{"id":105,"date":"2015-03-17T17:58:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T22:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015.nashville.wordcamp.org\/?p=105"},"modified":"2015-03-21T06:32:13","modified_gmt":"2015-03-21T11:32:13","slug":"amber-weinberg-nashville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/amber-weinberg-nashville\/","title":{"rendered":"Faces of WordPress: Amber Weinberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 300px;float: right;clear: right;padding-left: 1em\">\n<div id=\"attachment_114\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-114\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-114\" src=\"https:\/\/2015.nashville.wordcamp.org\/files\/2015\/03\/amber-weinberg-wcn-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Amber Weinberg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/files\/2015\/03\/amber-weinberg-wcn.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/files\/2015\/03\/amber-weinberg-wcn-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-114\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amber Weinberg<\/p><\/div>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;clear: left\">\n<li>Amber Weinberg<\/li>\n<li>WordPress Developer<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"amber-weinberg-nashville\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amberweinberg.com\" target=\"_blank\">Primary website<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Twitter: <a title=\"Amber Weinberg on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/amberweinberg\">@amberweinberg<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>How were you first introduced to WordPress?<\/strong><br \/>\nSeveral years ago, I started getting more and more clients asking for blogs. Then, as WordPress grew into a full fledged CMS, I was able to code more complex sites using it.<br \/>\nWhat do you like about it?<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you do with WP now?<\/strong><br \/>\nHow easy and versatile it is! I&#8217;m able to create the most complicated websites with a backend that&#8217;s simple for the most non-technical clients to use and update. Combining WordPress with the Advanced Custom Field plugin means I&#8217;m pretty much never hampered by the CMS. I can do anything.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How as the WP community helped you?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe best thing about WordPress is the community that surrounds it. I can google almost any WordPress related question and someone else has already done it and has a free tutorial. That can&#8217;t be said for many other systems.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did learning WP lead to any significant changes in your life?<\/strong><br \/>\nMy whole business is now centered around WordPress! Once I really began to enjoy developing with it, I realized that it was what I wanted to stick with, so I moved my services around to accommodate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What would you tell a new user? A new developer?<\/strong><br \/>\nFor users: Every developer does their themes differently. The trick for an easy-to-use site is to find a good developer who codes their themes logically. Also, stay away from premade themes. They&#8217;re always a pain for both users and devs!<\/p>\n<p>For developers &#8211; Chris Coyier&#8217;s book Digging into WordPress is still one of the best primers to beginning development.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anything else we should know?<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen not coding amazing things, I knit, run, craft and travel the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"faces-of-wordpress\" href=\"http:\/\/wpnashville.com\/community\/form-faces-of-wordpress\/\" target=\"_blank\">BECOME A FACE OF WORDPRESS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amber Weinberg WordPress Developer Primary website Twitter: @amberweinberg How were you first introduced to WordPress? Several years ago, I started getting more and more clients asking for blogs. Then, as WordPress grew into a full fledged CMS, I was able to code more complex sites using it. What do you like about it? 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