{"id":600,"date":"2012-09-25T22:21:04","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T02:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2012.toronto.wordcamp.org\/?p=600"},"modified":"2012-09-25T22:21:04","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T02:21:04","slug":"featured-speaker-sean-nilsson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2012\/featured-speaker-sean-nilsson\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Speaker: Sean Nilsson"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Sean Nilsson<\/a>\u00a0has been providing online marketing consulting for 3 years with a client list that includes IMAX Theatres, Museums and the Grand Canyon National Geographic Visitor Center. \u00a0Before going out on his own he spent 10+ years at IMAX Corporation overseeing online marketing and creative services. \u00a0Sean has been building web sites for 15+ years and loves the collaborative community that surrounds\u00a0WordPress.\u00a0When Sean isn\u2019t working on the Web he can be found strumming his guitar and fronting the indie folk band\u00a0Sheltered in Sound<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Presentation:\u00a0Spend Wisely: How to choose a Premium Theme<\/h3>\n

There are hundreds of thousands of\u00a0WordPress\u00a0themes floating around and a whole cottage industry built on theme selling. This presentation is about how to evaluate a premium\u00a0WordPress\u00a0theme and what to look for when shopping for a theme. This presentation focuses on tradition themes and will not go into detail on frameworks such as Headway, Thesis, etc. The presentation assumes participants are fairly new to\u00a0WordPress.<\/p>\n

What do you want folks to learn from your presentation?<\/h3>\n

Don’t fall for the flashy stock photos! \u00a0Look at the bones of the theme and the support available if something goes wrong or needs adapted.<\/p>\n

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

Flexibility. Great community. \u00a0New plugins daily. \u00a0Awesome.<\/p>\n

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

Learning different approaches to\u00a0WordPress. \u00a0What is new and what is coming in the months and years ahead.<\/p>\n

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

I love how much time people spend on themes, plugins etc. and ask for very little in return. \u00a0Hoping I can give a little back to the community.<\/p>\n

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

I’m a fan of themes by Kriesi.at<\/a>. Great support too.<\/p>\n

\u00bb Click here for more posts from our Featured Speaker series.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sean Nilsson\u00a0has been providing online marketing consulting for 3 years with a client list that includes IMAX Theatres, Museums and the Grand Canyon National Geographic Visitor Center. \u00a0Before going out on his own he spent 10+ years at IMAX Corporation … Continue reading Featured Speaker: Sean Nilsson<\/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-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-speaker"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2g0ao-9G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","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=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1501,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions\/1501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}