{"id":1633,"date":"2017-07-28T15:30:40","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T19:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2017.toronto.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_speaker&#038;p=1633"},"modified":"2017-08-29T17:19:19","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T21:19:19","slug":"paul-bearne","status":"publish","type":"wcb_speaker","link":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2017\/speaker\/paul-bearne\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Bearne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I am a freelance senior WordPress full stack developer. I live and work in Southern Ontario, Canada, serving both a local and an international client base. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I 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, I created my first plugin, Author Avatars which now has 10,000+ active installs.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">From this point on, the community, the flexibility and the velocity of WordPress has made it the platform of choice for my work.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I specialize 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. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I have made core commits in 3.9, 4.0, 4.2, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6 and 4.7 and lead the virtual meetup, [Contrib2Core](http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/WPToronto\/events\/232050203\/). <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I also continue to support my growing [list of plugins](https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/pbearne\/#content-plugins ) and the wider WordPress community.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Contact<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Website: <a href=\"http:\/\/bearne.ca\/\">http:\/\/bearne.ca\/<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Twitter: @pbearne<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a freelance senior WordPress full stack developer. 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