{"id":852,"date":"2012-08-16T19:43:39","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T23:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2012.montreal.wordcamp.org\/?p=852"},"modified":"2012-08-16T19:43:39","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T23:43:39","slug":"speaker-spotlight-rick-radko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2012\/speaker-spotlight-rick-radko\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight: Rick Radko!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rick Radko<\/p><\/div>\n

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

Our next spotlight is Rick Radko<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Rick Radko is a creative, artistic, and entrepreneurial engineer with a passion for finding solutions to difficult design problems. He is the owner of\u00a0R-Cubed Design Forge<\/a>, where he develops custom web applications, social networking and team collaboration solutions for businesses. Rick specializes in custom application development and multilingual WordPress sites. He is co-leader, and a frequent presenter at the\u00a0Ottawa WordPress Group<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Follow\u00a0@r3designforge<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter.<\/p>\n

Rick will be giving a talk titled\u00a0Getting WordPress to Speak Your Language<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

I think the new media up-loader is great, it makes it much easier to add images. The improvements in the context sensitive help tab are good too, I wish more developers would use it.<\/p>\n

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

Having worked extensively with WordPress for the past 4 years, I want to give back to the community and share my knowledge with others.<\/p>\n

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

The objective of this talk is to provide users of all levels the concepts and resources needed to be able to set-up a WordPress site in one or more languages other than the default English.<\/p>\n

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

I’d like people to know that you can create multilingual sites with WordPress, and it’s not at all hard to do for simple sites.<\/p>\n

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

I tend to follow the core developers like @nacin<\/a> and @otto42<\/a>. I also pay attention to the Rennick’s (@sillygrampy<\/a>, @andrea_r<\/a>) and @photomatt<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

I’m looking forward to the new media that may be in 3.5, and hoping it will be as great a change as the up-loader which has really helped users. As a developer, I’d like to see some behind the scenes action with more hooks and filter points to make it easier to connect in plugins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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