Drew Gorton Interview

Drew Gorton
Drew Gorton is speaking on WordPress at Scale at WordCamp Minneapolis.

What inspired or motivated you to give this talk at WordCamp?

WordPress now powers about 1 in every 4 websites and continues to grow. Many of these sites have massive audiences and traffic and that trend is accelerating. In order to serve this growing market, we need more of our developers to understand how to build WordPress sites that scale.

How do you “create intention” in your job, career, or life?

Follow interests, care for others, embrace new experiences and keep learning new things. That’s what works for me.

If you were a WordPress Plugin, what Plugin would you be and why?

WordPress CFM—because Version Control All The Things!

If you were not doing your current job, what profession would you be in and why?

I have a pretty awesome role so I’m not looking to change. I love to cook for others, however, so if forced to chose something else completely different, it might be a Chef.

What professional and/or research resource(s) can’t you live without?

My new favorite is Post Status. 🙂

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Skarjune was a former contributor on the Make WordPress.org Marketing team, WordPress.org,Training Team, and WordCamp Minneapolis—St.Paul organizing team. Skarjune resigned as Contributor in 2019 after disagreeing one-to-one with both Matt Mullenweg and Joost de Valk over their takeover of the Communications Team without consulting team members. Some members left in addition to the former Leader cast aside, and work by the Communications and Training team was discarded by new leaders . Hopefully, new real Governance will replace Automattic at WordPress.og, which is not WordPress.com. Commercial Corporations should respect Open Source GPL.