{"id":1744,"date":"2016-07-06T20:27:18","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T00:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.montreal.wordcamp.org\/?p=1744"},"modified":"2016-07-06T20:27:18","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T00:27:18","slug":"speaker-spotlight-chris-flannagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2016\/speaker-spotlight-chris-flannagan\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight: Chris Flannagan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ca1e711443df53110c571d5df5a56353?s=200&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/> Chris has been building websites since he was a kid and discovered GeoCities. Now he&#8217;s a WordPress engineer with blog contributions, plugin features and more under his belt. He spoke at WordCamp St. Louis, Asheville and WP Campus this year. He loves craft beer, plays in a rock band and his the Director of Digital Technology for Quasar Bio-Tech, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Chris will be giving a talk titled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/2016.montreal.wordcamp.org\/session\/do-you-have-a-launch-plan\/\">Do You Have A Launch Plan?<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>What is your favorite improvement to WordPress this past year?<\/h3>\n<p>4.5 was a great release.  The editor has seen some real nice features added, also a fan of wp_add_inline_script()<\/p>\n<h3>Why did you decide to speak at WordCamp Montreal?<\/h3>\n<p>#Carl2016<\/p>\n<h3>What is your talk going to be about?<\/h3>\n<p>Having a launch plan <\/p>\n<h3>What is the one thing you want people to walk away with from your talk?<\/h3>\n<p>Any tidbit that helps their launches go smoother means my talk served its purpose.<\/p>\n<h3>Who in the WordPress community inspires you? Who do you follow?<\/h3>\n<p>Carl Alexander, Roy Sivan, Chris Wiegman and Josh Pollock are some of my favorites to follow.<\/p>\n<h3>What new feature would you like to see in the future?<\/h3>\n<p>Complete REST API endpoints and all in core<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris has been building websites since he was a kid and discovered GeoCities. Now he&#8217;s a WordPress engineer with blog contributions, plugin features and more under his belt. He spoke at WordCamp St. Louis, Asheville and WP Campus this year. He loves craft beer, plays in a rock band and his the Director of Digital &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2016\/speaker-spotlight-chris-flannagan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Speaker Spotlight: Chris Flannagan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7673567,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","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":[9463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaker-spotlight"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7673567"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1745,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions\/1745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}