{"id":185807,"date":"2013-08-15T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2013.grandrapids.wordcamp.org\/?p=185807"},"modified":"2013-08-19T18:41:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T22:41:00","slug":"lisa-ghisolf-speaker-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grandrapids.wordcamp.org\/2013\/lisa-ghisolf-speaker-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisa Ghisolf Speaker Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-187906\" alt=\"Lisa Ghisolf WordCamp Grand Rapids 2013\" src=\"https:\/\/2013.grandrapids.wordcamp.org\/files\/2013\/08\/Lisa-Ghisolf-WordCamp-Grand-Rapids-2013-300x300.jpeg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grandrapids.wordcamp.org\/2013\/files\/2013\/08\/Lisa-Ghisolf-WordCamp-Grand-Rapids-2013-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/grandrapids.wordcamp.org\/2013\/files\/2013\/08\/Lisa-Ghisolf-WordCamp-Grand-Rapids-2013-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/grandrapids.wordcamp.org\/2013\/files\/2013\/08\/Lisa-Ghisolf-WordCamp-Grand-Rapids-2013.jpeg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Lisa Ghisolf is Gizmo Creative Factory, with 17+ years in print, web &amp; email design, and 10 years in business. She&#8217;s worked with big and small agencies alike, creating print work and websites for Kraft, Allstate &amp; many corporations &amp; organizations. Instead of just putting out fires, she&#8217;s now building robust WordPress sites and training clients and giving workshops on how they can manage them on their own.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;ll be presenting\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/2013.grandrapids.wordcamp.org\/session\/a-house-with-no-walls-creating-a-site-structure-for-tomorrow\/\">A House with No Walls: Creating a Site Structure for Tomorrow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Interview<\/h2>\n<h2>Why do you use WordPress?<\/h2>\n<p>Ease of use for clients, ease of building good sites with a lot of support.<\/p>\n<h2>When and how did you start using WordPress?<\/h2>\n<p>Back in 2008 on an association site&#8230;. BuddyPress and the like didn&#8217;t exist yet so it was a massive pain! But, it existed for 5 years.<\/p>\n<h2>What tips or resources would you recommend to a new WordPress user?<\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/\">WordPress.org forums<\/a> and experimentation. The sooner you break it, the sooner you can learn to fix it!<\/p>\n<h2>What advice would you give someone who\u2019s building a business around WordPress design or development?<\/h2>\n<p>Learn all you can and talk to other devs and designers so you&#8217;re knowledgeable.<\/p>\n<h2>How do you stay informed about WordPress (news, tips, etc.)?<\/h2>\n<p>A few blogs, WordCamps.<\/p>\n<h2>What do you like most about WordCamps?<\/h2>\n<p>Friendliness, and learning new stuff. And sometimes just learning you&#8217;re not doing the wrong thing.<\/p>\n<h2>Where can we find you online?<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmo-design.com\">gizmo-design.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/gizmodesign\">twitter.com\/gizmodesign<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa Ghisolf is Gizmo Creative Factory, with 17+ years in print, web &amp; email design, and 10 years in business. She&#8217;s worked with big and small agencies alike, creating print work and websites for Kraft, Allstate &amp; many corporations &amp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grandrapids.wordcamp.org\/2013\/lisa-ghisolf-speaker-interview\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lisa Ghisolf Speaker Interview<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8173826,"featured_media":187906,"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":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[116624],"class_list":["post-185807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speakers","tag-interview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/grandrapids.wordcamp.org\/2013\/files\/2013\/08\/Lisa-Ghisolf-WordCamp-Grand-Rapids-2013.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pCms-MkT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grandrapids.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grandrapids.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grandrapids.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandrapids.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8173826"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandrapids.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185807"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/grandrapids.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208206,"href":"https:\/\/grandrapids.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185807\/revisions\/208206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandrapids.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grandrapids.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandrapids.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandrapids.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}