WPwatercooler - Weekly WordPress Talk Show: Recent Episodes

Jason Tucker, Steve Zehngut, Sé Reed, Jason Cosper

WordPress from Install to Publish. WPwatercooler is a live video and audio roundtable discussion from WordPress professionals from around the industry who offer tips, best practices, and lively debate on how to put the content management system to use. WPwatercooler is part of the WPwatercooler Network

Hosted by WordPress developer Jason Tucker, the weekly panel includes the following WP experts as well as over 500 guests since 2012.

∙ Jason Tucker - podcast host, web developer, and IT Director ∙ Steve Zehngut - Zeek Interactive ∙ Sé Reed - web developer, speaker, small business advocate and Internet geek. ∙ Jason Cosper - Sr. Performance Engineer at Liquid Web

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The end of an era. This is the last episode of WPwatercooler.

On this episode, Jason Tucker and Sé Reed discuss the concept of who “owns” the WordPress open-source project and the broader question of who controls WordPress, highlighting the tension between the open-source community’s ideals and the reality of centralized control. The episode concludes with a call for transparency and accountability in the WordPress community, particularly within project leadership.

Chapters 00:00 Introduction and Episode Overview 00:11 Hosts Introduction 01:00 Challenges with the Astra Theme 03:00 Astra Theme Customization Issues 06:43 The 80/20 Rule in WordPress 08:00 Who Controls WordPress? 10:21 Entities Influencing WordPress 12:10 Matt Mullenweg’s Role and Influence 15:14 The Bay Bridge Lights Kerfuffle 17:00 Automatic’s Marketing Strategies 19:30 Conflicts Within WordPress Marketing 22:28 Sponsored Contributors and Their Roles 26:29 Transparency and Accountability in WordPress 30:48 The Impact of Centralized Control 33:20 Matt Mullenweg’s Authority 37:09 The Future of WordPress Governance 41:00 The Role of the WordPress Community 44:00 Ethical Concerns and Accountability 48:02 Sé Reed’s Code of Conduct Report 53:18 The Importance of Community Involvement 57:00 Conclusion and Call to Action

On this episode, the WPwatercooler panel, consisting of Jason Tucker, Sé Reed, and Jason Cosper, delves into the impact of AI on website creation and the broader WordPress ecosystem. They discuss the practical uses of AI for automating tedious tasks, such as generating filler content and structuring web pages, while acknowledging the potential downsides, including the commoditization of web development and the proliferation of generic, low-quality websites. The conversation also touches on the evolving role of SEO in an AI-driven landscape, the importance of bespoke, human-crafted websites, and the broader implications for web professionals. Throughout the episode, the panel debates whether AI can enhance creativity or simply lead to more homogeneous web experiences.

Chapters * 00:00 Introduction and Hosts * 00:39 Podcast Availability and Discord * 01:12 Segue into AI Discussion * 01:42 ChatGPT and Website Integration * 02:49 AI in Content Creation * 04:09 AI vs. Lorem Ipsum Generators * 06:27 AI’s Impact on Page Builders * 09:05 Onboarding with AI * 11:23 Automation in Web Development * 13:30 The Role of Freelancers in an AI World * 14:41 Quality of AI-generated Websites * 16:18 AI’s Limitations in Customization * 18:10 AI and Web Design Homogeneity * 21:55 Unique Human Touch in Web Design * 24:26 AI and the Future of Website Development * 27:22 Value of Bespoke Websites * 29:25 Fast Food vs. Gourmet Web Design * 33:15 Google and SEO in an AI Era * 37:35 The Role of AI Assistants * 41:19 Small Business Websites and AI * 44:13 The Changing Nature of Websites * 50:02 The Future of SEO * 54:26 Conclusion and Outro

On this episode of WPwatercooler titled “Gutenberg It’s Complicated,” the panel discusses the complexities and challenges faced by contributors to the Gutenberg project, focusing on a tweet by Ari, a longtime contributor who expressed his frustration with the increasing complexity of the codebase. Ari’s difficulties, after returning from a break, in understanding the evolved code highlights a broader issue with the accessibility of the project to both new and returning contributors. The discussion touches on the need for better inline documentation, the rapid pace of updates, and the broader implications of these challenges for the WordPress community. Additionally, the episode features insights on how these internal challenges affect the overall usability and developer experience within the WordPress ecosystem.

Show Notes:

https://wpwatercooler.com/wpwatercooler/ep482-gutenberg-its-complicated/

Panel

Courtney Robertson
Jason Cosper
Jason Tucker
Sé Reed

YouTube Chapters 00:00 Introduction 02:35 Introducing the Panel and Courtney Robertson 05:00 Ari’s Tweet and Its Impact 10:40 The Challenges of Contributing to Gutenberg 15:20 The Necessity of Inline Documentation 20:55 Community Responses and Suggestions 25:30 The Pace of Development and Its Impact 30:45 How Complexity Affects New Contributors 35:10 Discussion on Codebase Management and Documentation 40:00 Personal Experiences with Gutenberg 45:15 Wrapping up and Final Thoughts 50:00 Q&A and Audience Interaction 55:00 Closing Remarks

On this episode of WPwatercooler titled “Lies, Damned Lies, and Analytics,” the discussion revolves around the complexities and alternatives to using web analytics tools for website management. The hosts, Jason Tucker and Jason Cosper, delve into the fallout from changes to Jetpack stats, prompting users to consider paying for previously free services. They explore the importance of understanding web traffic and analytics beyond traditional tools like Google Analytics, emphasizing performance, privacy, and the need for lightweight alternatives. The episode is informative for those looking to navigate the evolving landscape of web analytics with a focus on WordPress platforms.

Snow Notes: https://wpwatercooler.com/wpwatercooler/ep481-lies-damned-lies-and-analytics/

Links * Koko Analytics * Umami * Fathom * Plausible

Also on: * YouTube * LinkedIn

Panel * Jason Cosper * Jason Tucker

On this episode of WPwatercooler, the panel dives into the evolving landscape of web hosting, specifically focusing on the shifts and trends in WordPress hosting. The discussion kicks off with anecdotes about showing up to parties on the wrong day, cleverly seguing into the main topic of different types of web hosting environments. They explore the spectrum from shared hosting to dedicated servers, touching upon VPS, managed hosting, and the nuances of each category in the context of WordPress sites. The conversation also covers the implications of major hosting entities absorbing smaller ones and the impact on the industry. The episode is rich with technical insights, personal experiences, and practical advice for navigating the hosting ecosystem as it continues to evolve.

Show Notes can be found:

https://wpwatercooler.com/wpwatercooler/ep480-its-giving-server-the-new-era-of-hosting/

Hosts:

Jason Tucker
Sé Reed
Jason Cosper

Chapters:

00:00 - Introduction to Web Hosting Trends
05:10 - Understanding Shared vs. Dedicated Hosting
10:20 - The Rise of Managed WordPress Hosting
15:35 - Consolidation in the Hosting Industry
20:45 - The Technical Side of Hosting Services
25:50 - Pricing Models and What They Mean for Users
30:55 - The Future of Hosting: Customization and User Experience
35:10 - Challenges and Considerations in Choosing Hosting
40:25 - Personal Anecdotes Related to Hosting Experiences
45:30 - Summary of Key Points and Closing Thoughts

What is WPwatercooler?

WPwatercooler is streamed live and recorded as the self titled show on the WPwatercooler Network. Our objective with the show since the beginning has been to help people in this industry have a place to hear people, much like themselves, talk about the technologies and methods we all use on a daily basis. We named WPwatercooler to be that, the watercooler that WordPress folks can gather around and participate in the conversation, or just sit back and learn from the discussion. Our listeners and contributors come from all walks of life and all backgrounds. We strive to make this place as welcoming and accessible as we can. Learn more at https://www.wpwatercooler.com/wpwatercooler

What is Dev Branch?

Dev Branch is streamed live and recorded monthly on the first friday of the month as the developer-focused discussions of the WPwatercooler Network. Dev Branch is released on its own podcast feed and made available live and on-demand in video format on Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Twitch. Learn more at https://www.wpwatercooler.com/devbranch

In this episode of WPwatercooler, titled “To Bot or Not to Bot,” hosts Jason Tucker, Sé Reed, and Jason Cosper dive into the implications and ethical considerations of utilizing bots, specifically ChatGPT, in the realm of WordPress development. The discussion kicks off with an anecdote from Sé, who experimented with using ChatGPT to solve a coding problem related to grouping WordPress pages in the admin area. This led to a broader conversation about the reliability, safety, and future role of AI-generated code in production environments. The episode touches on themes such as the balance between automation and manual oversight, the evolving landscape of WordPress plugin development, and the importance of adhering to coding standards. Throughout, the hosts share personal experiences, concerns, and the potential they see in integrating AI tools like ChatGPT into their workflows, all while maintaining a critical eye on the implications for developers and the wider WordPress community.

Links https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress-Coding-Standards https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/112147026040154264 https://labs.perplexity.ai https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/model_doc/code_llama https://unmaintained.tech

Chapters 00:00 Intro 00:16 Introducing the Hosts and Their Quirky Banter 01:03 Inspiration from Discord: Tackling WordPress Page Chaos 06:18 The Quest for Better Page Organization: A Plugin Solution 08:40 ChatGPT to the Rescue: Crafting a Custom Plugin 10:54 Testing and Tweaking: The Plugin’s Journey to GitHub 12:28 The Ethical Dilemma: Using Bots for Code Generation 14:34 Learning to Code with ChatGPT: A Personal Journey 17:59 Ensuring Code Quality: The Role of Large Language Models 20:44 The Future of Plugin Development: Community Collaboration 22:00 The Open Source Dilemma: Plugins, Patches, and the Power of Collaboration 23:00 Navigating the Free vs. Pro Plugin Conundrum 23:47 The No Maintenance Intended Tag: A New Approach to Open Source 24:37 The Challenges of Community Contributions and Code Reviews 25:06 Harnessing AI for Code Generation: A New Frontier 29:49 The Trust Crisis in Plugin Repositories 35:01 AI vs. Traditional Coding: Navigating the New Landscape 39:06 The Ethical Dilemma of Using AI-Generated Code 43:39 Collaborative Coding with AI: The Future of Development?

What is WPwatercooler? WPwatercooler is streamed live and recorded as the self-titled show on the WPwatercooler Network. Our objective with the show since the beginning has been to help people in this industry have a place to hear people, much like themselves, talk about the technologies and methods we all use on a daily basis. We named WPwatercooler to be that, the watercooler that WordPress folks can gather around and participate in the conversation, or just sit back and learn from the discussion. Our listeners and contributors come from all walks of life and all backgrounds. We strive to make this place as welcoming and accessible as we can. Learn more at https://www.wpwatercooler.com/wpwatercooler

What is Dev Branch? Dev Branch is streamed live and recorded monthly on the first friday of the month as the developer-focused discussions of the WPwatercooler Network. Dev Branch is released on its own podcast feed and made available live and on-demand in video format on Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Twitch. Learn more at https://www.wpwatercooler.com/devbranch

On this episode of WPwatercooler, the panel, including Jason Tucker, Sé Reed, Jason Cosper, and guest Courtney Robertson, delve into the much-anticipated WordPress 6.5 release. Courtney, serving as the episode’s expert, outlines the significant changes and features coming with the update, emphasizing the introduction of the font library for block themes, improvements in image handling, and enhancements for developers such as block hooks and the interactivity API. The discussion also covers practical tips for WordPress users and developers to prepare for the update, highlighting the importance of compatibility testing and the benefits of the new features in enhancing site design and functionality.

Chapters 00:00 Intro and Episode Introduction 00:08 Introduction of Panel and Episode Theme 01:07 Guest Introduction: Courtney Robertson 02:30 Discussion on WordPress 6.5 Features and Updates 04:25 Deep Dive into the Font Library for WordPress 6.5 10:00 Enhancements in Image Handling and New Formats 15:45 Introduction of Block Hooks for Developers 20:30 Overview of the Interactivity API 25:00 Plugin Dependencies and the New Rollback Feature 30:00 Enhancements to Custom Fields and Meta Data 35:00 Preparing for WordPress 6.5: Tips and Best Practices 45:00 Final Thoughts and Closing Remarks

Links https://make.wordpress.org/core/2024/03/15/wordpress-6-5-field-guide/ https://nomad.blog/2024/03/13/wordpress-6-5-source-of-truth/ https://openfontlicense.org/ofl-fonts/ https://caniuse.com/avif https://gutenbergtimes.com/block-bindings-and-custom-fields-an-almost-no-code-example/ https://wpmovies.dev

Also on: * YouTube * Twitch * LinkedIn * Facebook

On this episode of WPwatercooler titled “WordPress: What’s The Alternative?”, the hosts Jason Tucker, Sé Reed, and Jason Cosper delve into the diverse landscape of website creation platforms, discussing the strengths and weaknesses of WordPress compared to alternatives like Webflow, Ghost, and traditional site builders like Squarespace and Wix. The conversation pivots around ease of use, customization capabilities, the complexity of WordPress for different levels of users, and the importance of choosing the right tool for specific needs. They explore the notion that while WordPress offers extensive flexibility and power, it may present challenges for users seeking simplicity or specific functionalities out of the box. This episode highlights the evolving needs of website creators and the importance of aligning platform capabilities with project requirements, emphasizing WordPress’s role as a versatile yet complex tool in the web development ecosystem.

Show Notes: https://wpwatercooler.com/wpwatercooler/ep477-wordpress-whats-the-alternative/

Chapters: * 00:00 Introduction * 02:47 Discussing Alternatives to WordPress * 08:07 Transitioning Websites and User Experience * 14:10 Newsletter Focus and Membership Features in Ghost * 20:41 Media Management and Image Editing in Ghost vs. WordPress * 27:07 Plugin Ecosystem and Customizability * 33:25 Building with Ghost and WordPress Comparison * 39:29 Client Requirements and Platform Selection * 45:12 Maintenance and Notifications Across Platforms * 50:36 Personal Data Management and Site Migration Challenges * 56:52 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

What is WPwatercooler? WPwatercooler is streamed live and recorded as the self-titled show on the WPwatercooler Network. Our objective with the show since the beginning has been to help people in this industry have a place to hear people, much like themselves, talk about the technologies and methods we all use on a daily basis. We named WPwatercooler to be that, the watercooler that WordPress folks can gather around and participate in the conversation, or just sit back and learn from the discussion. Our listeners and contributors come from all walks of life and all backgrounds. We strive to make this place as welcoming and accessible as we can. Learn more at https://www.wpwatercooler.com/wpwatercooler

What is Dev Branch? Dev Branch is streamed live and recorded monthly on the first friday of the month as the developer-focused discussions of the WPwatercooler Network. Dev Branch is released on its own podcast feed and made available live and on-demand in video format on Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Twitch. Learn more at https://www.wpwatercooler.com/devbranch

On this episode of WPwatercooler Jason Tucker, Sé Reed, Jason Cosper, and guest Mika Epstein delve into the complex world of software piracy within the WordPress ecosystem. The discussion begins with an introduction of the hosts and quickly moves into the nuances of what constitutes software piracy, how it impacts the WordPress community, and the moral and legal implications of using pirated software. The hosts share personal anecdotes and insights on the prevalence of pirated plugins and themes, the risks associated with their use, including security vulnerabilities and legal repercussions, and the broader conversation about open-source ethics and the value of supporting developers and creators within the ecosystem. The episode offers a balanced perspective, highlighting both the temptations and pitfalls of piracy and encourages listeners to consider the long-term health of the WordPress community by supporting legitimate sources and practices.

Panel:

Jason Tucker
Sé Reed
Jason Cosper
Mika Epstein

Show Notes can be found:

https://wpwatercooler.com/wpwatercooler/ep476-free-as-in-piracy/

Chapters * 00:00 Introduction * 00:17 Meet the Hosts * 01:00 The Definition of Software Piracy * 05:30 Impacts of Piracy on WordPress * 10:45 Personal Insights on Piracy * 15:00 The Risks of Using Pirated Software * 20:30 Legal and Ethical Considerations * 25:45 Supporting the WordPress Community * 30:00 Conclusion

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On this episode of WPwatercooler, titled “The Great Escape: WordPress Data Liberation Project,” Jason Tucker and Jason Cosper discuss the significance of data portability in WordPress. They delve into the recent push towards data liberation, enabling content to move freely between different Content Management Systems (CMS), including the import and export of data from WordPress to other platforms and vice versa. The conversation touches on the challenges and technical considerations involved in migrating data, the impact of block editors, and the importance of making data migration user-friendly to support the growth and flexibility of WordPress as a platform. The episode explores the broader implications of data portability for users and the ecosystem, highlighting the need for more intuitive tools to facilitate data movement without compromising content integrity.

Links * WordPress Data Liberation [Github] * Data Liberation in 2024 – wordpress.org * https://simian.rodeo/@boogah/111881606693610144 * http://textbundle.org

Chapters * 00:00 Introduction * 01:41 Discussion on Data Liberation in WordPress * 03:33 The Importance of Data Portability * 10:13 Challenges with Block Editors and Data Migration * 15:20 Exploring Alternatives and Future of Data Formats * 20:59 User Experiences and Expectations on Data Migration * 25:46 Technical Aspects and Solutions for Data Export/Import * 30:00 The Role of Open Source in Data Portability * 35:27 Final Thoughts on WordPress and Data Liberation

What is WPwatercooler? WPwatercooler is streamed live and recorded as the self-titled show on the WPwatercooler Network. Our objective with the show since the beginning has been to help people in this industry have a place to hear people, much like themselves, talk about the technologies and methods we all use on a daily basis. We named WPwatercooler to be that, the watercooler that WordPress folks can gather around and participate in the conversation, or just sit back and learn from the discussion. Our listeners and contributors come from all walks of life and all backgrounds. We strive to make this place as welcoming and accessible as we can. Learn more at https://www.wpwatercooler.com/wpwatercooler

What is Dev Branch? Dev Branch is streamed live and recorded monthly on the first friday of the month as the developer-focused discussions of the WPwatercooler Network. Dev Branch is released on its own podcast feed and made available live and on-demand in video format on Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Twitch. Learn more at https://www.wpwatercooler.com/devbranch

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On this episode of WPwatercooler, the panel, consisting of Jason Tucker, Sé Reed, Jason Cosper, and Nyasha Green, delves into the necessity of building custom WordPress blocks, a task propelled not just by choice but by the evolving needs of WordPress itself. They share personal anecdotes, challenges, and successes in navigating the block-based landscape of WordPress, emphasizing the importance of embracing blocks for future-proofing and enhancing WordPress projects. The discussion also touches on the broader implications of block technology for developers, users, and the WordPress community, highlighting the continuous learning and adaptation required to stay relevant and effective in the WordPress ecosystem.

Panel: Jason Tucker, Sé Reed, Nyasha Green, Jason Cosper

Chapters: * 00:00 Introduction * 00:26 Greetings and Lottery Dreams * 02:33 The Inevitability of Building Blocks in WordPress * 04:17 Nyasha Green’s Journey into Block Development * 07:48 The Challenges of Naming and Explaining Blocks * 10:25 Discussing User-Friendly Design Tools vs. WordPress * 13:00 The Necessity of Custom Blocks and Developer Frustrations * 15:09 Nyasha’s Approach to Teaching Block Development * 17:23 The Rapid Evolution of WordPress and Its Impact on Users * 20:25 Nyasha’s Favorite Custom Block Project * 22:39 The Importance of Learning Basics Before Diving into Dynamic Blocks * 25:40 Building in Public and the Value of Sharing Mistakes * 27:02 Closing Thoughts and Mini Golf Plans

What is WPwatercooler? WPwatercooler is streamed live and recorded as the self-titled show on the WPwatercooler Network. Our objective with the show since the beginning has been to help people in this industry have a place to hear people, much like themselves, talk about the technologies and methods we all use on a daily basis. We named WPwatercooler to be that, the watercooler that WordPress folks can gather around and participate in the conversation, or just sit back and learn from the discussion. Our listeners and contributors come from all walks of life and all backgrounds. We strive to make this place as welcoming and accessible as we can. Learn more at https://www.wpwatercooler.com/wpwatercooler

What is Dev Branch? Dev Branch is streamed live and recorded monthly on the first friday of the month as the developer-focused discussions of the WPwatercooler Network. Dev Branch is released on its own podcast feed and made available live and on-demand in video format on Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Twitch. Learn more at https://www.wpwatercooler.com/devbranch

On this episode of WPwatercooler the panel, consisting of Jason Tucker, Sé Reed, and Jason Cosper, delves into the evolving nature of blogging and blogging in the WordPress ecosystem. They discuss the shift from traditional blogging to various modern formats, like microblogging on social media platforms. A significant portion of the conversation revolves around the use of WordPress for blogging, the impact of design and development choices on the writing experience, and the potential of the WordPress mobile app for content creation. The discussion also touches on broader topics related to blogging, such as the role of comments, the use of Markdown for writing, and the distinction between blogs and other forms of digital content. The episode explores how WordPress can adapt to changing user preferences in content creation and consumption.

Links * Perennially Online * core.trac.wordpress.org * Comparison of features in various Markdown flavors ¬∑ GitHub * Mermaid Chart – Create complex, visual diagrams with text. A smarter way of creating diagrams. * EP264 – WordPress – Is it the best tool for the job? – WPwatercooler – WPwatercooler * Gibberish Is Now Available on TestFlight – And a Dinosaur * boogah.gibber.blog

Chapters 00:00 Introduction 02:07 The Evolution of Blogging 04:06 Discussing WordPress and Blogging 09:04 Blogging for Fun and Personal Expression 11:27 The Impact of Blogging on Journalism 14:02 The Role of Comments in Blogging 18:27 The Challenge of Keeping WordPress Up-to-Date 23:12 Exploring the Ghost Blogging Platform 28:45 The Complexity of WordPress for Simple Blogging 32:30 The Rise of Managed WordPress Hosting 35:20 Discussing WordPress Mobile App and Blogging 42:36 The Potential of WordPress for Text-Based Blogging 47:26 Conclusion

Panel * Jason Cosper * Jason Tucker * Sé Reed

On this episode we delve into the concept of digital permanence and the lifespan of websites. They discuss the recent decision by Google to discontinue certain website services, impacting businesses and users who relied on them. This leads to a broader conversation about the impermanence of digital platforms and the risks of relying on third-party services for important digital content. They touch on the closure of APIs by various platforms, including Twitter and Medium, and how these changes can affect users and developers. The panel also explores the concept of personal and business websites, questioning the necessity of their longevity and the importance of regularly updating web content to stay relevant. They discuss the idea of digital legacies, how to manage online presence posthumously, and the responsibility of handling someone’s digital assets. The conversation is both philosophical and practical, addressing the transient nature of the internet and the need for individuals and businesses to adapt to these changes.

Links * Running your own site is painful. Hosting Nazis is worse * LOW←TECH MAGAZINE – This is a solar-powered website, which means it sometimes goes offline

Chapters 00:00 Introduction 02:47 Google’s Discontinuation of Services 10:03 Impact of API Closures 16:18 Website Lifespan and Digital Impermanence 22:55 Managing Digital Legacies 29:30 The Future of Online Platforms 35:44 Adapting to Technological Changes 42:58 Conclusion and Outro

Panel * Jason Cosper * Jason Tucker * Sé Reed

On this episode of WPwatercooler, titled “EP471 – Reflecting on the State of the Word 2023,” the hosts Jason Tucker, Sé Reed, and Jason Cosper engage in a reflective and critical discussion on various aspects of WordPress and the WordPress community. They discuss the State of the Word 2023, with Sé Reed sharing her thoughts on different recaps and perspectives on the event, including those by Courtney Robertson, Miriam Schwartz, and Joost de Valk. The panel delves into topics like the importance of custom fields in WordPress, the absence of Mastodon in Matt Mullenweg’s social media mentions, and Jason’s issues with integrating Mastodon with WordPress.

The conversation then shifts to a critique of the WordPress community’s handling of various issues, highlighting the tension between the community’s ideals and the actions of its leaders. They discuss the push towards using Matrix over Slack for WordPress core community discussions, the implications of Matrix’s licensing changes, and the perceived disconnect between the community’s values and decisions made by project leadership.

The hosts also touch upon WordPress’s data liberation efforts, noting the importance of being able to easily move data between platforms. They explore the potential impact of new initiatives like WordPress Playground and data liberation on the WordPress ecosystem, including how these initiatives might affect existing plugins and the broader community.

Finally, the episode covers the recent focus on internationalization in WordPress, the creation of Spanish speaking Slack channels, and the need for better integration and communication between global and local WordPress teams. The discussion concludes with an invitation for listeners to join the after-show discussion on WPwatercooler’s platform.

Related Episodes from WPwatercooler: State of the Word 2022: WordPress’s Evolving Ecosystem

EP439 – State of the Word 2022 Recap

EP178 – The state of the state of the word

Oh, Word? WPwatercooler vs. The State of the Word 2021

Chapters: 00:00 Intro 02:10 Reflecting on State of the Word Recaps 04:37 Custom Fields and WordPress Evolution 05:30 Mastodon and Social Media in WordPress 08:22 WordPress Community Critique 11:06 Matrix vs Slack for WordPress Discussions 14:28 WordPress Data Liberation and Plugin Ecosystem 17:00 Exploring WordPress Playground 19:52 WordPress Internationalization and Spanish Slack Channels 22:42 Closing Remarks and After-Show Invitation

Links: https://www.godaddy.com/resources/news/wordpress-state-of-the-word-2023

https://wordpress.com/blog/2023/12/12/sotw-2023-video-recap/

http://www.merlinmann.com/roderick/ep-14-big-city-apology.html

https://wordpress.org/and

https://thehustle.co/sherlocking-explained

On this episode of WPwatercooler, the panel discussed the history and impact of the “Hello Dolly” plugin in WordPress. Sé Reed shared a personal story about finding a first edition of the “Hello Dolly” record, tying it to recent experiences and changes within the WordPress community. The conversation delved into the significance of the plugin, its potential for teaching plugin development, and its role in the WordPress core. There was also a critical examination of the plugin’s lyrics and their cultural implications. The panel proposed ideas for updating Hello Dolly, suggesting it could evolve into a more educational tool or even integrate into the WordPress ecosystem in new ways.

