1880139] to Plugins Trac:
tagged version 1.0.0-rc.1

7 months ago
Wrote a new post, REST API Meeting Summary: May 3rd, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This post summarizes the REST API component team meeting from May 3rd in #core-restapi (Slack archive).…

7 months ago
Created a new ticket, #3609, in Meta Trac:
Improve design of "Upgrading PHP" support page

7 months ago
Wrote a new post, Completing the implementation of metadata registration with the REST API, on the site Make WordPress Core:
A priority of the REST API team for the upcoming 5.0 release is to finally…

8 months ago
Wrote a new post, PHP Meeting Recap – April 9th, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This recap is a summary of our previous PHP meeting. It highlights the ideas and…

8 months ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Retreat Soltau 2018 coming up on May 4th

8 months ago
Wrote a new post, PHP Meeting Recap – April 2nd, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This recap is a summary of our previous PHP meeting. It highlights the ideas and…

8 months ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Europe 2018 coming up on June 14th

8 months ago
Posted a reply to Still problem with CF7 5.0 and Acceptance and Submit, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
Fixed with the latest 1.4.7. release

9 months ago
Wrote a new post, PHP Meeting Recap – February 26th, on the site Make WordPress Core:
This recap is a summary of our previous PHP meeting. It highlights the ideas and…

9 months ago
Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp London, United Kingdom 2018 coming up on April 13th

9 months ago
Created a new ticket, #3474, in Meta Trac:
Introduce `serve-happy` API endpoint

10 months ago
Wrote a comment on the post Draft version of “WordCamp regulation OK/NG case study”, on the site Make WordPress Communities:
I get the sense of all rules but #8. GPL is a requirement for anything…

10 months ago