At R-Cubed Design Forge, Rick develops custom plugins, themes, applications and multilingual web sites. At Lumostech, he teaches people all about WordPress.
In 2011, he started the Ottawa WordPress Meetup and spoke at WordCamp Toronto for the first time. Since then he has been thrilled to present at WordCamp Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa. Rick is the lead organizer of WordCamp Ottawa.
Speaker Session
Multisite for Multilingual in the Beginner Developer track.
About your talk
This talk is about creating a multilingual WordPress site using WordPress multisite. The talk will cover: the basics of setting up multisite, some plugins to make it easier to create a multilingual site, pros & cons of using multisite for multilingual sites, and some tips and tricks to help with your sites.
What do you want people to learn from your presentation?
The key thing to take away from this presentation is how to create a multilingual WordPress site using multisite.
Why did you decide to speak?
I enjoy teaching others about WordPress, and presenting at WordCamps, including Toronto, over the last few years has always been a lot of fun. It’s a great way to share knowledge and give back to the WordPress community.
What attracted you to WordPress in the first place?
It’s ease of use. I’ve worked with several CMS’s over the years but none are as easy to use as WordPress. With WordPress: 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.
What’s your favourite WordPress plugin or theme, and why?
My favorite theme is the new Bootstrap based framework I’m developing. I really like that using Bootstrap gives me a lot of tools for my theme that I don’t need to build from scratch.
What are you most looking forward to at WordCamp Toronto?
Networking and connecting with other WordPress enthusiasts.