{"id":252,"date":"2014-08-12T17:28:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T17:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.slc.wordcamp.org\/?p=252"},"modified":"2015-01-16T17:45:02","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T00:45:02","slug":"speaker-announcement-chris-reynolds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slc.wordcamp.org\/2014\/speaker-announcement-chris-reynolds\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Announcement &#8212; Chris Reynolds"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Why Hacking WordPress Search Isn&#8217;t Some Big Scary Thing<\/h2>\n<p>Developers can be a stubborn lot. We like to focus on the things we know really well, and things we don&#8217;t deal with as often can be seen as &#8220;hard&#8221;. Search is one of those things that gets written off a lot, few devs I know will deal with it (voluntarily), and almost everyone will tell you &#8220;WordPress search sucks.&#8221; In this presentation you will learn that not only do you know more about how search works than you thought you did, but maybe give you a better understanding of how WordPress works as a whole, as well as showing you some cool tricks that you can do with WordPress search.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"VideoPress Video Player\" aria-label='VideoPress Video Player' width='584' height='329' src='https:\/\/video.wordpress.com\/embed\/uCK3obql?hd=1&amp;cover=1' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen allow='clipboard-write'><\/iframe><script src='https:\/\/v0.wordpress.com\/js\/next\/videopress-iframe.js?m=1674852142'><\/script><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2e6c0a0ecb51c9d67263485a1713294d?s=128\" alt=\"Chris Reynolds\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chris Reynolds is a WordPress developer for <a href=\"http:\/\/webdevstudios.com\/\">WebDevStudios<\/a> and has been a freelance web designer and developer specializing in WordPress since 2007. He has submitted plugins and themes to <a href=\"http:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/jazzs3quence\/\">WordPress.org<\/a> and is the author of numerous WordPress-centric online training courses for <a href=\"http:\/\/pluralsight.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pluralsight<\/a>. When he\u2019s not writing code or making videos, he makes electronic music and cheers\u00a0for <a href=\"http:\/\/realsaltlake.com\">Real Salt Lake<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"clear: both\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Hacking WordPress Search Isn&#8217;t Some Big Scary Thing Developers can be a stubborn lot. We like to focus on the things we know really well, and things we don&#8217;t deal with as often can be seen as &#8220;hard&#8221;. Search &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/slc.wordcamp.org\/2014\/speaker-announcement-chris-reynolds\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10179395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slc.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slc.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slc.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slc.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10179395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slc.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/slc.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":752,"href":"https:\/\/slc.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slc.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slc.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slc.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}