{"id":1396,"date":"2016-06-19T17:16:09","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T17:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.oc.wordcamp.org\/?p=1396"},"modified":"2016-06-19T17:16:09","modified_gmt":"2016-06-19T17:16:09","slug":"speaker-spotlight-erick-hitter-shares-what-he-wishes-he-knew-when-he-started-using-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2016\/speaker-spotlight-erick-hitter-shares-what-he-wishes-he-knew-when-he-started-using-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight: Erick Hitter shares what he wishes he knew when he started using WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"

WordPress provides a lot of convenience functions, and all too often, new developers reinvent the wheel when WordPress Core already has a function or utility to accomplish the same. In this workshop, Erick Hitter of Automattic reflects on\u00a0when he first\u00a0started building WordPress plugins, and shares the times he could have saved himself hours and anxiety if he had known where to look for a cleaner solution in Core.<\/p>\n

Learn about the more obscure features of Core and where to find them in this development workshop at 9 AM in the Comet.<\/p>\n

It took Erick a while to figure out what he wanted to be when he grew up, which led him through a few different careers. After experiments in audio engineering and accounting, he now works on Automattic\u2019s VIP team, serving enterprise WordPress users. Erick lives near Los Angeles, loves craft beer, and longs for enough free time to go hiking in the mountains that surround LA. He blogs at ethitter.com and i.ethitter.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WordPress provides a lot of convenience functions, and all too often, new developers reinvent the wheel when WordPress Core already has a function or utility to accomplish the same. In this workshop, Erick Hitter of Automattic reflects on\u00a0when he first\u00a0started building WordPress plugins, and shares the times he could have saved himself hours and anxiety … Continue reading “Speaker Spotlight: Erick Hitter shares what he wishes he knew when he started using WordPress”<\/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-1396","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-mw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396","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=1396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1397,"href":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions\/1397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}