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Birgir Erlendsson (birgire)

Developer

@birgire Reykjavik, Iceland joined Jul 2011

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    Teams Core Polyglots
    Languages is

    Bio

    Developer living in Iceland

    Just another Earthling cruising the Milky Way galaxy

    WordPress Origin Story

    I’ve been working with WordPress since 2007

    Badges

    CODE
    3 badges
    Core Contributor '15 Meta Contributor '18 Plugin Developer
    CONTENT
    1 badge
    Documentation Contributor '17
    POLYGLOTS
    2 badges
    Translation Contributor '15 Translation Editor '15

    Current Job

    Developer
    Present

    Recent impact

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

    Last 30 days
    3contributions
    high3
    medium0
    score9
    Last 90 days
    3contributions
    high3
    medium0
    score9
    Last 12 months
    7contributions
    high7
    medium0
    score21

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 23 releases
    • 7.0
    • 6.9
    • 6.8
    • 6.2
    • 6.1
    • 6.0
    • 5.9
    • 5.8
    • 5.7
    • 5.6
    • 5.5
    • 5.4
    • 5.3
    • 5.2
    • 5.1
    • 5.0
    • 4.9
    • 4.7
    • 4.6
    • 4.5
    • 4.4
    • 4.3
    • 4.1

    Contributions

    Type
    July 2026
    Jul 21 Tue · 14:27
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62810] on WordPress SVN:
    Themes: Optimize `WP_Theme::get_post_templates()` for efficiency.
    Jul 20 Mon · 10:24
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62803] on WordPress SVN:
    General: Make sure `get_file_data()` recognizes headers prefixed by a `
    Jul 20 Mon · 10:09
    Core high
    Mentioned in [62802] on WordPress SVN:
    Tests: Move `get_file_data()` tests to their own file.
    January 2026
    Jan 29 Thu · 20:08
    Core high
    Mentioned in [61555] on WordPress SVN:
    Posts, Post Types: Clarify "at a glance" Dashboard links.
    November 2025
    Nov 04 Tue · 18:58
    Core high
    Mentioned in [61137] on WordPress SVN:
    Privacy: Set `$request->confirm_key` earlier so it can be reused in 2 places.
    October 2025
    Oct 02 Thu · 21:46
    Core high
    Mentioned in [60891] on WordPress SVN:
    Privacy: A11y: Show time of privacy request status change.
    August 2025
    Aug 18 Mon · 12:31
    Core high
    Mentioned in [60644] on WordPress SVN:
    Users: Remove deprecated user contact methods.
    July 2025
    Jul 21 Mon · 18:16
    Core high
    Mentioned in [60492] on WordPress SVN:
    Taxonomy: Filter the arguments passed into `wp_dropdown_categories()` in the Categories post edit metabox AJAX request output.
    February 2025
    Feb 27 Thu · 22:42
    Core high
    Mentioned in [59883] on WordPress SVN:
    Embeds: Add support for youtube-nocookie.com domain.
    November 2024
    Nov 29 Fri · 23:46
    Core high
    Mentioned in [59473] on WordPress SVN:
    Media: improve filter to enable setting output quality by image size.

    Developer

    2 plugins

    Contributor

    2 plugins

    Translations

    1 locale
    is_IS Íslenska (Icelandic) General Translation Editor Translation Contributor

    Contributed translations to 16 projects.

    Ktai Style WooCommerce WP Event Manager – Events Calendar, Registrations, Sell Tickets with WooCommerce WordPress 4.2.x WordPress 4.3.x WordPress 4.4.x WordPress 4.5.x WordPress 4.6.x WordPress 4.7.x WordPress 4.8.x WordPress 4.9.x WordPress 5.0.x WordPress 5.1.x WordPress 5.2.x WordPress 5.3.x WordPress 7.0.x - Development

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