{"id":652296,"date":"2014-10-18T12:32:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-18T19:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.sf.wordcamp.org\/?p=652296"},"modified":"2014-10-17T14:32:28","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T21:32:28","slug":"making-the-most-of-the-wcsf-happiness-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sf.wordcamp.org\/2014\/making-the-most-of-the-wcsf-happiness-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"Making the Most of the WCSF Happiness Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happiness bars are a common feature at WordCamps, and WCSF is no different. A happiness bar is a place where you can go to talk to WordPress experts about your website. We&#8217;re lucky at WCSF to have so many WordPress experts from across the community so if you&#8217;re having problems with your website it&#8217;s a great opportunity to get some advice.<\/p>\n<h3>What Type of Questions Should I Ask?<\/h3>\n<p>You can ask any sort of WordPress question you like, but if you want to make the most of those experts&#8217; brains it&#8217;s best to have a think beforehand about what sort of assistance you need. Here are some things you could ask about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>concerned about your website&#8217;s security? Ask for advice on how to make your website more secure.<\/li>\n<li>if your website is running slowly, ask for some advice on performance that can get things moving again.<\/li>\n<li>sick of your website&#8217;s theme? Ask the experts for recommendations of places to find well-coded, well-supported themes.<\/li>\n<li>if you&#8217;re just thinking about setting up a website, you could ask whether WordPress.com or WordPress is better suited to your needs.<\/li>\n<li>if you&#8217;re getting a lot of error messages, ask our experts to fix your site and learn how to do it while you watch.<\/li>\n<li>get advice on CSS customizations and design tweaks on your website.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Feel free to ask whatever questions you wish, but please be respectful of other attendees. If a queue starts to form, make sure that other people have the chance to ask their questions too.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever WordPress help you need, the folks at the Happiness Bar are there to help. It&#8217;s like the support forums, but live!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happiness bars are a common feature at WordCamps, and WCSF is no different. A happiness bar is a place where you can go to talk to WordPress experts about your website. We&#8217;re lucky at WCSF to have so many WordPress experts from across the community so if you&#8217;re having problems with your website it&#8217;s a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sf.wordcamp.org\/2014\/making-the-most-of-the-wcsf-happiness-bar\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Making the Most of the WCSF Happiness Bar<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7518923,"featured_media":652298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sf.wordcamp.org\/2014\/files\/2014\/10\/happiness-bar.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p49Uwb-2JGU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sf.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sf.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sf.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sf.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7518923"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sf.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sf.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652299,"href":"https:\/\/sf.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652296\/revisions\/652299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sf.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sf.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sf.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sf.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}