{"id":1325,"date":"2017-08-11T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2017.sacramento.wordcamp.org\/?p=1325"},"modified":"2017-07-19T17:28:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T00:28:53","slug":"speaker-interview-chris-lema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sacramento.wordcamp.org\/2017\/speaker-interview-chris-lema\/","title":{"rendered":"WordCamp Sacramento Speaker Interview With Chris Lema"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Chris<\/p>\n

Chris Lema<\/h2>\n

chrislema.com<\/a> | @chrislema<\/a><\/p>\n

Chris Lema has been building online web applications since 1995. He started working with WordPress in 2005. And today he’s the VP of Products & Innovation at Liquid Web, a 100MM hosting company. He’s known in the WordPress community as a blogger, public speaker, and the creator of CaboPress, a business conference for WordPress businesses.<\/p>\n

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WordCamp Session Title<\/h3>\n

The Single Thing You Need To Get Right to Succeeding at Peace, Love, And WordPress<\/p>\n

Why Is This Important?<\/h3>\n

Most people think the secret to success is either being brilliant, superbly skilled, highly educated or ridiculously lucky. I don’t agree. I think success is well within everyone’s reach. But it means thinking about things differently than most bloggers, plugin developers, theme creators, freelancers or agencies do.<\/p>\n

How Did You Discover WordPress?<\/h3>\n

I was looking, in 2005, for a solution for my customers so that they could change their websites without calling me. After looking at several content management systems, I landed on WordPress because I felt like it was easy enough for my clients to learn.<\/p>\n

How Do You Use WordPress?<\/h3>\n

Today I’m building a new version of Managed WordPress hosting. Even though companies have offered this product for more than 7 years, I think there’s a lot of innovation still left to achieve.<\/p>\n

How Has WordPress Impacted You?<\/h3>\n

Many of my closest friends are people I met thru WordCamps. Over the years, WordPress pulled me away from a corporate product development job and into a WordPress agency and today I work at a hosting company. I’m pretty sure that in the last 6 years, WordPress has impacted every facet of my personal and corporate life.<\/p>\n

What Do You Do When Not Working?<\/h3>\n

I smoke a lot of cigars and I try to do that in my hot tub when I can. I also love reading. And I blog.<\/p>\n

What Is Your Favorite Candy?<\/h3>\n

Chocolate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chris Lema chrislema.com | @chrislema Chris Lema has been building online web applications since 1995. He started working with WordPress in 2005. And today he’s the VP of Products & Innovation at Liquid Web, a 100MM hosting company. He’s known in the WordPress community as a blogger, public speaker, and the creator of CaboPress, a … <\/p>\n

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