{"id":1898,"date":"2015-09-12T14:56:24","date_gmt":"2015-09-12T18:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015.nyc.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_speaker&#038;p=1898"},"modified":"2015-09-12T14:56:24","modified_gmt":"2015-09-12T18:56:24","slug":"taylor-mccaslin","status":"publish","type":"wcb_speaker","link":"https:\/\/nyc.wordcamp.org\/2015\/speaker\/taylor-mccaslin\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor McCaslin"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1700\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1700\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/2015.nyc.wordcamp.org\/files\/2015\/09\/taylor-mccaslin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1700\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/nyc.wordcamp.org\/2015\/speaker-announcement-round-six\/3020-taylor-mccaslin\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/nyc.wordcamp.org\/2015\/files\/2015\/09\/taylor-mccaslin.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"479,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Steven Noreyko&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;3020 Taylor McCaslin&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1426605813&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 2015 Steven Noreyko, All Rights Reserved&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;3020 Taylor McCaslin&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Taylor McCaslin\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Taylor McCaslin&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/nyc.wordcamp.org\/2015\/files\/2015\/09\/taylor-mccaslin-300x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/nyc.wordcamp.org\/2015\/files\/2015\/09\/taylor-mccaslin.jpg\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1700\" src=\"https:\/\/2015.nyc.wordcamp.org\/files\/2015\/09\/taylor-mccaslin-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Taylor McCaslin\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nyc.wordcamp.org\/2015\/files\/2015\/09\/taylor-mccaslin-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/nyc.wordcamp.org\/2015\/files\/2015\/09\/taylor-mccaslin-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nyc.wordcamp.org\/2015\/files\/2015\/09\/taylor-mccaslin-299x300.jpg 299w, https:\/\/nyc.wordcamp.org\/2015\/files\/2015\/09\/taylor-mccaslin.jpg 479w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1700\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taylor McCaslin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Taylor McCaslin is a Technical Product Manager living in Austin, Texas. He currently works at WP Engine, a managed hosting platform for websites and apps built with WordPress. Taylor speaks at WordCamps and WordPress events around the country. WordPress has been Taylor\u2019s platform of choice for over 5 years. He even paid his way through college by freelancing as a WordPress developer!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Since then, Taylor has created custom WordPress themes and plugins for a large range of clients from SMBs to multinational corporations. Previously, Taylor helped people find jobs as an Interaction Designer at the world\u2019s largest job search engine, <a href=\"http:\/\/indeed.com\/\"><span class=\"s2\">Indeed.com<\/span><\/a>. Before that, he worked as a Product Design Intern at Bazaarvoice. Taylor graduated from UT Austin in 2013, where he studied business, digital art and media, theatre, and computer science.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">When not pushing pixels or coding, Taylor can be found geeking out with the latest tech gadget or experiencing the rich Austin, Texas art scene. You can learn more about Taylor at <span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/taylormccaslin.com\/\">taylormccaslin.com<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Speaker profile:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/sarataylor4484cannon\" target=\"_blank\">taylor4484<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Twitter:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/taylor4484\" target=\"_blank\">taylor4484<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor McCaslin is a Technical Product Manager living in Austin, Texas. He currently works at WP Engine, a managed hosting platform for websites and apps built with WordPress. Taylor speaks at WordCamps and WordPress events around the country. WordPress has been Taylor\u2019s platform of choice for over 5 years. He even paid his way through &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nyc.wordcamp.org\/2015\/speaker\/taylor-mccaslin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Taylor McCaslin<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2571841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_user_name":"Taylor4484","footnotes":""},"speaker_group":[],"class_list":["post-1898","wcb_speaker","type-wcb_speaker","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Q1GG-uC","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5c1c61eaa7f4b0bd6a5304163f1d84ff877804e7dfb12f6b7c2ff87a333aa618?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5c1c61eaa7f4b0bd6a5304163f1d84ff877804e7dfb12f6b7c2ff87a333aa618?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5c1c61eaa7f4b0bd6a5304163f1d84ff877804e7dfb12f6b7c2ff87a333aa618?s=96&d=mm&r=g","128":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5c1c61eaa7f4b0bd6a5304163f1d84ff877804e7dfb12f6b7c2ff87a333aa618?s=128&d=mm&r=g","256":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5c1c61eaa7f4b0bd6a5304163f1d84ff877804e7dfb12f6b7c2ff87a333aa618?s=256&d=mm&r=g","512":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5c1c61eaa7f4b0bd6a5304163f1d84ff877804e7dfb12f6b7c2ff87a333aa618?s=512&d=mm&r=g"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyc.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyc.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyc.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_speaker"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyc.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2571841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyc.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nyc.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1899,"href":"https:\/\/nyc.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1898\/revisions\/1899"}],"sessions":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyc.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/2167?_embed=1&context=view"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyc.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_speaker_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyc.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker_group?post=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}