{"id":1586,"date":"2013-05-30T07:53:54","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T12:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2013.milwaukee.wordcamp.org\/?p=1586"},"modified":"2013-05-29T08:56:02","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T13:56:02","slug":"speaker-highlight-phil-gerbyshak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milwaukee.wordcamp.org\/2013\/speaker-highlight-phil-gerbyshak\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Highlight: Phil Gerbyshak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Confess to us your biggest moment of WP fail?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Once my .htaccess file got hacked, no doubt through my own fault. I probably installed some crappy plug-in that got hacked, and for about 96 hours, I couldn&#8217;t log in to my own site to do anything. To the outside world, all looked normal. To me, I was FREAKED OUT! <\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you use Themes &amp; Child Themes, Roll your own, or both?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Themes and child themes, all the way. I have no time to roll my own, and the frameworks out there are AWESOME starting points!<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s your favorite theme or theme framework? Why?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I love StudioPress for the nearly done child themes they offer. It makes it super easy for someone like me (a marketer) to create awesome looking sites.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where do you see WordPress going in the next 2-3 years?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I see there being a paid version where everything is done for you except NOT hosted on the WordPress.com platform, with a good e-mail service that integrates into your site.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When was the first time that you really got excited about WordPress OR at what point did you decide to make it your career?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>March 9, 2009 &#8211; I switched my main website from a TypePad blog to a self-hosted WordPress installation, with the help of my dear friend Jesse Petersen. OK, Jesse did most of the work. I just helped a little. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confess to us your biggest moment of WP fail? Once my .htaccess file got hacked, no doubt through my own fault. I probably installed some crappy plug-in that got hacked, and for about 96 hours, I couldn&#8217;t log in to my own site to do anything. To the outside world, all looked normal. To me, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112378,"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":[140351],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaker-highlight"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YmV6-pA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milwaukee.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milwaukee.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milwaukee.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milwaukee.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1586"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milwaukee.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1588,"href":"https:\/\/milwaukee.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions\/1588"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milwaukee.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/offordscott"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milwaukee.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milwaukee.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milwaukee.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}