Name Simon Carr
Employment owner of DesignUps – Digital Design Agency
Primary website http://designups.com/
Twitter handle @simoncarr
How were you first introduced to WordPress? Circa 2007 when I started using WordPress as a personal blog. By 2009 it was my default content management system.
What do you like about it? The total freedom and flexibility. WordPress can be simple and lean or extremely robust and customized. It seems to work for 98% of the interactive projects we work on.
What do you do with WP now? We build custom themes and modify pre-made themes to be tailored to our needs. The most common customizations involve Advanced Custom Fields and Events Calendar Pro.
How has the WP community (local and beyond) helped you? Have met great friends through the local WordPress community. I would callout Kenneth White in particular for all he has done for the local WordPress community.
Did learning WP lead to any significant professional, personal, creative changes in your life? Tell us how! WordPress is a core part of our business offerings and it has allowed us to work with large scale clients across the globe.
What would you tell a brand new user?
- Don’t install all the plugins.
- Start with a simple theme and deconstruct it.
- If content is your thing, then keep writing – and be sure to use pretty pictures to keep us engaged.
Anything else we should we know? WordPress will probably eventually evolve to power AI – so might as well get familiar with it now!