Tim: What’s your WordPress “origin” story?
I’ve been blogging over 14 years. I started manually blogging on GeoCities, then moved to b2 cafelog after a lot of friends introduced the blogging platform to me. I had tried Movable Type, Greymatter, Cute News, and others, but fell in love with b2 cafelog. It was only natural that as soon as WordPress had become available, that I made the switch.
Tim: Whats your top 3 WordPress plugins? Why?
- Yoast SEO – While I have basic SEO down, I love it because it also has the social network integration for search results, and for your content to display correctly. Once I set up the plugin how I wanted, it’s been easy to use.
- Ultimate Social Deux – This sexy little social sharing plugin gives my plugins the look I want. It was easy to set up, and makes it easy for visitors to use when sharing my articles to social networks
- Plugin Organizer – I really like that I can shut off plugins from running their scripts on specific pages. It’s helped in optimizing website speed.
Tim: Whats your most proud achievement around WordPress?
Being able to speak at WordCamps, and meet people around the world is great. Because of being able to present to WordPressers around the US, this year SlideShare sent to me that I was in the top 5% most viewed on their website.
I think this is awesome and makes me happy that people are really wanting to learn about WordPress, blogging, SEO, social media, and web design.
Tim: What do you want our readers to know about you?
My guilty pleasure is reading Japanese manga, watching anime, and writing InuYasha (manga/ anime) fan fiction.
Tim: Define yourself with one word.
Blondish
Nile is sharing her knowledge about Troubleshooting WordPress at 1pm in the User track.