{"id":2364,"date":"2018-04-20T08:05:59","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T13:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2018.raleigh.wordcamp.org\/?p=2364"},"modified":"2018-04-19T16:25:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T21:25:55","slug":"speaker-spotlight-david-grubb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/speaker-spotlight-david-grubb\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight: David Grubb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I started using WordPress for my clients in 2008. I converted all the original website designs that I had made into WordPress themes. Then I emailed my clients and told them they could now login and edit their website through their browser. This was a huge game changer for my small business empowering small business to do it themselves and save money.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Since then I have leveraged WordPress as a Content Marketing Software to help my clients achieve their goals. In 2014 I sold the Shepherds Loft brand to Brightmill. I served as the Practice Director by helping WordPress clients.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In 2016, the Shepherds Loft brand shifted it\u2019s focus solely on providing WordPress Management Services. Through our Youtube channel, shepherdsloft.tv, I provide both \u201cWordPress in 60 seconds\u201d tutorials and step by step instructional videos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">After two years, the growth of Shepherds Loft got back on track. As of September 2017, I purchased the business back from Brightmill with a renewed vision and mission, maintenance free WordPress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">David will be presenting: <\/span><span class=\"s3\"><b>Site Maintenance<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><b>: <\/b><\/span><span class=\"s5\"><b>How to manage a single WordPress website to keep it safe, secure, updated and backed up.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started using WordPress for my clients in 2008. I converted all the original website designs that I had made into WordPress themes. Then I emailed my clients and told them they could now login and edit their website through their browser. This was a huge game changer for my small business empowering small business &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/speaker-spotlight-david-grubb\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Speaker Spotlight: David Grubb&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7973571,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Speaker Spotlight: join David Grubb from @shepherdsloft as he presents Site Maintenance: How to manage a single WordPress website to keep it safe, secure, updated and backed up. at #WCRaleigh","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaker-spotlight"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9CHoB-C8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7973571"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2365,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364\/revisions\/2365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}