{"id":1144,"date":"2015-09-03T18:01:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T23:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015.dfw.wordcamp.org\/?p=1144"},"modified":"2015-09-03T18:01:46","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T23:01:46","slug":"featured-speaker-doug-stewart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfw.wordcamp.org\/2015\/featured-speaker-doug-stewart\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Speaker: DOUG STEWART"},"content":{"rendered":"

Next on deck in our Speaker Q&A series is Doug Stewart<\/a>, who’ll be presenting “Tales from the Command Line!”<\/p>\n

WHY DO YOU USE WORDPRESS?<\/h5>\n

It puts food on the table. *grin* I work for 10up and do WordPress stuff day-in\/day-out, but I got started with it as a writer and have participated in its growth and evolution over the course of the last 11.5 years.<\/p>\n

WHEN AND HOW DID YOU GET STARTED USING WORDPRESS?<\/h5>\n

I started using WordPress in 2004 with version 1.0. I had been using Blogger and wanted to host my own site, so I started investigating Movable Type. MT changed their license from an open source one to a for-pay closed-source one just before WP 1.0 was released, so I was looking around for a CMS with similar capabilities but with an open source license. WP fit the bill quite nicely.<\/p>\n

WHAT TIPS OR RESOURCES WOULD YOU RECOMMEND TO A NEW WORDPRESS USER?<\/h5>\n

Find a local Meetup, ask questions, and most importantly, play around with WP. Install themes and plugins, figure out how they work together (or don’t!).<\/p>\n

WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE SOMEONE WHO\u2019S BUILDING A BUSINESS AROUND WORDPRESS DESIGN OR DEVELOPMENT?<\/h5>\n

Find a niche that no one else is exploiting and the go after it with quality code and good support.<\/p>\n

HOW DO YOU STAY INFORMED ABOUT WORDPRESS (NEWS, TIPS, ETC.)?<\/h5>\n

Mainly Twitter and a heap of Feedly RSS subscriptions, plus my co-workers.<\/p>\n

WHAT DO YOU LIKE MOST ABOUT WORDCAMPS?<\/h5>\n

Getting other people excited about new developments and approaches in WordPress. I love seeing the “lightbulb moments” for people and I’ve been the beneficiary of just such a moment more than a few times.<\/p>\n

WHAT ARE YOU MOST LOOKING FORWARD TO AT WORDCAMP DFW?<\/h5>\n

Getting to interact with a whole new community of WordPress users. I’ve got family in Dallas and I’m really looking forward to it.<\/p>\n

WHERE CAN WE FIND YOU ONLINE?<\/h5>\n

Website:\u00a0http:\/\/literalbarrage.org\/blog<\/a>
\nTwitter:\u00a0@zamoose<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Next on deck in our Speaker Q&A series is Doug Stewart, who’ll be presenting “Tales from the Command Line!” WHY DO YOU USE WORDPRESS? It puts food on the table. *grin* I work for 10up and do WordPress stuff day-in\/day-out, but I got started with it as a writer and have participated in its growth … Continue reading Featured Speaker: DOUG STEWART<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11569643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[172414],"class_list":["post-1144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speakers","tag-doug-stewart"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p67dsT-is","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfw.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfw.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfw.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfw.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11569643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfw.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dfw.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1145,"href":"https:\/\/dfw.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions\/1145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfw.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfw.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfw.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}