Chapters * 00:00:00 – Introduction * 00:02:30 – Sé Reed’s Personal Story about “Hello Dolly” * 00:10:11 – Reflections on WordPress and “Hello Dolly” Plugin * 00:15:24 – Discussing the Lyrics and Cultural Implications * 00:18:00 – Opinions on Jazz and Music in WordPress * 00:24:13 – Potential Changes to “Hello Dolly” Plugin * 00:30:10 – Ideas for Educational Use of the Plugin * 00:36:16 – Broader Perspectives on Plugin Content * 00:38:27 – Closing Thoughts and Future of “Hello Dolly”

Links Book Review: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Open The Book Store – TikTok

On this episode of WPwatercooler, the panel delved into the theme of “Synching WordPress”. The discussion, led by Jason Tucker, Sé Reed, and Jason Cosper, focused on the complexities and techniques of aligning data from various sources with WordPress. The conversation touched upon the use of tools like Airtable and Salesforce for data management and their integration with WordPress. The panel also explored the challenges of mapping data flows and determining the ‘source of truth’ in data synchronization. Issues related to performance, storage, and the ever-evolving landscape of data management in WordPress were key topics. Additionally, the episode discussed various plugins and methods for effective data sync, as well as philosophical aspects of what constitutes a website and the role of WordPress as a content management system.

Links * Index WP Mysql for Speed * Exquisite Corpse * Zapier for WordPress * WP Air Sync * WP Web Hooks * Hookturn

Related Episodes 1. EP458 – WordPress Data Management: Understanding the Basics 2. EP462 – Optimizing WordPress Performance: Tips and Tools 3. EP465 – The Evolution of WordPress as a CMS

Chapters 00:00 – Introduction to Synching WordPress 04:17 – Challenges in Data Synchronization 08:36 – Tools for Data Management: Airtable and Salesforce 13:54 – Understanding Data Mapping and Sources of Truth 19:27 – Performance and Storage Considerations in WordPress 25:03 – Discussing Various Plugins for Data Sync 30:41 – Philosophical Aspects: What is a Website? 36:00 – Role of WordPress as a CMS 41:58 – Conclusion and Final Thoughts

Panel * Jason Cosper * Jason Tucker * Sé Reed

On this episode of WPwatercooler titled EP468 – UncURLing WordPress 6.4, hosts Jason Tucker, Sé Reed, Jason Cosper, and Scott Kingsley Clark discuss the recent release of WordPress 6.4 and its implications. The conversation begins with a light-hearted introduction and quickly dives into the complexities and challenges surrounding the new update. Sé Reed shares her experience as a first-time release lead, highlighting the social, community, leadership, and technological implications of the update. The panel delves into a critical issue that arose with the release, specifically concerning the ‘Requests’ library used by WordPress. A change in this library led to significant performance issues for certain hosting configurations, impacting many sites.

The discussion emphasizes the inherent challenges in testing every possible configuration in a diverse ecosystem like WordPress. The episode also touches on the broader issues of open-source funding and maintenance. The panelists highlight the underfunding of critical libraries and tools that form the backbone of WordPress and many other systems. They argue that the lack of attention and funding towards these essential components poses a risk to the stability and security of the wider web infrastructure.

The conversation extends to the governance and funding of PHP, the underlying programming language of WordPress, and the broader open-source ecosystem. The hosts discuss the need for more proactive support and funding from companies and individuals who benefit from these open-source resources. The episode concludes with a discussion on the new WPwatercooler community initiative called “Aftercooler,” designed to foster further discussions and interactions within the WPwatercooler community on our Discord.

Show Notes: https://wpwatercooler.com/wpwatercooler/ep468-uncurling-wordpress-6-4/

Panel: Jason Tucker, Sé Reed, Scott Kingsley Clark, Jason Cosper

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Chapters: 00:00:00 Introduction to Episode 468 00:00:26 Introduction of Panel Members 00:00:34 Introduction of Jason Cosper 00:00:41 Discussion on Discord and Podcasts 00:02:09 WordPress 6.4 Release and Initial Reactions 00:04:12 Impact of WordPress 6.4 on Various Plugins 00:05:39 Issue with the Request Library in WordPress 6.4 00:06:37 Discussing Specifics of the Request Library Issue 00:09:06 Importance of Neglected Components in WordPress 00:11:02 Funding and Support Challenges in Open Source Projects 00:13:37 The PHP Funding Dilemma 00:16:28 The Broader Impact of Underfunding in Open Source 00:20:06 The Responsibility of Companies in Open Source Funding 00:23:14 Discussing Analogies to Other Systems (Healthcare, etc.) 00:26:24 Reflections on the State of WordPress 00:28:35 Discussing Contributions to PHP and Related Libraries 00:30:03 The Challenges of Open Source Governance 00:32:05 Identifying and Addressing Systemic Issues in WordPress 00:34:00 Closing Remarks and Reflections 00:34:40 Announcement of Aftercooler on Discord 00:35:34 Conclusion of the Episode

This week on WPwatercooler WCUS 2023 organizer Tom Finley joins us to delve deep into the current state and future of the WordPress community, focusing particularly on its governance, inclusivity, and ethical stances. Topics ranged from the role of Automattic and Matt Mullenweg in shaping the community, to the challenges faced by volunteer contributors feeling burnt out or marginalized. The panelists discussed the implications of hosting companies like Pantheon, which had been embroiled in a controversy over their stance on hosting hate group sites. They also talked about the need for transparency in decision-making processes, the power dynamics within the community, and the complexities of making ethical and philosophical choices as community members. The sentiment throughout the episode was one of existential crisis: a struggle to balance personal ethics with community ideals, weighed down by issues like control, contribution, and the potential for organizing independently of existing structures. The panel ended on an introspective note, questioning the efficacy of their own discussions in either contributing to or alleviating the ongoing crisis within the WordPress world.

More about Tom – Web, Biz, Mastodon

Links * Interlude: Gutenberg Moves Fast * Cost of Spam * Withdrawing my workshop from HighEdWeb 2023 * Open Letter on Elevating Our Standards * Discussion about the WordPress Annual Survey with Josepha Haden Chomphosy

This episode of the panel dives into the complexities and shortcomings of WordPress' media library. William Bay leads the conversation by suggesting features like the ability to view all used images and the option to toggle between infinite scroll and pagination for enhanced user experience. Alongside him, Sé Reed and Jason Cosper emphasize the need for advanced search functionalities and better documentation. They also bring up the vital issue of data-driven decision-making in WordPress development. Sé Reed takes particular issue with Otto's comment suggesting that people prefer creating new things to iterating on existing features, arguing that decisions impacting a CMS that powers a large chunk of the web should be based on solid data rather than assumptions. Throughout the episode, despite tackling weighty topics, the panelists maintain a sense of humor and camaraderie, joking about using the podcast as a form of "WordPress therapy" and poking fun at the episode's length. Overall, the discussion uncovers several user pain points and poses important questions about the platform's ongoing development.

Links: https://flauntyoursite.com/ https://wpwatercooler.com/wpwatercooler/ep130-building-a-photography-site-using-wordpress/ https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/53788

Site editor: 🥝 Media library proof of concept 🥝 https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/53788

Phase 3: Collaboration - Media Library #55238 https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/55238

Improving Media #53486 https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/discussions/53486

RUINED BY DESIGN – A design ethics and activism book by Mike Monteiro https://www.ruinedby.design/

Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/44432844

Just Enough Research – Erika Hall https://abookapart.com/products/just-enough-research

Panel: Jason Tucker Sé Reed Jason Cosper William Bay

Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 00:15 Welcome & Panelist Introductions 02:10 The Need for Media Library Improvements 08:25 Documentation and Communication Gaps 16:45 The Philosophy Behind WordPress Development 24:10 Data-Driven Decision Making in WordPress 35:00 User Experience & Feature Requests 42:30 The Importance of Iteration vs New Features 50:20 The Lighter Side: WordPress as Therapy 59:10 Final Thoughts and Wrap-Up 01:03:00 Outro & Where to Find Us

#WordPress #MediaLibrary #FSE #WordPressMediaLibrary

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This week on the WPwatercooler we’re going to be going over the recent developments to WordPress 6.4 Beta 1. We’ll be discussing each of the new features and what our thoughts are of them.

Links:

https://wordpress.org/news/2023/09/wordpress-6-4-beta-1/

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/58281

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/59166

https://elementor.com/help/requirements/

Show notes and transcript:

https://wpwatercooler.com/wpwatercooler/ep465-whats-new-in-wordpress-6-4-beta-1/

Chapters:

00:00:00 - Intro

00:01:00 - WordPress 6.4 Beta 1 Overview

00:03:45 - New Fonts Implementation

00:08:20 - Lightboxes in WordPress 6.4

00:13:00 - Elementor and Beaver Builder: Competition or Inspiration?

00:19:30 - The Matt Mullenweg Tweet Controversy

00:25:10 - Taxonomy in WordPress

00:29:40 - Introduction of Pattern Categories

00:35:00 - Importance of Testing New Features

00:40:45 - The Art of Category Management

00:46:00 - Outro

On this episode of WPwatercooler, we’ll be discussing Five for the Future—the initiative promoting the WordPress community’s contributions to the WordPress.org project—and how both sponsored and unsponsored contributors impact the WordPress project.

Five for the Future
Marketing & Communications Release Cycle Guide
Democracy Dies in Darkness
Meta Trac Changeset 12891
Mika on Mastodon “is this WordPress?”
“Additionally, the rel=”canonical” points to .com!” – Ryan on X.com

On this episode of WPwatercooler, the discussion centers around the WordPress community, its leadership, and the challenges faced by its contributors. Sé Reed talks about her recent “kerfuffle” with Matt Mullenweg on Twitter/X and why she thinks he designated her as the only person he’s ever blocked in 17 years. The crew also discusses the significance of WordPress's open-source nature and the increasingly noticeable conflicts with Automattic, including Mullenweg’s demoralizing approach to leading the WordPress project. Sé highlights the challenges faced by the Make WordPress marketing team, including their inability to properly develop wordpress.org’s SEO. Both Jason Tucker and Jason Cosper chime in throughout the conversation, emphasizing the value of community involvement and historic context. The episode wraps up with encouragement for listeners to actively contribute to making all of WordPress better, and a call for accountability across the WordPress project.

https://x.com/sereedmedia/status/1702032575190155637?s=20

Chapters: 00:00:00 Intro 00:05:00 Background of the WordPress Community 00:10:00 The Role and Influence of Matt Mullenweg 00:15:00 The Evolution of WordPress and its Ecosystem 00:20:00 Challenges in Open Source Projects 00:25:00 The Importance of Community Feedback 00:30:00 The Dynamics of WordPress Leadership 00:35:00 Sé Reed's Personal Experiences and Observations 00:40:00 The Future of WordPress and its Direction 00:45:00 The Role of WordPress.tv and its Challenges 00:51:28 Sé Reed's Initial Thoughts on WordPress Community 00:53:15 Discussion on WordPress Governance and Leadership 00:55:10 Sé's Experience 00:57:32 Sé Reed's Concerns about Matt Mullenweg's Leadership 01:00:23 Importance of Open-Source and Community Voice 01:02:12 Challenges Faced by WordPress Marketing Team 01:04:05 Sé's Advocacy and Efforts in the Community 01:06:15 Jason Tucker and Jason Cosper's Insights 01:08:40 Encouragement for Community Involvement 01:13:17 Discord 01:15:41 Outro #WordPress #Gutenberg #Twitter

Show Notes & Transcript:

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In this episode of WPwatercooler, the panel dives deep into the evolving dynamics of the WordPress community, discussing the influential role Gutenberg plays in core development and the tension between fully sponsored projects like Open Verse and neglected ones like Tide. They touch upon the importance of PHP compatibility and share concerns about the effectiveness of Contributor Day as an extension of the Community Summit. The conversation reveals gaps in community cohesion and leadership, emphasizing the need for a unified action plan to move WordPress forward.

https://communitysummit.wordcamp.org/2023/schedule/
My strange experiences with Automattic: Part 1
My strange experiences with Automattic: Part 2
https://make.wordpress.org/summit/
https://youtu.be/7Am2X08sVwc
Hanlon’s razor

Panel:

Jason Tucker
Sé Reed
Jason Cosper

Chapters:

00:00:00 Introduction and Overview
00:04:50 Importance of Community Summit
00:10:13 How WordCamp Fits Into WordPress Development
00:15:25 The Dynamics of WordPress Sponsors
00:21:38 On Marketing and Self-Promotion in WordPress
00:26:12 Google and the Impact on the WordPress Ecosystem
00:33:00 Gutenberg and Core Development Alignment
00:39:40 Matt Mullenweg’s Upcoming Talk on Gutenberg
00:46:15 The Relationship Between Gutenberg and Core Team
00:51:10 Open Verse and Community Integration
00:56:30 Discussion on the Need for a Gutenberg Community Summit
01:00:44 Contributor Day Experience
01:02:22 Conclusion and What’s Next

In 2013, Suzette Franck, one of the original cohosts of the WPwatercooler, made a trac ticket suggesting the WordPress project “Add a ‘Contribute’ tab to the About page” of the WordPress Dashboard. After some discussion, the ticket fell dormant. Ten years later, WordPress core contributor Olga Glekler revived the still-relevant ticket, and championed the cause throughout the MakeWP community. In WordPress 6.3, that ten-year old idea was finally realized, with the launch of the brand-new “Get Involved” tab. And in this episode, we will be joined by both Suzette and Olga to talk about the journey of ten-year ticket!

Ticket – https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/23348
Contribute Page – https://make.wordpress.org/contribute/

This week on WPwatercooler we’re talking with Nyasha about our wishes for WordPress 6.4. The roundtable digs deep into WordPress development, focusing on the importance and flexibility of custom fields and post types. A significant part of the conversation revolves around the conversion process between ACF post types and other plugins, and the panelists share personal insights into their favorite tools and techniques. The discussion also explores the potential of the upcoming WordPress releases, emphasizing the need for more than just bug fixes, and aspiring to lay the groundwork for new innovations. Guest Nyasha G shares some thoughtful insights, while Sé Reed keeps the conversation spirited with her unique humor.

https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/07/18/wordpress-6-4-whats-on-your-wishlist/
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/06/05/wordpress-6-4-development-cycle/
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/04/19/status-update-on-the-sqlite-project/
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/53049
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/58281
https://www.reddit.com/r/ididnthaveeggs/

This week on WPwatercooler were going to be discussing everything coming out in WordPress 6.3 and our thoughts on the new features

https://github.com/courtneyr-dev
https://make.wordpress.org/test/2023/06/27/help-test-wordpress-6-3/
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/07/18/wordpress-6-3-field-guide/
https://app.instawp.io/launch?t=beta-rc&d=v2
https://make.wordpress.org/training/2023/06/07/information-sources-for-6-3
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/07/14/configuring-development-mode-in-6-3/
https://make.wordpress.org/training/2023/06/07/information-sources-for-6-3/
https://youtu.be/I2dvEbBxaqA

This week on the show we’re discussing layoffs, AI, integration, industry shrinkage, and dealing with Tech Bros (oh my!)

Show notes and transcript:

https://wpwatercooler.com/wpwatercooler/ep458-wordpress-and-an-industry-in-flux/

This week on WPwatercooler we’re discussing the reusable block being renamed to Patterns. These patterns have sync and non-sync options allowing for them to be reusable in their state or to have their state synced between the other instances that are being synced. As WordPress matures and adds new features WP community is looking to do some consolidation and also thinking ahead of how these names of things are used.

Going back to the block itself WP Taven did a dive into it: Reusable Blocks Renamed to Patterns with Synced and Non-Synced Options

On this week’s episode of WPwatercooler, we delve into the ever-expanding influence of Gutenberg, the innovative website-building block technology. Known for its role in revolutionizing WordPress, Gutenberg is stepping beyond its birthplace and finding applications in an increasing number of places. We’re exploring the power and versatility of this tool as it transforms not just the WordPress ecosystem, but the broader web development landscape. Excitingly, Gutenberg is being used in Drupal, marking a significant step in its journey. The anticipated adoption by Drupal suggests a future where Gutenberg’s intuitive block-based design approach could become a standard across platforms, bringing new opportunities for developers. We’ll be discussing what this means for both the WordPress and Drupal communities, how it could impact the plugin marketplace, and how it further cements Gutenberg’s position as more than just a WordPress phenomenon. Tune in for a riveting discussion about Gutenberg’s ascent and its potential to shape the future of web development.

Panel:

Jason Tucker
Sé Reed
Jason Cosper

Show Notes:

https://wpwatercooler.com/wpwatercooler/ep456-gutenberg-more-than-wordpress/

On this episode, we’re celebrating WordPress’s 20th birthday sharing some stories of the past and what were expecting from the future of the software and community that were quite fond of.

Show Notes

Panel * Jason Cosper * Jason Tucker * Sé Reed

On this episode hosts Jason Tucker and Sé Reed will be joined by Guildenberg founder Jonathan Wold and Courtney Robertson Open Source Developer Advocate at GoDaddy to discuss the intersection of corporate influence and community in the world of WordPress. For 20 years, WordPress has been shaped by a vibrant, open-source community of volunteers. But is the ever-increasing pressure of venture capital and the corporate boardroom putting the unique makeup of the WordPress community at risk? We’ll explore the tension between corporate interests and community-driven development, and examine the impact of corporate influence on WordPress’ future.

Show Notes

Links * 20 Days to Celebrate 20 Years of WordPress, From Blogs to Blocks * A Newcomer’s Guide to WordCamps * Andrea Middleton: Will What Got Us Here, Get Us There? WordPress Community at Scale * Five for the Future * GitHub – WordPress / five-for-the-future

Panel * Jason Cosper * Jonathan Wold * Sé Reed

This week on the show we’ll be discussing twenty years of WordPress.

WordPress 20
WordPress Mercantile
WordPress 15
Join the Marketing Team
TRAC #6938
Whats your favorite WordPress moment?

This week on WPwatercooler, join your hosts Jason Tucker, Sé Reed, and Jason Cosper for a captivating conversation exploring the dynamic world of AI in the realm of WordPress. Together, they’ll discuss how artificial intelligence is revolutionizing various aspects of WordPress, from streamlining code development to enhancing content creation with smart algorithms. They’ll share their insights and experiences, and highlight the latest AI tools reshaping the way we interact with and manage our WordPress sites.

This week on WPwatercooler Sé Reed and Jason Cosper will be talking with Jonathan Wold about some of the economic and development problems facing plugin-based businesses in the WordPress ecosystem, and his new plan to help. https://guildenberg.com

Summary In EP451 of WPwatercooler, titled “Accelerating WordPress w/ Jonathan Wold,” hosts Sé Reed, Jason Cosper and Jonathan Wold dive deep into the WordPress ecosystem, its growth, and its integral role within the open web. They highlight the importance of the open-source nature of WordPress, its extensibility through plugins and themes, and the vibrant community that has formed over the past two decades. Reed and Wold emphasize the unique incentives present in open-source projects, which foster passion and diverse contributions, in contrast to proprietary platforms.

The hosts explore the role of commercial plugins and businesses in addressing gaps in the WordPress ecosystem, citing the significance of tools like Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) and Pods for website development. They also discuss the resilience of the WordPress community in the face of competition from proprietary platforms and assert that the project’s real strength lies in its global contributors’ collective efforts.

Wold shares his vision of WordPress as an operating system and notes the importance of product companies in driving its growth. He identifies three main challenges faced by these companies: monetization, compatibility, and an unnamed third challenge. Wold also highlights the need for a healthy, resilient web with pockets of development worldwide, exploring the differences between centralized and decentralized communities.

The podcast delves into the issues within the WordPress ecosystem, including its complexity, hosting companies’ reluctance to recommend specific plugins, and challenges for investors due to its decentralized nature. Wold introduces Guildenberg, an organization aiming to help product companies overcome these challenges by offering neutral support in the WordPress ecosystem. Guildenberg will initially operate as an accelerator, working with individual products and assisting with distribution, partnerships, and hosting company relations.

Guildenberg’s ultimate goal is to foster long-term thinking and support founders’ best interests, including when they’re ready for an exit. The organization aims to help founders find non-hosting company buyers and may even consider acquiring some companies themselves. Wold emphasizes the importance of backing founders and preserving the overall health of the WordPress ecosystem.

Join us for an exciting episode of WPwatercooler, where Jason Tucker, Sé Reed, Jason Cosper, and special guest Lesley Sim dive into the highly anticipated WordPress Phase 3: Collaboration. Building upon the success of previous phases which introduced block editing and extended it across entire websites, Phase 3 aims to revolutionize the way creators and teams work together within WordPress.

We’ll discuss a variety of features designed to enhance the user experience and foster seamless collaboration. Our conversation will cover real-time and asynchronous collaboration, improving publishing flows, refining the post revisions interface, and polishing admin design. Additionally, we’ll delve into the introduction of a global search and command component that aims to streamline content management.

Don’t miss this episode as we explore the next stage in the evolution of the Gutenberg project, and learn how WordPress Phase 3 will transform content creation and teamwork within the platform.

Links Phase 3: Collaboration

What is WordPress?

Panel * Jason Cosper * Jason Tucker * Lesley Sim * Sé Reed

On this episode, EP449 – A Spring Clean WordPress Routine – Jason Tucker, Sé Reed, and Jason Cosper will dive into the topic of spring cleaning your WordPress website. With the arrival of spring, it’s the perfect time to give your website a thorough cleaning to ensure it’s running at optimal performance. We will share our insights on a range of topics, from removing old drafts and revisions to cleaning up unused images, and properly indexing your database. We will also explore tips for optimizing caching to help your website load faster and provide a better user experience. So, whether you’re a seasoned WordPress pro or just getting started, join us for this informative discussion on how to give your WordPress website a spring-clean refresh.

https://egersis.wpengine.com/

https://jasontucker.blog/14308/whats-with-activitypub-wordpress-cloudflare-not-working

https://www.buddyboss.com/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/query-monitor/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/index-wp-mysql-for-speed/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/

https://github.com/ocReaper/wp-server-timing

In this episode of WPwatercooler, hosts Jason Tucker, Sé Reed, and Jason Cosper dive into the world of Custom Post Types and taxonomies. They discuss the popular CPTUI plugin and explore the new Custom Post Types management feature recently added to Advanced Custom Fields Pro (ACF Pro). We may even get into user taxonomies!

Whether you're a seasoned WordPress developer or just getting started, this episode is a must-participate for anyone interested in creating custom post types in WordPress!

On this episode of WPwatercooler guest Courtney Robertson is joining Jason Tucker, Sé Reed, and Jason Cosper will be discussing the upcoming release of WordPress 6.2. The release is just around the corner, and it's packed with exciting new features that are sure to delight users. One of the most significant changes is the Full Site Editor coming out of beta, which will provide users with a seamless editing experience.

Additionally, users will now be able to browse and choose templates to edit, customize their theme or specific blocks with custom CSS, and enjoy new and improved navigation menus. The new version will also feature colors to indicate which template parts are being edited, allowing for a more efficient workflow. The Style Book will provide users with a bird's-eye view of styles for all blocks, while the copy and paste block styles feature will make it easier to create a cohesive design. Classic widgets import as template parts in block themes, while separate sub-panels for block settings and styles will streamline the editing process. The new distraction-free mode will provide an unobstructed view of the content, while improved pattern insertion with new categories will enhance creativity. There are also miscellaneous changes and under-the-hood improvements that will make the overall user experience more seamless.

Overall, WordPress 6.2 is shaping up to be an impressive update, with plenty of new features to explore, and is planned for a March 28th release date.

https://app.instawp.io/launch?t=betarc
What’s new in WordPress 6.2 - GoDaddy
Introducing move_dir() in WordPress 6.2
WordPress 6.2 Field Guide
Help Test WordPress 6.2
WordPress History
WordPress Documentation

Great plugins from the demo * Block X-ray Attributes * Layout Grid Block * Show Hooks Pro * Post Format Block

Panel * Courtney Robertson * Jason Cosper * Jason Tucker * Sé Reed

On this episode Jason Tucker, Sé Reed, and Jason Cosper will be speaking with Nyasha Green and Courtney Robertson about WordCamp Asia, the recent WordCamp they both attended in Bangkok.

WordCamp Asia Recap for 2023
WordCamp Asia forever has my heart

Panel:

Courtney Robertson
Jason Cosper
Jason Tucker
Nyasha Green
Sé Reed

This week on the show we're going to be discussing the unbundling of apps by Automattic - WordPress, Jetpack, and even Woocommerce!

If you enjoy our content please consider sharing it with a friend, live or after the fact we'd love to have more folks watching our content.

Show Notes: https://wpwatercooler.com/wpwatercooler/ep445-wordpress-apps-the-big-unbundling/ Panel: * Jason Tucker

Jason Cosper

This week, we will delve into the world of WordPress and explore new ways of approaching problems and maintenance through the lens of the beginner's mind. Discover how embracing a Zen-like approach can help you tackle complex WordPress issues and find innovative solutions. Tune in now to learn how to cultivate a beginner's mindset and approach WordPress with a fresh perspective.

EP444 - WordPress and the Beginner's Mind

Panel:

Jason Tucker
Sé Reed
Jason Cosper

This week on WPwatercooler were talking with Scott Kingsley Clark about the WordPress Fields API and how you can get involved in helping build this out. This and future work will be organized through the WordPress Slack channel #core-fields

Compare WP - Plugin Comparison - Content Types / Custom Fields
Fields API Kick-off Chat Summary: January 5th, 2023
Make WordPress Core - #fields-api

Watch us here:

YouTube - Twitter - Facebook - LinkedIn - TILvids

This week on the show Jason Cosper & Sé Reed will be joined by Courtney Robertson to talk about the scope of the modern WordPress landscape.

Links: * Big Picture Goals 2023 – WordPress.org Project * Set up a WordPress.org account (multiple languages) * Big Picture Goals 2023 • WP 6.2 Planning • LearnWP Needs Analysis • Wrong Plugins • Post Status * Core Performance – WordPress.org * EP434 - Diversity and Inclusion in the WordPress Community with Jill Binder * https://wptoots.social/@wpbot

Panel:

Courtney Robertson
Jason Cosper
Sé Reed

This week on WPwatercooler we're going back to basics and will be talking about plugins we're using that help us in big ways. WordPress is an amazing system that allows for all sorts of expandability with plugins big and small these plugins can really change the way you use WordPress.

