{"id":976,"date":"2017-03-09T08:21:20","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T13:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2017.stlouis.wordcamp.org\/?p=976"},"modified":"2017-06-30T14:20:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T19:20:03","slug":"wcstl-speaker-interview-dane-morgan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wcstl-speaker-interview-dane-morgan\/","title":{"rendered":"WCSTL Speaker Interview: Dane Morgan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dane Morgan will be speaking on\u00a0WordPress Theme Code Reviews<\/a>. He’s from southern Missouri, and he’s a freelance WordPress developer and says he’s an experimental blogger.<\/p>\n

Here’s our interview with Dane.<\/p>\n

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NILE FLORES:<\/strong>\u00a0What was it about WordPress that got you to start using it?<\/p>\n

<\/span>DANE MORGAN:<\/strong> I had been building PHP\/HTML websites for a certain group of aggressive internet marketers, when one of them asked me if I had used WordPress, and could I make it look different for him. That was WordPress version 1.2, and making it look different was a much more challenging proposition back then.<\/em><\/p>\n

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

<\/span>DANE MORGAN:\u00a0<\/strong>I’m just sort of built that way. I joined the Army out of a sense of civic responsibility, though I admit the idea of adventure didn’t hurt any. But I can’t help but try to make groups I identify with better if there is a way for me to do so.<\/em><\/p>\n

NILE FLORES:<\/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

<\/span>DANE MORGAN:\u00a0<\/strong>I’ve been to two of them. WordCamp St. Louis 2016 and WordCamp US 2016. I wish I had started going to them a lot sooner now. For me the greatest part of WordCamp is just meeting other people who do this thing. As a freelancer working in my home office, it can be terribly isolating, and WordCamp was a very liberating experience in that respect.<\/em><\/p>\n

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


\n<\/span>DANE MORGAN:\u00a0<\/strong>Get messy, break things (on the development server) and have fun!<\/em><\/p>\n

NILE FLORES:<\/strong> What is your favorite feature in WordPress?
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DANE MORGAN:\u00a0<\/strong>The hooks and filters API. Really my favorite feature is the infinity capacity for changing the features, while still being WordPress.<\/em><\/p>\n

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

<\/span>DANE MORGAN:\u00a0<\/strong>Carbon Fields, Yoast SEO and WooCommerce.<\/em><\/p>\n

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

<\/span>DANE MORGAN:\u00a0<\/strong>I really like Theme hybrid, Genesis and Underscores and I use all three a lot. I’m leaning toward Underscores though because I’ve finally gotten on board with Sass and i can go grab a Sassified copy of it with all the slugs filled in for the new site in less than two minutes.<\/em><\/p>\n

If you’d love to meet Dane or hear his talk, you should go buy a ticket<\/a> and come out to see him on March 18th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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