Jacob Arriola first noticed WordPress because the company he worked at started building all of their internal sites using WordPress. “Once I became aware of the project and its capabilities I started going to the OC WordPress Meetup group,” he said.<\/p>\n
When asked who he\u00a0considered to be his\u00a0WordPress mentor(s), Jacob said, “It\u00a0starts with my boss, Steve Zehngut. He\u2019s the one that opened my eyes to all of the capabilities of WordPress via the Meetups. Jeff Zinn and Brandon Dove of Pixel Jar helped me realize more in-depth developer topics as well. Currently, my colleague at Zeek, Aaron Holbrook has been really helping and pushing me to the next level.”<\/p>\n
Jacob hopes his plugin, Progressive Images<\/a>, will take users to the next level as well. Describing its super power as\u00a0performance, Jacob said, “My plugin will wait to load your featured thumbnail only after everything else has loaded. Images can get heavy, so let\u2019s load all of the content, CSS, JavaScript and all other stuff, too, thereby giving site visitors faster access to that awesome content.”<\/p>\n The plugin loads the native WordPress featured image after the rest of the page, thereby improving your site\u2019s perceived speed. An interesting item to note is that the plugin doesn’t \u00a0include a settings page, so all of the customizations need to happen via filters, which Jacob\u00a0documented<\/a>.<\/p>\n Jacob’s\u00a0first WordCamp was WordCamp OC 2014 and he loved it. “I\u2019m a So-Cal boy: flip-flops, shorts and t-shirts! WordCamp OC has a awesome community and a great group of organizers. They never let me down.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jacob’s plugin Progressive Images (showcased at WCOC’s Plugin-A-Palooza) loads the native WordPress featured image after the rest of the page, thereby improving your site\u2019s perceived speed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15047831,"featured_media":1951,"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":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2017\/files\/2017\/05\/JacobArriola-PluginAPalooza-1200-628.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Ozwx-uV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15047831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1917"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1971,"href":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917\/revisions\/1971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}