What the video version of our show here:

YouTube Facebook LinkedIn https://wordpress.org/plugins/biscotti/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/enable-media-replace/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-search-replace/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/wayfinder/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/missing-menu-items/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-cloudflare-turnstile/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicate-post/ Panel: Jason Tucker Sé Reed Jason Cosper

Show notes and transcript

On this episode of WPwatercooler lots of topics were discussed looking back at 2022 and what's to come in 2023. Topics include the use of artificial intelligence in WordPress, Sé and crew launching the WP Community Collective, the possibility of a rewrite of the Media Library, the implementation of collaborative editing in WordPress, and the future of the WordPress mobile app.

Sé Reed asked the panel what is their word for tech in the new year.

Sé mentioned impact which means to her smart operating in terms of working on things that have "the most bang for your buck"
Jason Tucker's word is cloud, at his work he's looking to move to more cloud services and personally wants to try to use more cloud automation services in his day-to-day life.
Jason Cosper is carry on. He wants to look further into ownership and control over the things he creates and the use of certain platforms, such as Twitter. not having a focus on making money, but rather wanting to have control over the distribution and use of the things he creates. Cosper wants to be less dependent on someone else's infrastructure, owning his own part of a social media platform such as sites that are federated like Mastodon.

Both Jasons would love to work on their show The Query and get that off the ground soon.

The discussion turned to the present and future and Sé began discussing her use of an artificial intelligence tool called Chat GPT for various tasks, such as generating content for websites, optimizing code, and writing blog posts. She mentioned that Cosper should use the tool to rewrite his speaker bio. Sé has used it to rewrite code, and express excitement about using artificial intelligence as a tool.

Launch of The WP Community Collective and the episode EP437 - Funding the Dream with the WP Community Collective.

Sé was appointed Team Rep for the Marketing Team

Jason brought up if the Media Library will get a rewrite and the group chimed in on some of the features they wanted including taxonomy, detecting and combining duplicate images, and tags. They mention the possibility of using artificial intelligence to classify and tag photos and mention the 10UP Classify plugin that leverages Microsoft's cloud AI for this purpose. The panel also discussed the possibility of bringing this functionality into WordPress core, possibly through Jet Pack or another plugin.

The panel changed subjects and focused on discussing the possibility of WordPress implementing collaborative editing in 2023. They mention that this may require the use of web RTC or other backend connections, and may not be feasible for users on certain hosting plans. They also mention that there are plans for significant changes to the WordPress site, including an overhaul of the support forums and documentation, as well as the ability to use the Gutenberg block editor in descriptions for plugins. They mention that there have been some issues with the implementation of the block editor and that there is a reliance on the Blocks Everywhere plugin from Automatic.

Lastly, the panel discussed the WordPress mobile app may be neglected now that Jetpack has separated. They believe that the mobile app should be a good and functional app, and they believe that people with mobile app skills could make a significant impact on WordPress as a whole. The speaker also mentions that they have not personally used the WordPress mobile app without Jetpack, and they encourage others to try it. The speaker also states that they are not anti-Automatic (the company behind WordPress), but they believe that the mobile app should not be neglected.

This week on the show we'll be recapping the recent State of the Word 2022 event that occurred in New York City on December 15th at 1 pm local time. An in-person audience was in attendance and the video was streamed on YouTube for the community to watch if you couldn't claim and seat and make the trek. Much like in previous SotW events Matt answered questions that were emailed in and asked by the on-site audience.

Theme taxonomies
twenty-twenty three theme
Media library
WordPress Playground

Links

PHP Compatibility and WordPress Versions
State of the Word 2022 - GoDaddy Garage
Matt Cromwell on StoW and Taxonomies in Themes and Plugins Directories
The WP Minute writeup of StoW

This week on the show we're talking with Doctor Popular about content creation for a WordPress brand. Doc Pop is no stranger to creating content, he is a Content Strategist at WP Engine where he writes blog posts and is an online video host for Torque Social Hour. He has experience as a former radio DJ, 3rd place yo-yo champion, and a video game designer for the likes of Mighty Boosh.

Panel * Doctor Popular * Jason Cosper * Jason Tucker

On the show were joined by the founding directors of the WP Community Collective: Courtney Robertson, Katie Adams Farrell, and our very own Sé Reed. We’ll chat about what the WPCC is, its mission to support the WordPress community, and how you can be a part of it.

This week on WPwatercooler we’re discussing 3D in WordPress with Anthony Burchell Software Engineer at @wpengine Building platform for shared 3D experiences at @xp_portal @open_metaverse https://xpportal.io/

Panel * Anthony Burchell * Jason Tucker * Sé Reed

This week on WPwatercooler we’ll be discussing how Twitter has been a big part of the WordPress community space for more than a decade. With the fate of the platform up in the air, many WordPressers are staking out new Internet territory. Whether it’s Mastodon, Tumblr, Reddit, Slack, or Discord, we’ve got lots of options, but where is everyone going and what does moving medias mean to the WordPress community?

Show Notes: https://wpwatercooler.com/wpwatercooler/ep435-wordpress-takes-flight-community-in-a-post-twitter-world/

Panel * Jan Boddez * Jason Cosper * Jason Tucker * Sé Reed

This week on WPwatercooler we’ll be discussing how Twitter has been a big part of the WordPress community space for more than a decade. With the fate of the platform up in the air, many WordPressers are staking out new Internet territory. Whether it’s Mastodon, Tumblr, Reddit, Slack, or Discord, we’ve got lots of options, but where is everyone going and what does moving medias mean to the WordPress community?

Show Notes: https://wpwatercooler.com/wpwatercooler/ep435-wordpress-takes-flight-community-in-a-post-twitter-world/

Panel * Jan Boddez * Jason Cosper * Jason Tucker * Sé Reed

This week on WPwatercooler Jill Binder will be joining us to talk about the #WPDiversity initiative. As part of the Diverse Speaker Training Group on the WordPress.org Community Team, Jill has been hosting an ongoing series of workshops around the world, focusing on new speaker training and diversity awareness for WordCamp organizers.

Also joining us is Oneal Rosero WordPress Community Volunteer for Diversity Team and Training Team. Oneal contributes 5 hours per week to Community, Documentation, Support, Test, and Training.

We’ll talk about their past successes, future plans, and the current state of speaker diversity in WordPress.

More about Jill Binder https://jillbinder.com
More about Diverse In Tech https://diversein.tech
WPDiversity handbook: https://tiny.cc/wpdiversity
More about Oneal Rosero https://trooperdad.com/

Panel:

Jill Binder – https://jillbinder.com
Oneal Rosero – https://trooperdad.com/
Jason Tucker – https://jasontucker.blog
Sé Reed – https://sereedmedia.com
Jason Cosper – https://jasoncosper.com

This week on WPwatercooler Jill Binder will be joining us to talk about the #WPDiversity initiative. As part of the Diverse Speaker Training Group on the WordPress.org Community Team, Jill has been hosting an ongoing series of workshops around the world, focusing on new speaker training and diversity awareness for WordCamp organizers.

Also joining us is Oneal Rosero WordPress Community Volunteer for Diversity Team and Training Team. Oneal contributes 5 hours per week to Community, Documentation, Support, Test, and Training.

We’ll talk about their past successes, future plans, and the current state of speaker diversity in WordPress.

More about Jill Binder https://jillbinder.com
More about Diverse In Tech https://diversein.tech
WPDiversity handbook: https://tiny.cc/wpdiversity
More about Oneal Rosero https://trooperdad.com/

Panel:

Jill Binder – https://jillbinder.com
Oneal Rosero – https://trooperdad.com/
Jason Tucker – https://jasontucker.blog
Sé Reed – https://sereedmedia.com
Jason Cosper – https://jasoncosper.com

This week on WPwatercooler we’ll be discussing the upcoming WordPress 6.1 release and what we have seen so far in the release candidate.

Beta 1 Feature Freeze: September 21, 2022 – Testing and Bug Fixes
Release Candidate 11: October 4, 2022
Dry Run: October 28, 2022
WordPress 6.1 General Release: November 1, 2022

Links:

What’s New in WordPress 6.1: Fluid Typography, Improved Template System, New Site Health Checks, and Much More!
Core Editor Improvement: Catalyst for creativity and control

Panel * Jason Cosper * Jason Tucker * Sé Reed

This week on WPwatercooler we’ll be discussing the upcoming WordPress 6.1 release and what we have seen so far in the release candidate.

Beta 1 Feature Freeze: September 21, 2022 – Testing and Bug Fixes
Release Candidate 11: October 4, 2022
Dry Run: October 28, 2022
WordPress 6.1 General Release: November 1, 2022

Links:

What’s New in WordPress 6.1: Fluid Typography, Improved Template System, New Site Health Checks, and Much More!
Core Editor Improvement: Catalyst for creativity and control

Panel * Jason Cosper * Jason Tucker * Sé Reed

This week on WPwatercooler we will continue our discussion with John James Jacoby and Matt Cromwell from EP23 of Dev Branch about the WordPress plugin repo’s Active Install Growth Chart. In this episode, we’ll focus on the effects of the removal of the chart on the community, including how the data was used by the wider WordPress ecosystem and the community’s response to the removal.

6511 new enhancement – Bring back the active install growth chart
Podz Response om trac ticket – Matt-Bomb “Matt Mullenweg is very happy to have you help make WP what it is and now he will be keeping the entire pie for himself”

Panel:

Jason Cosper
Jason Tucker
John James Jacoby
Matt Cromwell
Otto
Sé Reed

This week on WPwatercooler we will continue our discussion with John James Jacoby and Matt Cromwell from EP23 of Dev Branch about the WordPress plugin repo’s Active Install Growth Chart. In this episode, we’ll focus on the effects of the removal of the chart on the community, including how the data was used by the wider WordPress ecosystem and the community’s response to the removal.

6511 new enhancement – Bring back the active install growth chart
Podz Response om trac ticket – Matt-Bomb “Matt Mullenweg is very happy to have you help make WP what it is and now he will be keeping the entire pie for himself”

Panel:

Jason Cosper
Jason Tucker
John James Jacoby
Matt Cromwell
Otto
Sé Reed

This week on WPwatercooler were discussing the major problem of microaggression.

Enough with this woke stuff: and other racist speech you can unlearn masterwp.com
Reverse Racism Is Not Real – underrepresentedintech
Workshop: How to Be An Ally – allienimmons.com

Panel Jason Tucker – https://jasontucker.blog
Sé Reed – https://sereedmedia.com
John Locke https://lockedownseo.com

This week on the show were celebrating 10 years of producing WPwatercooler. We’ll look back at some of the highlights, our past guests, and the various topics we’ve discussed on the show.

Panel Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog
Steve Zehngut – Zeek.com
Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com
Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com

This week on the show were celebrating 10 years of producing WPwatercooler. We’ll look back at some of the highlights, our past guests, and the various topics we’ve discussed on the show.

Panel Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog
Steve Zehngut – Zeek.com
Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com
Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com

This week on the show were celebrating 10 years of producing WPwatercooler. We’ll look back at some of the highlights, our past guests, and the various topics we’ve discussed on the show.

Panel Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog
Steve Zehngut – Zeek.com
Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com
Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com

This week on the show we are going to be discussing the contributor day that happened just after WordCamp US 2022 in San Diego. Joining us this week is a returning guest Courtney Robertson who is a web design dev advocate at GoDaddy Pro and WP Training team co-rep. Courtney was recently on EP21 – Post Formats Status and EP14 – Developing WordPress Developers of Dev Branch

https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/09/11/canonical-plugins-revisited/
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/09/11/webp-in-core-for-6-1/
https://github.com/orgs/WordPress/projects/33
https://make.wordpress.org/latest
https://wordpress.org/about/philosophy/#:~:text=was%20built%20for.-,decisions,-%2C%20not%20Options
https://wordpress.org/plugins/rollback-update-failure/
https://github.com/afragen/git-updater
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-plugin-dependencies/

Panel Courtney Robertson – courtneyr.dev
Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog
Steve Zehngut – Zeek.com
Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com
Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com

This week on the show we are going to be discussing the contributor day that happened just after WordCamp US 2022 in San Diego. Joining us this week is a returning guest Courtney Robertson who is a web design dev advocate at GoDaddy Pro and WP Training team co-rep. Courtney was recently on EP21 – Post Formats Status and EP14 – Developing WordPress Developers of Dev Branch

https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/09/11/canonical-plugins-revisited/
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/09/11/webp-in-core-for-6-1/
https://github.com/orgs/WordPress/projects/33
https://make.wordpress.org/latest
https://wordpress.org/about/philosophy/#:~:text=was%20built%20for.-,decisions,-%2C%20not%20Options
https://wordpress.org/plugins/rollback-update-failure/
https://github.com/afragen/git-updater
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-plugin-dependencies/

Panel Courtney Robertson – courtneyr.dev
Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog
Steve Zehngut – Zeek.com
Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com
Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com

This week on the show we are going to be discussing the contributor day that happened just after WordCamp US 2022 in San Diego. Joining us this week is a returning guest Courtney Robertson who is a web design dev advocate at GoDaddy Pro and WP Training team co-rep. Courtney was recently on EP21 – Post Formats Status and EP14 – Developing WordPress Developers of Dev Branch

https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/09/11/canonical-plugins-revisited/
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/09/11/webp-in-core-for-6-1/
https://github.com/orgs/WordPress/projects/33
https://make.wordpress.org/latest
https://wordpress.org/about/philosophy/#:~:text=was%20built%20for.-,decisions,-%2C%20not%20Options
https://wordpress.org/plugins/rollback-update-failure/
https://github.com/afragen/git-updater
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-plugin-dependencies/

Panel Courtney Robertson – courtneyr.dev
Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog
Steve Zehngut – Zeek.com
Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com
Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com

This week on WPwatercooler we’re discussing WordCamp US 2022 happening during our recording. Sé Reed is on location sharing with us her experience there.

More Ztrip? – Soundcloud
WordPress Faces
WordCamp Sessions

Panel
Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog
Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com
Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com

This week on WPwatercooler we’re discussing WordCamp US 2022 happening during our recording. Sé Reed is on location sharing with us her experience there.

More Ztrip? – Soundcloud
WordPress Faces
WordCamp Sessions

Panel
Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog
Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com
Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com

This week on WPwatercooler we’re discussing WordCamp US 2022 happening during our recording. Sé Reed is on location sharing with us her experience there.

More Ztrip? – Soundcloud
WordPress Faces
WordCamp Sessions

Panel
Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog
Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com
Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com

This week on WPwatercooler we’re going to be discussing the WordPress Photo Directory which consists of free, high-quality, CC0-licensed, community-submitted photographs. We’ll be speaking with Katie Richards, Marcus Burnette, and Topher DeRosia on the upcoming directory launch.

WordPress Photos – Make
WordPress Photo Directory
https://profiles.wordpress.org/zengy/
https://wordpress.org/openverse/
https://wordpress.org/photos/author/jenniferbourn/
https://www.deepstack.ai/
https://wordpress.org/photos/t/worldphotographyday22/
https://wordpress.org/photos/photo/33462fcf29/
https://tineye.com/
https://wordpress.org/photos/photo/70461c4deb/
https://wordpress.org/photos/photo/6686212c18/

Panel Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog
Steve Zehngut – Zeek.com
Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com
Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com
Katie Richards
Marcus Burnette – mburnette.com
Toper DeRosia – heropress.com

This week on WPwatercooler we’re going to be discussing the WebP file format and native support for it in WordPress. With support for WebP being added in 2021, it is now merged into core with the intention of being the default image format for WordPress moving forward. We’ll be discussing this with Jon Brown of 9seeds, a longtime friend of the show who is overdue for a return visit. He was last on “EP316 – Discussing a hard week in WordPress” back in April of 2019.

Panel Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog
Steve Zehngut – Zeek.com
Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com
Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com
Jon Brown – 9seeds.com

Does WordPress have a naming problem? Is everything just going to be called JetPack in a few years? What about WordPress.com? Full Site Editor? Site Builder, Page Builder, Cosmic (we’re pulling for you Paul), Page Builder, GutenPage?

We think WordPress has some naming issues we need to get addressed and the community is taking different sides to this issue. Here is ours.

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.

Phil Karlton

Giving FSE a More User Friendly Name https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/07/27/giving-fse-a-more-user-friendly-name/

Now is the time for a photos-only app for WordPress-backed sites, I am just saying https://twitter.com/helenhousandi/status/1552807222769602560

Panel Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog
Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com
Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com

This week on WPwatercooler we’re continuing our discussion on Full Site Editor and will be talking with Daniel Schutzsmith and Vikas Singhal to talk about the development cycle and the future of staging sites as it relates to FSE. There are a few interesting solutions to doing a staging environment while continuing to build your website with block and the Full Site Editor, we’ll be discussing these.

Panel Daniel Schutzsmith – daniel.schutzsmith.com
Vikas Singhal – instawp.com
Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog
Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com
Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com

This week on WPwatercooler we’re continuing our series on the Full Site Editor and are joined by Nick Diego who is a Developer Advocate at WP Engine and developer of Block Visibility. We’ll be talking with Nick on his journey through using FSE and how people should approach converting their sites to FSE after making the decision to do it.

Nick Diego: Builder Basics – Let’s Build a Custom Theme (No Coding Required)
The Chemical Brothers – Block Rockin’ Beats (Official Music Video)
Beck – Loser (Official Music Video)

Panel Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog
Steve Zehngut – zeek.com
Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com
Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com
Nick Diego – nickdiego.com

This week on WPwatercooler we’re joined by Chicago-based Brian Gardner who recently made the WordPress theme Frost and a new beautiful unreleased Full Site Editor theme. Brian will be speaking with us on designing themes block-based themes and we’ll be discussing what decisions he’s made along the way and what he’d love to see added to Full Site Editor.

Check out Brian’s past episode on WPwatercooler – EP413 – Full Site Editor for Agencies.

https://wordpress.org/patterns
https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/
https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/how-to-guides/themes/theme-json/
https://frostwp.com

Panel * Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog * Steve Zehngut – zeek.com * Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com * Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com * Brian Gardner – briangardner.com

“You ever, like, look at your post thumbnails, man?”
This week on WPwatercooler we’re talking about Cannabis and WordPress with the Founder and CEO of CannaBiz Robert DeVore.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-dispensary/
https://www.wpdispensary.com/
https://commerce.coinbase.com/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/commerce-coinbase-for-woocommerce/
https://getkindpay.com/
https://woocommerce.com/sell-cbd-online/
https://woocommerce.com/document/woocommerce-cbd/

Panel Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog
Steve Zehngut – zeek.com
Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com
Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com
Robert DeVore – robertdevore.com

In this episode – WordPress released 6.0 and also turns 19, and oddly enough our episode number is 419!

WordPress 6.0 Development Cycle
WordPress 6.0 “Arturo”
WordPress 6.0: Making Gutenberg “Guten-Better”
wp19.day – Celebrate WordPress’s 19th Anniversary!

Panel Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog
Steve Zehngut – zeek.com
Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com
Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com

In this episode, we speak with Marc Benzakein Operations Manager of ServerPress about them recently sunsetting their product WPSiteSync. You can read about their decision here WPSiteSync and on WP Tavern.

Panel Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog
Steve Zehngut – zeek.com
Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com
Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com
Marc Benzakein – serverpress.com

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As your friend and mine, Steve Zehngut would say, “Not all web hosts are created equal” which I think is a good thing. With them not being equal the features each have are vastly different and some of these you may need in order to host your site with them.

We’re going to explore what you get in 2022 for a web host for your WordPress site.

Panel Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog
Steve Zehngut – zeek.com
Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com
Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com

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There are a lot of ways to apply automation to your WordPress workflows. In this episode, we’re going to work through the many ways of using the WordPress API and webhooks to make things work hands-free. * https://www.submittable.com/ * https://www.airtable.com * https://automatorplugin.com/ * https://wp-webhooks.com/ * https://buddy.works/ * https://youtu.be/qybUFnY7Y8w * https://www.google.com/search?q=%23rubegoldberg * https://wpfusion.com/ * https://buildwoofunnels.com/

Panel

Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog
Steve Zehngut – zeek.com
Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com
Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com

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This week on the show we’re discussing Cyber Security with Robert Rowley of Patchstack. * Chart: How Safe Is Your Password? | Statista * WordPress Vulnerability Database – Patchstack * WP Last Modified Info – WordPress plugin * WordPress 5.9.2 Security Update
This security and maintenance release features 1 bug fix in addition to 3 security fix. Because this is a security release, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately. All versions since WordPress 3.7 have also been updated. * State Of WordPress Security In 2021 – Patchstack * UA Cyber Help IT and cyber security assistance

Panel * Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog * Steve Zehngut – zeek.com * Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com * Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com * Robert Rowley – patchstack.com

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The tangled Web we WordPress. This week on WPwatercooler we’re continuing a discussion we started last week on episode 412 which made its way onto Twitter where we discussed with Brian Gardner and Bill Erickson on using WordPress Full Site Editor and if it’s ready for Agencies to use. Are we really storing all this in post_content & post_meta? Where do we go from here? * Frost – WordPress Theme – https://frostwp.com/ * 1.0 Is the Loneliest Number https://ma.tt/2010/11/one-point-oh/ * Building the New Pagely.com – https://zao.is/blog/2021/11/22/building-the-new-pagely-com/

“the core should provide features that 80% or more of end users will actually appreciate and use. If the next version of WordPress comes with a feature that the majority of users immediately want to turn off, or think they’ll never use, then we’ve blown it.” https://wordpress.org/about/philosophy/

Twitter Thread (thanks Amber Hinds @aucoeurblog for the mention)

.@bgardner We’re not building FSE themes yet, but are all-in on the block editor and theme.json. Our reasons for not using FSE yet:
1. Too beta for production sites. Gutenberg is barely production-ready, with breaking changes in every major WP release.

Need ability to lock down template editing so non-technical clients don’t accidentally break site. We had to stop using reusable blocks because too often clients accidentally deleted all content in it instead of removing the block, which broke content globally.

We want our themes to be version controlled. When you “edit” a FSE theme or the global styles, it saves your changes in database. GH repo does not reflect actual site and will make future updates more difficult.

I believe in separating design, code, and content. HTML files with hardcoded block markup makes this more challenging.

That said, I think FSE is a big step forward for the majority of WP users. Most users/businesses with a WP site don’t have budget to hire an agency to build a custom theme. FSE vastly improves their capabilities. I agree w/ @aucoeurblog it’s not ready for enterprise / larger biz.

Originally tweeted by Bill Erickson (@BillErickson) on February 24, 2022.

Panel * Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog * Steve Zehngut – zeek.com * Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com * Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com * Brian Gardner – briangardner.com * Bill Erickson – billerickson.net

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This week on the show we’ll be discussing building custom blocks with ACF.

ACF Blocks

Panel * Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog * Steve Zehngut – zeek.com * Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com * Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com

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This week on the show we’ll be discussing WordPress 5.9 Josephine and the changes and new features in this release.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-beta-tester/
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/01/27/proposal-2022-major-release-timing/

Short list of topics:

Full Site Editing
New Navigation block
Revamped List View
and more

Recent posts by Jason Tucker on WordPress 5.9 and FSE
https://www.jasontucker.blog/13951/the-problem-with-wordpress-blocks-full-site-editing-and-custom-fields-plugins
https://www.jasontucker.blog/13921/wordpress-5-9-testing-before-release

Panel * Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog * Steve Zehngut – zeek.com * Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com * Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com

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On this episode, we will be recapping the State of the Word which we provided commentary over the presentation. Here are our takeaways from this event.

Panel

Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog
Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com
Daniel Schutzsmith - daniel.schutzsmith.com

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Show Notes On this episode, we will be discussing the methods we use to find the right solution to a problem we face on a project. Is it a SaaS intregration? WordPress plugin? We’re going to walk through knowing what questions to ask and identifying what features are the best fit for the project and for the budget you are working in. We’ve all been there and there is 100 ways to approach this, here are a few from us.

Panel * Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog * Steve Zehngut – zeek.com * Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com * Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com

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With a quick and simple install, Weglot is fully compatible with all WordPress themes and plugins. Weglot works by automatically detecting and translating your website content, no matter where the content is coming from (e.g any plugins you’ve added). Your content is then displayed without the need for duplicate pages or websites.

There’s no fiddly manual string by string translations. Once Weglot is installed on your WordPress site, everything is translated instantly.

All your translations are then available to edit and manage through your Weglot dashboard. This intuitive interface makes editing your translations effortless – make edits, add your team members to your translation project or even order professional translators to fine tune any nuances.

One of Weglot’s key benefits is its ‘in context’ editor, which allows you to make changes to your translations directly inside your website design and structure – so you can see clearly where each translation is.

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Weglot offers a free trial for 10 days so you can explore the platform.

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This week on WPwaterOn this episode Morten Rand-Hendriksen will be joining us to discuss governance with the PHP Foundation and the various parts of WordPress.

The New Life of PHP – The PHP Foundation
PHP Foundation – Open Collective

Panel * Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog * Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com * Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com * Morten Rand-Hendriksen – mor10.com

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This week on the show our resident Jasons – Tucker and Cosper talk about WordPress performance optimization and how you can squeeze the most speed and reliability out of your WordPress website installation. From the choice of plugins that you select to the WebHost that you are running it on, all of these things come to play when dealing with performance optimization.

https://wpwatercooler.com/video/ep406-wordpress-performance-optimization/

Panel * Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog * Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com

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This week on WPwatercooler we're going to be discussing the form and functionality of… forms!

Panel * Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog * Steve Zehngut – zeek.com * Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com * Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com

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Honestly, we were going to talk about forms this week and realized it was episode 404 and just had to cover errors. Hopefully, we won’t just be discussing our favorite 404 error pages online or what is the best way to disable all the WordPress plugins to figure out what is triggering an error. Or the magic way of just saving your permalinks and it fixes everything. I guess I’m getting ahead of myself, I write these descriptions hours before the show gets made and usually change it after the fact.

