{"id":917,"date":"2015-10-02T08:27:39","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T12:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015.hamptonroads.wordcamp.org\/?p=917"},"modified":"2015-10-01T08:32:02","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T12:32:02","slug":"speaker-interview-jared-beasley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamptonroads.wordcamp.org\/2015\/speaker-interview-jared-beasley\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Interview: Jared Beasley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim: What&#8217;s your WordPress &#8220;origin&#8221; story?<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nAround 2007 I gave up struggling building sites from scratch in Dreamweaver \/ trying to reinvent the wheel and discovered WordPress. The ease it took to get a site up and running quickly while maintaining the ability for deep customization had me like whoa. I haven&#8217;t looked back.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tim: Whats your top 3 WordPress plugins? Why?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<strong><\/p>\n<li>Google Analytics Dashboard for WP &#8211; Simple yet robust enough\n<\/li>\n<li>Gravity Forms &#8211; I buy local \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n<li>WooCommerce &#8211; Not because it delights, but because it sells<\/li>\n<p><\/strong><\/ol>\n<p>Tim: Whats your most proud achievement around WordPress?<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nMaking an actual living off of it.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tim: What do you want our readers to know about you?<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nWhen it comes to WordPress, I love learning and sharing what I&#8217;ve discovered. I&#8217;m very much looking forward to sharing some of those discoveries and hopefully glean some goodness from others as well.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tim: Define yourself with one word.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nPuntificator<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jared is talking about <a href=\"https:\/\/2015.hamptonroads.wordcamp.org\/session\/optimizing-wordpress-for-photography\/\">Optimizing WordPress for Photography<\/a> at 3pm. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim: What&#8217;s your WordPress &#8220;origin&#8221; story? Around 2007 I gave up struggling building sites from scratch in Dreamweaver \/ trying to reinvent the wheel and discovered WordPress. The ease it took to get a site up and running quickly while maintaining the ability for deep customization had me like whoa. I haven&#8217;t looked back. Tim: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hamptonroads.wordcamp.org\/2015\/speaker-interview-jared-beasley\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Speaker Interview: Jared Beasley<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8399010,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":""},"categories":[259194],"tags":[592988,5007,39837],"class_list":["post-917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaker-interviews","tag-jared-beasley","tag-optimization","tag-photography"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4VWW2-eN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamptonroads.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamptonroads.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamptonroads.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamptonroads.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8399010"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamptonroads.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hamptonroads.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":918,"href":"https:\/\/hamptonroads.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions\/918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamptonroads.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamptonroads.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamptonroads.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}