{"id":1340,"date":"2013-03-05T12:27:42","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T12:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2013.miami.wordcamp.org\/?p=1340"},"modified":"2013-03-05T12:27:42","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T12:27:42","slug":"wordcamp-miami-2013-alex-de-car%c2%advalho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wordcamp-miami-2013-alex-de-car%c2%advalho\/","title":{"rendered":"WordCamp Miami 2013: Alex de Car\u00advalho"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Alex de Car\u00advalho\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/alexdc\">@alexdc<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/2013.miami.wordcamp.org\/files\/2013\/03\/alexdc-200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/2013.miami.wordcamp.org\/files\/2013\/03\/alexdc-200-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"alexdc-200\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2013\/files\/2013\/03\/alexdc-200-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2013\/files\/2013\/03\/alexdc-200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAlex is the co-founder of Feynlabs, which teaches programming concepts for kids. He also consults to companies and individuals on social media  strategy and implementation. He is an adjunct pro\u00adfes\u00adsor at the Uni\u00adver\u00adsity of Miami\u2019s School of Com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adca\u00adtions and recently co-authored \u201cSecur\u00ading the Clicks: Net\u00adwork Secu\u00adrity in the Age of Social Media,\u201d pub\u00adlished by McGraw-Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Alex has helped unite South Florida\u2019s tech com\u00admu\u00adnity by found\u00ading Social Media Club, Bar\u00adCamp, Ignite, Social Media Day, The Startup Forum, and Mobile Mon\u00adday events for South Florida new media pro\u00adfes\u00adsion\u00adals; he is also a found\u00ading mem\u00adber of Refresh\u00adMi\u00adami. Over the past six years, these orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtions have hosted events for over 10,000 tech and busi\u00adness pro\u00adfes\u00adsion\u00adals, lead\u00ading to new con\u00adnec\u00adtions, employ\u00adment oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adties, and startup ideas. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Alex&#8217;s Session: &#8220;Top 20 Plugins That You Can&#8217;t Live Without&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re self-hosting your WordPress website, you&#8217;ll want to extend its functionality with plugins. However, there are more than 23.500 free plugins in the WP library. You can of course visit WordPress&#8217; Most Popular Plugin Directory, but it&#8217;s a potential time sink and you&#8217;ll miss many great ones by not digging deeper. So, we&#8217;ve shaken down the interwebs for you to come up with this list of must-have plugins you won&#8217;t know how you survived without. <\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for our last speaker announcements in March!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex de Car\u00advalho\u00a0@alexdc Alex is the co-founder of Feynlabs, which teaches programming concepts for kids. He also consults to companies and individuals on social media strategy and implementation. He is an adjunct pro\u00adfes\u00adsor at the Uni\u00adver\u00adsity of Miami\u2019s School of Com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adca\u00adtions and recently co-authored \u201cSecur\u00ading the Clicks: Net\u00adwork Secu\u00adrity in the Age of Social Media,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[100131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2MwWO-lC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1342,"href":"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions\/1342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}