 Hey, everyone. This is Neely with GoDaddy Pro talking to another maker of the web. Today, I have Pascal Burschler. Definitely appreciate you coming on and giving us a little bit of insight about who you are, what you do and some tips along the way. Oh, hey, thanks for having me. So yeah, my name is Pascal and I'm a long time WordPress contributor. When I've been using WordPress since I've been 12 years old. It's when I built my first website and I thank you and I currently work at Google as a developer, programs engineer and on a lot of WordPress related projects. So you started at 12 years old. What what made you start that website? What was that website about? For some reason, the web sparked my interest and I wanted to learn how to build websites. So my first website was really all about me and my my hobbies and then I started blogging. So I blogged about exams at school and things like that. So you've been doing this quite a long time. What are some of the the big changes that you've seen come from the WordPress ecosphere? I've certainly seen lots of change in the WordPress ecosystem and even in WordPress itself. Right today, it's very professionalized. Like we have lots of big companies doing lots of awesome work with WordPress. Back then, it wasn't the case and her presence wasn't that nice looking as well. And if you look at recent history, I think the change to Gutenberg, the blog editor in WordPress was one of the most significant changes for sure in WordPress. Right on. What are some of the most recent things you've been working on lately? Anything you want to kind of show off or highlight? Two things I would like to highlight. The first one is the new XML sitemaps feature in WordPress core that I helped develop that was just released as part of WordPress 5.5. And the second thing is WebStories, which is a project I've been working on for quite a while. And it's also my topic for the WordPress presentation. And WebStories is a new format for the open web. So it brings a format you might already know from, let's say, Instagram. Brings that format to the web, allowing everyone to create these immersive storytelling experiences, but they can be hosted on your website. That's awesome. Kind of gives that that behind the scenes or just just in the moment to get awesome content all the time to your website. That's pretty cool. Do you have any fun side projects you've been working on lately? So there's a pet project of mine that I'm really passionate about. And I'm actually been working on it occasionally for the last three years or so. And I'm trying to translate WordPress into a not very known language called Romance. It's actually one of the four official languages of Switzerland. So I'm Swiss and for some reason, that was dear to my heart to translate WordPress into this language that only 100,000 people approximately speak. And we're making good progress. So it was at 30 percent completion two years ago, and now we're at 60 percent. I hope we get to 100 by the end of the year. That's fantastic. Yeah, WordPress has already translated so many languages. It's it's great to see that you're continuing it and making sure WordPress is accessible for everyone. Where do you like WordPress has obviously changed a lot? Where do you see WordPress going the next, I don't know, five years? So languages is actually one point where WordPress apparently will make big changes in the future. So it's one of the the goals or one of the phases that Matt Mulvig has called out in the past. So we're going to see some multi-lingual capabilities for WordPress. But I'm more excited about the full site editing approach that WordPress is exploring, which basically brings the Gutenberg Block Editor to all parts of your website. And I think this is going to have a really, really big impact on how we build sites with WordPress. Right. So with that, you mean like so we can edit to the navigation, the archive pages, everything? Everything, correct. Wow, that I can't wait personally. Well, where can people find you if they want to kind of get in touch and kind of see the projects you're working on? So I'm usually tweeting about everything I'm currently working on. And my Twitter handle is Swiss Spidey or Swiss Speedy. And that's that's also my purpose of the org username, for example. That's probably the best way to stay up to date. Perfect. Well, I definitely appreciate you coming on here and talking this through kind of what you do and just WordPress in general. I'm Neely with GoDaddy Pro. We'll see you next time.