{"id":535747,"date":"2015-05-01T19:25:42","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T00:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015.nashville.wordcamp.org\/?p=535747"},"modified":"2015-05-03T12:58:42","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T17:58:42","slug":"taylor-lovett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/taylor-lovett\/","title":{"rendered":"Faces of WordPress: Taylor Lovett (2015 Speaker)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 300px;float: right;clear: right;padding-left: 1em\">\n<div id=\"attachment_535748\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-535748\" class=\"size-full wp-image-535748\" src=\"https:\/\/2015.nashville.wordcamp.org\/files\/2015\/04\/taylor-lovett.jpg\" alt=\"Taylor Lovett\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/files\/2015\/04\/taylor-lovett.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2015\/files\/2015\/04\/taylor-lovett-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-535748\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taylor Lovett<\/p><\/div>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;clear: left\">\n<li>Taylor Lovett<\/li>\n<li>Director of Web Engineering at 10up<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/taylorlovett.com\" target=\"_blank\">taylorlovett.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tlovett12\" target=\"_blank\">@tlovett12<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>How were you first introduced to WordPress?<\/strong><br \/>\nAn employer in 2007 asked me to build his website in WordPress. I resisted at first because I preferred to build things from scratch.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you like about it?<\/strong><br \/>\nI like that WordPress has without a doubt (to me) the best publishing experience of any content management system, and that WordPress&#8217;s extensive APIs allow it to serve as an application framework.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you do with WP now?<\/strong><br \/>\nI work for 10up where we build amazing web experiences for enterprise using WordPress.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How as the WP community helped you?<\/strong><br \/>\nLocal meetups and WordCamps have helped me learn more about the platform and introduced me to like minded people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What would you tell a new user? A new developer?<\/strong><br \/>\nWordPress is not just a blogging platform; be open-minded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Lovett Director of Web Engineering at 10up taylorlovett.com @tlovett12 How were you first introduced to WordPress? An employer in 2007 asked me to build his website in WordPress. I resisted at first because I preferred to build things from scratch. What do you like about it? 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