{"id":535197,"date":"2014-04-28T19:21:21","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T00:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.nashville.wordcamp.org\/?p=535197"},"modified":"2014-04-28T19:21:21","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T00:21:21","slug":"faces-of-wordpress-christopher-joel-wilcoxson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2014\/faces-of-wordpress-christopher-joel-wilcoxson\/","title":{"rendered":"FACES of WORDPRESS: Christopher Joel Wilcoxson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 300px;float: right;clear: right;padding-left: 1em\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-535198\" src=\"https:\/\/2014.nashville.wordcamp.org\/files\/2014\/04\/slushman.jpg\" alt=\"slushman\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2014\/files\/2014\/04\/slushman.jpg 200w, https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2014\/files\/2014\/04\/slushman-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;clear: left\">\n<li>Christopher Joel Wilcoxson<\/li>\n<li>WordPressing since 2006<\/li>\n<li>WP Level: Developer<\/li>\n<li>Website: <a title=\"Slushman\" href=\"http:\/\/slushman.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/slushman.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Twitter: <a title=\"Christopher Joel Wilcoxson on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/slushman\" target=\"_blank\">@slushman<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>WordPress can change your life. Just ask Chris Wilcoxson, aka Slushman. He was a speaker last year at WordCamp 2013 and we think he\u2019s pretty great at what he does. Chris always knew that he wanted to work on the web, but pursued other directions in life until he was brought onto a project working with WordPress. Learning WordPress redirected him back to his passion for web development, so much that he got a degree in it from Belmont University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a lot easier to use than other systems,\u201d he says. \u201cWordpress has everything laid out. It makes more sense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chris is one of those developers that tries to push the platform as far as it will go\u2026 and then some. Through his company, Slushman Design, Chris has worked on all kinds of WordPress development projects: building plugins, creating themes, websites for clients and even applications that can be built on top of WordPress.<\/p>\n<p>Originally, Chris used Blogger but wanted to expand the functionality of what he was doing. He found\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">wordpress.com<\/a>. \u201cI started playing with it and figured out how to set up a self-hosted version (via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\" target=\"_blank\">wordpress.org<\/a>), out of necessity because I needed more out of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That need for more is the driving force behind the advancement, stability and power of WordPress and its developers.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a list of power-users, blogs and tutorials that Chris follows and recommends. You can also check out his work and follow his blog:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/slushman.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/slushman.com\/blog\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smashingmagazine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Smashing Magazine<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/themedesigner.in\/\" target=\"_blank\">Theme Designer<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/\" target=\"_blank\">Core Developers<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ma.tt\/\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Mullenweg<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ottopress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Otto Wood<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/markjaquith.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Jaquith<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For new developers looking to push their own creative boundaries, Chris has one caution. \u201cWhen you\u2019re Googling around trying to find tutorials on what to do- check the dates! There\u2019s a lot of really old stuff that doesn\u2019t apply anymore. Always go with the most current thing. Realizing this early on would have saved me a lot of time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Joel Wilcoxson WordPressing since 2006 WP Level: Developer Website: http:\/\/slushman.com Twitter: @slushman WordPress can change your life. Just ask Chris Wilcoxson, aka Slushman. He was a speaker last year at WordCamp 2013 and we think he\u2019s pretty great at what he does. Chris always knew that he wanted to work on the web, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3640646,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[268672],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faces-of-wordpress"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3640646"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535199,"href":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535197\/revisions\/535199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}