{"id":535619,"date":"2015-04-24T14:01:31","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T19:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015.nashville.wordcamp.org\/?p=535619"},"modified":"2015-05-03T12:58:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T17:58:56","slug":"faces-of-wordpress-stanley-straughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/faces-of-wordpress-stanley-straughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Faces of WordPress: Stanley Straughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 300px;float: right;clear: right;padding-left: 1em\">\n<div id=\"attachment_535620\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-535620\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-535620\" src=\"https:\/\/2015.nashville.wordcamp.org\/files\/2015\/04\/StanIey-Straughter-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Stanley Straughter\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/files\/2015\/04\/StanIey-Straughter-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/files\/2015\/04\/StanIey-Straughter-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/files\/2015\/04\/StanIey-Straughter-624x624.jpg 624w, https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/files\/2015\/04\/StanIey-Straughter.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-535620\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stanley Straughter<\/p><\/div>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;clear: left\">\n<li>Stanley Straughter<\/li>\n<li>WordPress Designer<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.WordPressStan.com\" target=\"_blank\">WordPressStan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wordpressstan\" target=\"_blank\">@WordPressStan<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>How were you first introduced to WordPress?<\/strong><br \/>\nMy wife has been a blogger for a few years and she used WordPress. She introduced me to WordPress when she first started, but I began paying attention last year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you like about it?<\/strong><br \/>\nI like the plugins and the community. I also like that it&#8217;s not difficult to get assistance if you have a particular issue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you do with WP now?<\/strong><br \/>\nI exclusively use WordPress to build all my websites. I also provide WordPress Site Maintenance and Security.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How as the WP community helped you?<\/strong><br \/>\nBeing friendly and anwering &#8220;NewBie&#8221; as well as &#8220;Difficult&#8221; questions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did learning WP lead to any significant changes in your life?<\/strong><br \/>\nLearning WP allowed me to create more complex and dynamic web-sites at a fraction of the cost it used to, because I no longer have to hire programmers.\u00a0I simply find a 5 Star Plugin that does what I need and put it to work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What would you tell a new user? A new developer?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt may be difficult at first, but stick with it, there are plenty of people willing to assist you like myself to be successful with the software.<\/p>\n<p>There are so many training classes and tutorials on YouTube and elsewhere to really get you going if you&#8217;re willing to invest the time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anything else we should know?<\/strong><br \/>\nI love Music and the Internet, I mean, what else is there?<\/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>Stanley Straughter WordPress Designer WordPressStan @WordPressStan How were you first introduced to WordPress? My wife has been a blogger for a few years and she used WordPress. She introduced me to WordPress when she first started, but I began paying attention last year. What do you like about it? I like the plugins and the [&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-535619","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-2fl1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535619","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=535619"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535710,"href":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535619\/revisions\/535710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}