{"id":1158,"date":"2015-05-22T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T15:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015.kansascity.wordcamp.org\/?p=1158"},"modified":"2015-06-07T20:52:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T01:52:16","slug":"speaker-spotlight-brent-schultz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kansascity.wordcamp.org\/2015\/speaker-spotlight-brent-schultz\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight: Brent Schultz"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Brent<\/a><\/strong>Brent is a full-time developer at 10up and a Kansas City local. We’re happy to welcome this perennial favorite back to WordCampKC 2015!<\/p>\n

Q: How did you get started in your current field?<\/strong>
\nA:\u00a0A hobby blog led to freelance which led to more freelance which led to agency work and here I am today as a full stack WP dev, though primarily a backend dev.<\/span><\/p>\n

Q: Describe your \u2018ah ha\u2019 moment about WordPress?<\/strong>
\nA:\u00a0There have been several along the way but the biggest one I encountered was simply looking at the entire WP Query object on any given page which helped me understand a bit more about the inner workings of WordPress and really made it make a lot more sense. <\/span><\/p>\n

Q: If you could go back to when you were getting started and give yourself one piece of advice, what would it be?<\/strong>
\nA:\u00a0Read the Codex. Don’t just check it out as you do some good searches for the things you’re trying to accomplish. Read it, understand it, tinker with it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Q: Describe your talk in three sentences or less.<\/strong>
\nA:\u00a0Timber is a framework that isn’t actually much of a framework but it brings a fresh take to the concept. The reason Timber is important with WordPress and it’s future is it brings a Twig templating engine to clean up markup files to make the presentation layer a bit more friendly for front-end developers not familiar with PHP or WordPress. <\/span><\/p>\n

Q: Who should attend your talk (beginner developer, intermediate content provider, advanced designer, etc)?<\/strong>
\nA:\u00a0Developers and Designers.<\/span><\/p>\n

This post is part of a multi-day series<\/a> featuring speakers from WordCamp Kansas City 2015.\u00a0Subscribe to have them delivered to your mailbox, or feel free to check back every day!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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