{"id":876,"date":"2018-06-06T10:16:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T13:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2018.halifax.wordcamp.org\/?p=876"},"modified":"2018-06-01T10:23:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T13:23:45","slug":"speaker-spotlight-gary-thayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2018\/speaker-spotlight-gary-thayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight &#8211; Gary Thayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1014\" src=\"https:\/\/2018.halifax.wordcamp.org\/files\/2018\/05\/Speakers-Spotlight-Gary-Thayer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/05\/Speakers-Spotlight-Gary-Thayer.jpg 700w, https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/05\/Speakers-Spotlight-Gary-Thayer-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/05\/Speakers-Spotlight-Gary-Thayer-500x247.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gary Thayer is a WordPress Developer at Hall Internet Marketing who specializes in eCommerce websites and analytics tracking. He is an active member of the WordPress community, acting as an organizer for the Southern Maine WordPress Meetup and as Lead Organizer for WordCamp Portland, ME.<\/p>\n<h3>What\u2019s been your best experience with WordPress?<\/h3>\n<p>Getting to build some really cool stores and applications for businesses with a diverse set of needs. WordPress is super flexible, while always offering a familiar framework for users.<\/p>\n<h3><!--more--><br \/>\nTell us a bit about your WordCamp Halifax talk.<\/h3>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be looking at next steps after creating your WooCommerce store, and how to customize it for unique business needs.<\/p>\n<h3>What\u2019s your favourite thing about WordCamps, or if your first one&#8230; what are you looking forward to?<\/h3>\n<p>Meeting WordPress users with difference experiences and backgrounds.<\/p>\n<h3>Let&#8217;s get philosophical&#8230; what are you most proud of?<\/h3>\n<p>Successfully transitioning from a degree in Theatre, to a career as a developer.<\/p>\n<h2>Session Details<\/h2>\n<p>This talk will look at the best practices for building and customizing themes and plugins for WooCommerce. We\u2019ll talk about:<\/p>\n<p>Keeping template files up to date;<br \/>\nUseful actions and filters;<br \/>\nCustom solutions for unique eCommerce situations;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Thayer is a WordPress Developer at Hall Internet Marketing who specializes in eCommerce websites and analytics tracking. He is an active member of the WordPress community, acting as an organizer for the Southern Maine WordPress Meetup and as Lead &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2018\/speaker-spotlight-gary-thayer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"assistive-text\">Speaker Spotlight &#8211; Gary Thayer<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16035181,"featured_media":1014,"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":[3,1243254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-speakers-sessions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/05\/Speakers-Spotlight-Gary-Thayer.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9nIuU-e8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16035181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1103,"href":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions\/1103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}