{"id":4561,"date":"2012-08-30T18:26:15","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T16:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2012.capetown.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_speaker&#038;p=4561"},"modified":"2012-09-23T17:02:39","modified_gmt":"2012-09-23T15:02:39","slug":"riaan-knoetze","status":"publish","type":"wcb_speaker","link":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/speaker\/riaan-knoetze\/","title":{"rendered":"Riaan Knoetze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ancr\" name=\"riaan\">&nbsp;<\/a>Riaan is the founder and owner of <a title=\"Tiny Giant Stidios\" href=\"http:\/\/tinygiantstudios.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tiny Giant Studios<\/a>, a SA\/UK based web development company that primarily specialises in WordPress answers to website questions. In addition, Riaan is also a front end developer with <a title=\"Premium WordPress Themes | AppThemes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.appthemes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Appthemes<\/a>, a San Francisco based WordPress development company focused on making app-related themes.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to entering the world of web design and development, he gained experience in psychology, paramedicine, photography, business management, recruitment and even did a stint as futures trader on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. As a self-taught front end developer, Riaan quickly realised the value of leveraging existing themes \/ plugins in business as opposed to building everything from scratch &#8211; an attribute which he brings to every project and meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Given this background, Riaan would like to see more businesses (especially African ones) use basic web development and wordpress knowledge to enhance, and compete with established theme shops.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Session:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/2012.capetown.wordcamp.org\/session\/highjack-a-themeshop\/\">How to Highjack a Themeshop<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Time:<\/strong> 09:30 \u2013 09:55<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"standard-icon social social\" href=\"https:\/\/2012.capetown.wordcamp.org\/riaan-knoetze\/\">Speaker Spotlight<\/a><a title=\"riaan knoetze linkedin\" class=\"linkedin-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pub\/riaan-knoetze\/45\/a40\/437\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a> <a title=\"riaan knoetze twitter\" class=\"twitter-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tinygiantstudio\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a> <a title=\"riaan knoetze github\" class=\"standard-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/TinyGiantStudios\" target=\"_blank\">GitHub<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a title=\"riaan knoetze stackoverflow\" class=\"standard-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/users\/901511\/riaan-knoetze\" target=\"_blank\">Stack Overflow<\/a> <a title=\"riaan knoetze business website\" class=\"standard-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/tinygiantstudios.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Riaan is the founder and owner of Tiny Giant Studios, a SA\/UK based web development company that primarily specialises in WordPress answers to website questions. In addition, Riaan is also a front end developer with Appthemes, a San Francisco based &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/speaker\/riaan-knoetze\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Riaan Knoetze<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7694169,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_wcpt_user_name":"tinygiantstudios","footnotes":""},"speaker_group":[],"class_list":["post-4561","wcb_speaker","type-wcb_speaker","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pheWZl-1bz","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c8637d0abbae431547145d63f153f04b772bca9b45137f4f0a7ac46dbfde665b?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c8637d0abbae431547145d63f153f04b772bca9b45137f4f0a7ac46dbfde665b?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c8637d0abbae431547145d63f153f04b772bca9b45137f4f0a7ac46dbfde665b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","128":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c8637d0abbae431547145d63f153f04b772bca9b45137f4f0a7ac46dbfde665b?s=128&d=mm&r=g","256":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c8637d0abbae431547145d63f153f04b772bca9b45137f4f0a7ac46dbfde665b?s=256&d=mm&r=g","512":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c8637d0abbae431547145d63f153f04b772bca9b45137f4f0a7ac46dbfde665b?s=512&d=mm&r=g"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/4561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_speaker"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7694169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4561"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/4561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5724,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/4561\/revisions\/5724"}],"sessions":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/5036?_embed=1&context=view"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_speaker_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker_group?post=4561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}