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Episode 22: Ani King
Introducing Ani King
Ani is a WordPress enthusiast from Michigan who works as a Manage WordPress project director for Liquid Web. She also runs Syntax & Salt Stories, an online journal of speculative fiction.
Show Notes
Website | aniking.info
Website | syntaxandsalt.com
Twitter | @aniking
Episode Transcript
Liam: This is Hallway Chats, where we talk with some of the unique people in and around WordPress.
Tara: Together, we meet and chat with folks you may not know about in our community.
Liam: With our guests, we’ll explore stories of living – and of making a living with WordPress.
Tara: And now the conversation begins. This is episode 22.
Tara: Welcome to Hallway Chats, I’m Tara Claeys.
Liam: And I’m Liam Dempsey. Today, we’re joined by Ani King. Ani is a WordPress enthusiast from Michigan. She currently works as a Manage WordPress project director for Liquid Web. She also runs Syntax & Salt Stories, an online journal of speculative fiction.
Ani: Hey, it’s so good to be here. My name is Ani King.
Tara: Hi Ani, welcome. We’re excited to have you with us today. Can you beyond what Liam just described? Can you tell us a bit more about yourself and your background?
Ani: Certainly. I started working with WordPress just as a user about six or seven years ago, it’s hard to tell anymore. I had tried building websites from scratch, I wasn’t very good at it, and I found that WordPress made it possible for me to use my nitpicky editor skills more than my not so great coding skills to modify things. I’ve been with Liquid Web for 10 years this past October 1st. And I have kind of run that game professionally from providing direct customer support for Linux-based hosts, Windows-based hosts, to leading different teams, to creating different teams. And now I’m a project director and I’m really excited that I’m working with Manage WordPress.
Tara: That’s great. Can you back up a little bit when you say that you are looking to build websites? What drove you to that? What were you building websites for initially? What brought you into that?
Ani: Largely, I wanted to do craft blogging. I do a lot of sewing, and knitting, and drawing, and writing. And I always have some kind of hobby that you need some sort of thing in order to do it. I, at the time, thought it would be fun to connect with a lot of other, mostly women, crafters out there that I knew were running websites, and blogs, and so on. And a lot of them were using Blogger, which is where I got started. But I wanted to be able to customize more and play with it, and break it as often as possible. Because I worked in hosting, I had free access to hosting and because when you see panel, you have one-click WordPress installs and it was very easy to get started.
Tara: So you were already working for Liquid Web when you were starting to do the blogging. That kind of was a natural progression for you then?
Ani: I was, yeah. I had done a little bit of blogging prior to starting at Liquid Web but as I kind of had better understanding of, “Here’s how you can do some hosting and here are some best practices, and here’s how you can get your information out there.” It became a lot more interesting to me.
Tara: Yeah. Do you have a tech background? Is that what brought you to Liquid Web? You’ve been there a long time, I know that Liquid Web is on the radar a lot these days because they’ve launched this new Manage WordPress product, so you’ve been there for a long time. How did you get started with them?
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Introducing Ani King
Ani is a WordPress enthusiast from Michigan who works as a Manage WordPress project director for Liquid Web. She also runs Syntax & Salt Stories, an online journal of speculative fiction.
Show Notes
Website | aniking.info
Website | syntaxandsalt.com
Twitter | @aniking
Episode Transcript
Liam: This is Hallway Chats, where we talk with some of the unique people in and around WordPress.
Tara: Together, we meet and chat with folks you may not know about in our community.
Liam: With our guests, we’ll explore stories of living – and of making a living with WordPress.
Tara: And now the conversation begins. This is episode 22.
Tara: Welcome to Hallway Chats, I’m Tara Claeys.
Liam: And I’m Liam Dempsey. Today, we’re joined by Ani King. Ani is a WordPress enthusiast from Michigan. She currently works as a Manage WordPress project director for Liquid Web. She also runs Syntax & Salt Stories, an online journal of speculative fiction.
Ani: Hey, it’s so good to be here. My name is Ani King.
Tara: Hi Ani, welcome. We’re excited to have you with us today. Can you beyond what Liam just described? Can you tell us a bit more about yourself and your background?
Ani: Certainly. I started working with WordPress just as a user about six or seven years ago, it’s hard to tell anymore. I had tried building websites from scratch, I wasn’t very good at it, and I found that WordPress made it possible for me to use my nitpicky editor skills more than my not so great coding skills to modify things. I’ve been with Liquid Web for 10 years this past October 1st. And I have kind of run that game professionally from providing direct customer support for Linux-based hosts, Windows-based hosts, to leading different teams, to creating different teams. And now I’m a project director and I’m really excited that I’m working with Manage WordPress.
Tara: That’s great. Can you back up a little bit when you say that you are looking to build websites? What drove you to that? What were you building websites for initially? What brought you into that?
Ani: Largely, I wanted to do craft blogging. I do a lot of sewing, and knitting, and drawing, and writing. And I always have some kind of hobby that you need some sort of thing in order to do it. I, at the time, thought it would be fun to connect with a lot of other, mostly women, crafters out there that I knew were running websites, and blogs, and so on. And a lot of them were using Blogger, which is where I got started. But I wanted to be able to customize more and play with it, and break it as often as possible. Because I worked in hosting, I had free access to hosting and because when you see panel, you have one-click WordPress installs and it was very easy to get started.
Tara: So you were already working for Liquid Web when you were starting to do the blogging. That kind of was a natural progression for you then?
Ani: I was, yeah. I had done a little bit of blogging prior to starting at Liquid Web but as I kind of had better understanding of, “Here’s how you can do some hosting and here are some best practices, and here’s how you can get your information out there.” It became a lot more interesting to me.
Tara: Yeah. Do you have a tech background? Is that what brought you to Liquid Web? You’ve been there a long time, I know that Liquid Web is on the radar a lot these days because they’ve launched this new Manage WordPress product, so you’ve been there for a long time. How did you get started with them?