{"id":1865,"date":"2013-04-19T11:10:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T15:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2013.ottawa.wordcamp.org\/?p=1865"},"modified":"2013-04-16T12:39:23","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T16:39:23","slug":"speaker-spotlight-rick-radko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2013\/speaker-spotlight-rick-radko\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight: Rick Radko"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Rick Radko is a creative, artistic, and entrepreneurial engineer with a passion for finding solutions to difficult design problems. He is the owner of R-Cubed Design Forge<\/a>, where he develops custom web applications, social networking and team collaboration solutions for businesses. Rick specializes in custom application development and multilingual websites. He is co-leader, and a frequent presenter at the Ottawa WordPress Group<\/a>.\u00a0 Twitter: @r3designforge<\/a><\/p>\n

Rick is presenting: Getting WordPress to Speak Your Language<\/a> and Introduction to WordPress<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Why WordPress? Why do you like using WordPress?<\/strong><\/td>\nI work with WordPress because it\u2019s really easy to use. \u00a0My clients get web sites that they can manage and update mostly on their own, and as a developer I get a framework that is easy to modify or extend with add-ons and plugins.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Why did you decide to speak at WordCamp Ottawa?<\/strong><\/td>\nI\u2019ve worked with WordPress for the past 5 years, and I want to see it continue to grow. Organizing this WordCamp and speaking too, provides an opportunity to give back to the WordPress community in a way that supports it and helps it thrive.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
What is your talk going to be about?<\/strong><\/td>\nMy talk on multilingual WordPress is intended to introduce users of all levels the concepts and resources needed to be able to set-up a WordPress site in one or more languages other than the default English.<\/p>\n

The “Introduction to WordPress” is to help new WordPress users get a running start before all the sessions on Saturday.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

What is your favourite WordPress plugin or theme? Why?<\/strong><\/td>\nAs a developer I use a lot of different plugins, but few that I use most of the time are Gravity Forms<\/a>, Google Analytics for WordPress<\/a>, and TinyMCE Advanced<\/a>. I\u2019m also using a couple new ones for building multilingual sites on WordPress multisite \u2013 Multisite Language Switcher<\/a> and WP Native Dashboard<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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