{"id":763,"date":"2014-10-13T17:41:01","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T17:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.raleigh.wordcamp.org\/?p=763"},"modified":"2014-10-02T18:05:40","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T18:05:40","slug":"speaker-spotlight-evan-volgas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2014\/speaker-spotlight-evan-volgas\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight:  Evan Volgas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/2014.raleigh.wordcamp.org\/files\/2014\/09\/evan-volgas.jpeg\" alt=\"evan-volgas\" width=\"256\" height=\"256\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2014\/files\/2014\/09\/evan-volgas.jpeg 256w, https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2014\/files\/2014\/09\/evan-volgas-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/>We&#8217;re happy to announce that Evan Volgas will be speaking at WordCamp Raleigh this year.  Evan&#8217;s session will cover <a href=\"https:\/\/2014.raleigh.wordcamp.org\/session\/things-you-should-know-about-wordpress-but-were-always-afraid-to-ask\/\" title=\"Things you should know about WordPress (but were always afraid to ask)\">Things you should know about WordPress (but were always afraid to ask)<\/a> and will be on the Power Users track.<\/p>\n<p>Licensed Caffeine Therapist and Data Geek. Huge lover of dogs, tea, coffee, and cantaloupe. Wanders on purpose. Gets lost a lot while driving. Used to tap dance and do ballet. Now, messes around with Scala, Python, Cassandra, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Hadoop\/Hive\/Spark\/Sqoop\/etc, WordPress, and R. <\/p>\n<p>This talk is aimed at designers and new developers who maybe have a few PHP tricks up their sleeves, but still don&#8217;t really see how all of this stuff comes together. If you&#8217;ve never edited functions.php and don&#8217;t know what it is, this probably isn&#8217;t a good talk for you just yet. If you&#8217;ve written a plugin or modified several .php files in your WordPress themes, this will probably be a bit too basic for you. If you&#8217;ve set up a child theme before and know what functions.php is, even if you haven&#8217;t really used it all that much, or even at all&#8230;. you&#8217;re probably the exact person who will get a lot out of this talk. If that&#8217;s you and you come to this talk, you should be familiar and comfortable with most of the behind-the-scenes mechanics of WordPress by the time we&#8217;re done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re happy to announce that Evan Volgas will be speaking at WordCamp Raleigh this year. Evan&#8217;s session will cover Things you should know about WordPress (but were always afraid to ask) and will be on the Power Users track. Licensed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2014\/speaker-spotlight-evan-volgas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"assistive-text\">Speaker Spotlight:  Evan Volgas<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10602892,"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":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speakers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10602892"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":764,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions\/764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}