tobifjellner (Tor-Bjorn “Tobi” Fjellner) (@tobifjellner) – WordPress user profile

tobifjellner (Tor-Bjorn “Tobi” Fjellner)

@tobifjellner Barcelona, Spain joined Mar 2011

gsm.fjellner.com github.com/tobifjellner Slack: @tobifjellner

Teams Community Polyglots Support

Languages sv_SE fy kir ru_RU en-gb

Bio

Poet, Writer, Project Manager, Mobile Telecom Marketing specialist, Translator, and more… Being Swedish native, I know how to mount furniture from IKEA. 🙂 Oh, and I’m interested in amateur radio, although currently inactive (check your logs from 1980-s for SM0RYB).

The great and versatile tool WordPress can be free thanks to the contributions from thousands of users. And I think it’s great that one can “give back” to WordPress and the community in so many different ways. I’m not a coder (although I may be able to find and fix some small and simple errors in PHP/CSS/JavaScript). But where I really can make a difference, that’s in making WordPress available in Swedish.

Later I even became a global mentor for WordPress translation, so one could say that I support the processes that make WordPress available in more than 70 language versions. Did you know, that 56% (these figures are for June 2023) of all WordPress installations are using a translated version of WordPress? I’m proud to be a part of that!

I was on the organizing team for WordCamp Stockholm 2016, where I invented the “Micro Sponsor” level for participation, which afterwards became a standard feature at many WordCamps.

In June 2023, I was a speaker at WordCamp Europe, with the title: “Enable truly global use of your code – Avoid the typical i18n pitfalls”. It was mainly based on the most important parts of my article about some common i18n-errors developers make: https://gsm.fjellner.com/hints-about-i18n-let-your-code-to-shine-all-over-the-world/

In 2023, I on the pilot team for mentoring of new WordPress contributors, which continued running several times.

I’d love to contribute more to WordPress, if I just could find the right partners to make it sustainable for me. I want to spend more time on:
– Making it easier for WordPress users to find out about contributing to the project.
– Helping new contributors finding their way in and around the project.
– Re-vitalizing the Swedish community (Yes, I live in Spain, but I’ve got a stable internet connection).
– Encouraging locale teams to publish more relevant content.
– Organizing meetups/WordCamps.
– Smart reuse of translations and content.
– Support for multilingual content in WordPress core.
– … and probably several other things.

But for now (2026), my available time (and current level of sponsorship) mostly allows me to concentrate on the Polyglots team, some support team activities, and in general helping contributors navigating the project.

Additional links:
– https://facebook.com/fjellner
– https://linkedin.com/in/fjellner
– https://mastodon.social/@tobifjellner

WordPress Origin Story

Ended up with WordPress when I wanted to migrate my blog in Russian about working as an expat in Oman to my own domain and made it a tri-lingual site. Since then I’ve helped lots of friends to get started, too.
When I noted that the themes I loved and some plugins I wanted weren’t available in the languages i needed, I started translating them.
Now I’m one of the global mentors for the WordPress translation efforts and an active participant in the Swedish WordPress community, although I live in Barcelona, Spain.

Since April 2025 I’m sponsored 3 hrs per week by Kinsta. Thank you!
Since March 2026, I’m sponsored another 5 hrs per week by Angry Creative. Thank you!
(Happy to discuss more hours/projects with other companies!)

Badges

CODE

3 badges

Core Contributor '17 Meta Contributor '17 Plugin Developer

CONTENT

1 badge

Photo Contributor '25

COMMUNITY

5 badges

bbPress Contributor '26 B BuddyPress Contributor '20 Community Contributor '24 WordCamp Organizer '17 WordCamp Speaker '17

PRACTICE

2 badges

Support Contributor '18 Support Team '18

POLYGLOTS

2 badges

Translation Contributor '15 Translation Editor '19

Recent impact

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

Last 30 days

294contributions

high37

medium257

score368

Last 90 days

765contributions

high81

medium684

score927

Last 12 months

1796contributions

high270

medium1526

score2336

Team focus

Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

WordPress releases

Contributed to 22 releases

Time commitment

13 hours per week

Contributions

Type

October 2026

Oct 24 Sat · 20:00

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post PTE Request for MandrakeCRM, on the site Translate WordPress:
@mandrakecrm Please go to the Slack channel of #pt_BR polyglots-pt-br and ask there for feedback…

Oct 23 Fri · 19:58

Polyglots high

Reviewed 12 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

Oct 23 Fri · 19:51

Polyglots high

Translated 7 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

Oct 23 Fri · 19:05

Meta high

Made 2 updates to handbook pages on Translate WordPress.

