{"id":595569,"date":"2013-11-26T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T16:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2013.vegas.wordcamp.org\/?p=595569"},"modified":"2013-11-25T20:46:49","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T04:46:49","slug":"speaker-spotlight-ryan-sullivan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2013\/speaker-spotlight-ryan-sullivan\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight: Ryan Sullivan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/2013.vegas.wordcamp.org\/files\/2013\/11\/ryan-sullivan.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"595570\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2013\/speaker-spotlight-ryan-sullivan\/ryan-sullivan-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2013\/files\/2013\/11\/ryan-sullivan.png\" data-orig-size=\"419,420\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ryan sullivan\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2013\/files\/2013\/11\/ryan-sullivan-300x300.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2013\/files\/2013\/11\/ryan-sullivan.png\" src=\"https:\/\/2013.vegas.wordcamp.org\/files\/2013\/11\/ryan-sullivan-300x300.png\" alt=\"ryan sullivan\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-595570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2013\/files\/2013\/11\/ryan-sullivan-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2013\/files\/2013\/11\/ryan-sullivan-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2013\/files\/2013\/11\/ryan-sullivan.png 419w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ryan Sullivan is more than a speaker at WordCamp Las Vegas. His company <a href=\"https:\/\/2013.vegas.wordcamp.org\/2013\/11\/25\/sponsor-spotlight-wp-site-care\/\" title=\"Sponsor WP Site Care\" target=\"_blank\">WP Site Care is a sponsor<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Before jumping head first into WordPress about four years ago, Sullivan was a system administrator managing electronic personal health information. Basically, he had to make sure that the system never broke and that &#8220;bad guys&#8221; couldn&#8217;t get their hands on some sensitive information. Since then, he founded WP Site Care, a premium WordPress support and maintenance company, which allows him to do something he really enjoys: help people. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Ryan Sullivan<\/strong><br \/>\nWebsite: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpsitecare.com\" title=\"WP Site Care\" target=\"_blank\">www.wpsitecare.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WCLV: What do you love most about WordPress? <\/p>\n<p>RS: The flexibility. It&#8217;s still relatively young and has the capability to do everything from being a simple blog to a high volume e-commerce platform. And beyond!<\/p>\n<p>WCLV: What are some of your favorite WordPress-built websites? <\/p>\n<p>RS: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mavs.com\/\" title=\"Mavs.com\" target=\"_blank\">Mavs.com<\/a> is amazing. I still can&#8217;t believe it runs on WordPress.<\/p>\n<p>WCLV: Who is YOUR WordPress hero and why? <\/p>\n<p>RS: I have a huge list. I have a number of different heroes for different things. Pippin Williamson has built an amazing plugin business and has an awesome work ethic. Rob Neu knows more about WordPress SEO than I&#8217;ll ever pretend to know. I respect the way Cory Miller handles himself and his business. The list goes on and on&#8230; So many amazing people in the community.<\/p>\n<p>WCLV: What are your favorite WordPress plugins? <\/p>\n<p>RS: It might be clich\u00e9, but the ones I find myself using over and over again are WordPress SEO by Yoast, Gravity Forms, and Advanced Custom Fields.<\/p>\n<p>WCLV: What do you love about Las Vegas? <\/p>\n<p>RS: This is going to be a terribly touristy answer, but I love to watch the people on the Strip. Never a dull moment.<\/p>\n<p>WCLV: What is your pet peeve?<\/p>\n<p>RS: That we still don&#8217;t have an easy way to find the remote control when it gets lost, which is always.<\/p>\n<p>WCLV: What are your plans for surviving the zombie apocalypse? <\/p>\n<p>RS: Find Brad Pitt, duh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Sullivan is more than a speaker at WordCamp Las Vegas. His company WP Site Care is a sponsor. Before jumping head first into WordPress about four years ago, Sullivan was a system administrator managing electronic personal health information. Basically, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2013\/speaker-spotlight-ryan-sullivan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"assistive-text\">Speaker Spotlight: Ryan Sullivan<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13288061,"featured_media":0,"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":[22812],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-595569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordcamp-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3AzNN-2uVX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13288061"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595569"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596302,"href":"https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595569\/revisions\/596302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}