{"id":776,"date":"2012-08-13T12:21:16","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T16:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2012.montreal.wordcamp.org\/?p=776"},"modified":"2012-08-13T12:21:16","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T16:21:16","slug":"speaker-spotlight-joey-kudish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2012\/speaker-spotlight-joey-kudish\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight: Joey Kudish!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Joey Kudish<\/p><\/div>\n

WordCamp Montreal is only a week away! We’re excited to bring you a new speaker spotlight series this year!<\/p>\n

Our next spotlight is\u00a0Joey\u00a0Kudish<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Joey is a\u00a0Code Wrangler at Automattic.\u00a0Previously, he\u00a0was a freelancing web\u00a0developer building high-scale WordPress sites and private\u00a0WordPress plugins. He is the author and contributor to several WordPress\u00a0plugins\u00a0as well as contributor to WordPress core. Joey\u2019s an avid coffee drinker, dog lover & enthusiastic traveler.<\/p>\n

Follow\u00a0@jkudish<\/a>\u00a0on twitter.<\/p>\n

Joey will be giving a talk titled\u00a0Becoming a better WordPress developer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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What is your favorite improvement to WordPress this past year?<\/h3>\n

The theme customizer and the flexibility it brings for end-users. I think we’ll see a lot of themes and plugins take advantage of this new feature and build out some awesome integrations with it over the next few months.<\/p>\n

Why did you decide to speak at WordCamp Montreal?<\/h3>\n

Though I moved to Vancouver last year, Montreal is my hometown and I still keep in touch with some of the local community. I hope to come back every year to share some knowledge with the Montreal crew.<\/p>\n

What is your talk going to be about?<\/h3>\n

My talk will cover WordPress coding standards, best practices, and technical tools to become a better developer. It will be a resourceful presentation for anyone beginning, interested in, and those who have been developing with WordPress for a long time. Some of the topics covered will be proper usage of hooks and filters, creating your own plugins (instead of always using that functions.php), making use of the mu-plugins folder, how to properly escape and sanitize user-generated content, security gotchas and more.<\/p>\n

What is the one thing you want people to walk away with from your talk?<\/h3>\n

That writing good, scalable, re-usable and secure code is more important than just quickly hacking together a solution.<\/p>\n

Who in the WordPress community inspires you? Who do you follow?<\/h3>\n

It’s tough to select just one person who inspire more than others. I follow a lot of people in the WordPress community and they each contribute in a meaningful way; whether it’s writing code, helping out in the forums, translating text, etc… I am also lucky to work with 125+ of some of the smartest people in the world over at Automattic \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

What new feature would you like to see in the future?<\/h3>\n

I think the media enhancements in 3.5 are very promising. It’s definitely an area of WordPress that needs some work. Beyond that, I am also excited by any under-the-hood API changes that make developing with WordPress easier. One area in particular I’d like to see some work on in the next few release cycles is the Settings API.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WordCamp Montreal is only a week away! We’re excited to bring you a new speaker spotlight series this year! Our next spotlight is\u00a0Joey\u00a0Kudish! Joey is a\u00a0Code Wrangler at Automattic.\u00a0Previously, he\u00a0was a freelancing web\u00a0developer building high-scale WordPress sites and private\u00a0WordPress plugins. … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Joey Kudish!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7673567,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4636],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-speakers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2g1ot-cw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7673567"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":779,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}