{"id":870048,"date":"2014-04-03T11:21:47","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T15:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.ottawa.wordcamp.org\/?p=870048"},"modified":"2014-03-27T10:46:23","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T14:46:23","slug":"speaker-spotlight-ben-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/speaker-spotlight-ben-fox\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight: Ben Fox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"avatar avatar-102 photo grav-hashed grav-hijack alignleft\" id=\"grav-f572f1c4a0f00187f5774edeaf821f06-1\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f572f1c4a0f00187f5774edeaf821f06?s=162&amp;d=http%3A%2F%2F1.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D102&amp;r=G\" width=\"102\" height=\"102\" \/>Ben Fox is an entrepreneur, consultant and tech skills instructor. He and his team are based out of the Ryerson Digital Media Zone in Toronto. A self-described geek of all trades, he\u2019s that guy you call when {insert technology here} doesn\u2019t work. Ben is the Co-Founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sidekick.pro\">SIDEKICK<\/a>, the first guided and interactive help &amp; support plugin for WordPress and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpuniversity.com\">WPUniversity<\/a>, a free and open-source learning centre for WordPress.<\/p>\n<p>Ben is presenting: <a href=\"https:\/\/2014.ottawa.wordcamp.org\/session\/how-to-effectively-teach-wordpress\/\">How to Effectively Teach WordPress<\/a><\/p>\n<p>1) Why do you like using WordPress?<br \/>\nIt\u2019s free, easy to use, open-source and a lot like Lego. What\u2019s not to like?<\/p>\n<p>2) Why did you decide to speak at WordCamp Ottawa?<br \/>\nI\u2019ll take any chance I have to join the WordPress community educating ourselves and others. I\u2019m just flattered you\u2019ve chosen to have me at the front of the class instead of in it. Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>3) What is the one thing you want people to walk away with from your talk?<br \/>\nNot everyone looks at technology through a pair of rose coloured glasses. I know it\u2019s hard to believe but there are people out there that think of things like WordPress as simple a tool they have to learn to accomplish their goals. Teaching them to use WordPress takes a little finesse.<\/p>\n<p>4) What is your favourite WordPress plugin or theme? Why?<br \/>\nYou mean besides SIDEKICK?<br \/>\nDefinitely Masterpress It makes planning and developing a site in WordPress easier. If you build Custom WordPress sites, you definitely want to try it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Fox is an entrepreneur, consultant and tech skills instructor. He and his team are based out of the Ryerson Digital Media Zone in Toronto. A self-described geek of all trades, he\u2019s that guy you call when {insert technology here} &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/speaker-spotlight-ben-fox\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Speaker Spotlight: Ben Fox<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8356622,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","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":[9463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-870048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaker-spotlight"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8356622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":870049,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870048\/revisions\/870049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}