{"id":892,"date":"2011-10-27T10:10:40","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T14:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2011.toronto.wordcamp.org\/?p=892"},"modified":"2011-10-27T10:10:40","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T14:10:40","slug":"featured-speaker-ron-andrea-rennick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2011\/featured-speaker-ron-andrea-rennick\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Speaker: Ron &#038; Andrea Rennick"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 112px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Ron Rennick\" src=\"http:\/\/1.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7b8ff059b9a4504dfbaebd4dd190466e?s=102&amp;d=&amp;r=G\" alt=\"Ron Rennick\" width=\"102\" height=\"102\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ron Rennick<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Ron &amp; Andrea Rennick specialize in the network\/multisite feature of WordPress, ranging from custom plugin development to commercial plugins and ebooks at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wpebooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">wpebooks.com<\/a>. Both are active in the core WordPress development and support communities, and Andrea is one of the co-authors of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dummies.com\/store\/product\/WordPress-All-in-One-For-Dummies.productCd-0470877014.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cWordPress All-In-One for Dummies\u201d<\/a>. \u00a0\u00a0Follow Andrea (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/andrea_r\" target=\"_blank\">@andrea_r<\/a>)\u00a0and Ron (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/wpmuguru\" target=\"_blank\">@wpmuguru<\/a>) on Twitter.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Why WordPress?<\/h3>\n<div style=\"width: 112px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Andrea Rennick\" src=\"http:\/\/1.gravatar.com\/avatar\/19370a2484593358d3d903edfbcc2e6a?s=102&amp;d=&amp;r=G\" alt=\"Andrea Rennick\" width=\"102\" height=\"102\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrea Rennick<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Back in the day, Andrea had an online journal. It was flat files with hardcoded HTML. WordPress was and still is a miracle. Anyone can get up and running and publishing content in minutes.<\/p>\n<h3>What are you most looking forward to at WordCamp Toronto?<\/h3>\n<p>We are most looking forward to socializing with new friends and familiar faces, and also telling people about the super cool stuff you can do with multisite.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Why did you decide to speak at WordCamp Toronto?<\/h3>\n<p>Why not? \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<h3>What is your talk going to be about?<\/h3>\n<p><em>Ron and Andrea are going to give a great overview of what multisite is, what you can do with it, when to consider using it and what you need to know.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>What is one thing you want people to walk away with from your talk?<\/h3>\n<p>That even if they don&#8217;t use multisite right away for anything, they will have an understanding of the power under the hood.<\/p>\n<h3>Bonus:\u00a0What is your favourite WordPress plugin or theme? Why?<\/h3>\n<p>We may be totally biased, but the Genesis theme framework from StudioPress is something we use daily.<\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"Featured Speakers\" href=\"https:\/\/2011.toronto.wordcamp.org\/category\/speakers\/\">\u00bb Click here for more posts from our Featured Speaker series.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron &amp; Andrea Rennick specialize in the network\/multisite feature of WordPress, ranging from custom plugin development to commercial plugins and ebooks at\u00a0wpebooks.com. Both are active in the core WordPress development and support communities, and Andrea is one of the co-authors &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2011\/featured-speaker-ron-andrea-rennick\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Featured Speaker: Ron &#038; Andrea Rennick<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6358608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[18007,18001,18006],"class_list":["post-892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speakers","tag-andrea-rennick","tag-featured-speaker","tag-ron-rennick"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1vuIl-eo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6358608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":908,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions\/908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}