Jason is CEO of Stranger Studios, a small web development firm out of Reading, PA. They’ve been building websites full time since 2006 and have slowly moved our business to nearly 100% WordPress development.
Besides building the Paid Memberships Pro plugin, they’ve built many large, complex plugins for clients including our own eCommerce plugin, a workshop/events plugin, real estate plugins, and large custom sites that do crazy things with WordPress.
Jason will be giving a presentation in the Developer Track titled: Building a Plugin in One Night. He will continue his session during the Sunday Dev Day.
What are you speaking about at WordCamp Philly?
Together, my audience and I will create a WordPress plugin in one night. During the first half of my session, we’ll brainstorm ideas for a plugin and choose one idea by vote for me to program that night. During the second session, I’ll go into a bit of the development planning and what’s needed to get a plugin into the repository.
If you have an idea for a simple plugin that would make your WP life better, tweet it to @pmproplugin or email me at jason@strangerstudios.com.
What is your favorite thing about the city of Philadelphia?
The city is pretty cool, but what’s better are the amazing people who live in and near Philadelphia and show up at events like WordCamp. Philly people have a nice mix of idealism and practicality that I find appealing.
Why do you love WordPress?
Again, WordPress has a healthy balance of the ideal and the practical. And the community is awesome. Using WordPress for the websites we build allows us to benefit from the code that thousands of hackers are contributing via core updates, themes, and plugins. It is great to take something like the Paid Memberships Pro plugin, which is benefiting our business and our clients business, and give that back to the community to help people I’ll never meet build great websites, make real money, and grow wonderful businesses.
