{"id":4703,"date":"2013-03-22T23:15:14","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T12:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2013.melbourne.wordcamp.org\/?page_id=4703"},"modified":"2013-03-24T23:19:17","modified_gmt":"2013-03-24T12:19:17","slug":"sack-your-developer-9-12-free-wordpress-plugins-to-keep-you-sane-while-blogging","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/melbourne.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wcmelb-speakers\/sack-your-developer-9-12-free-wordpress-plugins-to-keep-you-sane-while-blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"Sack your Developer \u2013 9 1\/2 free WordPress Plugins to keep you sane while blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/TheInternerd.com\" title=\"The Internerd\" target=\"_blank\">Phil Steinke<\/a><br \/>\nMost people go home from a Wordcamp eager to install heaps of plugins, a new responsive theme, and guest post all over the place. The result is pandemonium of too much happening on your website. Instead, take a moment to consider the user journey through your website. Most of you are aspiring pro-bloggers, some developers, so you&#8217;re going to have a product or service to sell.<\/p>\n<p><em>tl;dr<\/em>: If a plugin or feature on your site will distract the user from buying your product, remove it. We&#8217;re going to focus on the absolute essentials of what you need, and then what gets in the way.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/2013.melbourne.wordcamp.org\/files\/2013\/01\/speakers_phil-stienke.jpg\" alt=\"Phil Stienke\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4472 circular\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 2008, on a beach in Vietnam, Phil Steinke started developing for WordPress. At the time his main aim was pocket money for 50c beers and Pho.<\/p>\n<p>Today Phil is lucky to earn a living building responsive WordPress themes and working as a film producer, filming videos for bloggers and delivering <a href=\"http:\/\/rbutr.com\" title=\"Rbutr\" target=\"_blank\">Rbutr.com<\/a>&#8216;s social media. <\/p>\n<p>Phil believes in giving back by building multiple free plugins and has a grand dream called <a href=\"http:\/\/TheInternerd.com\" title=\"The Internerd\" target=\"_blank\">TheInternerd.com<\/a>, a hub to distribute film online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Phil Steinke Most people go home from a Wordcamp eager to install heaps of plugins, a new responsive theme, and guest post all over the place. The result is pandemonium of too much happening on your website. Instead, take &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melbourne.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wcmelb-speakers\/sack-your-developer-9-12-free-wordpress-plugins-to-keep-you-sane-while-blogging\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sack your Developer \u2013 9 1\/2 free WordPress Plugins to keep you sane while blogging<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248981,"featured_media":0,"parent":3387,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4703","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PheWMs-1dR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melbourne.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melbourne.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melbourne.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melbourne.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/248981"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melbourne.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4703"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/melbourne.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4760,"href":"https:\/\/melbourne.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4703\/revisions\/4760"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melbourne.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melbourne.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}