FACES OF WORDPRESS: Mitch Canter

Mitch Canter

Mitch Canter’s career in WordPress began by fiddling around on some old-school platforms (remember Xanga and LiveJournal?) and not accepting their limitations. He actually “discovered” WordPress right here in Nashville, and it was love at first…code.

“WordPress is simple enough that anyone can jump in and use it, but powerful enough to be able to handle what you can throw at it,” he says. “I’ve found very few things in my development career that WordPress couldn’t handle, and most could be done without having to ‘code outside the box.’”

To say you could trust Mitch on this is an understatement. He started out solely as a WordPress designer. Since then, he’s developed WordPress sites, spoken about WordPress at conferences, edited WordPress books… And now?

Mitch manages some extremely high traffic sites (150K+ a month), including a 4,000+ product WooCommerce-based site, and to “stay frosty” and keep his “edge,” he occasionally takes on freelance projects.

Are you a budding developer? Want to change the world? Think you’re too old to give it a shot?

Mitch has some advice just for you:

It’s never too late to start. WordPress has a fantastic track record, and by joining the community you join a long list of users and developers who have changed the world by taking publishing into their own hands. If you’re a developer, don’t just learn PHP and be done with it – make sure you understand the basics: HTML, PHP, CSS, and jQuery. If you can at least read (and later write) those four languages, you can handle most of what the WordPress-driven web can throw at you.

Still not convinced to love WordPress? Read more on Mitch’s website, Studio NashVegas.

As part of the build-up to WordCamp Nashville 2014 Faces of WordPress will highlight members of Middle Tennessee’s great – and growing – WordPress community. We will feature WP users at all levels, newbies to advanced developers. And mark your calendar. This year’s Big Event is May 3, 2014.

As part of the build-up to WordCamp Nashville 2014 Faces of WordPress will highlight members of Middle Tennessee’s great – and growing – WordPress community. We will feature WP users at all levels, newbies to advanced developers. And mark your calendar. This year’s Big Event is May 3, 2014.