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My name is Matt, I’m a full time WordPress Engineer at XWP. I’ve been a WordPress developer since 2005 and have loved the platform ever since.<\/p>\n

I run a WordPress development blog at http:\/\/mattgeri.com where I post daily articles and videos on WordPress development.<\/p>\n

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In 2012 I left full time WordPress development and took a job in the payments industry. After 3 years of not being very happy and burning out, I returned to WordPress development.<\/p>\n

What I love the most about WordPress is the community and of course that it is open source. I’ve started contributing back to the core through some patches to the customizer. I have also created plugins (MobilePress and WP Most Popular).<\/p>\n

Having left the WordPress space for some time (although I did keep up to date with what was happening during my time away), I have a unique perspective on how quickly WordPress is advancing, especially around tooling.<\/p>\n

And so with that in mind my talk would be centred around tooling for WordPress since I’ve been spending a lot of time recently setting up the ultimate WordPress development environment. I’ve documented a lot of this environment setup by creating tutorials and videos on my blog but there are so many great tools that many WordPress developers don’t know about or use.<\/p>\n

As for personal interests, I’m an avid golfer and mountain biker. When I’m not doing that, I spend time with my family (wife and two kids).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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