{"id":1242,"date":"2011-05-10T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T13:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordcampraleigh.com\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2011-05-10T09:00:53","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T13:00:53","slug":"speaker-spotlight-chris-jean-of-ithemes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2012\/speaker-spotlight-chris-jean-of-ithemes\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight: Chris Jean of iThemes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/2012.raleigh.wordcamp.org\/files\/2011\/05\/chris.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1243\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2012\/speaker-spotlight-chris-jean-of-ithemes\/chris\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2012\/files\/2011\/05\/chris.png\" data-orig-size=\"138,138\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Chris Jean of iThemes\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2012\/files\/2011\/05\/chris.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2012\/files\/2011\/05\/chris.png\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1243\" src=\"https:\/\/2012.raleigh.wordcamp.org\/files\/2011\/05\/chris.png\" alt=\"Chris Jean of iThemes\" width=\"138\" height=\"138\" \/><\/a>With six years of experience developing and maintaining a closed CMS, <a title=\"Chris Jean\" href=\"http:\/\/chrisjean.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Chris<\/a> finally saw the light in 2008 and shifted his focus over to  WordPress. As a member of the <a title=\"iThemes\" href=\"http:\/\/ithemes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">iThemes<\/a> team, his focus is creating themes  and plugins that allow users to have advanced control over their site  without knowledge of code. Whatever that means. When he\u2019s not on a bash  shell or coding away in Vim, he can be found watching anime or playing  TF2.<\/p>\n<p>Chris will be presenting on the topic of\u00a0<a title=\"WordCamp Raleigh 2011 schedule\" href=\"http:\/\/wordcampraleigh.com\/schedule\/\">Standardized Loop API: The Next Big Thing<\/a> in the Developers track.\u00a0 Here\u2019s an extract from what you can expect to hear from Chris:<\/p>\n<p>Themes used to be the wild west of WordPress with everyone doing their own thing. Over the years, APIs for widgets, comments, menus, featured images, post formats, and so on were added to tame themes with a consistent set of tools and features.<\/p>\n<p>This presentation makes the case for and shows examples of a possible next step for evolving the theme API: a loop API and standard.<\/p>\n<p>So\u00a0<a title=\"Register for WordCamp Raleigh 2011\" href=\"http:\/\/wordcampraleigh.com\/register\/\" target=\"_blank\">register<\/a> today for WordCamp Raleigh 2011 and come meet Chris.\u00a0 Don\u2019t forget to follow him on\u00a0<a title=\"Chris Jean on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/chrisjean\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> \u2013 @chrisjean<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With six years of experience developing and maintaining a closed CMS, Chris finally saw the light in 2008 and shifted his focus over to WordPress. As a member of the iThemes team, his focus is creating themes and plugins that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2012\/speaker-spotlight-chris-jean-of-ithemes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"assistive-text\">Speaker Spotlight: Chris Jean of iThemes<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5870849,"featured_media":1243,"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":[42314,12368,23,69,34652,5015,109,25,51557,14,26297],"class_list":["post-1242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-8716","category-announcements","category-session-topics","category-speakers","tag-chris-jean","tag-ithemes","tag-raleigh","tag-schedule","tag-session","tag-speaker","tag-topics","tag-wordcamp","tag-wordcamp-raleigh","tag-wordpress","tag-wordpress-themes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2012\/files\/2011\/05\/chris.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2HBGH-k2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242","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=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}