{"id":1691,"date":"2018-10-25T12:01:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T17:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2018.dfw.wordcamp.org\/?p=1691"},"modified":"2018-10-25T12:01:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T17:01:11","slug":"wcdfw-speaker-spotlight-ben-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfw.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wcdfw-speaker-spotlight-ben-word\/","title":{"rendered":"WCDFW Speaker Spotlight: Ben Word"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/2018.dfw.wordcamp.org\/files\/2018\/10\/ben-word-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dfw.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/10\/ben-word-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/dfw.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/10\/ben-word-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dfw.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/10\/ben-word.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Topic:\u00a0Deploying WordPress with Git and Continuous Integration (CI)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ben Word is the founder of Roots and been creating WordPress sites since 2004. He loves dogs, climbing, and yoga, and is passionate about helping people build awesome things on the web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"mce_2\">How did you get involved in WordPress?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>My first WordPress site was a blog in 2004, and by 2009 I was building most of my sites with WordPress. I ended up creating a WordPress starter theme (now called Sage) at an agency where I was sometimes making multiple themes a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"mce_4\">What do you do with WordPress?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I work on open-source tools for WordPress along with my team at Roots, create educational content, and build out client sites and apps with WordPress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"mce_6\">What has your experience with the WordPress community been like?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve met a lot of people through the WordPress community who are just as passionate as I am about building\/doing good things \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"mce_8\">Why did you want to speak at WordCamp DFW?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Even though Colorado is now my home, I was born and raised in the Dallas area. It&#8217;s always nice to have an excuse to come and visit! Do y&#8217;all understand what it&#8217;s like to not be able to go to Whataburger?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"mce_10\">Why did you decide to speak on your topic?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I feel that implementing CI to deploy my WordPress sites is the biggest improvements to my workflow over the last few years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"mce_12\">What do you hope the audience gets from your talk?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;d love for others to see how deploying WordPress with Git can make their life easier as a developer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/2018.dfw.wordcamp.org\/tickets\/\">Tickets are now on sale<\/a>\u00a0for this year\u2019s WordCamp DFW held on Nov. 10-11. There are also plenty of opportunities to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/2018.dfw.wordcamp.org\/2018\/06\/10\/call-for-sponsors\/\">sponsor the event<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/2018.dfw.wordcamp.org\/2018\/06\/09\/call-for-volunteers\/\">help run it<\/a>. 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