Bernhard Kau (@kau-boy) – WordPress user profile

Bio

Web developer from Berlin, blogging about WordPress and other technical topics, active member of the WP Meetup Berlin and WP Meetup Potsdam, former organization of different WordPress events in Berlin and WordCamp Europe as well as current organizer of WP Meetup Berlin.

WordPress Origin Story

The first time I get my hands on WordPress was … writing my first plugin 😉

Not the typical way, but only two days after that, I started my first personal blog. The rest is history 😀

Badges

CODE

4 badges

Core Contributor '15 Meta Contributor '15 Pattern Author '23 Plugin Developer

CONTENT

1 badge

Photo Contributor '23

COMMUNITY

3 badges

Meetup Organizer '18 WordCamp Organizer '18 WordCamp Speaker '16

PRACTICE

1 badge

Support Contributor '26

POLYGLOTS

2 badges

Translation Contributor '15 Translation Editor '16

Current Job

Senior Web Engineer

Oct 2022 – Present

Syde GmbH

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

9contributions

high8

medium1

score25

Last 90 days

16contributions

high11

medium5

score38

Last 12 months

54contributions

high38

medium16

score130

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 8 releases

Time commitment

6 hours per week of sponsored contribution time

Syde

Contributions

Type

September 2026

Sep 30 Wed · 14:02

Polyglots high

Translated 2 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

Sep 29 Tue · 11:53

Polyglots high

Translated 2 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

Sep 28 Mon · 06:25

Polyglots high

Translated 2 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

Sep 26 Sat · 09:58

Polyglots high

Translated 2 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

Sep 25 Fri · 13:03

Polyglots high

Translated 10 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

Sep 24 Thu · 09:31

Polyglots high

Translated 29 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

Sep 14 Mon · 18:35

Plugins high

Committed [3695769] to Plugins SVN:
Updating readme/assets from GitHub

Sep 13 Sun · 07:51

Plugins high

Committed [3693444] to Plugins SVN:
Updating readme/assets from GitHub

Sep 09 Wed · 15:39

Forums med

Posted a reply to Antispm?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
The current version only works for comments. We are actively working on a new version…

August 2026

Aug 27 Thu · 19:04

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Proposal: A Secrets API for WordPress 7.2, on the site Make WordPress Core:
I'd love to see that land in 7.2 and while I can't give feedback in…