{"id":1880,"date":"2024-06-29T16:13:59","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T14:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2024\/?post_type=wcb_session&#038;p=1880"},"modified":"2024-06-29T16:29:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T14:29:33","slug":"my-wordpress-journey","status":"publish","type":"wcb_session","link":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2024\/session\/my-wordpress-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"My WordPress Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I intend to talk about my entire WordPress journey, from starting a famous video blog (From the Couch) with David, through to our experience building Obox Themes, pivoting to oue site builder Layers, moving into my career as a freelancer after selling Layers to Elementor (as well as the story behind that) and finally into my new life with a company of 10 people, 3 of whom work for Elementor building their plugin which powers almost 20m websites and 10% of the internet.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>I think the story is inspiring as it shows people never to give up, and also just because you are where you are now, it doesn&#8217;t mean that&#8217;s where you&#8217;re going or where you&#8217;ve come from.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-wordcamp-session-speakers\"><span class=\"wp-block-wordcamp-session-speakers__byline\">Presented by<\/span><span class=\"wp-block-wordcamp-session-speakers__name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2024\/speaker\/marc-perel\/\">Marc Perel<\/a><\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I intend to talk about my entire WordPress journey, from starting a famous video blog (From the Couch) with David, through to our experience building Obox Themes, pivoting to oue site builder Layers, moving into my career as a freelancer after selling Layers to Elementor (as well as the story behind that) and finally into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9654570,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_session_time":1722513600,"_wcpt_session_duration":3000,"_wcpt_session_type":"session","_wcpt_session_slides":"","_wcpt_session_video":"","_wcpt_speaker_id":[1879],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[31],"session_category":[32],"class_list":["post-1880","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","hentry","wcb_track-track-1","wcb_session_category-talks"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"session_date_time":{"date":"August 1, 2024","time":"2:00 pm"},"session_speakers":[{"id":"1879","slug":"marc-perel","name":"Marc Perel","link":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2024\/speaker\/marc-perel\/"}],"session_cats_rendered":"Talks","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/1880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/1880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2094,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/1880\/revisions\/2094"}],"speakers":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1879"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/obox"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=1880"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=1880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}