We sit down with Arūnas Liuiza, who will be speaking about extending WordPress at WordCamp Stockholm.
Please tell us a little about yourself, who you are and what you do.
I do a lot of things, but if you asked we to pick one title, I’d call myself a WordPress plugin developer, because that’s what I love doing the most. I also teach web development in Kaunas College, and do a lot of different things in WP community – I am a co-organizer of WordPress Kaunas Meetup, I am a part of WP Lithuanian translation team, a WordCamp speaker, and I’ve made a couple of contributions to WP Core.
Which of the speakers at this year’s WordCamp are you looking forward to hearing the most?
I’m looking forward to hearing Daniel Koskinen’s talk about CSS Grids. It’s an exciting new topic that I am looking forward to hear more about.
How and when did you get into WordPress?
As many people, I got into WordPress via a personal project – my blog. I think the first WP version I ever installed was 2.6.3. Once I started tinkering with it, I loved how flexible and extensible it is and that is why I’m still working with it.
You are going to be talking about extending WordPress. If you have to put one of these labels on your talk, which one would it be? Brave, educational, logical, unexpected, or mind-twisting, or something else? And why is this a suitable label?
I hope it to be at least a tiny bit educational. I guess that’s the teacher side of me showing up. Because WP is extendable in so many ways, they are often misused and often that’s
because people just don’t stop and think about it.
What is the most valuable thing you get out of the WordPress community?
I think community is what makes WordPress so awesome and popular, so I love to give my part to that, be it translations, core contributions, talks at WordCamps and meetups, open source plugins or just answering questions on Facebook. It helps me grow as a developer, and it helps the community to grow. That’s a win-win in my book.
Don’t miss Arūnas talk “Captain Hook – the Right Way to Extend WordPress” at WordCamp Stockholm 2017.