{"id":1170,"date":"2017-05-07T10:21:08","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T13:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2017.halifax.wordcamp.org\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2017-05-03T10:38:20","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T13:38:20","slug":"speaker-spotlight-kathryn-presner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2017\/speaker-spotlight-kathryn-presner\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight – Kathryn Presner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Montrealer Kathryn Presner<\/a> thrives on helping people get the most out of WordPress. After a career designing and building websites for clients, she joined Automattic as a Happiness Engineer in 2012. She\u2019s currently Theme Whisperer on the Theme Team<\/a>, where she helps folks with customization, configuration, and troubleshooting. She enjoys spreading her passion for WordPress and encouraging new public speakers<\/a> at WordCamps, Girl Geeks, Ladies Learning Code, and other grassroots events. Non-WordPress obsessions include vintage Pyrex mixing bowls and growing garlic. @zoonini<\/a><\/p>\n

What\u2019s been your best experience with WordPress? <\/h3>\n

I get tremendous enjoyment from helping WordPress users make their sites look like and do exactly what they want. Whether it’s as a volunteer in the WordPress.org forums, in person at a Happiness Bar, or in my daily work as a Happiness Engineer, helping people one-on-one with WordPress is so satisfying. <\/p>\n

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Tell us a bit about your WordCamp Halifax talk.<\/h3>\n

Customizing a site with CSS is powerful \u2013 but can seem intimidating if you\u2019re new to it. After a CSS refresher, I’ll walk you through the basics of using CSS to make changes like modifying text size and colour or hiding elements in a theme. We\u2019ll look at a few examples together and see how useful \u2013 and how much fun \u2013 CSS can be.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s your favourite thing about attending WordCamps?<\/h3>\n

I love reconnecting with old WordPress friends and making new ones. <\/p>\n

Recommend one to three people in the WordPress world to follow on social media!<\/h3>\n

I’ve been needing some humour on Twitter these days, so I’ll mention my colleagues Alex Shiels (https:\/\/twitter.com\/tellyworth), Elizabeth Urello (https:\/\/twitter.com\/eurello), and Christopher Finke (https:\/\/twitter.com\/cfinke), who always make me laugh. <\/p>\n

If you could have any superhero power, what would it be? <\/h3>\n

The ability to make cats bend to my will. Cuddles when *I* want them, dangit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Montrealer Kathryn Presner thrives on helping people get the most out of WordPress. After a career designing and building websites for clients, she joined Automattic as a Happiness Engineer in 2012. She\u2019s currently Theme Whisperer on the Theme Team, where she helps folks with customization, configuration, and troubleshooting. She enjoys spreading her passion for WordPress … Continue reading “Speaker Spotlight – Kathryn Presner”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15157762,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":""},"categories":[3,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-speakers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7MFMQ-iS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15157762"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1227,"href":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions\/1227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}