{"id":2172,"date":"2017-10-30T12:03:51","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T17:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2017.dfw.wordcamp.org\/?p=2172"},"modified":"2017-10-30T12:03:51","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T17:03:51","slug":"wcdfw-speaker-spotlight-chris-lema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfw.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wcdfw-speaker-spotlight-chris-lema\/","title":{"rendered":"WCDFW Speaker Spotlight: Chris Lema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Topic:\u00a0Bringing a WordPress Product into the Market<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chris Lema has been building online web applications since 1995. He started working with WordPress in 2005, and today he\u2019s the VP of Products &amp; Innovation at Liquid Web, a 100M hosting company. He\u2019s known in the WordPress community as a blogger, public speaker, and the creator of CaboPress, the best business conference for WordPress in Cabo.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did you get involved in WordPress?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>\ufeffI was tired of making changes every time a customer wanted to tweak their website. So I initially started using DotNetNuke (DNN) but eventually found WordPress (in 2005). I then spent the next couple years creating a hundred WordPress websites that never used posts, just pages. I didn&#x27;t really go further than using WordPress until I visited two WordCamps in 2010, and I was hooked.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you do with WordPress?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>\ufeffToday I&#x27;m the VP of Products at Liquid Web where I&#x27;m focused on our Managed WordPress offering and getting a new product rolled out, Managed WooCommerce. I lead the teams that have built these products. I also blog and occasionally help friends run online businesses using membership plugins or eCommerce ones, like WooCommerce.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What has your experience with the WordPress community been like?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>\ufeffI love the community and have invested in them for years. It&#x27;s now been 6.5 years where I&#x27;ve actively participated in meetups, WordCamps, spoken at events and even created my own event for the community, called CaboPress.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why did you want to speak at WordCamp DFW?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>\ufeffI love the DFW crowd. Also, I am on dad duty that weekend and decided it would be fun to bring my son (10) to a WordCamp for his first time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why did you decide to speak on bringing a WordPress product into the market?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>\ufeffI have coached tons of product companies that have launched products in the WordPress ecosystem. And now, with our new Managed WooCommerce, I&#x27;m doing it too. So I thought it would be a good topic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you hope the audience gets from your talk?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>\ufeffI hope people are inspired, challenged, and encouraged to try building their own products for the WordPress world.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/2017.dfw.wordcamp.org\/tickets\/\">Tickets are now on sale<\/a>\u00a0for this year\u2019s WordCamp DFW held on Nov. 11-12. There are also plenty of opportunities to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/2017.dfw.wordcamp.org\/call-for-sponsors\/\">sponsor the event<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/2017.dfw.wordcamp.org\/call-for-volunteers\/\">help run it<\/a>. We hope to see you there!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topic:\u00a0Bringing a WordPress Product into the Market Chris Lema has been building online web applications since 1995. He started working with WordPress in 2005, and today he\u2019s the VP of Products &amp; Innovation at Liquid Web, a 100M hosting company. He\u2019s known in the WordPress community as a blogger, public speaker, and the creator of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfw.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wcdfw-speaker-spotlight-chris-lema\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WCDFW Speaker Spotlight: Chris Lema&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8005857,"featured_media":2182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1158652],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wordcamp-dfw-speakers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dfw.wordcamp.org\/2017\/files\/2017\/10\/chris-lema.jpg?fit=2000%2C1200&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8K1gz-z2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1188,"url":"https:\/\/dfw.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wordcamp-dfw-speakers-round-one\/","url_meta":{"origin":2172,"position":0},"title":"WordCamp DFW Speakers: Round One","author":"Jacob Martella","date":"September 20, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"With WordCamp DFW just 52 days away, the organizing committee is ready to announce the first round of speakers for this year\u2019s event. 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