Birgit Pauli-Haack
Developer Advocate at Automattic
@bph Munich, Germany joined Jan 2010
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Current Job
Developer Advocate
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Automattic
Recent impact
Score weights high-impact work (commits, releases, approved translations, props) at 3x routine activity.
Last 30 days
14contributions
high11
medium3
score36
Last 90 days
45contributions
high30
medium15
score105
Last 12 months
306contributions
high154
medium152
score614
Team focus
Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days
WordPress releases
Contributed to 19 releases
- 7.0
- 6.9
- 6.8
- 6.7
- 6.6
- 6.5
- 6.4
- 6.3
- 6.2
- 6.1
- 6.0
- 5.9
- 5.8
- 5.7
- 5.6
- 5.5
- 5.4
- 5.0
- 4.9
Time commitment
40 hours per week of sponsored contribution time
Contributions
Type
August 2026
Aug 20
Thu · 09:44
high
Made 3 updates to handbook pages on Make WordPress Core.
Aug 18
Tue · 20:45
high
Received props from @greenshady in Slack:
Props to @bph and @welcher for feedback and review of https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2026/08/hands-on-with-the-wordpress-7-1-icon-registration-api/ for the Developer Blog.
Props to @bph and @welcher for feedback and review of https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2026/08/hands-on-with-the-wordpress-7-1-icon-registration-api/ for the Developer Blog.
Aug 13
Thu · 12:35
Plugins
high
Committed [3645315] to Plugins SVN:
Add plugin banner (772x250 + 1544x500) — closes <a class="closed ticket" href="http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6" title="#6: defect: javascript problem with WP-Amazon (closed: fixed)">#6</a>
Add plugin banner (772x250 + 1544x500) — closes <a class="closed ticket" href="http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6" title="#6: defect: javascript problem with WP-Amazon (closed: fixed)">#6</a>
Aug 13
Thu · 10:51
Plugins
high
Aug 13
Thu · 10:50
Plugins
high
Aug 11
Tue · 14:42
high
Received props from @greenshady in Slack:
Props to @bph and @juanmaguitar for feedback and review on https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2026/08/whats-new-for-developers-august-2026/ on the Developer Blog!
Props to @bph and @juanmaguitar for feedback and review on https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2026/08/whats-new-for-developers-august-2026/ on the Developer Blog!
Aug 06
Thu · 15:41
GitHub
med
Created issue #490 in the WordPress/developer-blog-content repository:
How to use the Icon API in WordPress 7.1
How to use the Icon API in WordPress 7.1
Aug 06
Thu · 15:37
GitHub
med
Created issue #489 in the WordPress/developer-blog-content repository:
Writing more robust configuration/args in plugins
Writing more robust configuration/args in plugins
Aug 05
Wed · 08:14
high
Made 3 updates to handbook pages on Make WordPress Core.
Aug 04
Tue · 14:09
high
Received props from @greenshady in Slack:
Props to @juanmaguitar and @bph for feedback on https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2026/08/rethinking-do_action-events-as-objects-hooks-as-class-names/ for the Developer Blog.
Props to @juanmaguitar and @bph for feedback on https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2026/08/rethinking-do_action-events-as-objects-hooks-as-class-names/ for the Developer Blog.
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2 plugins-
GT Table Block
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Podcast data for block themes
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Completed courses
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Completed December 18, 2023
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Completed November 28, 2022
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Deutsch (German)
Plugins Translation Editor
Translation editor for 2 projects.