{"id":535600,"date":"2015-04-23T13:06:52","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T18:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015.nashville.wordcamp.org\/?p=535600"},"modified":"2015-04-23T13:10:57","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T18:10:57","slug":"randy-hicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/randy-hicks\/","title":{"rendered":"Faces of WordPress: Randy Hicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 300px;float: right;clear: right;padding-left: 1em\">\n<div id=\"attachment_535601\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-535601\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-535601\" src=\"https:\/\/2015.nashville.wordcamp.org\/files\/2015\/04\/randy-hicks-300x300.png\" alt=\"Randy Hicks Nashville\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/files\/2015\/04\/randy-hicks-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/files\/2015\/04\/randy-hicks-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/files\/2015\/04\/randy-hicks.png 436w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-535601\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Randy Hicks<\/p><\/div>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;clear: left\">\n<li>Randy Hicks<\/li>\n<li>Developer at MetaCake<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"randy-hicks-nashville\" href=\"http:\/\/visualcoma.com\" target=\"_blank\">personal website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Randy Hicks on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/vc27\">@vc27<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>How were you first introduced to WordPress?<\/strong><br \/>\nA friend in 2007 mentioned WordPress and that I could build websites with it. I jumped on board and haven&#8217;t looked back since.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you like about it?<\/strong><br \/>\nI like that it has a vibrant community that continues to stay on top of web standards. I also like that it&#8217;s an open source project. WordPress has helped more people publish to the web than probably any software out there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you do with WP now?<\/strong><br \/>\nI develop custom sites and applications.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How as the WP community helped you?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe local community has pulled me out of the home office! I now have a over a dozen developer friends I could contact at any point to ask questions. I&#8217;m convinced that I could move to any city that has a WordPress meetup and run a successful business. The WordPress community is such an all inclusive group that I feel included everywhere!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did learning WP lead to any significant changes in your life?<\/strong><br \/>\nLearning to code php changed my day job, but using WP as the engine behind my php boosted me out of manual labor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What would you tell a new user? A new developer?<\/strong><br \/>\nTake the plunge! Start simple, join the meetup group and come out to all the meetings. Building a site whether it&#8217;s a blog or a professional product is very rewarding and WordPress makes it easy and forward compatible!<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"faces-of-wordpress\" href=\"http:\/\/wpnashville.com\/community\/form-faces-of-wordpress\/%20\" target=\"_blank\">BECOME A FACE OF WORDPRESS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Randy Hicks Developer at MetaCake personal website @vc27 How were you first introduced to WordPress? A friend in 2007 mentioned WordPress and that I could build websites with it. I jumped on board and haven&#8217;t looked back since. What do you like about it? I like that it has a vibrant community that continues to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11776381,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":"","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":[268672],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faces-of-wordpress"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JKij-2fkI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11776381"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535600"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535656,"href":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535600\/revisions\/535656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}