{"id":241664,"date":"2014-11-13T20:00:10","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T01:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.toronto.wordcamp.org\/?p=241664"},"modified":"2014-11-02T17:33:35","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T22:33:35","slug":"featured-speaker-kathryn-presner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/featured-speaker-kathryn-presner\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Speaker: Kathryn Presner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;margin: 10px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1d23db2f33a765c1c0e91d45f0ddb0f7?s=128&amp;d=identicon\" alt=\"\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/kpresner.com\/\">Kathryn<\/a> thrives on helping people get the most out of WordPress. After a career designing and building websites for clients, she joined Automattic as a Happiness Engineer in 2012 and is a member with the<a href=\"http:\/\/themeshaper.com\/\">Theme Team,<\/a> where she help folks with all types of theme-related issues on both WordPress.com and self-hosted sites.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Kathryn Presner\" href=\"https:\/\/2014.toronto.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/kathryn-presner\/\">View Kathryn&#8217;s speaker profile.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Presentation:\u00a0<a title=\"Getting Comfortable With Child Themes\" href=\"https:\/\/2014.toronto.wordcamp.org\/session\/getting-comfortable-with-child-themes\/\">Getting Comfortable With Child Themes<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Child themes are a simple but powerful way to customize a pre-made theme. Learning how to use them properly means you\u2019ll never risk losing all your modifications when the developer releases a new version and you update the theme. Using easy-to-follow language, I\u2019ll walk you through the steps to set up a child theme and we\u2019ll get started making some tweaks \u2013 from CSS look-and-feel adjustments to more substantial changes in functionality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathryn thrives on helping people get the most out of WordPress. After a career designing and building websites for clients, she joined Automattic as a Happiness Engineer in 2012 and is a member with theTheme Team, where she help folks with all types of theme-related issues on both WordPress.com and self-hosted sites. View Kathryn&#8217;s speaker &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/featured-speaker-kathryn-presner\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Featured Speaker: Kathryn Presner<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6358608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speakers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6358608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241666,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241664\/revisions\/241666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}