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WordPress Community Interview With Robert Sather

Posted on Monday, January 9th, 2017 at 9:59 am by John Parkinson

Robert Sather is a 25 year old web developer with 6 years experience in web development, doing mainly plugin and custom theme development. Robert resides in Sandefjord, Norway and has interests in travelling, urban exploration, hiking in the woods, hamradio and airsoft

Robert enjoys creating custom themes as well as looking into WP security. He spends time in the WordPress Support Forums helping with security issues.

We discuss WordCamp Oslo, the WordPress Community, speaking and touch on ham radio operations.

http://wordpress.tv/2017/01/09/wordpress-community-interview-with-robert-sather/

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WordCamp Video Highlight 2017/01/06

Posted on Friday, January 6th, 2017 at 3:24 pm by John Parkinson

With the announcement from WordCamp Central about the Incubator Program in February of 2016 and then three locations being chosen for the program, I thought featuring videos from WordCamp Harare and WordCamp Denpasar would highlight the progress that these Communities have made.

Sizo Sinyolo: When Time Says No, WordPress Says Yes

Talk about pressure! Sizo was tasked with creating an E-commerce WordPress site and didn’t know anything about WordPress!

“I had never used WordPress until pressure mounted on me as an internship student , the company wanted the website up and running within a week.”

http://wordpress.tv/2017/01/03/sizo-sinyolo-when-time-says-no-wordpress-says-yes/

Presentation Slides can be seen HERE.

Wibowo Sulistio: Leveling up through Pro Bono dev work

“Pro bono work is fun and rewarding. It is also a great way to level up your WordPress prowess and reputation, either as a freelance developer or as part of a digital agency. When you give back to society, you receive back as much, if not more.”

http://wordpress.tv/2016/12/05/wibowo-sulistio-leveling-up-though-pro-bono-dev-work/

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WordPress Community Interview With Jeff Chandler and Marcus Couch

Posted on Monday, January 2nd, 2017 at 10:58 am by John Parkinson

Jeff Chandler and Marcus Couch host the WordPress Weekly podcast, which covers all things WordPress. They also interview a variety people who make up the WordPress Community.

Marcus Couch has been a WordPress developer for more than 12 years. Besides being the co-host of WordPress Weekly, he is the cohost of the WordPress Plugins A-Z Podcast with John Overall. Marcus also helps people plan, develop and implement membership sites at Membership Site Coach.

Jeff Chandler launched WordPress Weekly in January of 2008. In that initial episode, Jeff talked about the release of WordPress 2.3.2 and running WordPress locally. He resides in Ohio and has been writing about WordPress since 2007 at the WPTavern. When he attends WordCamps, Jeff can mostly be found taking part in the Hallway Track.

We had a great time talking WordCamps and the WordPress Community.

I do need to apologize to Jeff and Marcus. This is the first time that I had two guest being interviewed. There are times where you can see that Marcus and Jeff’s face are blocked. I did not realize this happened until I was processing the video.

http://wordpress.tv/2017/01/02/wordpress-community-interview-with-jeff-chandler-and-marcus-couch/

WordCamp Video Highlight 2016/12/30

Posted on Saturday, December 31st, 2016 at 2:27 am by John Parkinson

This week we have two videos featuring the WordPress Command Line Interface

As stated on the WP-CLI website: it is a set of command-line tools for managing WordPress installations. You can update plugins, configure multisite installs and much more, without using a web browser.

Matt Mullenweg recently posted on the make.wordpress.org/core page about the wp-cli future and how it is coming under the umbrella of WordPress.org. You can read the entire post HERE along with all of the comments.

From WordCamp Katmandu 2016.

Suwash Kunwar: Administer WordPress with WP-CLI

Suwash gives a basic overview on how to use the WP command line interface in order to complete regular administrative tasks like upgrades,

http://wordpress.tv/2016/12/02/suwash-kunwar-administer-wordpress-with-wp-cli/

Slides for this presentation can be found HERE.

And this video from WordCamp Denver 2016.

Chris Mospaw: Leveraging WP-CLI

This talk starts by briefly touching on setup and installation, and then moves into some of the basic commands.

http://wordpress.tv/2016/11/09/chris-mospaw-leveraging-wp-cli/

Slides for this presentation can be found HERE.

WordPress Community Interview With Kathryn Presner

Posted on Monday, December 26th, 2016 at 10:10 am by John Parkinson

Kathryn Presner is a Happiness Engineer at Automattic where she thrives on helping people get the most out of their WordPress experience.

Kathryn gave a presentation at WordCamp US titled “From Shadows to Limelight – How Women Found Their Voice At WordCamp Montreal.” Here she talks about the successful effort to increase the number of women giving presentations at WordCamp.

We talk about being in involved in the WordPress Community and how she first became active in the Support Forums which led to her applying for a position as a Happiness Engineer.

In 2015 Kathryn took part in a brand new WordPress event called Press Publish which made its debut in Portland, Oregon. An initiative of Automattic, the conference mixed advice and inspiration for bloggers with tips on making the most of WordPress.

Kathryn at Press Publish in Portland, Oregon

Kathryn is very active in Ladies Learning Code and Girl Geeks.

