Topic: Building API Services for your Plugins Using the WordPress REST API
CTO of WPMU DEV (140+ premium plugins, services, and support) and Edublogs (hosting 3 million+ education blogs), managing a large team of developers and sysadmins around the globe. Cloud architect and WordPress plugin developer specializing in Multisite for 10 years, working from home in Dallas. Proud father of 3 and a world travel nut.
How did you get involved in WordPress?
I started when I created my first multisite network, missionsplace.com. I began learning to develop plugins for it, sharing them with the community. Then eventually started working as a plugin developer full time!
What do you do with WordPress?
I’m the Chief Technical Officer of Incsub, LLC (WPMU DEV, CampusPress). I spend my days leading our systems team to build and support really cool WordPress projects, whether it’s cloud API services like WP Smush, enterprise and entry level managed WordPress hosting, or designing and building architectures, policies, and guidelines for the technical side of our products, I have my hands in it all. I just love building cool new things.
What has your experience with the WordPress community been like?
I really enjoy attending and speaking at WordCamps. And it’s often the only chance I get to meet and hang out with fellow members of our distributed team.
Why did you want to speak at WordCamp DFW?
I want to support my local DFW WordPress community, and meet people in person in the same niche as me.
Why did you decide to speak on your topic?
I love building API services, and the challenge of scaling them in the cloud.
What do you hope the audience gets from your talk?
I hope they learn the effectiveness of a new business model for plugins, to get ongoing subscription revenue by turning them into a SaaS (Software as a Service) by providing services via APIs on their own servers.
Tickets are now on sale for this year’s WordCamp DFW held on Nov. 10-11. There are also plenty of opportunities to sponsor the event or help run it. We hope to see you there!