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Bede Okoro-Banks

Creative Lead at Entitude Agency Limited

@bedeokoro Lagos, Nigeria joined Sep 2017

greenwichmedia.ng

    Bio

    Being a strong WordPress user, advocate and evangelist for over 7 years, Bede has consistently applied everything WordPress towards engineering the growing success of http://www.greenwichmedia.ng, where he works as Founder & Creative Lead. He also tutors on the use of WordPress to creating beautiful and functional websites via the GML Academy.
    Bede is a co-founder at Webcabals (a freelance community), Gistcabal (a celebrity news blog) and Nigerian Radar (a general news blog). He is also a co-organizer of the Lagos WordPress Meetup Community.
    A lover of God, good food and family.

    Interests

    Web Solutions, IT & Tech Management, Graphics & Design, Traveling & Learning

    WordPress Origin Story

    My initial contact with WordPress was on the summer of 2009, close to 10 years ago. Before that, my personal site and blog was running on a custom built blogging engine I had created for myself.

    Back then, WordPress was at version 1.5. Later that year 2.0 was released with a redesigned admin UI. That is when I actually started using WordPress.

    Back in 2010, just a couple of months before Greenwich Media was operational, WordPress 3.0 was released. 3.0 was actually something that made WordPress a lot more useful in terms of developing interesting websites. Mainly because of the addition of custom post types and taxonomies.

    It was not my idea back then to create a company that would do WordPress development. I though I was going to do some .Net consulting. Which I did, but not for long. Before long, I was asked to build websites and to my taste, there was no good .Net CMS available. At least not one with a reasonable sticker price. Sticking to what I knew second best, I chose WordPress.

    Soon, Greenwich Media was a three person company and somehow we had managed to hire the number one WordPress name in Nigeria, Daniel. Just his presence made me more interested in WordPress and thus also made the company focus fully on WordPress. Now we have eight people and our commitment to WordPress is like no other company in Nigeria.

    During these close to five years at Greenwich Media, my relationship with WordPress has grown a lot.

    I’ve created many sites on WordPress I am really proud of.

    I have submitted at least one patch to core WordPress. I have enhanced documentation of WordPress. I’ve translated Gravity Forms, one of the most popular plugins out there.

    I’ve been to many local WordPress meetups.

    I’ve spoken about WordPress. Next year I will speak at WordCamp Lagos, Nigeria.

    I have written about WordPress – here and on the company blog.

    I will keep doing these things. I do this because I believe in WordPress.

    I’m sure my WordPress story will not end any time soon.

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    WordCamp Organizer '19 WordCamp Speaker '19

    Current Job

    Creative Lead
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    Entitude Agency Limited

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    May 2019
    May 09 Thu · 13:26
    Meta high
    Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Lagos 2019
    March 2018
    Mar 02 Fri · 09:03
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    Joined the organizing team for WordCamp Lagos 2018