{"id":1003,"date":"2017-03-12T14:15:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T19:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2017.stlouis.wordcamp.org\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2017-06-30T14:19:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T19:19:40","slug":"wcstl-speaker-interview-emanuel-costa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wcstl-speaker-interview-emanuel-costa\/","title":{"rendered":"WCSTL Speaker Interview: Emanuel Costa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emanuel Costa will be talking on\u00a0The Ultimate Security Checklist For WordPress Websites<\/a>. Emanuel is originally from Brazil, and currently lives in Las Vegas, Nevada. He’s a\u00a0professional web developer, SEO\/SEM specialist, eCommerce consultant and web entrepreneur at High Tech Web, Inc<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here is Emanuel’s interview:<\/p>\n

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NILE FLORES:<\/strong> What was it about WordPress that got you to start using it?<\/p>\n

EMANUEL COSTA:<\/strong> In 2005, when I first saw WordPress, I have to admit I was not impressed. I then developed my own blog code and database from scratch. 5 years later, I was invited to give a website redesign proposal to a real estate agency in South Florida and when I asked what were competitors sites, I found out that all theirs websites were built in WordPress. I asked myself, how come a blog tool be used as CMS and have so many different “look and feel” sites? I then took a second look and was positively surprised with the WordPress evolution to become a full featured Content Management System.<\/em><\/p>\n

NILE FLORES:\u00a0<\/strong>What motivates you to give back to WordPress and its community?<\/p>\n

EMANUEL COSTA:\u00a0<\/strong>After I deep dived in beyond the nuts and bolts of WordPress, I felt (and feel) I work standing on the shoulders of giants. Because of that I was inspired by many people involved in the WP community. I am an avid watcher at WordPress.tv and I am always amused by the awesome presentations people in the community give at WordCamps.<\/em><\/p>\n

NILE FLORES:\u00a0<\/strong>How many WordCamps have you been to, and what was your best 1 or 2 experiences that you had when attending WordCamp?<\/p>\n

EMANUEL COSTA:\u00a0<\/strong>I don’t know the exactly number but I would say 30ish in 10 different cities. I try to go to as many WordCamps as possible. In 2016 I went to 8 WordCamps including one as organizer in Brazil during the Olympic games. I guess I am WordCamp Junkie.<\/em> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Networking is the number 1 reason I go to WordCamps. A close second is\u00a0knowledge sharing to keep up to date with the recent WP related themes.<\/em><\/p>\n

NILE FLORES:\u00a0<\/strong>What is your number 1 tip for WordPress users?<\/p>\n

EMANUEL COSTA:\u00a0<\/strong>Attend WordPress Meetups and WordCamps!<\/em> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

NILE FLORES:\u00a0<\/strong>What is your favorite feature in WordPress?<\/p>\n

EMANUEL COSTA:\u00a0<\/strong>I like to push the limits of WordPress. I do a lot of custom development. So, I guess my favorite features are Hooks, Actions and Filters.<\/em> \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

NILE FLORES:\u00a0<\/strong>What are your 3 most favorite WordPress plugins?<\/p>\n

EMANUEL COSTA:\u00a0<\/strong>Yoast SEO, WooCommerce, Advanced Custom Fields, but to be honest, it is really hard to list top 3, so here are all my favorites: https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/emanweb#content-favorites<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

NILE FLORES:\u00a0<\/strong>What is your favorite WordPress theme?<\/p>\n

EMANUEL COSTA:\u00a0<\/strong>Twenty Seventeen. I loved that now the default WordPress theme focuses more on a business type of site. It was the first time I followed from beginning to ending the WP theme development discussion at Github\/Slack. I liked so much that after 7 years I finally updated my company site using it.<\/em><\/p>\n

If you’d like to meet Emanuel and sit in on his presentation, come buy a ticket<\/a> to WordCamp St. Louis!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Emanuel Costa will be talking on\u00a0The Ultimate Security Checklist For WordPress Websites. Emanuel is originally from Brazil, and currently lives in Las Vegas, Nevada. He’s a\u00a0professional web developer, SEO\/SEM specialist, eCommerce consultant and web entrepreneur at High Tech Web, Inc. … Continue reading WCSTL Speaker Interview: Emanuel Costa<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1346476,"featured_media":1007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29],"tags":[459755],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speakers","tag-speaker-interview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2017\/files\/2017\/03\/2017-speaker-interview-emanuel-costa.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p837Xy-gb","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1346476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010,"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions\/1010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}