{"id":1606,"date":"2017-08-08T17:26:34","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T21:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2017.montreal.wordcamp.org\/?p=1606"},"modified":"2017-08-08T17:26:34","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T21:26:34","slug":"speaker-spotlight-miriam-goldman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2017\/speaker-spotlight-miriam-goldman\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight: Miriam Goldman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4f4cf09bfc6bd1f515be18001a9856c7?s=200&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/> Miriam has been a web and software developer for the past twelve years, having been lucky to work in the industry right out of college. She taught herself HTML at a young age. She used WordPress exclusively in her daytime job from 2012-2016, and has been a freelance WordPress developer\/user since 2008-09.<\/p>\n<p>Miriam will be giving a talk titled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/2017.montreal.wordcamp.org\/session\/plugins-and-you-finding-that-perfect-plugin\/\">Plugins and You: Finding that perfect plugin <\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>What is your favorite improvement to WordPress this past year?<\/h3>\n<p>Hard to say. I found the Codex to be a bit cleaner somehow, so that&#8217;s a plus!<\/p>\n<h3>Why did you decide to speak at WordCamp Montreal?<\/h3>\n<p>I wanted to broaden my experience, and speak at WordCamps outside my home base.<\/p>\n<h3>What is your talk going to be about?<\/h3>\n<p>It&#8217;s going to be my personal guide to selecting the right plugin for your use case.<\/p>\n<h3>What is the one thing you want people to walk away with from your talk?<\/h3>\n<p>I want them to hear about a different perspective, and perhaps gain some tips and tricks to the selection process.<\/p>\n<h3>Who in the WordPress community inspires you? Who do you follow?<\/h3>\n<p>That&#8217;s a hard one. There&#8217;s no one in particular that comes straight to my mind, and I follow a variety of people. Everyone brings a different perspective to the game.<\/p>\n<h3>What new feature would you like to see in the future?<\/h3>\n<p>Not sure!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miriam has been a web and software developer for the past twelve years, having been lucky to work in the industry right out of college. She taught herself HTML at a young age. She used WordPress exclusively in her daytime job from 2012-2016, and has been a freelance WordPress developer\/user since 2008-09. Miriam will be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2017\/speaker-spotlight-miriam-goldman\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Speaker Spotlight: Miriam Goldman&#8221;<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaker-spotlight"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8aDeT-pU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7673567"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1607,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions\/1607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}