{"id":2122,"date":"2016-07-21T12:43:11","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T16:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.montreal.wordcamp.org\/?p=2122"},"modified":"2016-07-21T12:43:11","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T16:43:11","slug":"speaker-spotlight-kathryn-presner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2016\/speaker-spotlight-kathryn-presner\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight: Kathryn Presner"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\" Kathryn Presner<\/a> thrives on helping people get the most out of WordPress. After a career designing and building websites for clients, she joined Automattic as a Happiness Engineer in 2012. She\u2019s currently Theme Whisperer on the Theme Team<\/a>, where she helps folks with customization, configuration, and troubleshooting. She enjoys spreading her passion for WordPress and encouraging new public speakers<\/a> at WordCamps, Girl Geeks, Ladies Learning Code, and other grassroots events. Non-WordPress obsessions include vintage Pyrex mixing bowls and growing garlic.<\/p>\n

Kathryn will be giving a talk titled “Imposter Syndrome and the Techie Continuum<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

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

I’m going to cheat a bit on this one and call out the Headstart feature we brought to WordPress.com. Headstart automatically sets up a site to look like the theme’s demo, and users love it because it reduces frustration and helps them get started much faster. It’s something I really hope we can offer to self-hosted sites at some point.<\/p>\n

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

No way I could miss my hometown WordCamp! I think it’ll be my seventh consecutive time speaking at WordCamp Montreal \u2013 wow.<\/p>\n

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

I’m going to do a short talk about my experience battling imposter syndrome and then facilitate a group discussion in which I hope others will share their stories.<\/p>\n

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

I hope people come away with strategies for overcoming imposter syndrome and a realization that everyone has something to contribute to the WordPress community, no matter how much you feel like you don’t know.<\/p>\n

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

Tracy Levesque (@LilJimmi<\/a>), David Bisset (@dimensionmedia<\/a>), Shannon Smith (@cafenoirdesign<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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

As I mentioned above, I’d like to see Headstart \u2013 or something like it \u2013 come to self-hosted sites, so all WordPress users have an easier time setting up their sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kathryn Presner thrives on helping people get the most out of WordPress. After a career designing and building websites for clients, she joined Automattic as a Happiness Engineer in 2012. She\u2019s currently Theme Whisperer on the Theme Team, where she helps folks with customization, configuration, and troubleshooting. She enjoys spreading her passion for WordPress and … Continue reading “Speaker Spotlight: Kathryn Presner”<\/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-2122","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\/2122","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=2122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2123,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122\/revisions\/2123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}