{"id":296143,"date":"2014-03-05T04:27:56","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T04:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.nashville.wordcamp.org\/?p=296143"},"modified":"2014-03-14T02:25:47","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T02:25:47","slug":"faces-of-wordpress-mitch-canter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2014\/faces-of-wordpress-mitch-canter\/","title":{"rendered":"FACES OF WORDPRESS: Mitch Canter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width:300px;float:right;clear:right;padding-left:1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-259686 alignright\" alt=\"Mitch Canter\" src=\"https:\/\/2014.nashville.wordcamp.org\/files\/2014\/02\/mitch-canter-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2014\/files\/2014\/02\/mitch-canter-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2014\/files\/2014\/02\/mitch-canter-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2014\/files\/2014\/02\/mitch-canter-451x300.jpg 451w, https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2014\/files\/2014\/02\/mitch-canter.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left\">\n<li>Mitch Canter<\/li>\n<li>WordPressing since 2003<\/li>\n<li>Developer, Designer<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.studionashvegas.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Studio NashVegas<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/studionashvegas\" target=\"_blank\">@studionashvegas<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mitch Canter\u2019s career in WordPress began by fiddling around on some old-school platforms (remember Xanga and LiveJournal?) and not accepting their limitations. He actually \u201cdiscovered\u201d WordPress right here in Nashville, and it was love at first&#8230;code.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;WordPress is simple enough that anyone can jump in and use it, but powerful enough to be able to handle what you can throw at it,\u201d he says. \u201cI&#8217;ve found very few things in my development career that WordPress couldn&#8217;t handle, and most could be done without having to \u2018code outside the box.\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To say you could trust Mitch on this is an understatement. He started out solely as a WordPress designer. Since then, he\u2019s developed WordPress sites, spoken about WordPress at conferences, edited WordPress books\u2026 And now?<\/p>\n<p>Mitch manages some extremely high traffic sites (150K+ a month), including a 4,000+ product WooCommerce-based site, and to \u201cstay frosty\u201d and keep his \u201cedge,\u201d he occasionally takes on freelance projects.<\/p>\n<p>Are you a budding developer? Want to change the world? Think you\u2019re too old to give it a shot?<\/p>\n<p>Mitch has some advice just for you:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s never too late to start. WordPress has a fantastic track record, and by joining the community you join a long list of users and developers who have changed the world by taking publishing into their own hands. If you&#8217;re a developer, don&#8217;t just learn PHP and be done with it &#8211; make sure you understand the basics: HTML, PHP, CSS, and jQuery. If you can at least read (and later write) those four languages, you can handle most of what the WordPress-driven web can throw at you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Still not convinced to love WordPress? Read more on Mitch\u2019s website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studionashvegas.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Studio NashVegas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>As part of the build-up to WordCamp Nashville 2014 Faces of WordPress will highlight members of Middle Tennessee\u2019s great &#8211; and growing &#8211; WordPress community. We will feature WP users at all levels, newbies to advanced developers. And mark your calendar. This year\u2019s Big Event is May 3, 2014.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>As part of the build-up to WordCamp Nashville 2014 Faces of WordPress will highlight members of Middle Tennessee\u2019s great &#8211; and growing &#8211; WordPress community. We will feature WP users at all levels, newbies to advanced developers. And mark your calendar. This year\u2019s Big Event is May 3, 2014.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitch Canter WordPressing since 2003 Developer, Designer Studio NashVegas Twitter @studionashvegas Mitch Canter\u2019s career in WordPress began by fiddling around on some old-school platforms (remember Xanga and LiveJournal?) and not accepting their limitations. 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