{"id":3098,"date":"2019-08-19T14:47:30","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T18:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2019.orlando.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_speaker&#038;p=3098"},"modified":"2019-08-19T14:47:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T18:47:30","slug":"geoff-myers","status":"publish","type":"wcb_speaker","link":"https:\/\/orlando.wordcamp.org\/2019\/speaker\/geoff-myers\/","title":{"rendered":"Geoff Myers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Geoff  Myers has been involved in and excited about business, design, and  technology since 2004, when he founded SimDex LLC at the age of 14 in  his hometown of Saint Paul, Minnesota. Although SimDex originally  started as an IT consulting and support company, it evolved into a web  design and development agency by 2008, and eventually matured into a  full-service web services consulting firm by 2016, specializing in  custom WordPress web application development and 3rd party integrations.  For more than 15 years, Geoff has been designing and coding for the web  while also growing his \u2013 and his clients&#8217; \u2013 businesses through the  development of custom-built, user-focused web applications and the  automation and optimization of business workflows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Geoff  originally started out building static websites with Dreamweaver in  HTML and CSS, but shifted to using the Joomla! content management system  (CMS) by 2008, when version 1.5 was released. In 2010, he fell in love  with WordPress and its community. Since then, Geoff has designed,  developed, marketed, managed, and maintained more than 100  WordPress-powered websites for a wide variety of clients in terms of  industry, size, type, and location. Geoff now specializes in building  powerful enterprise web applications and integrations using\u00a0WordPress,  PHP, JavaScript, and REST APIs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoff Myers has been involved in and excited about business, design, and technology since 2004, when he founded SimDex LLC at the age of 14 in his hometown of Saint Paul, Minnesota. Although SimDex originally started as an IT consulting and support company, it evolved into a web design and development agency by 2008, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orlando.wordcamp.org\/2019\/speaker\/geoff-myers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Geoff Myers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16175955,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_user_name":"geoffmyers","footnotes":""},"speaker_group":[],"class_list":["post-3098","wcb_speaker","type-wcb_speaker","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxzxj-NY","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d8bf3d41ba235e27de3ee117b5fb8222b8a51175872c1fe31dad49aacb625d98?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d8bf3d41ba235e27de3ee117b5fb8222b8a51175872c1fe31dad49aacb625d98?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d8bf3d41ba235e27de3ee117b5fb8222b8a51175872c1fe31dad49aacb625d98?s=96&d=mm&r=g","128":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d8bf3d41ba235e27de3ee117b5fb8222b8a51175872c1fe31dad49aacb625d98?s=128&d=mm&r=g","256":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d8bf3d41ba235e27de3ee117b5fb8222b8a51175872c1fe31dad49aacb625d98?s=256&d=mm&r=g","512":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d8bf3d41ba235e27de3ee117b5fb8222b8a51175872c1fe31dad49aacb625d98?s=512&d=mm&r=g"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orlando.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/3098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orlando.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orlando.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_speaker"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orlando.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16175955"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orlando.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orlando.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/3098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3099,"href":"https:\/\/orlando.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/3098\/revisions\/3099"}],"sessions":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orlando.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/3100?_embed=1&context=view"},{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orlando.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/2949?_embed=1&context=view"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orlando.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_speaker_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orlando.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker_group?post=3098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}