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CT Moore<\/p><\/div>WordCamp Montreal is two weeks away! We’re excited to bring you a new speaker spotlight series this year!<\/p>\n
I’m happy to present our first spotlight, CT Moore<\/a>!<\/p>\n A recovering agency hack, CT Moore (@gypsybandito<\/a>) is a strategist, blogger, and speaker who specializes in SEO and social content strategy.<\/p>\n CT\u00a0will be giving a talk titled SEO for WordPress<\/a>.<\/p>\n I don’t know if it was in the last 365 days per se, but being able to install plugins & themes through the backend user interface was a huge win for me. I hardly ever use my FTP client anymore.<\/p>\n I love the WordPress community. By learning my way around WordPress, I’ve learned CSS and a bit of PHP, and none of that would’ve been possible if the community hadn’t been there to share their knowledge and lend a hand when I needed it. So it’s always been important to me to either give back to the community, or pass the buck forward by sharing my own experience with others.<\/p>\n My talk is going to be about SEO. I know that WordPress is relatively SEO-friendly right out of the box, but there is so much more bloggers can do to help their content rank better, and that’s what I do for a living (SEO), so that’s what I want to share with the community.<\/p>\n I want them to walk away with an actionable to-do list. I want them to learn from me and say “Oh, that’s what I can be doing better with my blog,” and then go do it. I want them to walk away with something they can use immediately and see the benefits of in the near future.<\/p>\n Brendan Sera-Shriar (@digibomb<\/a>) has always inspired me for both his knowledge of WordPress as a platform, as well as his passion for community involvement. Andrea Rennick (@andrea_r<\/a>) has also been an inspiration. I mean, she an actually WordPress community moderator, and despite her accomplishments, she still takes the time to help out those who know so much less than her. That, and I met her at Wordcamp a couple years ago, and she’s always been willing to help me troubleshoot problems here and there.<\/p>\n I’d like to see more advance SEO options integrated into the core framework. There are a few really great plugins out there, but WordPress out of the box lacks some things (like redirects and custom meta info) that I think any basic user can benefit from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WordCamp Montreal is two weeks away! We’re excited to bring you a new speaker spotlight series this year! I’m happy to present our first spotlight, CT Moore! A recovering agency hack, CT Moore (@gypsybandito) is a strategist, blogger, and speaker … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: CT Moore!<\/span>
\nWhat is your favorite improvement to WordPress this past year?<\/h3>\n
Why did you decide to speak at WordCamp Montreal?<\/h3>\n
What is your talk going to be about?<\/h3>\n
What is the one thing you want people to walk away with from your talk?<\/h3>\n
Who in the WordPress community inspires you? Who do you follow?<\/h3>\n
What new feature would you like to see in the future?<\/h3>\n