{"id":1518,"date":"2016-09-08T12:14:53","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T17:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.nashville.wordcamp.org\/?p=1518"},"modified":"2016-09-08T12:14:53","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T17:14:53","slug":"faces-of-wordpress-simon-carr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nashville.wordcamp.org\/2016\/faces-of-wordpress-simon-carr\/","title":{"rendered":"Faces of WordPress: Simon Carr"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"simon-carr-designups-founder\"Name<\/strong> Simon Carr<\/p>\n

Employment<\/strong> owner of DesignUps – Digital Design Agency<\/p>\n

Primary website<\/strong> http:\/\/designups.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Twitter handle<\/strong> @simoncarr<\/a><\/p>\n

How were you first introduced to WordPress?\u00a0<\/strong>Circa 2007 when I started using WordPress as a personal blog. By 2009 it was my default content management system.<\/p>\n

What do you like about it?\u00a0<\/strong>The total freedom and flexibility. WordPress can be simple and lean or extremely robust and customized. It seems to work for 98% of the interactive projects we work on.<\/p>\n

What do you do with WP now?\u00a0<\/strong>We build custom themes and modify pre-made themes to be tailored to our needs. The most common customizations involve Advanced Custom Fields and Events Calendar Pro.<\/p>\n

How has the WP community (local and beyond) helped you?\u00a0<\/strong>Have met great friends through the local WordPress community. I would callout Kenneth White in particular for all he has done for the local WordPress community.<\/p>\n

Did learning WP lead to any significant professional, personal, creative changes in your life? Tell us how!\u00a0<\/strong>WordPress is a core part of our business offerings and it has allowed us to work with large scale clients across the globe.<\/p>\n

What would you tell a brand new user?<\/strong><\/p>\n