{"id":646,"date":"2012-09-18T09:35:04","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T13:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2012.toronto.wordcamp.org\/?p=646"},"modified":"2012-09-18T09:35:04","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T13:35:04","slug":"featured-speaker-rick-radko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2012\/featured-speaker-rick-radko\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Speaker: Rick Radko"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Rick Radko is a creative, artistic, and entrepreneurial engineer with a passion for finding solutions to difficult design problems. He is the owner of\u00a0R-Cubed Design Forge<\/a>, where he develops custom web applications, social networking and team collaboration solutions for businesses. Rick specializes in custom application development and multilingual WordPress sites. He is co-leader, and a frequent presenter at the\u00a0Ottawa WordPress Group<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Presentation:\u00a0You have a backup, don’t you?<\/h3>\n

Could you recover your WordPress website if it was lost due to a hardware failure, hacked, or corrupted during an update or plugin install? Having good backups can make the difference between a 10 minute recovery and complete site rebuild that may take a week. This presentation will cover the basics of backups, and several techniques of creating and restoring backups including: using cPanel, WordPress plugins, and services like VaultPress.<\/p>\n

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

How to do the most important, but most neglected, task on your WordPress website: back it up!<\/p>\n

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

Simple, it\u2019s really easy to use. My clients get web sites that they can manage and update mostly on their own, and as a developer I get a framework that is easy to modify or extend with add-ons and plugins.<\/p>\n

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

Meeting and connecting with other WordPress enthusiasts.<\/p>\n

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

I’ve worked with WordPress for the past 4 years, and I want to see it continue to grow. Speaking at a WordCamp provides an opportunity to give back to the WordPress community in a way that supports it and helps it thrive.<\/p>\n

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

“As a developer I use a lot of different plugins, but few that I use most of the time are Gravity Forms<\/a>, Google Analytics for WordPress<\/a>, and TinyMCE Advanced<\/a>. I’m also using a couple new ones for building multilingual sites on WordPress multisite – Multisite Language Switcher<\/a> and WP Native Dashboard<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

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