{"id":872,"date":"2012-09-10T09:44:38","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T13:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2012.toronto.wordcamp.org\/?p=872"},"modified":"2012-09-10T09:44:38","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T13:44:38","slug":"featured-speaker-christopher-ross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2012\/featured-speaker-christopher-ross\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Speaker: Christopher Ross"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Christopher<\/a>\u00a0has spoken at WordCamp events in Toronto and Montreal in the past, taught community college courses in web design, and run a successful WordPress based consulting business since 2005.<\/p>\n

For the past three years, he has been focussed on delivering network based WordPress communities using WordPress multisite and WordPress VIP based solutions for business and government organizations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Presentation:\u00a0Building a Newspaper Website with WordPress<\/h3>\n

A complete overview of creating a newspaper website using WordPress. This presentation will cover common newspaper, and magazine concepts, starter themes, advertising integration, helpful plugins and solutions for newspapers from startups to national publications.<\/p>\n

This talk will be focused on bloggers with limited technical knowledge. In 45 minutes, users will be brought though the steps required to implement a fully functional, WordPress powered news website.<\/p>\n

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

Building a successful newspaper (or magazine) website using WordPress can be both fun and easy.<\/p>\n

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What attracted you to WordPress?<\/h3>\n

Using WordPress saves me countless hours by providing a strong, stable platform for building professional websites<\/p>\n

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

Meeting fellow developers, designers and bloggers.<\/p>\n

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

It gives me an opportunity to share my experience and learn from others in the community.<\/p>\n

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

Hm … not sure really, there are a lot of great ones but JetPack<\/a> is awesome.<\/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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