Ladies Learning Code is a not-for-profit organization with the mission to be the leading resource for women and youth to become passionate builders – not just consumers – of technology by learning technical skills in a hands-on, social, and collaborative way.

Girl Geeks Dinners whose mission includes:
Break down old fashioned social stereotypes.
Identify routes around barriers to entry for anyone to get into technology.
Encourage and nurture those interested in technology.

https://wordpress.tv/2016/12/26/wordpress-community-interview-with-kathryn-presner/

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WordPress Community Interview With Thabo Tswana

Posted on Wednesday, December 21st, 2016 at 10:02 am by John Parkinson

You might call this post a Special Edition for the WordPress Community Interview Series. I felt the need to get this interview published quickly because of the message Thabo has for the Community.

Thabo Tswana is a web designer living in Harare, Zimbabwe. He states that “He has a hunger to constantly grow and evolve as a designer. He has a genuine passion for programming, technology and website security”.

Thabo was the lead organizer for WordCamp Harare, which was one of the three WordCamps chosen to take part in the WordCamp Incubator Program. The other two WordCamps took place in Denpasar, Indonesia and Medellín, Colombia.

The incubator program was unveiled in February of this year and the three locations were announced in May.

Hugh Lashbrooke, Andrea Middleton, Rocio Valdivia (among others) mentored Thabo and his team throughout the time leading up to WordCamp.

The team was encouraged to start a local WordPress Meetup group and hold regular meetings. They were tasked with finding a venue, setting a date, recruiting speakers, and spreading the word about the upcoming WordCamp.

The goal for the incubator events was to organize an easily reproducible, one-day, one-track event with about 50-75 attendees.

This interview is a bit longer than normal but it is well worth it!

http://wordpress.tv/2016/12/21/wordpress-community-interview-with-thabo-tswana/

WordPress Community Interview With Miguel Useche

Posted on Monday, December 19th, 2016 at 10:18 am by John Parkinson

Miguel Useche lives near San Cristóbal, Venezuela. He is a developer at webdibs, a professor at the Universidad del Táchira, and an open source advocate. Miguel is also a Playstation 3 and PC gamer, Linux user, skateboarder and blogger.

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We were supposed to do a quick Skype interview during the Global WordPress Translation Day 2 on November 12th but my schedule changed and we were unable chat.

Miguel is one of the organizers of the WordPress Meetup Group in San Cristóbal. There are over 130 members which meets monthly.

http://wordpress.tv/2016/12/19/wordpress-community-interview-with-miguel-useche/

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WordCamp Video Highlight 2016/12/16

Posted on Friday, December 16th, 2016 at 1:28 pm by John Parkinson

I have a confession to make. This first video is one that I have been keeping a look out for since it was done at WordCamp Ann Arbor 2016. I admit that I may have a jaundiced view point, kind of like – If I hit my finger with this 16 pound sledge hammer, it MAY hurt.

Kyle Maurer and Adam Silver: WP Battles – Hacker vs. Webmaster

Ladies and gentleman, its Cyber Shield (Adam Silver) versus Malwarious (Kyle Maurer), its good versus evil, cute cats and puppies versus mean people.

The Internet is a battleground. It’s true. Every minute of every day, a war is being fought.

https://wordpress.tv/2016/12/15/kyle-maurer-and-adam-silver-wp-battles-hacker-vs-webmaster/

This is actually the third WP Battle presentation these two have done. A rap battle was done at WordCamp Ann Arbor 2015 and then a political style debate at WordCamp NEO 2016.

Pippin Williamson: Answers by Pippin

I had the misfortune of presenting in the same time slot as Pippin at a WordCamp a couple of years ago. I had three people (two feel asleep) and he had a standing room only crowd. This video is from WordCamp US 2016.

Pippin will answer some of the questions he is asked most often in regard to plugin development, business, managing a team, life, and other subjects.

https://wordpress.tv/2016/12/10/pippin-williamson-answers-by-pippin/

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WordPress Community Interview With Anil Gupta

Posted on Monday, December 12th, 2016 at 7:21 am by John Parkinson

First, I would like to thanks Nirmal Desai who introduced me to Anil and helped arrange this interview. Nirmal is one of the WordPress TV Team members

Anil Gupta is a developer and resides in Ahmedabad, India. Anil and Aslam Multani started a company called Multidots in a rented apartment, two old computers, bad internet service and turned it into a company that now employs over 100 people worldwide and delivers professional web and mobile solutions.

Anil has a great philosophy towards the company, clients and crew (employees). You can read about the company and their relationship ideas in a Linkedin post that Anil posted HERE.

At Multidots we have this engine which shows how these three “C” (Company, Clients and Crew) are connected and responsible. There are three entity in the business – Company, Clients, Crew (Employee)! We really need to align them well. It would not only help company to grow and get better success but would help client and employee to achieve their goals and satisfaction.

Anil and his partner encourage employees to become involved in WordPress and to give back to the community. Chetan is one of the team members that contributed for the recent release of WordPress 4.7, Chirag Patel is a Polyglots Team Editor and took part in the Global WordPress Translation Day 2 and as I had mentioned before, Nirmal Desai is an active member of the WordPress TV Team.

https://wordpress.tv/2016/12/12/wordpress-community-interview-with-anil-gupta/

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