21 Stunning 404 Pages to Convert Lost Visitors [2021]
404-Page not found – Pagely
Creating an Error 404 Page « WordPress Codex
moz.com Redirection
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This week we’ll be are talking about HeroPress and how they are building a repo of sorts called finditwp.com We’ll be talking with Cate and Topher DeRosia about all that they are compiling for our WordPress community.

Show Notes can be found here: https://www.wpwatercooler.com/video/ep403-a-new-wordpress-repo-compiling-the-community-wpwatercooler/

Panel * Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog * Steve Zehngut – zeek.com * Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com * Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com * Cate DeRosia – hallwaychats.com * Topher DeRosia – heropress.com

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Intranets are where staff in a company find all the internal documentation, links to services used, and sometimes a gathering place to share photos, custom testimonials, and other great things. Looking for when the next paid holiday is? Check the staff calendar. Looking for the link to the payroll system? All this and more can be found on the company intranet.

This week we’ll be exploring if you can build an intranet site for your company using WordPress and how to secure it so only your staff can access it.

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Links * https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-drive-embedder/ * https://wp-glogin.com/drive/ * https://wp-glogin.com/glogin/ * https://wordpress.org/plugins/magic-login/ * https://www.rebrandly.com/

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This week on WPwatercooler we discuss the future of the Media Library with Helen Hou-Sandí and Joe McGill. “How do you fix the media library when people don’t understand filesystems?” We’ve talked about the Media Library in WordPress quite a bit and when we saw Helen’s tweet we just had to reach out. Joining us is Joe McGill who is one of the Media Library component maintainers. If you have been wanting more from the Media Library we hope this conversation helps with that. Create a classification model with Azure Machine Learning designer ClassifAI – Enhance your WordPress content with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning services BEC Sammich Panel Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog Steve Zehngut – zeek.com Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com Helen Hou-Sandí – helen.blog Joe McGill – joemcgill.net Show Sponsors Desktop Server – ServerPress https://serverpress.com WPsitesync – https://www.wpsitesync.com Are You Looking For Brand Awareness? You could be a show sponsor. Let people know you’re still in business and supporting your products. Supporting podcasts is a great way to repurpose your in-person conference budget. We have been sponsored by big brands such as Kinsta and Cloudways. Why not get your audience in front of the thousands of people who download this show every month? Yes, WPwatercooler has thousands of downloads every month. We’re not just a YouTube Show. https://www.wpwatercooler.com/sponsor

This week on WPwatercooler we’re celebrating episode 400 of the show! We talk about the comments left on the YouTube channel, the many awesome people we have on the show, and what our plans are for next year leading up to 10 years! Here is to 9 years of being “The Most Influential WordPress Podcast” (much like every restaurant in Vegas is the best * in Vegas)*

Jason wrote a blog post about the last nine years Podcasting about WordPress, what I learned in 9 years go give it a read.

We put out a press release for this episode, check it out! You can also read more about this on our Press page

WPwatercooler-Press-Release-400-EpisodesDownload Panel * Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog * Steve Zehngut – zeek.com * Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com * Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com

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This week on WPwatercooler we’re discussing WordPress plugin pricing and we asked Scott Kingsley Clark to join us again. In the last episode, we almost talked about this so we thought we’d do an entire show about it for our 399th episode.

Next week is our 400th episode AND it’s our 9th year of doing this show, crazy right?!

Panel * Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog * Steve Zehngut – zeek.com * Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com * Scott Kingsley Clark – scottkclark.com

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This week on WPwatercooler we’re discussing Gutenberg and the use of custom fields with blocks. We asked Scott Kingsley Clark to join us on the show, he’s the lead developer of the Pods Framework which among other things deals with custom fields and Gutenberg blocks.

Full Show Notes https://www.wpwatercooler.com/video/ep398-gutenberg-blocks-and-custom-fields/

Panel * Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog * Steve Zehngut – zeek.com * Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com * Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com * Scott Kingsley Clark – scottkclark.com

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We thought we'd introduce you to Dev Branch the show we'd been doing for a few years now on WPwatercooler Network. We do this show on the first Friday of each month.

This month on Dev Branch we’re discussing developing the content to develop WordPress developers with Hauwa Abashiya and Courtney Engle Robertson.

Who can Learn help? – Make WordPress Training https://make.wordpress.org/training/2021/08/08/who-can-learn-help/
PROPOSAL – Learner Achievements on Profiles https://make.wordpress.org/training/2021/08/10/proposal-learner-achievements-on-profiles/
High-Level Roadmap to Learning WordPress Development – Make WordPress Training https://make.wordpress.org/training/2021/05/03/high-level-roadmap-to-learning-wordpress-development/
Learn WordPress https://learn.wordpress.org/

Panel * + Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog + Steve Zehngut – zeek.com + Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com + Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com + Courtney Engle Robertson – courtneyengle.com + Hauwa Abashiya – twitter.com/hawiea

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This week on WPwatercooler we’re discussing the WordPress blackmarket – GPL Clubs. We discussed this topic back in 2014 and with the rise of these clubs, we’re circling back around and discussing it again.

https://www.wpwatercooler.com/video/ep118-gpl-trademarks-re-selling-peoples-plugins-opp-dec-29-2014/

This week on the show we’ll have a few friends in the WordPress community stop by to discuss the changing WordPress ecosystem. Chris wrote a blog post recently that was linked from a few places we all frequent. The Changing WordPress Ecosystem – Chris Wiegman is a good read.

“The learning curve is now extremely high regardless of past [WordPress] experience.”

This quote resonated with us as a group over here at WPwatercooler. All of us have been using WordPress one way or another for over a decade, yet, WordPress is ever changing and so many new features, systems and entire ecosystem changes are taking place.

This is going to be a good episode, please take a moment and share it with your friends and community members, we’d appreciate it. This episode will go live at 11:00am Pacific on Friday August 20th, see you in the chat.

The deeper I get with modern WP dev the more I understand why newer devs don’t like to work on it. This is not the same project as it was in the past. The learning curve is now extremely high regardless of past experience.

— Chris Wiegman (@ChrisWiegman) July 27, 2021

In this episode of WPwatercooler, we’re going to be discussing what makes a good WordPress plugin? Obviously, over the 8 years we’ve been doing this show the answers have changed a bit but many have stayed the same. Is it a good user interface, one that looks like it’s supposed to be there? Is it good support? New features added all the time or what?

Join us as we discuss this topic, leave yours in the comments we’d love to read them.

Panel Jason Tucker – https://jasontucker.blog
Steve Zehngut - https://www.zeek.com
Jason Cosper – https://jasoncosper.com

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Project Panorama is a visual project management platform for WordPress that keeps clients happy and eliminates the headaches that cost you time and money when managing projects. Check them out at https://projectpanorama.com

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This week on the show we’re discussing the new WordPress version 58 release named “Tatum”.

WordPress 58 Development Cycle – Make WordPress Core
News – WordPress 58 Tatum – WordPress.org
What’s New in WordPress 58 (Full Site Editing, WebP Images, Global Styles and Settings, and Much More)
WordPress 58 – Yoast
WordPress 58 “Tatum” – Technical First Impressions

Panel * Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog * Steve Zehngut – zeek.com * Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com * Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com

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his week on the show we’re discussing tools that we use when building WordPress websites.

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This week on the show we’re discussing something that every WordPress site owner has to deal with, updating WordPress plugins. Many close their eyes and press the update button but some plan ahead, test, look at code, and test again before pressing that update button. In this episode, we’re going to share the methods we use to do these updates.

Panel * Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog * Steve Zehngut – zeek.com * Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com * Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com

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This week on WPwatercooler we’re discussing set it and forget it websites, you know the website you built for your friend and they never logged into it since the day you handed over the password. That website you build for a company in your city that uses it but has never logged into it.

We’re going to discuss the pitfalls of these websites and what solutions are there for sites like these.

Panel Jason Tucker – https://jasontucker.blog
Sé Reed – https://sereedmedia.com
Jason Cosper – https://jasoncosper.com

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With all of the acquisitions occurring in the WordPress space we asked friend of the show Cory Miller from Business Value Academy and Post Status to discuss with us these various acquisitions and what to expect in the future.

Buy and Sell WordPress Businesses-FlipWP
Awesome Motive
Major Acquisitions in the WordPress Market (2021 Included)
WP Engine to Acquire Flywheel
Hunter S. Thompson
ProfilePress Rebrands and Repurposes WP User Avatar, Now a Membership Plugin, Users Revolt via the WordPress Review System – WordPress Tavern

What Is The Next Acquisition? * We joked that Contact Form 7 could be purchased * Sé thinks Gravity Forms
https://www.gravityforms.com * Jason thinks that Matt will buy a backpack company
https://ma.tt/category/in-my-bag/ * Cory thinks EDD
https://easydigitaldownloads.com * Steve says Ninja Forms
https://www.ninjaforms.com/ * Cosper says Hello Dolly
https://wordpress.org/plugins/hello-dolly/

Panel * Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog * Steve Zehngut – zeek.com * Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com * Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com * Cory Miller – businessvalueacademy.com

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On this episode of WPwatercooler we will be continuing our discussion from Securing WordPress: Bots and Hackers but this time talking about how you can secure your WordPress site from people you know such as developers, contractors building the site, and your users if they are logging into the site at any point. There is a lot to talk about in this episode!

Terminated Employee Deleted Client Websites [PA]
Web Designer Strikes Back at Fitness SF, Hijacks Their Site [Update]
Stream – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org
They Told Their Therapists Everything. Hackers Leaked It All
Expire Users – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org

Security Series * EP388 - Securing WordPress: Bots and Hackers * EP389 - Securing WordPress Users and Devs

Panel * Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog * Steve Zehngut - zeek.com * Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com * Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com

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On this episode of WPwatercooler we will be discussing how you can secure your WordPress website to defend against bots and hackers. This is a question that comes up all the time at our local WordPress Meetups and at our WordCamps and we thought we'd share with you the best methods to do so as well as understand what the information you get out of these tools should mean to you.

Panel * Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog * Sé Reed - sereedmedia.com * Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com * Dan Walmsley - goldsounds.com

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On this episode of WPwatercooler, we’ll be discussing Gutenberg Full-Site Editing in WordPress. We got Jason to start using Gutenberg, lets see what he has to say about it.

Join us on Discord

Sponsored by ServerPress makers of Desktop Server, they make local WordPress development easy!

carolinan/fullsiteediting
Full Site Editing – Learn about block based themes
Full Site Editing Go/No Go
ACF Extended
ACF | Synchronized JSON
wpsitesync.com
Paw–The most advanced API tool for Mac
Testing Full Site Editing in WordPress – helenhousandi on Twitch

The WordPress dashboard, it’s been the same since the beginning. Can you customize the WordPress dashboard? What plugins can you use to do this? Why would you you want to?

White Label CMS – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org
Adminimize – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org
Ultimate Dashboard – Custom WordPress Dashboard – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org
10 Free Plugins for Customizing the WordPress Dashboard
Custom Dashboard Widgets – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org
Dashboard quick links widget – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org
Elegant Themes – Divi Admin Dashboard Layout
Admin Columns Pro-WordPress Content Management Plugin
Support Details.com [Get Your Browser Version, System Information & More]

Panel Jason Tucker @jasontucker https://twitter.com/jasontucker
Jason Cosper @boogah https://twitter.com/boogah
Sé Reed @sereedmedia https://twitter.com/sereedmedia

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On this episode, we will be discussing the release of WordPress 5.7. This release is named after Esperanza Spalding, a modern musical prodigy. As with all WordPress released, we will break down the latest changes to the release and what we have noticed about it.

Full Site Editing Pre-Merge Overview – Team Updates
Early Thoughts on WP5.8 Planning – Make WordPress Core
multiverse diary
WordPress 5.7: Top 21 Features & Improvements
REST API Changes in WordPress 5.7 – Make WordPress Core
Download jQuery
Updating jQuery version shipped with WordPress – Make WordPress Core

New features

Block Editor Changes
WP Admin and it's new color palette
HTTP to HTTPS in a single click
New Robots API
Cleaning up jQuery 3.5.1
Lazy-load iFrames

WordPress Field Guide. It highlights developer notes for each change you may want to be aware of: WordPress 5.7 Field Guide

Panel Jason Tucker @jasontucker https://twitter.com/jasontucker
Steve Zehngut @zengy https://twitter.com/zengy
Jason Cosper @boogah https://twitter.com/boogah

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This week we’re discussing WordPress releases and moving slow and fixing things.

Making WordPress Releases Easier – Make WordPress Core
The Four Seasons of WordPress Core Updates-2021
How Can WordPress Core and Plugin Development Maintain A Healthy Working Relationship?

Panel Jason Tucker @jasontucker https://twitter.com/jasontucker
Jason Cosper @boogah https://twitter.com/boogah
Sé Reed @sereedmedia https://twitter.com/sereedmedia

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How did WordPress get to 40%?

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Jason Tucker @jasontucker https://twitter.com/jasontucker

Steve Zehngut @zengy https://twitter.com/zengy

Jason Cosper @boogah https://twitter.com/boogah

Sé Reed @sereedmedia https://twitter.com/sereedmedia

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This week we’re discussing what site owners should do when managing WordPress plugin updates, changes to a plugin, and what about plugin abandonment from the developer?

WP Lookout Lets WordPress Users Track and Receive Notifications for Their Preferred Plugins and Themes – WordPress Tavern

Panel Jason Tucker @jasontucker https://twitter.com/jasontucker
Steve Zehngut @zengy https://twitter.com/zengy
Jason Cosper @boogah https://twitter.com/boogah

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The Events Calendar – is the number one calendar and event ticket plugin on WordPress for a reason – it’s built by WordPress and events experts who know what it takes to succeed when events are part of your business. Whether it’s a weekly virtual class or a robust event ticketing solution- The Events Calendar has you covered. Use code WPwatercooler to save 20% on a new purchase today! https://theeventscalendar.com

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This week on WPwatercooler we are talking about WordPress Plugins: the good, the bad, and the really bad.

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Jason Tucker @jasontucker https://twitter.com/jasontucker
Steve Zehngut @zengy https://twitter.com/zengy
Jason Cosper @boogah https://twitter.com/boogah
Sé Reed @sereedmedia https://twitter.com/sereedmedia

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01:29:00 - Outro

#WPwatercooler

This week on WPwatercooler we’ll be discussing working in WordPress, to code or not to code.

Show Sponsors
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Cloudways – Cloudways is a managed WordPress hosting provider that offers 5 best-in-class cloud providers, giving you freedom of choice and flexibility to build amazing WordPress websites. It comes with an intuitive platform that lets you manage your server and applications within a few clicks. All this is backed by 24/7 professional support that acts as your extended team as you grow your business.
https://www.cloudways.com

#WordPress #Community #WordPressCommunity #Software #OpenSource

#wpwatercooler

This week on WPwatercooler we’ll be discussing our WordPress resolutions.

Panel

Jason Cosper, Jason Tucker, Sé Reed, Steve Zehngut

Show Sponsors
Desktop Server – ServerPress https://www.servepress.com
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Cloudways – Cloudways is a managed WordPress hosting provider that offers 5 best-in-class cloud providers, giving you freedom of choice and flexibility to build amazing WordPress websites. It comes with an intuitive platform that lets you manage your server and applications within a few clicks. All this is backed by 24/7 professional support that acts as your extended team as you grow your business.
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This week on WPwatercooler we are talking about the State of the Word 2020 that Matt Mullenweg did. Typically this happens at the WordCamp US event but due to COVID-19 restrictions, this event happened on its own on Thursday, December 17th, 2020.

We'll be discussing this broadcast and the announcement made on it.

Socials Twitter ▶ https://twitter.com/wpwatercooler
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Panel Jason Tucker @jasontucker https://twitter.com/jasontucker
Steve Zehngut @zengy https://twitter.com/zengy
Sé Reed @sereedmedia https://twitter.com/sereedmedia

Show Sponsors Desktop Server – ServerPress https://serverpress.com/
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Timestamps 00:00:00 Intro
00:00:19 Sponsored by ServerPress
00:00:27 Sponsored by Cloudways
01:29:00 - Outro

This week we’re discussing WordPress 5.6 Simone.

News – WordPress 5.6 “Simone” – WordPress.org
First Look at Twenty Twenty-One, WordPress’s Upcoming Default Theme – WordPress Tavern
Test jQuery Updates – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org
Enable jQuery Migrate Helper – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org
WordPress 5.6 Field Guide – Make WordPress Core
WordPress/application-passwords
WordPress 5.6 Introduces a New Risk to Your Site: What to Do
PHP Compatibility Checker by WP Engine
News – State of the Word 2020 – WordPress.org

Panel * Jason Tucker @jasontucker * Steve Zehngut @zengy * Sé Reed @sereedmedia * Jason Cosper @boogah

Check Out Bridget’s New Book “Keys To Being Social: Being Real In A Virtual World”
Kindle – https://amzn.to/2HZELOq
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Show Sponsors Desktop Server – ServerPress https://serverpress.com
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Cloudways – Cloudways is a managed WordPress hosting provider that offers 5 best-in-class cloud providers, giving you freedom of choice and flexibility to build amazing WordPress websites. It comes with an intuitive platform that lets you manage your server and applications within a few clicks. All this is backed by 24/7 professional support that acts as your extended team as you grow your business. https://www.cloudways.com/en/

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We have been sponsored by big brands such as Kinsta and Cloudways. Why not get your audience in front of the thousands of people who download this show every month?

Yes, WPwatercooler has thousands of downloads every month. We’re not just a YouTube Show.

Keys to Being Social: Being Real in a Virtual World

This week on the WPwatercooler we’re going to be discussing if we are democratizing publishing when using WordPress

Panel
Jason Tucker @jasontucker
Steve Zehngut @zengy
Sé Reed @sereedmedia
Jason Cosper @boogah
Morten Rand-Hendriksen @mor10

Check Out Bridget’s New Book “Keys To Being Social: Being Real In A Virtual World”
Kindle – https://amzn.to/2HZELOq
Paperback – https://amzn.to/2H4lqvl

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Keys to Being Social: Being Real in a Virtual World

This week on WPwatercooler we’re discussing the ways in which Google is really wanting you to add Stories to your WordPress website using Web Stories

Accessibility and marketing go hand in hand. It may not seem that way at first, but how do you divorce the user’s experience from your product’s marketing?

Can people find your website, use it, and get the information they need? Maybe, sure. What about Instagram? In-Person Menus? Do your videos have subtitles? Are they accurate?

Joe Simpson, Jr. joins Jason and Bridget to expand upon this topic we began in Episode 167. Join live to ask questions and be part of the chat.

Panel:
Jason Tucker @jasontucker
Steve Zehngut @zengy
Sé Reed @sereedmedia
Jason Cosper @jasoncosper

📗Check out Bridget’s new book "Keys to Being Social: Being Real in a Virtual World"
Kindle - https://amzn.to/2HZELOq
Paperback - https://amzn.to/2H4lqvl

Sponsor:
Desktop Server - ServerPress https://serverpress.com
WPsitesync - https://www.wpsitesync.com

#wpwatercooler

Keys to Being Social: Being Real in a Virtual World

Does your webhost have a staging server? Have you ever heard of a staging server? In this episode we’re going to show you how using a staging server for updates to your WordPress website can be quite handy and save yourself some time and frustration. Watch the episode or tag a friend if they would get something out of it.

Panel:
Jason Tucker @jasontucker
Steve Zehngut @zengy
Sé Reed @sereedmedia
Jason Cosper @boogah
Rachelle Wise @wisearts

📗Check out Bridget’s new book "Keys to Being Social: Being Real in a Virtual World"
Kindle - https://amzn.to/2HZELOq
Paperback - https://amzn.to/2H4lqvl

Sponsor:
Desktop Server - ServerPress https://serverpress.com

#wpwatercooler

Keys to Being Social: Being Real in a Virtual World

This week we’re discussing CloudFlare’s Automatic Platform Optimization for WordPress

Panel:
Jason Tucker @jasontucker
Steve Zehngut @zengy
Sé Reed @sereedmedia
Jason Cosper @boogah

📗Check out Bridget’s new book "Keys to Being Social: Being Real in a Virtual World" https://amzn.to/2HZELOq

Sponsor:
Desktop Server - ServerPress https://serverpress.com

#wpwatercooler

Keys to Being Social: Being Real in a Virtual World

This week on the WPwatercooler we’re going to be sharing our WordPress wish list.

WPwatercooler network is sponsored by ServerPress.com makers of DesktopServer. Be sure to check them out at https://www.serverpress.com

Panel:
Jason Tucker
Steve Zehngut
Sé Reed
Russell Aaron
Jason Cosper
Helen Hou-Sandi

#wpwatercooler

This week on WPwatercooler we discuss the environment that our WordPress website and the programming language that powers WordPress, PHP.

RedHat LTS
Official OpenMage LTS codebase | Security vulnerability patches, bug fixes, performance improvements and more.
Drupal 6 Long Term Support
Migrate Guru

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This week on WPwatercooler we talking about the WordPress Plugin and Theme repositories and how folks are making money with them.

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This week on WPwatercooler we're talking about the ethics in the WordPress community

This week on WPwatercooler we’re discussing the upcoming release of WordPress 5.5 and the changes that will be affecting your websites.

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This week on WPwatercooler we’re discussing technical debt and how to tackle it.

Sponsored by ServerPress and WPSiteSync
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Introducing - The Query
A question and answer show for 38% of the web.
2020 was supposed to be the year that Jason Cosper did Ask Me Anything sessions instead of giving prepared talks at WordCamps across America. Then COVID-19 came to the US and those plans, like so many others, changed.

Instead of waiting patiently for a time where we could all go outside again, Cosper has decided to answer your questions, live and direct from his disheveled home office.

Need some tips on speeding up your site? He’s got those!

Not sure if your web host is stringing you along after you’ve outgrown your plan? He can help!

Looking for an opinion? Well, uh, he’s a cishet white male*…

Recorded whenever we decide to record this thing.

Jason Cosper is your friendly neighborhood WordPress nerd and Jason Tucker is an IT Director and WordPress Web Developer. Together, they fight crime.

That basically means that he’s full of opinions. Also full of bullshit. But mostly opinions.

Got questions? Cosper has answers https://wpwatercooler.com/thequery
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This week we’re answering the question, is WordPress really easy to use?
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On this episode of WPwatercooler, we will be discussing how to do it wrong and all the things that you’re doing wrong in WordPress.

Panel: Jason Tucker, Sé Reed, Jason Cosper

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This week on the show we’re discussing the politics relating to open source software and the people that use it.

How to Be A WordPress Ally • Allie Nimmons Has a Blog
Allie’s Twitter Lit
Black Girls Code – imagine. build. create. – Black Girls Code, BlackGirlsCode, Women of Color in Technology

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This week we're discussing the evolution of the WordPress Post Editor and some interesting alternatives too.

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This week we’re going to be discussing the daunting task of why you should to client proof of WordPress website.

Panel: Jason Tucker, Steve Zehngut, Sé Reed, Jason Cosper

This episode of WPwatercooler is brought to you by ServerPress makers of DesktopServer they make local WordPress development yeas, check them out at ServerPress.com

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On this episode we’re going to be discussing the daunting task of how to client-proof a WordPress website.

This episode of WPwatercooler is brought to you by ServerPress makers of DesktopServer they make local WordPress development yeas, check them out at ServerPress.com

Imagify WordPress Plugin
ACF | Advanced Custom Fields Plugin for WordPress
Pre-Publish Checklist – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org
Easy Content Templates – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org

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This week on WPwatercooler we’ll be discussing the quick ways to sell online with WordPress.

Panel Jason Cosper, Jason Tucker, Russell Aaron, Sé Reed, Steve Zehngut

Form Plugins The Best WordPress Form Plugin

WordPress Form Builder-Caldera Forms:Complex Forms Made Easy

Ninja Forms-The Drag & Drop WordPress Form Builder You’ll Love to Use

WPForms-The World’s Best Drag & Drop WordPress Forms Plugin

formidableforms.com

Ecommerce plugins Easy Digital Downloads-Sell Digital Downloads With WordPress

WooCommerce-Sell Online With The eCommerce Platform for WordPress

Ecommerce SaaS Solutions Create an Unfair Advantage|BigCommerce

shopify.com

Sell Online – Build a Free Online Store or eCommerce Website | Square

paypal.com

POS Systems pos.toasttab.com

POS System & Credit Card Readers

Sell Online – Build a Free Online Store or eCommerce Website | Square

WordPress Plugins Page not found – Tips and Tricks HQ

Stripe Payments – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org

WordPress Ecommerce Plugin

shopping-cart-migration.com

WP Simple Pay Lite vs Pro

WP Simple Pay – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org

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This week on WPwatercooler we’ll be discussing the common misconceptions that people have about WordPress.

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This week on WPwatercooler we’re talking about the products and services we use on our latest projects. It’s WordPress Stuff we love, join us! * Lead Generation and Sale Notification Popups for WordPress Stores – Holler Box * usefathom.com * Fathom Lite. Simple, privacy-focused website analytics. Built with Golang & Preact. * What Is a Dickbar? * Messenger Customer Chat – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org * Smallchat — Connect with your visitors. * Site Kit by Google – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org * Messenger Customer Chat – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org * templates.gutenberghub.com * Tailwind UI * GraphQL|A query language for your API * wpgraphql.com * Fathom Analytics Hosting|DigitalOcean Marketplace 1-Click App * Fathom Analytics – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org * usefathom.com

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On this episode, we discuss the various WordPress block libraries that are available.

Panel: Jason Cosper, Jason Tucker, russell aaron, Sé Reed, Steve Zehngut

sorta brilliant
A boring desktop is the sign of a boring life. Let's fix that.
Altered Reality – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org
Free Gutenberg Blocks and Page Building WordPress Theme by Atomic Blocks
Introducing Gutenberg Templates Library
Free Gutenberg Blocks and Page Building WordPress Theme by Atomic Blocks
Advanced Gutenberg Blocks – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org
Gutenberg Blocks
ACF | ACF 5.8 - Introducing ACF Blocks for Gutenberg
coblocks.com
Gutenberg 7.8 Adds Patterns API and Continues Interface Cleanup – WordPress Tavern
Patterns|Block Editor Handbook
ACF | Blocks
Block Permissions – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org
Gutenberg Blocks and Page Builder
Qubely-The Ultimate WordPress Gutenberg Plugin
godaddy-wordpress/go:The most flexible Gutenberg-first WordPress theme built for go-getters everywhere.

