{"id":614,"date":"2014-12-19T05:05:25","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T13:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015.sandiego.wordcamp.org\/?p=614"},"modified":"2014-12-11T15:52:40","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T23:52:40","slug":"getting-to-know-chris-weigman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiego.wordcamp.org\/2015\/getting-to-know-chris-weigman\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting to know Chris Weigman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris is the developer of <a href=\"https:\/\/ithemes.com\/security\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">iThemes Security<\/a> (formerly Better WP Security) and has been working on WordPress security for over 5 years. Previously a captain for a small airline Chris\u2019 interest in security began on his first day as an employed pilot, 9\/11 and gradually evolved over the years to helping individuals and smaller organizations protect their websites from many of the common methods attackers use to compromise their victims.<\/p>\n<p>When not coding Chris loves to teach and has taught computer security for St. Edward\u2019s University as well as other courses ranging from computers to aviation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WCSD 2015 Session &#8211; Vetting A Plugin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This session is for less-experienced WordPress users and will cover the ins and outs of selecting the right plugins for your site with particular emphasis on the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An overview of the WordPress plugin repository and its function<\/li>\n<li>How plugins are approved or denied in the plugin repository<\/li>\n<li>An overview of other plugin sources and why some plugins are not in the WordPress.org repository<\/li>\n<li>How to choose what plugin(s) to use on your site<\/li>\n<li>The security implications of plugin choices<\/li>\n<li>How to keep your plugins up to date<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris is the developer of iThemes Security (formerly Better WP Security) and has been working on WordPress security for over 5 years. Previously a captain for a small airline Chris\u2019 interest in security began on his first day as an employed pilot, 9\/11 and gradually evolved over the years to helping individuals and smaller organizations &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sandiego.wordcamp.org\/2015\/getting-to-know-chris-weigman\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Getting to know Chris Weigman<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":383478,"featured_media":616,"comment_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speakers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sandiego.wordcamp.org\/2015\/files\/2014\/12\/cartoon.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p53htl-9U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandiego.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandiego.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandiego.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandiego.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/383478"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandiego.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sandiego.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754,"href":"https:\/\/sandiego.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions\/754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandiego.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandiego.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandiego.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandiego.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}