{"id":940703,"date":"2014-04-11T00:00:40","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T04:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.ottawa.wordcamp.org\/?p=940703"},"modified":"2014-04-08T21:11:01","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T01:11:01","slug":"why-approach-the-happiness-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/why-approach-the-happiness-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Approach the Happiness Bar?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To get WordPress help from experts for free.<\/p>\n<h3>What\u2019s a Happiness Bar?<\/h3>\n<p>A Happiness Bar is a WordCamp tradition.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s where you bring WordPress-related questions and an expert responds\u2014one-on-one, in a relaxed setting\u2014with answers that reflect knowledge and experience.<\/p>\n<p>You might want to know about installing WordPress or how to get it to behave in a certain way. Your question might be about setting up a small, personal site or sorting out an issue on the type of complex installation a large company uses to face the world.<\/p>\n<p>No question is too big or too small. And while our Happiness Bar pros may not have an answer for every technical question, they\u2019ll surely sit down with you, listen and do their best to help.<\/p>\n<p>You can think of the Happiness Bar as a live help desk.<\/p>\n<h3>Who staffs the Happiness Bar?<\/h3>\n<p>Our Happiness Bar experts are friendly volunteers. They may be WordCamp speakers. They may build and maintain WordPress sites for a living. They know their stuff, and they\u2019re here for many reasons, one being to give back to WordPress and the WordPress community.<\/p>\n<h3>What should you bring to a Happiness Bar?<\/h3>\n<p>Questions.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes showing is better than telling. If it can help you explain a question, by all means show the Happiness Bar expert your site.<\/p>\n<p>But this isn\u2019t always necessary. If you don\u2019t plan to bring a PC or another device to WordCamp Ottawa 2014, just approach the Happiness Bar, ask your question and see what you can learn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To get WordPress help from experts for free. What\u2019s a Happiness Bar? A Happiness Bar is a WordCamp tradition. It\u2019s where you bring WordPress-related questions and an expert responds\u2014one-on-one, in a relaxed setting\u2014with answers that reflect knowledge and experience. You &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/why-approach-the-happiness-bar\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Approach the Happiness Bar?<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13274311,"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":[284642],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordcamp-ottawa-2014"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940703","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\/13274311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940703"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":940709,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940703\/revisions\/940709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}