{"id":548,"date":"2012-09-16T10:51:28","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T14:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2012.toronto.wordcamp.org\/?p=548"},"modified":"2012-09-16T10:51:28","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T14:51:28","slug":"featured-speaker-dale-mugford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2012\/featured-speaker-dale-mugford\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Speaker: Dale Mugford"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Co-Founder of\u00a0BraveNewCode<\/a>, Dale Mugford, has been working with the web since 1994 and WordPress since 1.0. His company BraveNewCode has been building WordPress-only websites and plugins for the past 5 years. BraveNewCode has become a leader in the WordPress community demonstrating the awesomeness of WordPress and how to build a business on it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Presentation: Go Mobile on WordPress<\/h3>\n

Which approach is right for you?\u00a0This session explores different methods to deliver a mobile version of your WordPress-based website.<\/p>\n

What attracted you to WordPress in the first place?<\/h3>\n

WordPress is powerful, extensible, flexible, and extremely easy-to-use. This combination of attributes makes it the leading CMS\/publishing software for websites.<\/p>\n

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What are you most looking forward to at WordCamp Toronto?<\/h3>\n

Meeting with attendees and other speakers and discovering their interest and passion around WordPress and what they do with it. It’s always a real boost to hear from people within the community and learn about the awesome things they’re doing.<\/p>\n

Why did you decide to speak at WordCamp Toronto?<\/h3>\n

Having spoken at it last-year, I received a lot of great feedback on my talk, and realized that (speaking about mobile + WordPress) is a topic that everyone wants to hear about and learn about\u2014 and my experience working with mobile and WordPress over the past 5 years offers insights that provide attendees with knowledge from experience that they can’t get elsewhere.<\/p>\n

What is your favourite WordPress plugin or theme, and why?<\/h3>\n

Plugin (that’s not one of ours): Gravity Forms<\/a>. Paid plugin only, but easily hands down the best forms plugin out there. It makes creating forms for using on WordPress site actually *fun*. A tall order!!<\/p>\n

Theme: Modernize<\/a>.\u00a0A really nicely done WordPress theme, suitable for individuals or businesses. There’s lots of great themes out there now for WordPress, but the polish on this one is pretty outstanding.<\/p>\n

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Co-Founder of\u00a0BraveNewCode, Dale Mugford, has been working with the web since 1994 and WordPress since 1.0. His company BraveNewCode has been building WordPress-only websites and plugins for the past 5 years. BraveNewCode has become a leader in the WordPress community … Continue reading Featured Speaker: Dale Mugford<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6358608,"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":[18001],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-speaker"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2g0ao-8Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6358608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1387,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions\/1387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}