{"id":837,"date":"2015-01-07T12:19:12","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T20:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015.sandiego.wordcamp.org\/?p=837"},"modified":"2015-01-07T12:19:12","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T20:19:12","slug":"getting-to-know-ansel-taft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiego.wordcamp.org\/2015\/getting-to-know-ansel-taft\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting to know Ansel Taft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ansel Taft is a San Diego front end developer. He&#8217;s still in love with his entry point into web development, CSS, and is currently winning the battle to learn JavaScript as fast as possible. &#8216;As possible&#8217; is a relative term though. Ansel juggles a schedule around his beloved family of three (soon to be four), full-time employment, SaaS side business, personal projects, and the occasional bit of help for a friend to squash a website issue.<\/p>\n<p>In his free time Ansel helps administer a handful of Facebook groups including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/advancedwp\/\" target=\"_blank\">Advanced WordPress<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/wphosting\/\" target=\"_blank\">WordPress Hosting<\/a>. It&#8217;s a constant challenge to keep thousands of members happy. Some days it&#8217;s easy breezy in the neighborhood. Other days would sour professional cat wranglers. Through it all he learned that an admin needs to be patient, empathetic, mindful of members&#8217; interests, and to abstain from injecting one&#8217;s feelings into replies as often as humanly as possible. It&#8217;s Facebook for crying out loud; let&#8217;s have a bit of fun while we chat about WordPress.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WCSD 2015 Panelist \u2013 HELP ME! How to Help Others Help You<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This panel-style discussion will cover the following topics and is an open forum through which we encourage our attendees to ask questions.<\/p>\n<p>We will cover:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The basics of letting people know what info they need to provide in order to get the best support possible \u2013 whether in the WP.org forums or from their designer\/developer.<\/li>\n<li>How to get your \u201cHelper\u201d the details they need related to your hosting environment, WordPress version, browser, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Tips on what to try on your own, before even asking for help.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ansel Taft is a San Diego front end developer. He&#8217;s still in love with his entry point into web development, CSS, and is currently winning the battle to learn JavaScript as fast as possible. &#8216;As possible&#8217; is a relative term though. Ansel juggles a schedule around his beloved family of three (soon to be four), &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sandiego.wordcamp.org\/2015\/getting-to-know-ansel-taft\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Getting to know Ansel Taft<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":383478,"featured_media":838,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-837","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\/2015\/01\/Ansel-Caricature.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p53htl-dv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandiego.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837","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=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandiego.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":839,"href":"https:\/\/sandiego.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions\/839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandiego.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandiego.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandiego.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandiego.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}