{"id":1675,"date":"2017-08-11T17:18:55","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T21:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2017.montreal.wordcamp.org\/?p=1675"},"modified":"2017-08-11T17:18:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T21:18:55","slug":"speaker-spotlight-brian-zerkler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2017\/speaker-spotlight-brian-zerkler\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight: Brian Zerkler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ffca3241430dda4a0c081bb4060ae21b?s=200&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/> Brian is a born and bred Montrealer. Freelancer. Contractor. Learner of things. He&#8217;s been playing with WordPress since 2008(ish) when he created his first site for an online radio station. That site is long gone, but his love for WordPress grew a lot since then. Helping people with their sites is something he truly enjoys. It took a while, but, in 2016, he attended my first WordCamp and sees himself at many more in the future!<\/p>\n<p>Brian gave a workshop earlier this week titled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/2017.montreal.wordcamp.org\/session\/woocommerce-a-beginners-guide-to-sell-anything-anywhere-beautifully\/\">WooCommerce: A beginner\u2019s guide to sell anything, anywhere. Beautifully!<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>What is your favorite improvement to WordPress this past year?<\/h3>\n<p>Let me throw in a couple. The Visual Editor in the Text Widget and the WordPress Events widget in the admin Dashboard. Super helpful!<\/p>\n<h3>Why did you decide to speak at WordCamp Montreal?<\/h3>\n<p>I thought it would be fun and I just wanted to give back!<\/p>\n<h3>What is your talk going to be about?<\/h3>\n<p>I will be giving a beginners workshop on setting up an eCommerce site with WooCommerce.<\/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 be able to say &#8220;WooCommerce? Yeah, I understand it!&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h3>Who in the WordPress community inspires you? Who do you follow?<\/h3>\n<p>Lately I&#8217;ve been listening to the podcast The WordPress Chick with Kim Doyle.<\/p>\n<h3>What new feature would you like to see in the future?<\/h3>\n<p>Although there are great plugins for this, incorporating, into core, a simple way to create multilingual sites would be awesome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian is a born and bred Montrealer. Freelancer. Contractor. Learner of things. He&#8217;s been playing with WordPress since 2008(ish) when he created his first site for an online radio station. That site is long gone, but his love for WordPress grew a lot since then. 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