{"id":712,"date":"2015-09-13T12:00:58","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T17:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015.toronto.wordcamp.org\/?p=712"},"modified":"2015-09-10T20:59:18","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T01:59:18","slug":"featured-speaker-al-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2015\/featured-speaker-al-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Speaker: Al Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"grav-2ef1ba8ffbff6277210bbb2dc6210605-0\" class=\"avatar avatar-100 photo grav-hashed grav-hijack alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2ef1ba8ffbff6277210bbb2dc6210605?s=200&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adavis3105\" target=\"_blank\">Al Davis<\/a> has been involved in the WordPress community for many years. As a former organizer of both WordCamp and the WordPress meetup group, Al has a lot of great memories of the community. As a former College professor teaching WordCamp, he has first hand knowledge of what people are looking for in when it comes to specific areas of WordPress.<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Presentation:\u00a0Ecomm 101<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;This is an area that has never been covered before, but one that was always very popular in my classrooms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>What unique perspective are you bringing to this talk?<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll use my own experience in setting up a store as well as real life examples to help explain the concepts and challenges that come with WordPress Ecommerce.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>What&#8217;s one really cool thing people will discover during your session?<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Attendees will walk away with a good grasp of whats needed and how to get started in the world of WordPress Ecommerce. Attendees will walk away being able to set up a basic WordPress Ecommerce site.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>What are you most looking forward to at WordCamp Toronto?<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Connecting with the people I haven&#8217;t seen in a while.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Davis has been involved in the WordPress community for many years. As a former organizer of both WordCamp and the WordPress meetup group, Al has a lot of great memories of the community. As a former College professor teaching WordCamp, he has first hand knowledge of what people are looking for in when it [&hellip;]<\/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":[4636],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-speakers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UjGY-bu","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6358608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":714,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions\/714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}