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This week on WPwatercooler we’re discussing the sudden flock to be online and how businesses are having to change their methods to keep the doors open. * Virtual Happiness Bar Appointments Available * Organizing Virtual Events – Make WordPress Communities * Michelle Frechette @michelleames * Adobe is Giving Everyone 2 Months of Free Creative Cloud – Here’s How To Get It * 5 Challenges of Working Remotely (And How to Overcome Them)

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With many of us working from home were joining the collective of in-home workers that have been doing this for years. Join us as we discuss this new reality.

A dedicated place to work in your home
Buy headphones, get good ones
Play a great playlist
Stay focused
Take breaks
Use a Pomodoro timer Jason Cosper recommends Tomighty
Go outside and see the sun
Switch it up every once in a while and try a new
Have a drawer to put your laptop in or in a backpack
Don’t eat lunch at your desk
Respect your own time
Have multiple email apps, a work email app, and a personal email app.
Don’t have a work slack on your phone.
Time blocks

Links

The Year Without Pants
A Movement to Stop the COVID-19 Pandemic|#StayTheFuckHome
Here are some happy websites to go to if you’re sick of reading articles about coronavirus
Don’t Go Down a Coronavirus Anxiety Spiral
Remote Work:8 (ish) Weeks In

Tips from Steve

Regularly check-in
Communicating regularly
If you finish early didn’t just end your day.
If you are blocked, ask what you should do.

Tools for communicating

Slack realtime communication
Zoom

Communication Tips

Morning meeting on Zoom, BS at first part have social interactions (5-10 mins)
Done-Done meeting (What did you complete yesterday?)
Dealing with blockers
Teamwork – Prioritize tasks
Basecamp
Jira

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This week on WPwatercooler we discussed WordPress 5.5 and its proposed WP Auto-updates feature currently in plugin form.

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This week on WPwatercooler we discussed WordPress 5.4 some recent plugins to be rolled into core and Google’s involvement in it.

CO2 emissions on the web
Feature Project Proposal – WP Notify
Requirements Document – WP Notify
Lazy-Loading Images in WordPress Core – Make WordPress Core
XML Sitemaps – Feature Plugin
1542784 – (lazyload) Support lazy-loading – Firefox
Main implementation for lazy image loading – Webkit
200764 – Main implementation for lazy image loading
Can I User – Lazy-Load

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This week on Dev Branch we git branch dev branch and start up a new show focused on the developer side of WordPress. Our first topic is speeding up your dev time by working with a code snippet library.

Notion–The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.
WordPress Packagist: Manage your plugins and themes with Composer
Attention Required! | Cloudflare
Microsoft OneNote|The digital note-taking app for your devices
Notion–The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.
nvAlt – BrettTerpstra.com
⬛️ CLI tool for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file
Composer
Buddy:The DevOps Automation Platform
Steve Grunwell-Open-source contributor, speaker, and coffee snob

This episode is sponsored by ServerPress makers of DesktopSever check them out over at serverpress.com

Jason Cosper, Jason Tucker, Rachelle Wise, Russell Aaron, Steve Zehngut

https://www.wpwatercooler.com/devbranch/ep01-speed-up-dev-time-keep-your-own-snippet-library/

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This week on WPwatercooler we discussed WordPress security

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Thousands of WordPress sites hacked in scam campaign

WPScan a WordPress Vulnerability Scanner

Open Source Password Management Solutions|Bitwarden

Password Manager for Families, Businesses, Teams | 1Password

www.cloudflare.com

www.imperva.com

ManageWP–Manage WordPress Sites from One Dashboard

infinitewp.com

mainwp.com

Manage Multiple WordPress Sites

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This week on WPwatercooler we’re discussing how you can get the most from your favorite WordPress form plugins.

Ninja Forms-The Drag & Drop WordPress Form Builder You’ll Love to Use
WPForms-The World’s Best Drag & Drop WordPress Forms Plugin
formidableforms.com
Contact Form (Classic Editor)
Contact Form 7 – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org
Connector for Gravity Forms and Google Sheets – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org
WCAG 2.0 form fields for Gravity Forms – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org
CSS Ready Classes for Gravity Forms< gravityforms.com/a>
Learn how to use Gutenberg in your forms gravityforms.com
Exporting Form Entries gravityforms.com
WordPress, Gravity Forms, and GDPR Compliance gravityforms.com

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What is it, how do you go about it, how much should it cost, why it is important

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This week on WPwatercooler we’re discussing has WordPress in 2020 and the article by Impress.org “What to Watch for in WordPress in 2020”

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Finishing off our 3 part series of the Grande Guide to changing web hosts, this week on episode 348 of WPwatercooler we’re talking about how to setup your new webhost after getting out of the bad relationship with your old one. We’re starting new and this is Everything.

This episode of WPwatercooler is brought to you by ServerPress makers of DesktopServer making local WordPress development easy and WP Site Sync “Content transfer made easy! Syncing WordPress Posts and Pages just got easier. As easy as… 1 2 3 DONE!”

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Links from this episode * Global DNS Propagation Checker-What’s My DNS? * Redirection – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org * Check your DNS MX Records online * WebPageTest-Website Performance and Optimization Test * GTmetrix|Website Speed and Performance Optimization * tools.pingdom.com * WPengine – Disallowed Plugins * Pagely – Which plugins and themes are allowed? * Kinsta – Banned and Incompatible WordPress Plugins at Kinsta * Easy WP SMTP – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org * Post SMTP Mailer/Email Log – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org * WP-Optimize – Clean, Compress, Cache. – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org * Prevent Breaking your live website with our Staging Feature – Softaculous Blog

Grande Guide to changing WordPress web hosts 😭 Part 1 – EP346 – break up with your web host, i’m bored (is your WordPress host slowing down your site?) – 12/6

😘 Part 2 – EP347 – thank u, next (How to move your website to a new WordPress host) – 12/13

🥰 Part 3 – EP348 – Everything (how to set up your new WordPress host) – 1/3

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This week on WPwatercooler we’re how to move your WordPress website to a new and better webhost. thank u, next!

Links mentioned on the show

WordPress Importer – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org
WPMerge.io-WP DB Merging, made easy.
Gas Mask by Clockwise
Global DNS Propagation Checker-What’s My DNS?
How to Edit the Hosts File in Windows 10
WP Migrate DB Proi – deliciousbrains.com
Hosting WordPress Yourself Part 1-Setting Up a Secure Virtual Server
WPSiteSync – Content transfer made easy!

Grande Guide to changing WordPress web hosts 😭 Part 1 – EP346 – break up with your web host, i’m bored (is your WordPress host slowing down your site?) – 12/6

😘 Part 2 – EP347 – thank u, next (How to move your website to a new WordPress host) – 12/13

🥰 Part 3 – EP348 – Everything (how to set up your new WordPress host) – 12/20

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This week on WPwatercooler we’re discussing WordPress web hosts and if and when you should move to a new one.

Migrate Guru – WordPress Plugins
WordPress Hosting |Fast and Secure with Award-winning Support
The 7 Best Cheap Web Hosting Services (2019 Review)

Grande guide to changing WordPress web hosts * Part 1 – EP346 – break up with your webhost, i’m bored (is your WordPress host slowing down your site?) – 12/6 * Part 2 – EP347 – thank u, next (How to move your website to a new WordPress host) – 12/13 * Part 3 – EP348 – Everything (how to setup your new WordPress host) – 12/20

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This week on WPwatercooler we’re discussing has WordPress deals with large images and how the handling of big images will change in WordPress 5.3.

Introducing handling of big images in WordPress 5.3 – Make WordPress Core
48299 (When “big_images” are automatically scaled, communicate with a UI message)
Cloudinary – Image management and manipulation in the cloud + CDN – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org
Image and Video Upload, Storage, Optimization and CDN
www.imgix.com
Imsanity – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org
TinyPNG‚ Compress PNG images while preserving transparency
Cybertruck

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This week on WPwatercooler we're discussing WordPress meetups, where to find them and how to get involved.

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This week the WPwatercooler panel discusses the WordPress Theme Directory based on a post by Justin Tadlock of WPTavern - Curated List of Featured Themes Coming to the Theme Directory. The panel discussed many different ways the Featured Themes section of the Theme Directory is flawed currently in its weird random setup. Curation seems to be a good strategy for fixing this issue but inforcing rules is going to be a tough one.

"While themes in the directory undergo a strict code review, there is no quality control on design."

We noticed this too while on the show, it seems that we need to take some time and build out a strict cutoff and one of them should be, in Jason Tucker's opinion be if the theme is accessible or not. If we came from a culture where "mobile-first" was important at one point in our recent history then "accessibility-first" should be the new goal. 105 themes in the directory are set with the Accessibility Ready tag but when you have poor examples such as Stix in the directory, is quality being looked at?

Sé Reed mentioned the talk that Natalie MacLees did at WordCamp Long Beach regarding accessible themes.

Reading into this a bit more Justin Tadlock writes:

"The team implemented a program that allowed the top reviewers each month an opportunity to pick the featured themes..." "The problem was that nearly all of the top reviewers were theme authors. Their incentive for doing reviews was to get their themes featured. Big theme businesses stood the most to gain. They could put multiple reviewers to work who would knock out review after review."

with that being said it looks like the theme directory and it's Theme Review Team have a plan, Justin writes:

"The general consensus seems to be that featured themes would not have any upsells or other commercial aspects. That could limit the pool of potential themes considerably because many theme authors have some sort of commercial interest in having their themes hosted in the official directory."

Jason Cosper had a prediction regarding restricting the directory to non-upsale themes - "we're going to see a lot of Automattic made WordPress.com themes in the featured themes"

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This week the WPwatercooler panel discusses the joys of good WordPress web hosting.

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This week on WPwatercooler we talk about WordCamp Long Beach #WCLB and if we uncovered the Future of WordPress.

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This week on WPwatercooler we discuss the developer/user gap.

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This week on WPwatercooler we’re discussing WordPress page speed and how to make your website performant.

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This week on WPwatercooler we talk about Automattic raising $300M Series D from Salesforce Ventures and how this would affect if any the WordPress open source project.

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On this episode, we discuss what’s on our WordPress toolbelt.

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Toolbelt – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org
Site Breadcrumbs
Compress JPEG & PNG images – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org
Easily optimize images using WP CLI

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Conflicts of interest with WordCamp and WordPress Meetup organizers.

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A question was posed to the Make WordPress blog recently that many of us found interesting:

"Recently, I realized that community organizers do sometimes face a conflict of interest situations, but the team does not really have clear guidelines about how to avoid them, nor best practices for when there is one."

https://make.wordpress.org/community/2019/08/15/discussion-how-to-handle-conflict-of-interest-situations/

Some questions that were presented to the community were:

What different kinds of conflict of interest situations we have now and what we might encounter in the future?
How to work around those?
Can we accept the conflict of interest in some situations?
What would be the best approach to disclose situations where someone notices a conflict of interest?

Jennifer Bourn brought this to twitter

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This week on WPwatercooler we discuss WordPress forcing updates on the older version of the software. We compare and contrast this to web hosts doing these sorts of things and what the future may hold for updates of this nature.

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WPwatercooler Quotables "Hell yeah, I think it's good." Jason Cosper

"My opinion is changing because the WordPress rollout schedule has been changing. ...You're talking about sites that are run by non-technical people. They may not know what to do or have the resources to fix it." Steve

"In my opinion, this should be between the hosting companies and site owners, not WordPress and site owners." Manny

Show Topics and Further Reading * WordPress team working on daring plan to forcibly update old websites * Computer trespass * Proposal: Auto-Update Old Versions to 4.7 * Tools to backup and upgrade WordPress installations * Statistics | WordPress.org * Mysterious iOS Attack Changes Everything We Know About iPhone Hacking * News – WordPress 3.7 “Basie” – WordPress.org * Plugin Detective – Troubleshooting – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org

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On this episode, we discuss what is actually involved in building a website.

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This week on WPwatercooler we talk about WordCamp Long Beach and their track The Future of WordPress.

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EP331 - WooCommerce vs Shopify vs Amazon - WPwatercooler

This week on WPwatercooler we discussed the differences between WooCommerce, Shopify and Amazon for selling products for ecommerce.

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CamelCamelCamel

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Shopify and the Power of Platforms - stratechery.com

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This week on WPwatercooler we discuss the up and downs of WordPress Meetups.

Make WordPress Communities
Meetup WordPress Worldwide

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This week on WPwatercooler we have Dan Walmsley Code Wrangler at Automattic on talking about Composer and how they are using it in Jetpack development.

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Participants * Jason Tucker * Steve Zehngut * Manny Costa * Daniel Walmsley * Sé Reed * Jason Cosper

Unrelated Preshow links (join us on the show to get involved in our preshow): Bakersfield resident the creator behind viral 'Storm Area 51' Facebook event

Behind the Curve (2018)

Links from the show: Composer

WordPress Packagist: Manage your plugins and themes with Composer

PSR-4: Autoloader - PHP-FIG

Panel: The Future of WordPress – WordPress.tv

PSR-4: Autoloader - PHP-FIG

Alain Schlesser

Expose installed WordPress plugins and themes as Composer packages.

A PHP parser written in PHP

jetpack/packages/analyzer at master

jetpack/packages/autoloader at master

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Two topics on one episode?!?! We discuss Zoom and it's local web server as well as dealing with responsible disclosure of vulnerabilities in WordPress.

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Participants * Jason Tucker * Steve Zehngut * Jonathan Wold * Sé Reed * Jason Cosper

Links from the show: Is my host fast yet?

HTTP Archive

Apple pushes silent macOS update to close Zoom vulnerability - 9to5Mac

Apple Pushes Silent macOS Update to Remove ‘Secret’ Zoom Web Server | Technology News

Internet of Shit (@internetofshit)

WordPress Plugin Team Paints Target on Exploitable Settings Change Vulnerability That Permits Persistent XSS in Related Posts – Plugin Vulnerabilities

Disgruntled security firm discloses zero-days in Facebook’s WordPress plugins

Yoast SEO 1.2.0-11.5 - Authenticated Stored XSS

Corrupted Blood incident

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be talking with Jessica Scott and Erik Patterson and our own Steve Zehngut from Gleek.com.

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This week on WPwatercooler we discuss when premium plugins go bad and what you should do when it happens to you and your client’s websites.

InfusedWoo|Woocommerce + Infusionsoft by Keap Integration Plugin
WordPress Security: When Plugins Go Bad
Pippin Williamson
Caused major issues | WordPress.org

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Let's talk about Joost de Valk of Yoast stepping down as WordPress CMO.

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This week on WPwatercooler we discussed the gauntlet that we must travel through to get our client’s MVP to market. From change orders to delays and phasing we talk about all this and more on this episode of WPwatercooler.

Check out our most recent episode of WPblab – Marketing Yourself as a WordPress Developer with Rachelle Wise

Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It Kindle Edition
GOTO 2015 • Agile is Dead • Pragmatic Dave Thomas
Embracing Scope Creep – Chris Lema
Project Strobe: Protecting your data, improving our third-party APIs, and sunsetting consumer Google+

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Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It

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Links from the episode

GTmetrix|Website Speed and Performance Optimization
Query Monitor – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org
Sentry is cross-platform application monitoring, with a focus on error reporting.
Sentry for Open Source
Automated Website Testing and Monitoring-Ghost Inspector
Uptime Robot
tools.pingdom.com
Downtime Monitoring
CC Devs – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org

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This week on WPwatercooler we went back in time and talked about ActionScript, Shockwave, Director, Server Side Includes and all the technologies that we learned leading up to WordPress.

Panel: Ross Gile, Leo Postovoit, Manny Costa, Steve Zehngut and Jason Tucker

Whittier CA representing on the show today

More information on WordCamp Long Beach coming soon!

WordCamp Las Vegas is later in the year.

Jason mentions this week’s WPblab EP126 – Marketing Yourself as a WordPress Developer

Steve talked ActionScript, Shockwave, JavaScript, and jQuery.

Manny wrote some e-commerce stuff in ActionScript

Leo talked about how he learned about AMP from WPwatercooler and got his job at XWP from that knowledge.

Ross was the first web developer in Whittier back in 1997 at DigiCal.

Steve talks about the times he was mentioned in old articles like Ross was in. Steve’s dad did picture framing and he has a bunch of places where he was mentioned online. Heaven’s Gate was mentioned in the same page of the article that Ross was mentioned in.

SHTML and Server Side Includes

Steve talks about this being a circular business.

Jason asked if Steve was featured in Webmonkey and he said that the Shockwave Site of the Day was where most of his stuff showed up. Steve won a SXSW Award for Big Pussies Poker Heaven.

Leo missed the Flash days but has been building and working with making simpler tools to build things much like Flash was back in the day.

Steve was a film major and ended up doing web development.

Leo has had to take about 6 months to learn web pack and is “looking forward tomorrows problems but at the same time celebrates yesterdays victories.”

Manny asked the question if everyone works from home making the point that going to WordCamps and WordPress meetups are important. He spoke about Prestige Conf and meeting Pippin of Pippin’s Plugins.

Ross talks about taking home “golden nuggets” from meetups and events he goes to.

Jason “ruins” Ross’ workflow when showing him things like Beaver Builder as a way of changing his workflow of building a website.

Leo talks about how open source works and how documentation is important. Technologies change quickly.

Manny talks on using Canvas and how they had to change to something new.

Steve was “all in” on Director and Shockwave and overnight that technology disappeared. The same can happen to WordPress, don’t put all your eggs in one technology basket.

Steve is observing that you don’t need to use WordPress for everything and WordPress isn’t made for everything.

Manny interjects that backward compatibility and is it important?

Leo talks about Drupal and their backward compatibility issues.

Steve mentions Shopify and working with scaling issues with it. Not every tool is the same.

Jason compares this to Windows and Apple and how they ditch their backward compatibility issues.

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On this episode Sé Reed, Jonathan Wold & Steve Zehngut discussed many pressing WordPress topics such as beverage selection with LaCroix and autonomy with working as a solopreneur and having things fall through the cracks.

Jokingly Sé asked if Jonathan is a Virgo, he's a Gemini.

They discussed expectations and if Jonathan felt he was meeting them. Jonathan "says yes to the idea" but he finds that he can't keep up anymore. The three of them uncover prioritization, focus, and workflows. Sé goes back to this being an issue with Jonathan being a Gemini and wanting to do everything. Sé asked about "what system" Jonathan is using. He has paper, a journal and a to-do tracker. They worked through accountability, meeting client expectations and such. They talked about Trello, Basecamp, Asana and other tools that are used to manage their todos. Virtual Assistant came up but Sé seems to think it's more about a Virtual Manager but they found that being a personal manager is what really needs to happen. Jonathan is conflicted because he doesn't really want a manager. Sé puts on her counseling hat and talks about the 2 personas that Jonathan needs: Jonathan the person that produces and Jonathan the person that manages. Sé discusses habits and how to apply them as a manager and as a producer and discussing imposture syndrome when feeling you can't do all of this. Sé shares her shortcomings and how she over 16 years has found that she can't do everything (including paying herself) and found she needed to delegate these tasks to other people or systems to make sure they get done. Sé uses a "hype button" to call to attention when you are fibbing or not providing an accurate estimate of your effort to yourself or to your business partners. Pomodoro style came up in how Jonathan approaches various projects he does.

Steve steps in and talks about how he ran Zeek as a coder and as a manager. He realized that biz dev is where he should be and hired others to take care of the tasks that needed to be done that he shouldn't be doing himself. Steve mentioned joining a Mastermind group and making sure that accountability is something you are applying to your business. The group circles back to Email and how much of a pain it is. Inbox Zero, Slack, text and other methods of communication are discussed. Sé introduces a "Management Day" and how she uses Asana to check boxes, move tasks around as needed.

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Steve Zehngut, Mark Benzakein, Sé Reed and Jason Cosper discussed WordCamp Orange County 2019 its organizing crew and how well the event went. The theme this year was The Life Aquatic. They gave out Krochet Kids red beanies depicted in the movie. Sé mentioned WordCamp Long Beach #WCLBC and her involvement with that camp. The discussion changed to the Business Track that Steve ran on Saturday including 1.5 hours of content per session.

Steve shared their method of speaker selection and how they do the blind speaker selection method. He also mentioned how they invite people to talk at their event and how they fill in speakers for topics they want to have discussed. If you are wanting to speak you should submit early and submit a few. When many people submit the same topic sometimes they will form a panel to make it easier to get all of them involved in it. The popular topic this go around was project management second was SEO people trying to sell things.

The panel talked about the afterparty at Durty Nellies and how a fight broke out no WordCampers were involved but Steve did get hit.

Sunday had three tracks where the event ends with Plugin-a-palooza. Jason Cosper was one of the judges and spoke about the ways in which they judged these plugins. Here are the top three:

Assistant – Every Day Productivity Apps
WP Debugging
Usher - Keyboard Shortcuts

WPwatercooler was at the event and held a session just before Plugin-a-palooza you can watch it here: EP319 – WPwatercooler Live at WordCamp OC 2019 #WCOC

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This week on WPwatercooler we streamed live from WordCamp Orange County 2019. The majority of our regulars on WPwatercooler are local to Southern California and many of us attended WordCamp OC. The WordCamp organizers were gracious in giving us a time slot just before their legendary Plugin-a-palooza event they do each year. As with most WPwatercooler episodes we didn’t have a topic planned and asked the audience what we should talk about. Here is the result!

Panelists: Sé Reed, Leo Postovoit, Steve Zehngut, Jason Tucker, and Jason Cosper

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This week on WPwatercooler we discuss WordCamps – how many there are in SoCal, what you can do to get more out of a WordCamp and what we’d like to see less from WordCamps if we choose.

Jason mentioned the number of WordCamps in Southern California is staggering and is wanting to talk about the excessiveness of WordCamps.
Manny mentions that beginners and first timers get a lot from WordCamps
HallwayTrack and Hallway Chats are big for veterans in the WordPress community
Jason Cosper brings up the Watch Later button in YouTube and watching or not watching the missed talks at the camps you attend.
Se brings up that getting out of the office is important, having an expensive write-off for travel and giving an excuse for meeting people IRL.
Cosper talks about getting out of the house, getting dressed and interacting with other humans in person.
Jason Cosper lists the following WordCamps: Orange County, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Riverside, San Diego, Phoenix, Sacramento, Denver, Santa Clarita, Portland, Seattle.
Sé compares this to the Grateful Dead… WordPress Heads.
Jason Cosper talks about taking a few WordCamps off and feeling overwhelmed.
Cemal talks about WordPress.tv and choosing sessions and dealing with duplicates or repeated content from other camps. Speakers speaking over and over about the same thing at many camps.
More than 1/3 of the people going to WordCamp OC are new WordCampers.
Cosper will be attending 5-6 camps this year.
Jason Cosper speaks about WordPress swag, shirts, and other things and he’s looking to see if there is a way of opting out of them and maybe that money can be spent on something like closed captioning. WordCamp OC won’t have closed captioning this year due to budget constraints. He wants a dropdown to not have a shirt or other things.
Quilts can be made out of WordCamp shirts if you are into that thing.
Leo speaks about doing workshops, something between the WordPress meetup and the WordCamps.
Manny talks about the workshops he’s done for WooCommerce in Las Vegas, much like a happiness bar but just for WooCommerce.
Manny asks about on-site vs off-site afterparties
Jason Cosper talks about Sacramento and their on-site afterparty.
Is alcohol a need at a WordCamp Afterparty?
Cemal talks about the “Sunday Social” they are doing at OC WordCamp
Leo talks about the weird in-between of interacting with people older than him and younger than him “the human story”
Talking to people and learning their story is valuable at a WordCamp
Leo talks about non-sustainable products and that socks are a great replacement to t-shirts
Jason Tucker mentions not handing out plants
Sé shows a bulb flower that she got from Yoast

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Join us around the WPwatercooler to discuss WordPress communities and their subcommunities

Beecaster
Home-Genesis Community
WooCommerce
Child Themes, Plugins, and Tutorials for Divi by Elegant Themes
Divi — The Ultimate WordPress Theme & Visual Page Builder
divi.space
Divi Chat Podcast|A Podcast For Divi & WordPress Enthusiasts
SEO conference • Yoast
wpcampus.org
PressNomics:The Economics of WordPress Conference
Why the WordCamp San Diego Business Track Matters
WPwatercooler on Twitch

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WordPress community, we had a tough week, let's dive in.

On Health, WordPress and a Tough Decision
Jetpack 7.2.1: Maintenance Release
Improve plugin search results with already active plugins
WordPress Etiquette
What is the WordPress Governance Project?

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Join us around the WPwatercooler and talk about April Fools pranks!

ThinkGeek|Join In. Geek Out.
Microsoft leads the way in banning April Fools’ Day pranks – theverge.com
Drupalwatercooler
“A WordPress April Fools! Thank you @photomatt for the ha ha chucklesmile. http://t.co/OWzq0p4”
Sonic Meeting Disrupter
ThinkGeek Annoy-a-tron Prankster Pack 3.0
The Greatest Pranks Jim Ever Played on Dwight on The Office

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This week on WPwatercooler we explore the fact that WordPress, it's plugins and themes are someone else's code and how to explain this to your clients. WordPress is made up of code from many contributors and plugins are as well. When support is no longer available what should you do?

WordPress Coding Standards – Make WordPress Core
WordPress-Coding-Standards/WordPress-Coding-Standards:PHP_CodeSniffer rules (sniffs) to enforce WordPress coding conventions

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This week on WPwatercooler we discuss code inheritance and navigating code someone else wrote in a project you are working on.