Oct 22 Thu · 19:52

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post Hello Polyglots,, on the site Translate WordPress:
PTE is a contributor role for an individual who knows the target language really well.…

Oct 22 Thu · 19:48

Meta med

Wrote a comment on the post How active are our Locale Managers and GTEs?, on the site Translate WordPress:
@ekamran I like these ideas. One exception: I wouldn't suggest that the system should force…

Oct 22 Thu · 10:53

Polyglots high

Translated 11 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

Oct 22 Thu · 10:53

Polyglots high

Reviewed 133 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

Oct 21 Wed · 18:47

Meta high

Mentioned in [15397] on Meta SVN:
Make/Pledges: Improve translatability of contributor directory strings

Oct 21 Wed · 14:52

Polyglots high

Translated 15 strings on translate.wordpress.org.

Contributor

2 plugins

GlotPress

500+ active installs
Social Chat Buttons

90+ active installs

Photos

4 contributions

View all 4 photos in the Photo Directory

Completed courses

2 completed

How decisions are made in the WordPress project

Completed July 17, 2023
Open source basics and WordPress

Completed July 17, 2023

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Plugins

62 favorites

Themes

2 favorites

Translations

12 locales

sv_SE Svenska (Swedish) General Translation Editor Translation Contributor

Contributed translations to 954 projects.

WordPress for Android WordPress for iOS Browse Happy Forums Get Involved Learn WordPress o2 Openverse P2 "Breathe" Pattern Directory WordPress Plugin Directory Rosetta WordPress Theme Directory WordCamp.org WordPress.org wp20.wordpress.net Patterns 2FAS Classic – Two Factor Authentication 360 Orbit Header Security 360 Orbit Privacy Toolkit 3pika Gallery – Filterable Photo Gallery & Lightbox 404 Solution A-Z Listing AAA Autoload Optimizer Accessibility Widget by OneTap – Easy One-Click Accessibility Toolbar AccessPress Social Login Lite – Social Login WordPress Plugin ACF: Better Search Advanced Custom Fields: Extended ACF Quick Edit Fields ACF Recent Posts Widget AcyMailing – An Ultimate Newsletter Plugin and Marketing Automation Solution for WordPress Add Customizer Back For Block Themes Ivory Search – WordPress Search Plugin Admin Dashboard RSS Feed Admin and Site Enhancements (ASE) Admin Toolbar Menus Adminimize AdOpt | Easy Multi-Regulations Cookie Banner. Ads.txt Manager Access Governance for WordPress (aka AAM) Advanced Booking Calendar Advanced Cron Manager – debug & control Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®) Advanced Database Cleaner – Optimize & Clean Database to Speed Up Site Performance Advanced Dynamic Pricing and Discount Rules for WooCommerce Advanced Forms for ACF PublishPress Blocks – Block Controls, Block Visibility, Block Permissions AesirX Analytics

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fy Frysk (Frisian) Translation Contributor

Contributed translations to 8 projects.

WordPress 6.1.x WordPress 6.2.x WordPress 6.3.x WordPress 6.4.x WordPress 6.5.x WordPress 6.6.x WordPress 6.7.x WordPress 7.1.x - Development

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kir Кыргызча (Kyrgyz) Translation Contributor

Contributed translations to 8 projects.

WordPress 6.0.x WordPress 6.1.x WordPress 6.2.x WordPress 6.3.x WordPress 6.4.x WordPress 6.5.x WordPress 6.6.x WordPress 7.1.x - Development

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ru_RU Русский (Russian) Translation Contributor

Contributed translations to 7 projects.