{"id":1133,"date":"2011-05-04T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordcampraleigh.com\/?p=1133"},"modified":"2011-05-04T09:00:50","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T13:00:50","slug":"speaker-spotlight-syed-balkhi-of-wpbeginner-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2012\/speaker-spotlight-syed-balkhi-of-wpbeginner-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight: Syed Balkhi of WPBeginner.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Syed Balkhi speaking at WordCamp Raleigh 2011\" href=\"http:\/\/wordcampraleigh.com\/speakers\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wpbeginner.com\/authorpics\/syedbalkhi.gif\" alt=\"Syed Balkhi of WPBeginner.com\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" \/>Syed Balkhi<\/a> is the founder of <a title=\"WPBeginner.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wpbeginner.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPBeginner<\/a>. He is known for his aggressive marketing skills, creative designs, and expertise in SEO. Syed has been in the industry for over eight years, and he has worked with some of the top brands in the industry. He is known as \u201cthe WordPress Ninja\u201d among our clients because he is a total WordPress Geek.<\/p>\n<p>Syed will be presenting on the topic of <a title=\"WordCamp Raleigh 2011 schedule\" href=\"http:\/\/wordcampraleigh.com\/schedule\/\">Speeding up WordPress<\/a> in the Power Users track.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s an extract from what you can expect to hear from Syed:<\/p>\n<p>WordPress sites can get overloaded. In this presentation, I would like to share some of the tips and tricks that we use on all of our clients about speeding up WordPress.<\/p>\n<p>So <a title=\"Register for WordCamp Raleigh 2011\" href=\"..\/register\/\">register<\/a> today for WordCamp Raleigh 2011 and come meet Syed.\u00a0 Don\u2019t forget to follow him on <a title=\"WPBeginner on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/wpbeginner\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> \u2013 @wpbeginner<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syed Balkhi is the founder of WPBeginner. He is known for his aggressive marketing skills, creative designs, and expertise in SEO. Syed has been in the industry for over eight years, and he has worked with some of the top &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2012\/speaker-spotlight-syed-balkhi-of-wpbeginner-com\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"assistive-text\">Speaker Spotlight: Syed Balkhi of WPBeginner.com<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5870849,"featured_media":1134,"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":[8716,12,5013,29],"tags":[69,34652,5015,50031,109,25,51557,14,52188],"class_list":["post-1133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-8716","category-announcements","category-session-topics","category-speakers","tag-schedule","tag-session","tag-speaker","tag-syed-balkhi","tag-topics","tag-wordcamp","tag-wordcamp-raleigh","tag-wordpress","tag-wpbeginner"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2012\/files\/2011\/05\/syedbalkhi.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2HBGH-ih","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5870849"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}