Introducing GitHub Actions for WordPress (Plugins) | 10up
WordPress-Coding-Standards/WordPress-Coding-Standards:PHP_CodeSniffer rules (sniffs) to enforce WordPress coding conventions
Query Monitor – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org
Pingdom Tools
PageSpeed Insights
GTmetrix|Website Speed and Performance Optimization
WebPageTest-Website Performance and Optimization Test
Auditing, performance metrics, and best practices for Progressive Web Apps for mobile insights
Lighthouse | Tools for Web Developers | Google Developers

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Why is website performance even important? * Better click through rates? * Better bounce rates * Providing a better experience regardless of the end result for the customer * Less bandwidth used

What does website performance look like? * Dropped frames * Less CPU usage on phones * Test on new and older phones * Use Google Analytics to see the target audience * Understanding your target audience

Real world optimizations not working out * Multiple layers of caching (WordPress caching, Cloudflare, CDN) * Do testing as the author of the website * Combining of Javascript

Guaranteed performance wins & other stuff * GZIP * Image Optimization * Jetpack with Proton * Minify CSS * Autoptimize - Paid service for optimizing a site for you * Making the site paint on the screen quickly with less blocking elements * Social media copies gambling methods 'to create psychological cravings' * NPM Critical CSS * AMP * XWP's plugin for AMP * Astra Theme has AMP * AMP tree shaking * Chromium - AMP Browser * Lazy Images

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This week we talk about WordPress Automatic Updates - Plugins, Themes, and PHP versions!

https://2019.oc.wordcamp.org/tickets/
https://www.wpwatercooler.com/video/ep184-wordpress-plugins-adoption-or-abandonment/
https://wpengine.com/blog/php-7-compatibility-checker-plugin/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/php-compatibility-checker/ Jinx
https://ghostinspector.com/
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This week on WPwatercooler we discuss burnout, dealing with grinding and finding an escape.

Jason drives for Lyft to take himself away from his normal 9-5 to a different environment

How to define burnout - Se mentions burnout almost like a bounce rate. She mentions community and how sometimes things doing get done due to burnout. Lack of fulfillment. Answering the same questions over and over many things can lead to burnout.

The danger of burnout is not noticing it before you snap. The important thing is to recognize it. Russ recognized him by noticing things and talking to others about it. Things needed to change so he found a change and did it himself.

Taking on small projects that relate but aren’t the exact same thing is a great way to work through burnout. Find a relatable skill and work on that a bit to stop burnout.

Russ worked on a project to add styles to gravity forms and used this as a way to escape burnout.

Russ has taken 3 months off from WordPress bases social media to walk away from frustration before getting burned out. Admining groups on Facebook can drive people crazy, Russ recognized this and took some time off from it.

Se is burned out on interpersonal drama in the community, people “trying to help” and found that removing yourself from it may help you but doesn’t resolve the issue. Nitpicking and telling folks to post this there and not here in Facebook group is annoying and can add to burnout.

Russ was burned out on Gutenberg. Russ is a big fan but the journey to Gutenberg being released was frustrating.

Jason talks about what really grinds his gears. Jason finds that not doing everything and picking battles may help with burnout.

Russ talks about the age-old issue of menus on a casino website and keeping them all up to date.

Sé talks about a talk she did with dealing with menus and pdf menus on sites.

Russ hates PDF menus and build a way for his staff to update the website using custom post types and taxonomies.

Russ loves WordPress dearly and makes sure that he does some changes to his own website as a way to work through burnout.

Sé talks about if Matt Mullenweg was just burnt out on the old editor and this is why we have Gutenberg.

Russ builds different sections on his personal website about band names, weird places his baby’s binkie was found. Mix it up a bit and try new things.

Is the take away to find something that has multiple avenues? This seems to be the case. If your interests and your work are the same find a way to enjoy it by doing something different so you feel productive and are learning but lets you walk away from the rut you are stuck in.

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00:10:59 Real URLs for AMP Cached Content Using Cloudflare Workers

00:11:14 AMP + WordPress product site AMP for WordPress – Official AMP Plugin for WordPress

00:16:56 Malte, Tech Lead, taking about lessons learned and touching on the origin Standardizing lessons learned from AMP – AMP

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Can you replace social media with your own website? We start our discussion here and Jason continues it on his person website - Should we replace Facebook with our personal websites?

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Our guest contributor this week is Kevin Marshall Shop Magic Woo Commerce Automation from RistrettoApps https://wordpress.org/plugins/shopmagic-for-woocommerce/

Sé laments the amount of stuff she’s doing with WordPress as of late, George is getting Meta.

We’ve switch over to Zoom and are streaming to Facebook, Twitter’s Periscope and as always YouTube. Thanks to our sponsor ServerPress makers of DesktopServer for their support.

Kevin talks about his e-commerce experience and why he made Shop Magic and how we started with doing commerce sites for Dentists (his wife is one).

Sé thinks that Dentistry is hard to market due to imagery. Should you show messed up teeth or shiny teeth? Steve hate when people show messed up teeth but what’s the right way?

Kevin’s tool is doing cart abandonment and sending coupons to get people back to the site using his Freemium product.

Se started out with building forms by hand and figured that she needs to work with great plugins that are “hand-off-able things”.

Kevin mentions Help Monks and there feature request and help is on Trello publicly viewable so people know what things are being worked on.

This end up providing instant gratification for the customer when new features they submitted are shown and when completed are notified of its completion.

Jason talks about what George mentioned earlier and the split between the freemium and paid versions are forks and at some point become merged. Customers like this because it’s the same product, not two derivative products that may not have the same core functionality after the fork. ACF recently came to parity with their two offerings so they have a good place to build off from.

WordPress is really good at saying no about not adding everything to core. They pick and choose their extensibility knowing that there may be inherent dependencies.

Companies like Slack, Mailchimp and such provide a free version of their product and most folks are ok with using that but when the use goes above and beyond the free people don’t mind paying for it if it provides the right features.

WordPress has Jetpack as a way to of providing a premium version of WordPress functionality.. its a freemium in a freemium.

Kevin mentions Drupal and Joomla that had its NPM like build a plugin on top of a plugin sort of thing.

Jason asks if Hello Dolly is Gutenberg Compatible. Se pushes George to do it. George is scared that Matt Mullenweg is watching the show and will ask to do this. George is going to take the afternoon to build the Gutenblock for Hello Dolly. You ask and it gets built.

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Luke Carbis : The Future of Web Content
Luke Carbis – Make XWP
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WordCamp Minneapolis / St. Paul

Russ spoke about Voiceblogging

FOR BLOGGING OUT LOUD! USE YOUR VOICE TO BLOG

I blog out loud. I use my phone to capture my voice and turn it into text content. I copy and paste the content into a new post. Now all I have to do is add a few images and links. In just 15 minutes, you can have your next blog post written.

Russ has written (voiceblogged?) about this on his website: Voice To Text Blogging is the way of the future. Here's How I Use Daily.

Russ walked around the camp and promoted his talk to people using a sign. He had a full house at his talk and things worked out well.

Sé was broadcasting from WeWork (not a sponsor but call us if you want to sponsor!)

Jason shared Drafts as an app to do voice blogging on iOS using it's dictation feature

Jason talks about using Drafts to remember things that have happened during his drives for Lyft. Funny things people say or incidents that occurred.

Russ shared with is the Coming Soon plugin called Easy Coming Soon.

Sé shares with us Gutenberg and her experience with using it with clients and interacting with clients that are using it.

Better Search Replace is a great way to search and replace content all over the WordPress database for text that needs to be changed globally on the website

Regular Expression RegEx

Russ got rid of all of his slides for his talks. Sé was talking about how she has to update her slides when technology changes.

Jason proposes that you bring an AppleTV to a WordCamp and tell people to connect to the AppleTV or Chromecast during your talk. Then you can talk about it as if you were an expert.

Jason talk about the Touchbar Macbook and his favorite thing with the touch bar on the mac Knight Touchbar 2000

Check out RussellEnvy.com it's awesome

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Massive WordPress Redirect Campaign Targets Vulnerable tagDiv Themes and Ultimate Member Plugins
New PHP Code Execution Attack Puts WordPress Sites at Risk
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This week on WPwatercooler we discuss how new folks to WordPress should approach Facebook Groups relating to WordPress. There is 120+ Groups on Facebook with the word WordPress in its title. That right there is daunting. When it comes to asking a question as a new user, which should you choose? How should you choose it and why are all the admins telling you to post elsewhere?

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Dan gives us a tour of his house
Russ talks about last week’s episode, give it a watch https://www.wpwatercooler.com/video/ep282-wpwatercooler/
Check out WPblab with James Laws https://www.wpwatercooler.com/video/wpblab-ep108-marketing-your-wordpress-business-with-loss-leaders/
Russ talks about teaching a class about catching people up in the conversation so they know what Gutenberg is.
Russ talks about WordCamps, Meetups and other ways to interact with the community. He is a bit frustrated with folks that aren’t getting caught up who attend his meetups.
Answering those questions that folks need to be answered so that he can bridge the gap of new folks in getting them to be advanced enough to understand most of the things that people
“Who are the people that we are talking to?” Se Reed brings up this idea of who is the audience.
Dan brings up asking the audience what skill level the audience is.
Jason thinks its too late to ask the room at a meetup, tell folks beforehand so the right folks show up or provide a mix of stuff to the meetup’s event.
Russ is doing a talk about blogging with your voice, he wants to make sure that folks know enough to talk about it.
Se thinks that once you are “in it” you aren’t a brand-newb.
Dan says he doesn’t go to local meetups since he “aged out” as Se mentioned
Jason brings up the point that if you don’t have knowledgeable people in the room as well then the “brand-newb” won’t ever learn more about the higher up things.
Russ wanted to help fix someone’s website live at the meetup.
Se says there is a limit to what you can talk about with the same audience.
Dan says the community should take care of itself.
Russ wants more feedback for his meetup
Jason says that developers need to be stimulated
Steve says that you need to segment the meetups to a few skill levels
Russ asks Steve if he had the foresight to do this with his meetup. Steve says that segmentation has helped with making sure the right folks are in the room for the topic.
Russ meets the 3rd Wednesday of the month and they just have 1 meetup
Steve brings up the idea of a breakout session
Jason says this is why he records his meetups so people have a reference. https://wordpress.tv/2013/03/02/jason-tucker-how-to-stream-a-meetup-or-live-event/
Jason talks about how to tell folks that the resource exists.
He also mentioned that WordPress.tv exists
Russ talks about the resources that he’s providing to the group but he doesn’t see folks actually using them.
Se thinks that some folks just want their website fixed.
Jason talks about the comments he does at the meetups as notes.
Russ says “Help me, help you”

Our meetups:

The Las Vegas WordPress Meetup Group
Whittier WordPress Meetup Group
OC WordPress Meetup Grou

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WordPress 4.9.8 to Introduce “Try Gutenberg” Callout, we talk with Joshua Wold & Jonathan Wold from XWP about it.

Preshow Notes * Michael Waltrips Grid Walks * Thousands Of Luxury Cars Are Abandoned In Dubai Every Year

Show Notes * WordPress 4.9.8 to Introduce “Try Gutenberg” Callout – WordPress Tavern * WordPress 4.9.7 – Make WordPress Core * Dev Chat Summary * Jonathan “Oxford Comma” Wold * Contributing to WordPress Core as a non-developer – Make XWP

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WordCamp OC Recap https://www.wpwatercooler.com/video/ep277-wordcamp-orange-county-2018-recap/

WPblab - Planning Maintaining a Flexible Content Calendar w/ Laura Coronado https://www.wpwatercooler.com/video/wpblab-ep104-planning-maintaining-a-flexible-content-calendar-w-laura-coronado/

Sé gets confused

Gutenberg and how it will impact them and how folks aren’t taking it seriously.

GDPR and the recent episodes we’ve talked about it

Sé thinks the community haven’t addressed or correctly for the “normals” to know about it

Cosper chimes in that he thinks we’ve done well at meet ups discussing this and that the REST API and MP6 styles for the dashboard

Were not sure people attending meetups are listening when we talk about Gutenberg.

We transition to taking about making sure our attendees to our meetups are kept up to date about about the changes in WordPress

Discussing the impact and the lack of caring and engagement regarding Gutenberg concerns us. This is problematic because not know about these changes coming up can be big for many people using WordPress regardless if they are developers or not.

Cosper talks about the monolith in 2001 and they don’t know what it is but it exists. They study it and they finally hit it and all hell breaks loose and they don’t understand it. He thinks it’s good we have a new timeline and that Matt has addressed this at WCEU. Cosper says that it’s on you to learn about this.

Jason talk about the Guten-iceberg and how people should see this.

Cosper talks about the nag bar on the dashboard and how this helps somewhat to get people to look at the new functionality.

Sé brings up the timeline a bit and for ship it when it’s ready. Cosper shares his sign on his wall that’s says “shitty and done is better than 3 months late”

Cosper talks about compatibility with other plugins. Jason brings up dealing with old plugins that don’t even know what Gutenberg is.

Sé talks about old plugins in the repo and why they are still in there. Cosper brings up that the search results in the repo shows if a plugin is old or not. Se wants them removed.

Jason brings up the Gutenberg Compatibility list and tells folks they should look into it https://plugincompat.danielbachhuber.com/

Apple cleaned up their App Store using the excuse of 32bit and 64bit applications. https://developer.apple.com/support/app-store-improvements/

Sé wants to get Mika on the show to discuss plugins, compatibility and dealing with old plugins in the repo.

Jason talks about the ways to filter the plugins based on compatibility with Gutenberg

Sé talks about Woocommerce being listed on this list as not compatible with Gutenberg is concerning to her. https://plugincompat.danielbachhuber.com/#compatibility-results/view-plugin-details/5a95f3dd4915723fa0b27d6f/

Sé wants to know why there is an arbitrary date for release on Gutenberg. Cosper provides a solution for larger sites and how security updates are still released for older versions. He talks about the RCs, the Nightly, and the Betas and people should be looking into these for now.

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This episode is our yearly tradition of recapping WordCamp OC 2018. We'll be joined by fellow organizers, volunteers, and facilitators of this event so you can learn from us as to how we pulled off WCOC in 2018.

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This week on the show we talk about the WP gig economy and using the website Clarity.fm to make some side hustle money.

Clarity – On Demand Business Advice
- Se Reed on Clarity
  - Sé's Work With Me page has some great info on how she is using Clarity to get her side hustle on.
- Jason Tucker on Clarity
- Chris Lema on Clarity
  - Chris' consulting page

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OtherInbox, the App Store for Email
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IP Anonymization in Analytics
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44142 (Load Order:save_mod_rewrite_rules assumes wp-admin/includes/file.php is loaded)
Bird Law
It’s always sunny-bird law
Sé Reed Media on Facebook
Theme Directory
Greek Blogger Camp
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Is WordPress 4.9.6 Really is a Major Update? We talked about this, GDPR and more on this episode of WPwatercooler.

WordPress 4.9.6 Privacy and Maintenance Release
WordPress 4.9.6 Released With User Data Export and Removal Tools – WordPress Tavern
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Version 4.9.6 « WordPress Codex

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This week on WPwatercooler we’re going to be speaking with Geek Adventures some of the crew from the Geek Adventures Iceland trip. Geek Adventures is the baby of Mendel Kurland. Geeks of all walks adventure together around the globe with the one agenda of unplugging.

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This week on WPwatercooler we discussed microblogging and micro.blog and how it works with WordPress.

Micro.blog
Setting up WordPress
A Self-Hosted WordPress Blog with Micro.Blog
Webmention
Indie Web WordPress/Plugins
WebMention – WordPress Plugins
Indieweb – WordPress Plugins
Bridgy for WordPress – WordPress Plugins
Syndication Links – WordPress Plugins

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This week on WPwatercooler we're going to be discussing the presentation that Leo made for us during EP269 – GDPR & WordPress – what you need to know. He crammed GDPR into an impressive 30 minute talk despite our attempts at derailing him in WPwatercooler fashion. Join us this week as we discuss this talk and dive a bit deeper into the part we're most worried about.

Zuck's Tiny Juice

00:05
Facebook Beaver Modules, GDPR Compliance, Directory with Themer
GDPR Compliance Tools in WordPress
Automattic and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) — Support — WordPress.com

00:08
Liquid Web WooCommerce GDPR – GitHub

00:09
Jetpack 6.0

00:12
Subject Access Requests we haven't talked much about that.
Getting Ready for the GDPR

00:21
A Data Protection Officer (DPO) is responsible for all data protection activities. A DPO could be within an organization or externally appointed.

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EP269 – GDPR & WordPress – what you need to know

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EP270 – A GDPR & WordPress Discussion

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This week on WPwatercooler we discussed Gutenberg updates, metaboxes vs blocks, shortcodes & a mobile dashboard.

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What should a developer do when inheriting a website? What should a new website owner do when looking for a web developer?

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Existing website where discovery needs to be done by the potential developer as a scope of work
Steve spends 5 to 10 hours of discovery work
Steve generates a report back to the site owner that explains in details of errors and old plugin issues and provide recommendations
Sé has many questions for the site owner before generating a quote.
George talks about a “manual for your site” that would be pretty awesome for a site owner to have, we don’t think this exists yet but would be cool
Jason asks if anyone on the panel had notes from the previous developer, Sé talks about how she got an old to-do list from a client from their previous developer. She talks about a list on a list the client takes about.
Jason goes over the password, licenses and such.
Jason talks about plugin purchases and asks how everyone deals with licensing
George has “seen things”
George talks about licenses and managing them for clients, and discussed how domain names need to be owned by the site owner. Sé adds that many clients don’t own their domains
Steve talks about 1Password Vault and starts pouring info into it.
George talks about the best way to allow our client to fire you without much issue. Steve adds that the “hit by the bus” idea makes for an easier way to plan for this. No one wants to dig to find data.
Steve enforces a “your own the code” instructing their clients how to get the data from github and everyone discusses the change log idea. The journal of the build.
Steve mentions that sometimes he has to fire a client and he wants the firing to be clean.
Jason talks about a roommate analogy.
Jason asks what do they provide their client.
Jason talks about how Steve buys licenses for their clients. Now all of his clients use them.
Jason asks about agency licenses and should folks use them?
Steve informs his clients when he has to take a license from a site when they fire one another. He tells them to get their own single site license.
Sé uses a google doc as a way to manage the documentation and licenses for her clients. Client empowerment is important.
Steve wants handoffs to be smooth, his reputation is at stake.
Sé adds that she wants to keep the site better than she found it.
Steve talks about outdated plugins and slider plugins.

Jason changes the view on this topic and asks when someone is looking for a developer.

Steve says it's ultimately up to the client and they have a rigorous process that involves the client
Sé talks about how the client needs to be on a managed service.
Se talks about High Traffic to Low Traffic
Jason talks about the potential client, how they should approach their potential developer.
Steve says to ask lots of questions or move on
Sé says to ask questions or move on, she also says that they should trust the developer they hire.
Steve talks about “what’s your time worth?” When it comes to cheap hosting.
Steve says to find out if the client values this, is it worth it to them? What are their business goals?
Sé has a last minute thing, she noticed that on WordPress.com says “WordPress with JetPack” and that our predictions were correct!

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* The panel tries to get Sé to a local meetup
* Bitmoji
* Sé launched a new website for Arts Council for Long Beach | Supporting the Arts in Long Beach
* Sé used Advanced Filtering and Faceted Search Plugin for WordPress|FacetWP to build the artist registry and provide it with a good search functionality.
* In the past we’ve looked at SearchWP and Relevancy
* Sé revisits GoDaddy and their host offerings.
* GoDaddy’s on boarding has improved greatly.
* Sé coins Gutenborg on the show
* Jason finds a 9 year old project with the same name Web-based collaborative text editor
* Steve and Sé talk about introducing Guntenberg to their clients
* Jason tries to compare “Links” to “Classic Editor” and George shares the transition
* User Role Editor User Role Editor
* Gravity Forms User Registration Add-On User Registration Plugin For WordPress + Gravity Forms
* Adminimize WordPress Plugins
* User Role Editor User Role Editor

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* WordCamp Orange County 2018
* Guidelines for Speaker Thank Yous – Make WordPress Communities
* Let's collaborate on the truest fitting t-shirts for women.
* “Forget Your tech BRO uniform, @claire_drumond Isn't Wearing Your T-shirts Anymore-And I'm with Her! #NoMoreTechTshirts”

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Is WordPress the best tool for the job? Join us in our discussion.
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Flood – Load Testing for Everyone – Tricentis Flood:Cloud Load Testing for Everyone with JMeter or Gatling

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Be more off the cuff
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WordCamp Orange County Plugin-a-palooza

Amazing prizes

First Place – $3,000 cash and 1 Sucuri Business (VIP) license
Second Place – $1,500 cash and 1 Sucuri Business (VIP) license
Third Place – $500 cash

There is an awesome history of great plugins that have been made for Plugin-a-palooza: WP Rollback
Be one of 10 teams to pitch their plugin idea before March 5th to be added to the competition

Teams can be 1-3 participants.
Each participant can only be part of one team in the competition.
Each team must build their own plugin.
Your plugin must be GPL compliant.
Your plugin be accepted into the WordPress repository by May 18.
Submit early!
Existing plugins are ineligible.
Eligible plugins will be developed between March 5 and May 18.
All teams will present their plugins at WordCamp OC on June 10.

Dry afterparties?

WordCamp Lancaster is looking for do a dry afterparty, “The Maxx” like Save by the Bell
Beer is allowed, but isn’t provided
Sé wants an ice cream soda fountain
Rethinking the afterparty we all think is an awesome idea.
WordPress turned 10 and OC WordPress threw an amazing party!
WordCamp OC 2017 did a Sunday (Sundae) Social
https://wptavern.com/should-wordcamp-afterparties-be-alcohol-free
What about the unconsumed booze?
Freeing up some of that money can be used elsewhere
WordCamp OC hands our ticket, first come first serve to blow them out quickly

WordCamp Lancaster looking into subtitling or captioning the talks live

2 track event may be $200ish, George will report back

A grant may be in place for this.

Net Neutrality

Day of action
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/59kjmn/fcc-net-neutrality-repeal-published-lawsuits
Battleforthenet.com
#onemorevote

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing our Jetpack wishlist with the Jetpack team!

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be going through some of the myths and misperceptions people have about WordPress.

00:03 I Was Born A Poor Black Child
00:10 WordPress Speedup Facebook Group
00:11 Tide: A path to better code across the WordPress ecosystem ~ XWP
00:12 Tide Joins WordPress ~ XWP
00:20 How to create a functional WordPress plugin instead of hacking functions

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This week on WPwatercooler we're going to share with you our favorite quick tips.
Got a tip? leave one in the comments section.

WP DEBUG « WordPress Codex
How to enable DNS Prefetching in WordPress – Saumya Majumder
How to Fix a Corrupted WordPress Database
http://yoursite.com/wp-admin/maint/repair.php
wordpressspeedup Facebook Group
Website speed test
PageSpeed Insights
Cloudflare-The Web Performance & Security Company|Cloudflare
Performance Analysis Reference | Tools for Web Developers | Google Developers
Developer Resources
sucuri.net Web Application Firewall
CDN by MaxCDN|Experts in Content Delivery Network Services
GTmetrix|Website Speed and Performance Optimization
WebPagetest-Website Performance and Optimization Test
Google App Script for spreadsheet that uses the WPT API to bulk test URLs
User Switching
Revisions « WordPress Codex
WP-Optimize
Advanced Database Cleaner

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll share our WordPress predictions for 2018.

00:04 – Morten Rand-Hendriksen:Gutenberg and the WordPress of Tomorrow
00:05 – Showcasing Gutenberg.
00:06 – Logical Binary theme that uses Gutenberg
00:07 – ACF | ACF Year in Review: Looking back at 2017 and ahead to 2018 with Elliot Condon
00:08 – Page Builders in 2018 — The Future of Beaver Builder | Beaver Builder
00:09 – BlocksWP (@BlocksWp)
00:10 – Home-BlocksWP
00:11 – Always improving
00:13 – State of the REST API 2017 – Pre-Thought Listen discusses the future of the API
00:18 – Introducing Powerful New Features on the Wix Platform and Expanding User Experience
00:21 – The GDPR – an overview
00:21 – Home Page of EU GDPR

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This week on WPwatercooler we're going to be discussing how we give back to the WordPress community and how you can as well!

Five for the future gift –

webdevstudios.com
* WordPress Lancaster Meetup
* OC WordPress Meetup
* Whittier WordPress Meetup
* https://womenwhowp.org/
* Website Weekend – Coding for a Cause

Plugin-A-Palooza – WordCamp OC 2016
WP Rollback
The Las Vegas WordPress Meetup
Vegas WordPress Meetup Group – Official Site
Adoption Program for Abandoned Plugins | Digging Into WordPress
WordPress Plugin Adoption:Would You Like One?
Plugin adoption – torquemag.io
frontenberg.tomjn.com
Meetups – Make WordPress Communities

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing how to submit a winning WordCamp talk. Most of the folks on our panel at one time or another have had to dig through 100s of submissions looking for the few diamonds in the rough that meet their criteria. Many of these submissions are sent out to multiple WordCamps in hope of one of them being selected somewhere. Much like a resume the way you approach this is key.

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This week on WPwatercooler we are going to be recapping the recent WordCamp US 2017 with some folks that attended and even organized the event.

00:04 Community Bazaar First Ever WordPress Community Bazaar WCUS 2017 – wapu.us
00:09 Paving the cowpaths meaning- What does “paving the cowpaths” mean?
00:10 Organizers – Organizers – WordCamp US 2017
00:11 WordPress OC Meetup WordPress OC Meetup
00:12 Code of conduct – Code of Conduct – WordCamp US 2017
00:13 LGBT+Allies At WordCamp US-2017|Half-Elf on Tech
00:19 WordPress Plugins – Gutenberg
00:21 State of the Word, 2017
00:29 My trip to WordCamp US to interview Women in Tech – Jessalyn's Blog

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This week on WPwatercooler we're discussing the true cost of running a WordPress website. From hosting to services to plugins and vendors we'll be talking about it all.

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing how you can get into ecommerce and sell digital downloads on your WordPress powered website. PDF's eBooks and anything else that doesn't require physical shipping can be sold easily online with very little hassle.

restrictcontentpro.com
Give – A Free WordPress Donation Plugin that Works Beautifully
Easy Digital Downloads
Easy Digital Downloads-Sell Digital Downloads With WordPress
WooCommerce-The Best eCommerce Platform for WordPress
Paid Memberships Pro
Freemius-The Easiest Way 2 Sell & Market WordPress Plugins & Themes
WooCommerce Memberships
www.shopify.com
www.squarespace.com
Here's the WordPress Membership Plugin You Need for 2018
WooCommerce Subscriptions
IgnitionDeck WordPress Crowdfunding Plugin and Crowdfunding Theme
Products Archive – 9seeds

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be recapping WooConf 2017 – WooCommerce Developers Conference.

