{"id":535616,"date":"2015-04-24T13:54:25","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T18:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015.nashville.wordcamp.org\/?p=535616"},"modified":"2015-04-27T20:19:44","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T01:19:44","slug":"kristina-parish-2015-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/kristina-parish-2015-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Faces of WordPress: Kristina Parish (2015 Speaker)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 300px;float: right;clear: right;padding-left: 1em\">\n<div id=\"attachment_535617\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/2015.nashville.wordcamp.org\/files\/2015\/04\/parish.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-535617\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-535617\" src=\"https:\/\/2015.nashville.wordcamp.org\/files\/2015\/04\/parish-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Kristina Parish\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/files\/2015\/04\/parish.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/files\/2015\/04\/parish-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-535617\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kristina Parish<\/p><\/div>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;clear: left\">\n<li>Kristina J. Parish<\/li>\n<li>UX Designer at Athletics<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/kjparish\" target=\"_blank\">LinkedIn Profile<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>How were you first introduced to WordPress?<\/strong><br \/>\nI started creating websites for friends and bands in the mid 2000&#8217;s. WordPress became my preferred platform after a friend introduced me to it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you like about it?<\/strong><br \/>\nWordpress allows me to create something fully customized, from design through development, that also empowers\/enables my clients to control and manage their content effectively. WordPress is a flexible tool, meaning you can make it as loose or as buttoned up as you desire. The more I continue to work with WordPress, the more I am able to abstract it and make it work for my purposes in a lean and intuitive way. It seems to grow with you, which is great.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you do with WP now?<\/strong><br \/>\nNearly every project I design and\/or build is run on WordPress. My essential tool for fully customizing the experience (both from a front-end and admin perspective) is Advanced Custom Fields. At this point, this plugin goes hand-in-hand with every install.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How as the WP community helped you?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe internet community is obviously essential &#8212; I can&#8217;t even begin to imagine how many times a thread or forum on wordpress.org has helped me solve a problem. Furthermore, the local Nashville WP meetup group proved to be the launchpad into my current role with Athletics. Had I not attended the meetup last September. I would not have met these fine folks who happened to be speaking that day. Now I work with all of the tools they presented during that meetup and it&#8217;s great.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did learning WP lead to any significant changes in your life?<\/strong><br \/>\nYes &#8212; it&#8217;s made me 100% self-sufficient through various stages of my career, either working as a freelancer or as a member of a team in an agency environment. It allows me to build what I design in a clean way, and it&#8217;s fun to collaborate with others who are also passionate about WordPress.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What would you tell a new user? A new developer?<\/strong><br \/>\nDip your toes in and don&#8217;t be afraid to break things&#8230;many things. It will get better with practice and experience, just like everything else in life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anything else we should know?<\/strong><br \/>\nI once broke my leg in two places when I was 4 because I believed I was Wonder Woman.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wpnashville.com\/community\/form-faces-of-wordpress\/\"><b>BECOME A FACE OF WORDPRESS<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kristina J. Parish UX Designer at Athletics LinkedIn Profile How were you first introduced to WordPress? I started creating websites for friends and bands in the mid 2000&#8217;s. WordPress became my preferred platform after a friend introduced me to it. What do you like about it? Wordpress allows me to create something fully customized, from [&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":[502713],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-presenters"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JKij-2fkY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535616","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=535616"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535690,"href":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535616\/revisions\/535690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}