{"id":1026,"date":"2016-07-12T15:05:53","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T19:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.toronto.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_speaker&#038;p=1026"},"modified":"2016-07-12T15:05:53","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T19:05:53","slug":"paul-bearne","status":"publish","type":"wcb_speaker","link":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2016\/speaker\/paul-bearne\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Bearne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Bearne is a freelance senior WordPress full stack developer. He lives and works in Southern Ontario, Canada, serving both a local and an international client base.<\/p>\n<p>He discovered WordPress in 2006 when asked to explore the use of collaborative tools internally for a multinational corporation, setting up a 200+ multi-blog site using WPMU on IIS7. As part of this project, he created his first plugin, <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/author-avatars\/\" target=\"_blank\">Author Avatars<\/a>, which now has 10,000+ active installs.<\/p>\n<p>From this point on, the community, the flexibility and the velocity of WordPress has made it the platform of choice for Paul\u2019s work.<\/p>\n<p>Paul specializes in creating highly performant scalable, accessible and SEO friendly code (plugins and themes) for large WordPress sites that are often multi-site, multi-language, VIP and\/or e-commerce.<\/p>\n<p>He has made core commits in 3.9, 4.0, 4.2, 4.4, 4.5 and 4.6 and leads the virtual bi-weekly meetup, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/WPToronto\/events\/232312397\/\" target=\"_blank\">Contrib2Core<\/a>. He continues to support <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/pbearne\/#content-plugins\" target=\"_blank\">his growing list of plugins<\/a>\u00a0and the wider WordPress community.<\/p>\n<p>Paul is\u00a0a WordCamp Toronto 2016 Co-Organizer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Bearne is a freelance senior WordPress full stack developer. He lives and works in Southern Ontario, Canada, serving both a local and an international client base. He discovered WordPress in 2006 when asked to explore the use of collaborative &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2016\/speaker\/paul-bearne\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"assistive-text\">Paul Bearne<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14937762,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_user_name":"pbearne","footnotes":""},"speaker_group":[],"class_list":["post-1026","wcb_speaker","type-wcb_speaker","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p789Km-gy","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/08f5251e656bb9e514f0991825afcfed1053665cc3b79036b6c229552fd6ccd0?s=24&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/08f5251e656bb9e514f0991825afcfed1053665cc3b79036b6c229552fd6ccd0?s=48&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/08f5251e656bb9e514f0991825afcfed1053665cc3b79036b6c229552fd6ccd0?s=96&r=g","128":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/08f5251e656bb9e514f0991825afcfed1053665cc3b79036b6c229552fd6ccd0?s=128&r=g","256":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/08f5251e656bb9e514f0991825afcfed1053665cc3b79036b6c229552fd6ccd0?s=256&r=g","512":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/08f5251e656bb9e514f0991825afcfed1053665cc3b79036b6c229552fd6ccd0?s=512&r=g"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_speaker"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14937762"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1026\/revisions\/1028"}],"sessions":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/1298?_embed=1&context=view"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_speaker_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker_group?post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}