WooCommerce
Rand's Blog
Halt and Catch Fire Season, Episode and Cast Information
Introducing Managed WooCommerce
WooCommerce POS – Point of Sale Plugin
Here is what unfolded in 2-day extravaganza
mini-me.co.za

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This week on WPwatercooler we're going to be discussing how you can work with mailing list using WordPress. There are many plugins that can assist with this functionally and we'll be sharing our favorites.

mailchimp.com
Email Marketing | AWeber
drip.co
Email Marketing Platform and Services | Emma Email Marketing
Email Marketing Software – GetResponse
Email Marketing – Marketing Automation – Small Business CRM
ConvertKit|Email Marketing for Professional Bloggers
Subscriptions — Jetpack for WordPress
Hi %f_e%, check out our offer
69 Highly Effective Lead Magnet Ideas to Grow Your Email List (Updated)
Subscriptions — Jetpack for WordPress
MailChimp Subscriber Popup Widget — Jetpack for WordPress
Home-MailPoet
WP Mail SMTP by WPForms
WPForms-Drag & Drop WordPress Forms Plugin
SPF & DKIM for Dummies: What Is It? Why You Want to Set It Up
WP Mail Logging
Gmail sending limits in G Suite – G Suite Administrator Help
define(‘WPMS_ON', false);
Unroll.Me

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This week on WPwatercooler we're discussing a new feature in the upcoming WordPress 4.9, customization scheduling.

WordPress 4.9 Beta 2
What's coming in WordPress 4.9 Features and Screenshots – WPbeginner
Customize Snapshots
xwp/wp-customize-snapshots: Customize Snapshots WordPress Plugin
Customizer Browser History
news.com.au‚ Australia's #1 news site
Draft and Save Customizer Changes for Later with New Customize Snapshots Plugin – WordPress Tavern
Contributors to xwp/wp-customize-snapshots

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This week on WPwatercooler we're going to be celebrating 5 years and 250 episodes of the show discussing WordPress

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing what do to after speaking at a WordPress meetup.

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing how to earn more business through networking. As the saying goes, it's all about who you know and in business the best want to expand that reach is by networking.

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing WordPress custom fields vs shortcodes.

CodeMirror
ACF|Advanced Custom Fields Plugin for WordPress
CMB2 — WordPress Plugins
Cleaning Out Your Naked Shortcodes
Shortcodes In Use
The new Gutenberg editor and the future of ACF¬∑Issue #622
Function Reference/shortcode atts « WordPress Codex

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This week on WPwatercooler we're going to be discussing the things that frustrate us about WordPress.

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing how to approach your first change order on a WordPress project. This topic is great if you are a seasoned agency owner a newly minted solopreneur looking to manage your first WordPress project. Join us and learn a lil and laugh a lil too.

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing what to look for in a good WordPress theme.

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing what we've been up to and how things are going.

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This week on WPwatercooler we're going to be discussing how to structure your WordPress projects. If you are a PM or Project Lead or just want to learn more about how a well structured project operates you give this one a watch or listen.

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This week on WPwatercooler we're going to discussing the different ways you can structure your data in WordPress and how planning early in the project will save you in the long run.

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing the managing of difficult WordPress projects.

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing how to clean your WordPress dashboard on notifications.
Links:

Complete Guide to WordPress Admin Notices | Digging Into WordPress
Function Reference/add settings error « WordPress Codex
Plugin API/Action Reference/admin notices « WordPress Codex
WP Notification Center Plugin

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This week on WPwatercooler we're looking into the future with the new post editor, Gutenberg. It looks like Gutenberg is more than just a post editor, they are calling it a block editor since it does much more than just text editing for a post.

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This week on WPwatercooler we're recapping WordCamp Orange County with the organizers of the event.

00:05 What works, what doesn't work

00:06 We tested some fun things at this WordCamp

00:07 How to increase your attendance on Sunday

00:08 How to return your badges to get more people to attend on Sunday

00:09 Sunday Social

00:10 Unofficial events the day before WordCamp

00:11 Golf Tournament & K1 Racing

00:12 Hallway Track & Bid for 2019 WordCamp US in Orange County

00:14 Favorite Interviews of Hallway Track

00:15 Speakers

00:16 Tracks

00:17 Venue

00:18 Happiness Bar

00:20 Discussions

00:21 speaker selection?

00:22 Tips for getting selected to speak

00:24 Slide Templates

00:26 Design

00:27 Venue Highlights

00:28 Diesel Brew

00:28 Tips for making your sponsors happy

00:29 Volunteers

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing how you can create, sell tickets to, and managed an event using WordPress.

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing how you can manage your WordPress website(s) using external services making easy work to update multiple websites.

Manage Multiple WordPress Sites
ManageWP–Manage WordPress Sites from One Dashboard
InfiniteWP-Multiple WordPress site management solution
ServerPilot|PHP and WordPress Hosting on DigitalOcean
Home-StagingPilot
MainWP WordPress Manager-Manage Multiple WordPress Sites
Best Plugins to Manage Multiple WordPress Sites in 2017
WP Time Capsule
WP Time Capsule – Free Incremental Daily Backups for WordPress
Maintainn Tools
Jetpack Manage — Jetpack for WordPress

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This week on WPblab Bridget Willard and Jason Tucker will be discussing the ways in which you can manage social media using 3rd party tools to help you the WordPress freelancer spend less time doing more.

Sharing buttons on your blog/site are super important – not everyone is going to have or install extensions to help them share your posts
Facebook https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/
Twitter https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator
Mashshare https://wordpress.org/plugins/mashsharer/ — social media share buttons
Social Warfare https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-warfare/
Yoast SEO Plugin — Allow Open Graph Data (Social Settings — Enable Facebook)
Don’t install with another SEO plugin, just use it by itself!
Make sure to use and update your metadata!!
Don’t forget your feature images
Use iOS to grab the featured image on a iPhone or iPad https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/imagedrain-download-all-images-from-safari/id932866396?mt=8
Buffer.com — Social sharing and scheduling for Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Google Plus
Even the free account will allow you to set a schedule
shares your content at the best possible times throughout the day so that your followers and fans see your updates more often
Can choose to share posts immediately or save it to your queue
10 social profiles in the Awesome Plan for $10/mo
https://buffer.com/awesome?utm_campaign=footer
Supports campaign tracking and analytics
ReBuffer – find what’s performing well and reschedule it for posting again!
Using the right tools for the right reasons is how you optimize your time
Automation vs. Scheduling – automation does not involve human interaction, scheduling is a human carefully crafting posts and setting them up for optimal times
https://2017.atlanta.wordcamp.org/session/smarter-social-sharing-for-killer-content-marketing/
Hootsuite.com / Hootsuite Pro is $14.99
(Bridget’s affiliate link: http://signup.hootsuite.com/signup-upgrade/?utm_campaign=partner_commission_junction&utm_source=commission_junction&utm_medium=partner )
Will either automatically schedule posts or you can choose a time
Link Shortening: Bitly.com
Branded short domains from Bitly – https://bitly.com/pages/landing/branded-short-domains-powered-by-bitly?
Question: Scheduling Tweets, why do them at different times?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0e3tsZeBw0&autoplay=1

“Dispatch Content with Intention #GuruMinute”
* How to Post to Instagram and Twitter

https://ifttt.com/applets/aVxGRrtD-tweet-your-instagrams-as-native-photos-on-twitter
* Keep social media content relative to the network your own – be aware of your venue

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This week on WPwatercooler – Optimizing your WooCommcerce so you can sell more using your WordPress website.

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing how to go about documenting a WordPress project. If you are wanting to provide docs for your clients or you just want to remember what you did with that conditional last week. How do you go about documenting your WordPress projects?

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be expanding a bit on the topic from this week's WPblab “WordPress Plugins – If you build it they will come” regarding what you should do after you build a WordPress plugin. On that show we spoke about marketing it, on this show we'll speak more about supporting and nurturing it.
00:04:00 – Translations

00:04:20 – multisite compatibility

00:06:01 – Why good developers don't ignore multisite

00:06:21 – Multisite Gotchas

00:07:51 – Email Issues

00:09:10 – Plugin Boilerplates

00:13:09 – WPpb.io Boilerplate

00:16:50 – Code Best Practices

00:18:12 – Plugin Aftercare – Support

HelpScout
Freshdesk|Customer Support Software & Helpdesk Solution
Zendesk|Customer Service Software & Support Ticket System
Awesome Support: The Best Helpdesk and Support Plugin For WordPress

00:24:29 – Jon Browns Utopianistic version of the universe

00:27:44 – Documentation

00:29:46 – Outro

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WPblab EP72 – WordPress Plugins – If you build it, will they come? w/ Russell Aaron

Russell Aaron – Web Dev Studios
Bridget – Actions do things, Filters change things
What’s a plugin? – File inside directory. Adds or enhance website, or de-enhance, Simmer down down.
Finish plugin, ship it and call it a day!
Built & tested and released, people are installing and then white screen the site
First step in marketing, believe in product. Use it every day. Plugin solves his own problem.
His marketing – let me to take it to a competition at a WordCamp ( Plugin-a-Palooza ) and get an idea of who is my core demographic
How do you promote?
No good marketing thing on the repo… The repo has copy… Real people don’t know repo. Directory good compromise for users.
Have a good call to action. Make sense in your copy. Have someone else write the copy. Don’t use terms dev terms. Use words your audience will understand.
No one is looking for the product by your name.
Users look for Automatic scheduling twitter. “Revival posts” not the name you’re searching for.
Use descriptive copy in the repository listing… it may sound like an infomercial but you need to use words that the audience will easily understand.
Listen to people in meetup groups. People want to see a top level view of their site, top “query all the posts types” came up.

What are people saying about your plugins and how do you tap into that?
Get close to pain points essential to marketing. Finding the thing that people ask about over and over again is a good guide to what you should be talking / posting about.
Word of Mouth. People willing to try things. WordCamp people will experiment about things and new products.
Intro with “Hi my name is russ and you might like my plugin ‘query all the post types’”
Use your community to make your plugin better.
User feedback. Take it to meetup group. Discounts for early adopters
First step of marketing is help evolve the plugin
“I need something to do – how can I solve a problem?” Combine those things together and a plugin is born!
Don’t get too used car salesman. Somewhere between peace corps and something…..
If you make a plugin and put it in the repo, you’re going to get a lot of questions and suggestions for changes to make it better
For a tweet about styling gravity forms. Meghan said “shutup and take my money”. Had an idea and built a plugin to just enqueue a stylesheet.
Don’t wait tooo long to make premium version of plugin
You need a marketing brief – Set achievable, measureable goals. I want 10 downloads a month.
Goal 500 or 1000 active installs – figure out how to get that.

Get on twitter.
Tweet 3 times a day.
Make sure to hit ‘reply’.
Be a human being
Organic content marketing
Community advertising
Be on every front possible
4 times a week posts on the blog

Have a strategy

Tell people you exist. You won't make a living for at least 3 years on only the plugin.
Russell: If you write something that solves a problem and you tweet it with the right hashtags and get it in front of the right people – it can almost promote itself! People are going to share it.
Bridget: Be a Human Being. Develop relationships. Then it will matter to people when you share projects you are working on.
James Law ( Ninja Forms ) charge what it is. Don’t do discounts.

Plugins Admin Bar – WordPress Plugin Adding Plugin Link To WP Admin Bar Sub Menu
Hashtag URL Placeholder

This week on WPwatercooler we discuss what keeps us using WordPress for the projects that we build.

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Bridget Willard and Jen Miller are joined by Justine Pretorious to discuss Marketing hacks to build community connections at a WordCamp.
Tweeting as WCLAX by Bridget Willard
WordCamp marketing is not like regular event marketing – it’s a very different culture
Knowing where your audience exists is important – WordPress users are very active on twitter
Justine originally wanted nothing to do with Twitter and didn’t start using it until she was asked to tweet on the business account for her employer
Bridget really connected with the WordPress community and met people from the community because of Twitter
Volunteering enhances your experience in the WordPress community because it connects you to the people who are most involved – it is a gateway and allows you to put your skills to work
Justine moved from Truckee to Portland and found the local WordCamp and volunteered herself to do their social media
Jen Miller first connected with the WordPress community through volunteering at WordCamp Orange County
Make sure when you post to twitter, especially from a WordPress site, that you use a good image and use featured images on your post! It’s a huge part of good marketing.
Canva is a good option if you don’t have Photoshop – they offer layouts and pre-defined sizing
Make sure to use a 1200 x 628 featured image in every post or page on your WordPress site
You can see what facebook (open graph images) will render when you use the facebook debugger tool https://developers.facebook.com/tools-and-support/
For WordCamps it’s important to remember there are pre-”game” components and post-game – you should still be tweeting & covering those events – the camp doesn’t end when the last session closes!
Keep the love going during non-camp times by tweeting other local WordPress Meetups and events – keeps your logo and account in front of people even when you don’t have something going on
Don’t forget to keep “hospitality” in mind – make it easier for the new people – share tips. Give important information to help everyone feel welcome, answer questions during the event.
Before the event, tweet out as much information as possible, location, snacks/meal info, what to expect, what to bring (and what you shouldn’t), and lots of general advice
If you are going to sponsor and be at a WordCamp, make sure you follow the main twitter account, start talking about it several months in advance, talk about your team who is going, help promote the event by sharing info, hashtag and document your time at the WordCamp
Put the WordCamp speakers and attendees on twitter lists so that you and others can follow along without getting overwhelmed
Bridget: Dear WordCamp speakers:

Update your gravatar with your current image with all your relevant info (make sure your photo looks like you!!)

Give your current twitter handle and make yourself easy to find

Include your twitter handle on your presentation slides – people want to help promote you!
Announce speakers before you sell tickets if at all possible – people need to know why they are buying tickets
Tweet about speakers with photos and make sure you include their bios/photos on your site
Every WordCamp has it’s own unique culture – try to include some of that culture and local color in your marketing tweets – “Local SEO” – share what makes your area / camp unique!
Doing teasers of the content in your presentation is a great way to build up interest and get people to come to your talk! Share selfies – it helps people to feel more connected, like they know you.
Tweet during the sessions that you attend and share valuable information (with...

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This week on WPwatercooler we will be discussing how the design of your web design or development agency website affects how people think about you and your work. You've heard of the phrase ‘the cobbler's children have no shoes', how does that directly relate to the kind of work you get as a developer or designer?

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This week on WPblab we're talking with Sherie & Cheryl LaPrade about using Twitter to market your WordPress side hustle. If you run your own business and you are looking for ways to market it, this show will be perfect for you.

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing how you can do some spring cleaning in your WordPress database to make it bright, shiny and new again!

Uninstall Options in WordPress Plugins. Should a plugin remove options upon deletion?
WP-Optimize
SQL Query to delete orphans wp_postmeta « WordPress.org Forums
WP-Sweep
Finds and delete orphaned tables in a WordPress Multisite network.

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This week on WPblab we're at a new time 7-8pm Pacific and will be talking with David Blackmon about his Divi Chat podcast and how he used his show to build community around Divi page builder and Elegant Themes.
David Blackmon – Divi Chat http://divi.chat/
How to start a WordPress podcast
Started in a Facebook group, many folks helping one another in there talking about WordPress and Divi
Decided to have a meetup and 15-20 people showed up from around the world! Nick – founder of ElegantThemes – came down with his team and hung out as well.
David had a great love for podcasts and saw the potential in it – great medium, easily consumable, a great marketing vehicle to get a message out
Was originally going to start his own podcast, but when he met up with a bunch of his online WordPress and Divi friends in person, he decided to start a show similar to WP Watercooler, but about the Divi platform (Using YouTube Live – also uploads the audio to iTunes)
Google Spreadsheet with topics listed for upcoming episodes – 30 to 90 days out
Getting guests can be tricky, especially if you like to plan ahead – be prepared for cancellations
http://roadtreking.com/category/podcasts/ – Mike Wendland (great example of a well put together podcast)
His new show: wpthepodcast.com
Podcasts are a great way to meet and get connected with the larger community, make new friends and network – often get recognized by your voice in a crowd!
MacCast – Adam Christianson – has a very distinctive voice! Met many people because they recognized his voice from his podcast.
Soundcloud is another good site to upload your podcast audio to and get greater reach
Some very ‘Festive’ episodes with Google’s effects, ie. Party Hats etc. Had lots of laughs, but probably lost some of the audience in the audio version because they couldn’t see what was happening on screen – have to remember the audio audience when doing your podcast
YouTube is great because it shows you the exact viewcount of who saw the video when it aired. You can also see comments, interactions, and how much they saw of each episode
If you aren’t doing closed captioning, you may miss out on some of the people trying to watch the podcast video www.Rev.com – transcription, captions and translations
Facebook live is useful because it will alert people when something goes Live … people may not be looking for it, but it pops up and they go “Hey, I’m gonna watch this!”
Know where your ‘community’ watches you from … if most of your people find you and watch you via facebook, focus your efforts there …. If most follow you and interact via YouTube, focus there instead
Facebook – comments matter – make sure you are engaging. Not just liking. “You have to use words to build relationships” – Bridget … Sharing is important and helpful too, but it’s still not engagement – you still need to comment to build those relationships.
If you genuinely want to build engagement on Facebook, you need to spend at least an hour a day commenting and replying to comments – furthering the conversation & relationship!
www.yt2fb.com “Make your YouTube Video look BIG and AWESOME on Facebook” -makes YouTube videos look semi-native when posted to Facebook
When you are starting a podcast, people are expecting perfection from the get-go … you should take some time to record “Episode Zero” – you know you are going to throw it away, but it gives you a chance to do a run through and feel out what works and what doesn’t and possibly shift direction if needed
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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing the WordPress Plugin Directory.

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This week on WPblab we'll be speaking with WPShout about learning to do WordPress development. If you are looking to be a WordPress developer this should be the perfect episode for you.
http://www.wpshout.com

David B Hayes and Fred Meyer – WordPress developers, contributors, and enthusiasts. Our goal is to make the world of WordPress accessible to everybody.
Alex Denning – started publishing about WordPress development on WPShout in 2009
One of their projects for meditation – http://medivate.com
WPShout – mostly writing for people who are learning or who already are developers – not aimed at beginners
David writes a quick guide every Thursday for simple tips and suggestions
Good starting place for someone wanting to get into development – Up and Running – step by step introduction to WordPress development

Up and Running – Discount code: WPBLAB – 20% off any package!! If you purchase before end of 3/24, you’ll also be entered to win some cool prizes!
Up and Running starts with the core technical fundamentals (and terminology) and breaks it down into a factory analogy to make it easier to understand the process … (Up and Running synthesizes WordPress development into a cohesive package)
The goal is to go from knowing about the concepts (html, css, php, wordpress basics, etc.) to becoming proficient and knowing how to use all the pieces and parts, and why & how they work, by the end of the program
“Everyone should use CMS’s and WordPress is the best one, so use it!”
Recorded a number of interviews with well known WP devs about how they got to where they are – Pippin Williamson, Helen Hou-Sandi, etc.
Screenflow is used for their video screen capture
Even if you never do the coding stuff or that’s not your focus, the hope is that Up and Running helps make it easier to understand the concepts and why it works the way it does – great for Designers too looking to level up their understanding
David started using WordPress in 2007 – learned how to be a web developer by having a website and wanting to make little changes here and there and beating his head against the wall – it was something he cared about strongly so making it better was important to him
WordPress is a great way to break into the entire field of Web Development
Learn WordPress Plugin Development
Some of the best ways to learn are to use Google to search for answers and to really dig through the Codex or the Code Reference

https://codex.wordpress.org/
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/
https://learn.calderalabs.org/

People come to WordPress from so many different backgrounds – sometimes it’s a nurse or an educator or a business person who was the most tech savvy in their office and they ‘inherited’ the site and the responsibility to market it

Udemy.com
Lynda.com
Stackoverflow

This week on WPwatercooler we'll be continuing our image discussion from last week focusing on how to go about preparing your images for your WordPress site. We'll be discussing inline images, featured images and social media share images and how you can optimize these images for these uses.

Imagify-Online and CMS Image Compression Made Easy
Smush Image Compression and Optimization
ImageOptim — better Save for Web
JPEGmini-Your Photos on a Diet!
Pixelmator
Download photo editing software free trial
Downloads
Evernote
Sketch – Professional Digital Design for Mac
Droplr – All-in-One Screenshot and File Sharing Tool
Free Online Social Media Photo Editor
Word Swag App-Generate Cool Text, Words & Quotes on Your Photos
Pixelmator for iOS
VSCO — photo editor and community on the App Store
How to Change JPEG Compression in WordPress
Photo Extension Resize on the App Store
Simple Image Sizes
Website speed test
Cross Browser Testing Tool. 1000+ Browsers, Mobile, Real IE.
Son of GIFV

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This week Bridget and Jen Miller discuss how you can market yourself by live tweeting a WordCamp
Live Tweeting at WordCamp
Bridget Willard
You Too Can Be A Guru
Jen Miller @jenblogs4u
Offering Lead Conversion Tools and Blogging
Need Someone To Blog? 100% Unique Website Content. Need Safe Blog Posts? Hire a Ghost Blogger…
Jen – been using twitter for 6 years

finally realized twitter is a relationship building medium

Jen wanted to be a Guru too
Bridget – in 2012 was helping with a political campaign

She would listen over the internet and tweet out quotes with relevant hashtags to help with exposure

When she finally made it to a WordCamp, it seemed so obvious that Live Tweeting would be a thing you should do
Bridget’s tips & tricks:
You Too Can Be A Guru
Find out the official hashtag for the conference you are at, and if there isn’t one, make up one that makes sense, but try to make sure it’s not already being used
Find out who speakers are and their Twitter handles

Some WordCamps have speaker twitter lists that you can follow
A good plan to have a document local on your device with your information / schedule – not all

WordCamps have wi-fi and not all wi-fi is dependable! Also bring a powerstrip – good for you and is the ultimate “friend-maker”! Take your own personal hotspot and name it well – brand it with your business name – may bring new contacts.
WHAT YOU DON’T DO – be careful not to mistype the twitter handles of the speakers
Copy the hashtag of the event and the twitter handle of the speaker and load it into the tweet box and wait for those “tweetable moments. Then when they come along, you can just add in the text and send!
These speakers are giving of their time and are unpaid – If you can amplify what the speaker is saying to that room and get it to more people – not only are you helping them, but you are helping yourself too!
Live-tweeting doesn’t make it harder for you to pay attention – if you are listening carefully for those tweetable moments, you are paying even closer attention than normal and potentially absorbing more than you would without live-tweeting
Live-tweeting is also really helpful for those “Armchair WordCampers” who weren’t able to make it to the event, but still try to follow along during the weekend
Twubs Is good for following hashtags twubs.com Follow Hashtags. Discover Conversations.
If there is closed-captioning at the event, you can use it to double-check your tweets and make sure you’re not misquoting anyone
Make sure that you are using an accurate photo of yourself on twitter so that people will recognize you when you attend WordCamps! Also, start watching the hashtag for the camp as soon as it’s available so you can interact with other attendees and develop relationships!
Get to know your fellow attendees before the event, what your interests are, the work you do, and even just general chit-chat — helps to break the ice when you finally meet in person! Especially if you are from out of town and don’t know anyone.
Save a list of great quotes from the different sessions you attend, especially ones that are too long or just too good to use for only Twitter and use them as the base for a blog post/recap of the event
If you can get images of the person speaking as well as a quote, that’s very valuable. Lots of people will tweet quotes, but not everyone will get a good picture!
You can even help WordCamp organizers by tweeting out the WIFI name,

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be revisiting a topic we discussed in 2013 about images, galleries and the may ways of using images on your WordPress site's posts and theme.

Smush Image Compression and Optimization
Imagify-Online and CMS Image Compression Made Easy
Photon — Jetpack for WordPress
CDN by MaxCDN|Experts in Content Delivery Network Services
ImageOptim ‚Äî better Save for Web
My Eyes Are Up Here
TinyPNG‚ÄìCompress PNG images while preserving transparency
WP Featherlight-A Simple jQuery Lightbox
Simple Lightbox
WP SmartCrop
Simple Lightbox
Auto Thickbox
Responsive and Social WordPress Lightbox for Media
Tiled Galleries — Jetpack for WordPress
jQuery Masonry Image Gallery
Gallery by Envira
Envira Gallery-Best Responsive WordPress Gallery Plugin
Exploring the Hero Image Trend in Web Design
RICG Responsive Images
a3 Lazy Load

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This week on WPblab we'll be speaking with Nathan Porter on how you can use WordPress effectively to market your nonprofit. Nathan is CEO wannapixel and cofounder of ukuupeople. Interact with him on his personal blog.
Components of a Nonprofit running WordPress
Intranet – their internal company site
Nonprofits are just like companies in that they have specific niches they are working with
Nonprofits have two separate spheres they have to operate in – one is fundraising – the other is their cause, can be difficult to balance
Marketing – “Who is it that we are trying to target online and what action is that we want them to take?”
GiveWP only runs with WordPress – it is difficult to market something that only works if you have something else – important to educate (how do you start a site, buying a domain name, setting up WordPress) https://givewp.com/
Build Infrastructure
CRM plugin for WordPress – help to keep your contacts updated. Everytime they interact with your WordPress website and provide more information, their contact info is updated. http://ukuupeople.com/
You need to have the infrastructure in place to be able to do good marketing for your nonprofit
Storytelling
When you are close to the organization, it can be harder to tell your story in a way that makes sense to outsiders, so….
Landing page content is important – needs to make sense. What is it that you (or your company) does? It needs to be clear … not ambiguous. Know who you are targeting. If you are trying to talk to everyone, you are talking to no one.
Put your fundraising message front and center. Tell your story effectively – have to figure out how to get someone from just discovering your organization, to understanding, to connecting and to wanting to be a part and to support it
Don’t just assume you know your audience – track your stats, check analytics, find out who your real demographic is and then you can figure out the best way to reach them
Kevin Hoffman: I think sometimes WP devs choose proprietary software because they need out-of-the-box solutions and don't have time for setup/integration.
So my question is, what can marketing do to make the benefits of a WordPress solution more appealing than the convenience of an alternative?
Screen recording QA solutions

Usersnap.com
Hotjar.com
Validately.com

Marketing with WordPress.org
Donations
The thing that can be hardest for nonprofits to understand is the investment in marketing and the return they will get for that investment (often a long term investment)
Don’t increase your donation levels to increase donations, it’s counter-productive. Instead, lower the donation levels, make it so easy to do that people don’t even think about it and your donations will increase. Also, think about offering subscription donations, so that people don’t have to remember to come back and donate.

