{"id":693,"date":"2012-09-11T10:22:36","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T16:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2012.slc.wordcamp.org\/?p=693"},"modified":"2012-08-29T09:15:27","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T15:15:27","slug":"dustin-nay-wcslc-speaker-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slc.wordcamp.org\/2012\/dustin-nay-wcslc-speaker-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Dustin Nay &#8212; WCSLC Speaker Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/2012.slc.wordcamp.org\/speakers\/#dustin-nay\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/2012.slc.wordcamp.org\/files\/2012\/08\/dustin-nay.jpeg\" alt=\"Dustin Nay\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-694\" \/><\/a>Dustin works at <a href=\"http:\/\/seo.com\" target=\"_blank\">SEO.com<\/a> where he does SEO all day as his career, and hack WordPress sites at night and on weekends.  &#8220;I&#8217;m an entrepreneur by nature, and enjoy coming up with business ideas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dustin knew about WordPress but had always considered it &#8220;blogging software&#8221;.  &#8220;When I started working with a friend on some projects in early 2010, he turned me on to WordPress despite my resistance. After we worked on a joint project for a client, I bought dustinnay.com and started building a blog. Later that year I attended my first WordCamp, founded the WP Meetup SLC group, and just kept learning and experimenting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dustin wanted to share his story and insight to share the resources he&#8217;s found and show that everyone can learn WordPress.  &#8220;I think a lot of people feel overwhelmed when they first start with WordPress, particularly non-developers (like me!).&#8221;  Tolkien fans may have already picked up on the sly reference to <em>The Hobbit<\/em> in <a href=\"https:\/\/2012.slc.wordcamp.org\/session\/wordpress-there-and-back-again-a-clueless-entrepreneurs-tale-of-pilgrimage\/\" target=\"_blank\">his presentation&#8217;s title<\/a>, and warns that the presentation &#8220;will be peppered with references to Middle Earth, and possibly other geeky things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Though jazz isn&#8217;t what he listens to most of the time, Dustin&#8217;s favorite jazz performer is Tommy Flanagan.  You can find him blogging on his new home at <a href=\"http:\/\/ohwisegeek.com\" target=\"_blank\">Oh Wise Geek<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dustin works at SEO.com where he does SEO all day as his career, and hack WordPress sites at night and on weekends. &#8220;I&#8217;m an entrepreneur by nature, and enjoy coming up with business ideas.&#8221; Dustin knew about WordPress but had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/slc.wordcamp.org\/2012\/dustin-nay-wcslc-speaker-profile\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"assistive-text\">Dustin Nay &#8212; WCSLC Speaker Profile<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1130752,"featured_media":694,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29],"tags":[33855,33859,33856,218,33858,14],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speakers","tag-dustin-nay","tag-middle-earth","tag-oh-wise-geek","tag-seo","tag-tolkien","tag-wordpress"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/slc.wordcamp.org\/2012\/files\/2012\/08\/dustin-nay.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2vU55-bb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slc.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slc.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slc.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slc.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1130752"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slc.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/slc.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":697,"href":"https:\/\/slc.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions\/697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slc.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slc.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slc.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slc.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}