{"id":1341,"date":"2016-06-14T16:08:23","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T16:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.oc.wordcamp.org\/?p=1341"},"modified":"2016-06-23T22:35:41","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T22:35:41","slug":"speaker-spotlight-russell-aaron-and-wordpress-theme-demonstrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2016\/speaker-spotlight-russell-aaron-and-wordpress-theme-demonstrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight: Russell Aaron and WordPress Theme Demonstrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/729195341392683008\/eg4t_NIv_400x400.jpg?resize=225%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" \/>One of the awesome parts about buying a product always includes the test drive or the free sample. The same goes for themes and plugins. However, are theme demonstrations being completely honest when it comes to showing off the goods?<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0this session, Russell Aaron of <a href=\"https:\/\/webdevstudios.com\/team\/russell-aaron\/\">WebDevStudios<\/a> will discuss\u00a0the pros and cons of\u00a0coding standards when it comes to building themes and plugins. He&#8217;ll also be taking a deep dive into three WordPress theme demonstrations to show what they are really selling you on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a beginner navigating the wild world of WordPress theme and plugin marketplaces, don&#8217;t miss Russ&#8217;s talk at 9:50 AM on July 9 in the Dwarf Star.<\/p>\n<p><span>Russell got his start coding by\u00a0building MySpace band layouts and using the blog feature on MySpace to share triumphs and failures. After writing 50 blog posts, a friend of mine showed him\u00a0WordPress.com. After his\u00a0next 50 blog posts, the same friend showed him\u00a0how to install WordPress on his\u00a0own website. Since that day, he&#8217;s spent every minute of every waking hour learning WordPress.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the awesome parts about buying a product always includes the test drive or the free sample. The same goes for themes and plugins. However, are theme demonstrations being completely honest when it comes to showing off the goods? In\u00a0this session, Russell Aaron of WebDevStudios will discuss\u00a0the pros and cons of\u00a0coding standards when it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2016\/speaker-spotlight-russell-aaron-and-wordpress-theme-demonstrations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Speaker Spotlight: Russell Aaron and WordPress Theme Demonstrations&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11456218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_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":[9463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaker-spotlight"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75TDD-lD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11456218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1425,"href":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions\/1425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}