{"id":1071,"date":"2019-07-06T19:00:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T19:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2019.ottawa.wordcamp.org\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2019-07-02T11:57:45","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T11:57:45","slug":"speaker-spotlight-michael-benoit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2019\/speaker-spotlight-michael-benoit\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight: Michael Benoit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Michael Benoit is a migrations specialist at Rebel.com, a hosting company and domain name registrar, where he crushes other hosting companies\u2019 dreams by seamlessly migrating their customers\u2019 sites. Mike\u2019s approach is full concept, providing top quality support and recommending a variety of hosting platform solutions for both websites and email.<br>In his down time, Mike dives into a variety of projects: 3D printing and technical design; construction of his stand-up desk; and supporting the free Sidewalk Astronomy initiative with his custom, handmade telescope. Most importantly, he\u2019s also the proud papa of rescue cat Purrious George.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael will be speaking at 11:00am on Sunday, July 14th in the Manotick room. His talk is entitled, <strong>WordPress Migrations 101.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Whether you\u2019re new to WordPress, running your own site, designing client websites, or even a full stack developer, there are countless ways to get tripped up when moving a WordPress website. WordPress migration plugins cost money, often cause problems, and don\u2019t help you gain a deeper understanding of how your WordPress site functions in the background.<br>When would you need to move a WordPress site?<br>\u2013 You built the website locally and are ready to launch<br>\u2013 You built a site on your own server and need to move it to your client\u2019s server<br>\u2013 You want to move your site from one webhost to another<br>\u2013 You\u2019re changing the domain name for a website<br>You will learn:<br>\u2013 How to import and set up your WordPress files<br>\u2013 How to import and set up your database<br>\u2013 How to set up a WordPress user through the database<br>\u2013 How to check the site before it\u2019s live<br>\u2013 DNS rundown<br>\u2013 Troubleshooting: Database changes<br>\u2013 Troubleshooting: Plugin and PHP errors<br>\u2013 Extra: How to integrate your site with the WordPress Toolkit in Plesk<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Benoit is a migrations specialist at Rebel.com, a hosting company and domain name registrar, where he crushes other hosting companies\u2019 dreams by seamlessly migrating their customers\u2019 sites. Mike\u2019s approach is full concept, providing top quality support and recommending a variety of hosting platform solutions for both websites and email.In his down time, Mike dives &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2019\/speaker-spotlight-michael-benoit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Speaker Spotlight: Michael Benoit&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15335200,"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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paMxYC-hh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15335200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1072,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions\/1072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}