Most common reason ppl didn't donate: weren't thanked previously, says Turnkey's Otis Fulton #P2PForum17
— P2P Forum (@P2PForum) March 2, 2017

CRM
Having a CRM allows you to keep track of who’s giving what, and who’s been in contact with who – very important to keep track of who’s given during a campaign so you don’t ask twice.

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be wrapping up our 2 part series on updates, last week we discussed themes and plugin updates this week we're discussing WordPress security updates.

Website Security News | Sucuri Blog
The SiteLock Blog
WPScan Vulnerability Database
WordPress Versions « WordPress Codex
DEF CON® Hacking Conference

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This week on WPblab we'll be talking with Roy Sivan about the best thing to help you level up your WordPress career.
Name Factoid:
Celtic Meaning: The name Roy is a Celtic baby name. In Celtic the meaning of the name Roy is: Red haired.
WP Crowd – WordPress community mastermind group / video show
Mastermind sundays at 6pm PST
WordPress community is very unique among tech communities because of the level of sharing … you can come in without knowing anything and level up from the ground up. Other communities can be judgy about beginner / entry-level questions.
Got a gig working for Disney because of a talk he gave at a WordCamp
Teaching other people in the WP community also helps you to level up because you get to know your subject matter better as you prepare to teach it
Church IT Roundtable http://citrt.com
Epoch – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time
Being open source makes WordPress and it’s community unique – people are more open and more generous with their knowledge and time. A great example: WordCamps – only $40 for a whole weekend (with lunches!) and you learn so much for so little
Having one code mentor is a great way to learn! But with the WordPress community you have hundreds of mentors!
MasterMinds:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chicceo/2013/10/21/7-reasons-to-join-a-mastermind-group/#535c4ddb5deb
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/featured/how-to-start-and-run-a-mastermind-group.html
Masterminds help you keep accountable – good way to level together in a smaller, more focused group
Try participating in local hackathons to push yourself a little further and learn more quickly
Get involved in your local meetup, they are always looking for speakers of all levels and you can learn so much from the other members.
Meetups can help you get out of shell – get used to speaking to a smaller group. It’s a good place to work on a new topic that you might want to one day present at a WordCamp in front of a larger audience.
Spend sometime outside of the WordPress spectrum – expose yourself to authors, podcasts, books, experts, etc. in adjacent interest areas that can help broaden your understanding (Get out of the bubble!)
Folks that helped us with our show notes

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Sherie LaPrade – @HeySherie
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This week on WPwatercooler we're doing a two parter, this week it's WordPress Themes and Plugins Updates and next week it's WordPress security updates. Join us and learn all about updating WordPress themes and Plugins!

Report: Nokia bringing back iconic ‘brick' phone | abc13.com
Jitterbug Flip|Cell Phone for Seniors
Write Meow
WP Rollback
Common WordPress Errors « WordPress Codex
If You Don't Know what WP Release Day is, You're Already Doomed
VaultPress-WordPress Backup and Security
Ways to handle pro and free versions of your WordPress plugin
maintainn.com
Relax. We Got This|ConciergeWP.com
WordPress Support Services Starting at $79 Per Month
Offsite, Onsite & Cloud
Mac Backup Software
How to Check if Installed Plugins Are No Longer in the Plugin Directory – WordPress Tavern
stephanis.info

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This week on WPblab we’ll be talking with surgeon Dr Andy Fragen about how he builds WordPress plugins as a hobby.
Andy Fragen

Geek Surgeon / Plugin Developer

thefragens.com
afragen (Andy Fragen)
Andy Fragen (@andyfragen)

Andy doesn't do WordPress during the day, he does it as a hobby

CSS Zen Garden:The Beauty of CSS Design
The Events Calendar Category Colors

Scratching your own itch has lead to making some plugins for favorite things

Github Updater
Software Licensing-Updater Implementation for WordPress Plugins

Some people go home from a crazy day at work and do puzzles to unwind…

Coding is a puzzle – figuring out how to accomplish something or meet a need with a plugin
Started using Git/GitHub mainly for version control for his own purposes … not primarily seeking help/input to start
Rachelle Wise: I've written a bunch of plugins, but they've been mostly specific to client sites and haven't submitted anything yet, but I've been thinking about it. Any tips for submitting to the WP directory?

Andy Fragen: Use some batch script to make it easier – but definitely go for it! What’s the worse that could happen? You’ll have to support it 🙂
Use hooks, use filters, use the WordPress API
Try to test plugins in both single site and multi-site environments
Bridget: How do you handle support when it’s just a hobby / side job?

James Tryon: Brian Hogg had great advice about saying in the warranty “you only support the plugin on base WordPress with no other plugins installed and a default theme”… so you are not stuck with all the support
– WordPress – Profiles – Andy Fragen
Great plugin:

– Local Development
No meetups in Palm Springs?

There are some people who livestream their meetups – good alternative for people without a local meetup
Bridget: How do you start contributing?

Andy: Hang out in support forums and answer questions – if you have a product you really like, start there … more than one person has gotten hired by volunteering their time in support!
Use the proper tools – PHPstorm is a good one

PhpStorm IDE
Local Development
Pippins Plugins
Tom McFarlin | A Perspective on Professional WordPress Development
Deploys a WordPress plugin from Github (git) to the WordPress Plugin Repostiory (svn), taking account of git-flow usage.

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Jen Miller @jenblogs4u

James Tryon – @jamestryon

Sherie LaPrade – @HeySherie

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing doing community service work using WordPress. From hackathons to community website drives we'll inspire you to get involved and help a non-profit in your area.

GiveCamp|Coding for Charity
Website Weekend LA-A Non-Profit Hackathon in Los Angeles
Open Data Day DC:Hackathon+Workshops in Washington, DC, USA
EP42-#A11y, WordPress and Your Website w/Rachel Carden @bamadesigner
WPblab 048-WordPress Community:Giving Back at a Nonprofit Hackathon
Plugin-a-Palooza Returns to WC Orange County – WordCamp Orange County
TechSoup:Power Up Your Social Impact
Vegas WordPress Meetup Group – Official Site
A Nonprofit's Guide to Building Simple, Low-Cost Websites
List of companies offering free Web hosting to 501(c)3 nonprofits and other charities
Hosting and WordPress

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EP62 – WordPress Social Media Marketing for Seniors
On this episode of WPblab we speak with Cemal Tashan about Social Media Marketing for Seniors.
Cemal Tashan: Designing for Seniors WordCamp OC Talk

Seniors use Facebook to spy on their kids and grand kids
Confusion on how social media works
Color contrasts are important
Interactions are difficult for seniors, looking photos and such are easier for them.
Have two accounts on Amazon, one for search and one for purchasing
Photos of oceans, palm trees, dogs, cats are attractive to seniors
Senior abuse laws for the Internet?
Unaided brand awareness
Social Marketing branding bombardment
Keys to Being Social – The Series – You Too Can Be A Guru
A real person, a lot like you
Seniors are writing bios in long form
Microgrants Program

Thanks for helping out with the show notes!

Jen Miller @jenblogs4u

James Tryon – @jamestryon

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing how you can combat WordPress burnout. Designers, developers, marketing and sales all experience burnout we'll be touching each of these and talking about them.

Original Trogdor Video
Psychology Today
Managing Humans-An Introduction
The One Minute Manager
Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead

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The One Minute Manager

Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead

This week on WPblab we'll be talking with Verious Smith III who is Creative Director of Philoveracity Design out of Riverside California. On this episode, we will be speaking with him about marketing your WordPress business using Instagram.
Verious and Bridget met talking abouteyelashes and instagram waiting for a food truck at a WordCamp
Helped an elderly couple get out of a sticky situation where employees more knowledgeable about the web tried to steal the company out from under them by taking over domains, etc. – the couple (70 & 80 years old) remembered him down the road and approached him to help with the Marketing for their business and give him a percentage. Verious decided to learn how to grow an Instagram account for their business – grew it from 22,000 – 34,000 followers
Instagram Tips

Instagram is a unique platform that lets you interact more casually and naturally with your followers
“Be a bit of a voyeur,” per Jason Tucker. Take a peek at how others are using instagram. See what people look at in the grocery store line. What engages?
InstaLikes https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/instalikes-for-instagram/id906899349?mt=8
Look for hashtags within your niche market and push out posts on that subject, using the tag
Influencer Marketing – look for influencers on Instagram – people with 60,000-90,000 followers (those with much larger fan bases won’t usually interact). Send them products you are trying to sell and in exchange, suggest that if they like it, they share it with their followers
Learn to develop your ‘voice’ – get comfortable with talking as your brand and making connections
Formed Oh My Lash Beauty Council – Created a group and spoke directly to them using terms of endearment and had fun with it.
Think about sharing your Instagram photos on your website to show a personal side – so clients can see more about your personality and who you are
Social media is a ‘small talk’ medium – don’t be afraid to talk about non-business topics, get to know people’s personalities
If you want to grow your account and get extra followers, connect with people who like what you like and help promote each other
Take time to develop your own style for your instagram account, some people post alternating text and images, some do all black and white, consistency can be visually appealing and build trust.
Marketing is really staying at the top of someone’s mind. You can post 12x a day, as much as you have time for.
Jab Jab Jab Right Hook – Gary Vaynerchuk – How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World https://www.amazon.com/Jab-Right-Hook-Story-Social/dp/006227306X
The 10X Rule – Grant Cardone – mentioned by Verious

https://www.amazon.com/10X-Rule-Difference-Between-Success/dp/0470627603/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1485491425&sr=8-1&keywords=10x+rule
* Follow that model – “ Share, share, share, share, ask!”- Bridget Willard

Instagram accounts to check out:

https://www.instagram.com/ukuupeople/

Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World

The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure

This week on WPwatercooler we're exploring why WordCamps are important to us. From learning to code to meeting new people there are plenty of reasons to love WordCamps.

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This week on WPblab we’ll be speaking with fellow podcaster Roy Sivan of The WP Crowd & WPLife.

Check out The WP Crowd

The WP Crowd – YouTube
The WP Crowd|A WordPress Community – Website

Watch WPLife

WordPress Life #WPLIFE
wplife Archive

Twitter

Jason Tucker ? (@jasontucker)
Roy Sivan (@royboy789)

Notes
Formats

Audio only
Video only
iTunes

Misc Notes & Terms
“Doubleender” – two people record their own voices and one person puts it all together

“Evergreen” – Timeless and how topics never die out. A 3 year old episode still relevant

Name the show before or name the show after

Record live with google hangouts on air

Create topic before you get the people

Roy does: Pre-recorded shows and iMovie to edit and launch to youtube from iMovie

Jason does: Youtube-dl, and then bash script

Jeffrey Bradbury: go with the guest … not the script
Seriously simple podcasting – Seriously Simple Podcasting

Pull video and put it on Facebook
Tasks: Marketing, Tagging, Sharing
Adventures in Angular – Adventures in Angular Episodes

102 AiA Angular and WordPress with Ryan Sullivan and Roy Sivan

Microphones

Headphones Sennheiser hd 300 series
Scarlet USB audio mixer
Blue Microphones – Products – Yeti
iPhone headphones

Recording with Zooom.us, basic package

Hangouts but better
Stores recording, mp4

Show Notes

Speakers throwing in things into internal chat in google hangouts
Titler …. BrettTerpstra.com
No one click annotations of the show

Traffic

From website not really youtube
Seriously Simple Stats – Seriously Simple Stats
blubrry – Podcast Hosting, Statistics, WordPress hosting, PowerPress, Directory, and more!

Hosting

Audio on SoundCloud – SoundCloud–Hear the world’s sounds

Free Listening on SoundCloud

Editing the video

Youtube vid in draft
Download and edit
Youtube video editor not good
Add an outro with subscribe messages

Camera

Good for recording meetups – Mevo Camera by Livestream
Jason Tucker – Mevo Crowdfunding Give Story – Jason Tucker-Mevo Crowdfunding Give Story
Logitech C920 Logitech C920 HD Pro Webcam for Windows, Mac, and Chrome OS

Backdrops

Coffee cup hooks

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This week on WPwatercooler we're going to be talking about making WordPress work for you and your business processes. From customer intake to invoicing and deliverables we'll try and cover it all for you this week on WPwatercooler

Gravity Forms Salesforce Add-on — WordPress Plugins
23 Best CRM Tools for WordPress to Boost Your Business – WPMU DEV
The Zapbook – Explore Case Studies, Use Cases, Customers, and Apps – Zapier
WordPress-to-lead for Salesforce CRM — WordPress Plugins
Using the Invisible reCAPTCHA | reCAPTCHA | Google Developers
Popular Posts Tabbed Widget for Jetpack — WordPress Plugins
Top Posts — Jetpack for WordPress
Social Warfare WordPress Plugin

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Building Your WordPress Business Relationships Locally – Ross Gile. Ross is owner of DigiCal a web development company in Whittier California. Ross is very involved in his City Council and Chamber of Commerce, we want to explore what the benefits are with connecting with local groups and how it as helped his business.
http://twitter.com/jasontucker

http://twitter.com/youtoocanbeguru

http://twitter.com/rossgile
Notes

Ross' Website DigiCal – http://www.digical.com
Join the chamber of commerce
Our local Chamber of Commerce https://www.whittierchamber.com/
Attend the events at your local chamber – get to shake hands and network with the right people
Chambers are for networking, meeting local businesses and talking with great local people.
Membership often includes free services such as monthly newsletters and promotions
The meetings can be a lot like a ‘meetup’ in style/atmosphere
There are side benefits too – making new friends, people remembering you when special events and opportunities come up – building relationships
Whittier Chamber of Commerce Business Expo
BNI – business networking international – forced leads needed to participate
DigiCal on Facebook
Make Notecards and HANDwrite thank yous to send to people.
Try to send out at least 5 notecards a week
Ross Dancing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pWit6WWVRQ
Offer to teach a class at the local ‘adult learning’ center or college
Give yourself and your services away from time to time – great exposure
Don’t just ‘build business’ – build friendships too, networking is not the same as selling
Give back to your local community
Build a local events website like Ross did http://www.whittierevents.com/
Time.ly calendar plugin for WordPress
Leveraging your time – try investing 10 hours in your community/networking and you’ll get that much + more in return, can start with only 1 or 2 hours per week
Start small – don’t say yes to everything (work/life balance)
Outsource when you feel overwhelmed or underskilled – you don’t have to do everything yourself

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James Tryon – @jamestryon

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be looking ahead in 2017 and discussing what we are excited about in WordPress.

Matt Mullenweg: State Of The Word 2016 | WordPress.tv
About » Roadmap — WordPress
WordPress Ideas
Make WordPress Core – WordPress Development Updates
Theme Directory — Free WordPress Themes
add_editor_style() | Function | WordPress Developer Resources
GoDaddy
BeaverBuilder

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This week on WPblab Jen Miller of needsomeonetoblog.com will be discussing how to get started with effectively starting a blog for your business.

Jason Tucker (@jasontucker)
Bridget Willard (@YouTooCanBeGuru)
Jen Miller (@JenBlogs4U)

Notes

GiveWP Channel
Jen Miller – Need Someone To Blog?
Be Seen Blogging
Need Someone To…
Women in WP
How can people find you as a business that blogs for others? Jen uses SEO, has a solid website name and people find her based on the type of work she does for others.
How much should you share on the blog of yourself? Who you are and what you stand for, let people know who are you and what you do. Let yourself stand out. If you are a better fit than the client will go with you.
Should there be a theme in your blog? Definitely. Bring a common element into the story. Dogs, volunteering. Build common ground with potential clients.
Hobbies and work can be tied together and can be talked about on the blog
How do you find themes for clients? Their hobbies and activities they do.
Not being in front of the computer means brain chills out and idle and have a great idea.
Do you recommend you follow / stalk clients before helping. No, they won’t have social in place.
Interviews and judging characters really helps to get ideas for the blog
How does the small business person sell the one t-shirt? You need a platform. Blogger,
WordPress, medium. Ideally starting with Facebook Page.
Own that space
Custom domain, memorable, keyword filled
Keywords tools:
SpyFu
Google Adwords
KeywordPlanner
Tell the backstory on the about page, tell the juicy tips. Tell the story behind the story
Dollywood
hiroy
HiRoy T-shirt
Tell the backstory of Rachel Carden setting it up…
Show how your clients are using your product in unique ways with case studies.
Some give out the secret sauce on the blog. Clients won’t go through it all

http://noahelias.net/
* Sells the product by telling a story through the blog

http://noahfineart.com/blog/life-it-requires-some-assembly/
* How do you get a story? Write a post it note and write up of why the product started, how it started.
* Do website first. Then do twitter, then do facebook then do blog. Build in layers. Need copy!
* The blog needs to match the supporting content that must have been been in a book 40 years ago.
* Update website and revise all copy with keywords
* Analyse support tickets, write about what people have issue with. Write about what people are searching for https://givewp.com/blog/
* Write the blog post in google docs or a shareable medium. Not in WordPress
* Looking for grammatical errors
* More eyes on the words
* Distraction free writing and revisions not really used in WordPress.
* Blog posts need to be shared on social media platforms.

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This week on WPblab Carol Stephen will be joining us to discuss how you can expand your WordPress business on Pinterest.
You can find Carol Stephen on Pinterest and her company Your Social Media Works she also runs the #DigiBlogChat on Tuesdays at 1pm PST.

Pinterest is a visual discovery “search engine”
Best to keep most popular boards at the top of your account since most people access via mobile
People on Pinterest are often there to buy or plan future purchases
Pinterest is ‘very sticky’ which means people tend to spend a lot of time on the site
Make sure you use very well-written descriptions, utilizing keywords
Using meta descriptions on images for your website ensures that when photos are pinned to pinterest they have the correct information
Very important to sign up for a ‘business account’ to get access to analytics
Pinterest is especially important to focus on if a majority of your audience is women
Timing is important; 6-7pm is when most people are active – there are apps to help you determine the best time to pin / keywords
Group boards can be helpful to create or join because they get a lot more traffic/interest
People want long skinny pins – got it
You can use a pinterest account to curate work you’ve done as a portfolio
Very important to click on the pin to follow the link and make sure you find the source – it may not link to what you think it is linking to!
Make sure if you are commenting on pins, you tag the Pinner … many accounts have thousands of pins and will miss your comment if you don’t tag them
Use your secret board as a draft or backlog.
Put the board with your blog posts or where you want to direct your traffic right next to your most popular board. People may come to look at one and click through to the other!
Also use some of your Pinterest boards to share your personality and hobbies

Links

http://www.canva.com – Amazingly Simple Graphic Design Software
http://www.getstencil.com – Ridiculously simple image creation for social media marketers, bloggers and small businesses.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/pinterest-pin-it-button/ – Pin-it Button plugin
https://wordpress.org/plugins/mashsharer/ – Social Media Share Buttons
https://wordpress.tv/2015/10/10/brianna-privett-rich-pins-twitter-cards-and-facebook-super-charge-your-social-media-strategy-with-wordpress/

These folks helped us with the show notes this episode
Cheryl LaPrade – @YayCheryl

Sherie LaPrade – @HeySherie

Jason Tucker – WPwatercooler @jasontucker

James Tryon – @jamestryon

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be going over what happened in 2016 and what we should be looking forward to in 2017.

Matt Mullenweg State of the Word, 2016 -Post Status
State of the Word 2016: Mullenweg Pushes Calypso as Future of WordPress’ Interface, Proposes Major Changes to Release Cycle – WordPress Tavern
PHP Compatibility Checker
PHP 6 Certified:Unisex Tee
Let’s Encrypt-Free SSL/TLS Certificates
Pardon Our Interruption
Theme Directory
Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS-WordPress
The Rolling Stones
Motley Crue

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This week on WPblab we're joined by Robert Nissenbaum consultant & speaker at Tactical Social Media to discuss how you can create visibility and authority through social media.

The Power Of A Single Comment – Why You Need To Engage More
Social Networking: How I Generate Leads Without Content
Social + Media = Success – Tactical Social Media

Our crowd sourced show notes

New Give Blog layout – https://givewp.com/blog/
Remember you are writing for “people” not for search bots – over time your keywords will recur naturally when you are writing what you know
Authority – an indication of your site’s level of expertise in a given subject, based on quality content
https://moz.com/researchtools/ose/links?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wpwatercooler.com&filter=&source=external⌖=page&group=0&page=1&sort=page_authority&anchor_id=&anchor_type=&anchor_text=&from_site=
The primary purposes of using social media are to drive traffic to your website and build relationships with your target audience
Content is not just what you post on your blog – content is your comments on facebook, others posts, etc – it creates visibility, shows your authority, develops relationships
If you have 2 hours to go and drive to a networking meeting, you have time in the week to take 10-15 minutes here and there to network online through social media
You still need to be/act like a human on social media, don’t just schedule messages, interact with people – start conversations, include some personal content
Relationships trump price and convenience, breeds loyalty
As much time as you have available you should be spending on social media marketing, building relationships take time
Utilize twitter lists! Excellent curation tool
http://nuzzel.com/ News from friends and influencers
Put on a timer for 15 minutes (you can do anything for 15 mins)! Focus on your social media interactions until the timer is up and then stop, the more you do it, the easier it will get.
https://www.rescuetime.com/ – big brother that cares
It’s really important to have a social media presence for your business on every major platform
Especially for tracking conversations about your business & to reply to customers
Start on the platform where you’re most comfortable and work up from there

These folks helped us out with the show notes

Cheryl LaPrade – @YayCheryl
Sherie LaPrade – @HeySherie
Jason Tucker – WPwatercooler @jasontucker
James Tryon – @jamestryon

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This week on WPwatercooler we’ll be discussing how you should go about organizing your content with Customer Post Types and Taxonomies in your WordPress website.
Show airs December 12 at 11am PT / 2pm ET / 7PM UTC

Post Type Templates in 4.7 – Make WordPress Core
Custom Post Type UI — WordPress Plugins
GitHub – johnbillion/extended-cpts: A library which provides extended functionality to WordPress custom post types, allowing developers to quickly build custom post types without having to write the same code again and again.
Home – Pods Framework
Custom Post Type UI Extended – Pluginize – WPshowandTell
Co-Authors Plus — WordPress Plugins

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On this episode of WPwatercooler we'll be discussing WordPress 4.7
Show aired Dec 5 at 11am PT / 2pm ET / 7PM UTC
Follow along with us:

What’s Coming in WordPress 4.7 (Features and Screenshots)
WordPress 4.7 Improves Accessibility by Removing Alternative Text Fallbacks – WordPress Tavern
PDF Image Previews Among the Improvements to Media in WordPress 4.7 – WordPress Tavern
WordPress 4.7 – WPShout
Free stock videos – Pexels Videos
How to Install WordPress in Other Languages
TinyMCE Advanced — WordPress Plugins
16031 (Bulk actions: Reactivate bulk actions hook + add hander hook for all admin screens) – WordPress Trac
18375 (Post type templates) ‚Äì WordPress Trac
EP209 – Waking the WordPress REST API WPwatercooler
Paw – The most advanced API tool for Mac

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing the WordPress Customizer the advantages, disadvantages and how it's grown over the years. We'll touch on ways people are putting customizations in it and things you can't customize with it.
Show airs November 28 at 11am PT / 2pm ET / 7PM UTC

Using the WordPress Customizer to Build Beautiful Plugin Settings Pages – LoopConf
Theme Customization API « WordPress Codex
Resetting the Customizer to a Blank Slate – Make XWP
Edit WordPress Posts and Postmeta in the Customizer – WordPress Tavern
The WordPress Customizer – Beaver Builder
Comparing Drag & Drop WordPress Page Builders
Customize Posts — WordPress Plugins

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On this episode of WPwatercooler we discuss how to get started with WooCommerce
Show aired November 21 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC

WooCommerce – Wikipedia
Do the Woo a WooCommerce Podcast
WordPress XML & CSV Importer Plugin – WP All Import
Woocommerce CSV importer — WordPress Plugins
Product CSV Import Suite – WooCommerce
TaxJar: Automated Sales Tax Reporting & Filing
EP 211 – SSL options for your WordPress Website WPwatercooler
WooCommerce Documenation
Developer Docs – WooCommerce Docs
Selling Videos with WooCommerce

Bob’s Podcast

WordPress eCommerce Show

Patrick Rauland’s Lynda.com courses

Lynda.com – WordPress: Customizing WooCommerce Themes (this link includes a free 7 day trial)
Lynda.com – WordPress Ecommerce Fundamentals

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On this episode of WPwatercooler we'll be discussing the various options you have for securing your WordPress website using SSL.
Show airs November 7 at 11am PT / 2pm ET / 7PM UTC
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This week we speak with Marc Benzakein and Gregg Franklin of ServerPress the makers of DesktopServer about why you should develop your WordPress powered website locally using DesktopServer.
Show airs November 3 at 7:30pm PT / 10:30 ET / 2am UTC

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This week on WPblab we'll be discussing how you can customize the WordPress Media Library to work better for you and for your clients. We'll be talking with Rachelle Wise on how she's going to be customizing the WordPress Media Library to make it easier for her clients to use and manage their media files. The show starts at 7:30pm Pacific.

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing the recent announcement of the WP REST API content endpoints officially approved for WordPress 4.7.
Show airs October 24 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 6PM UTC

GitHub – wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS: WordPress for iOS
GitHub – joehoyle/vienna: Mobile Editor for WordPress, built using React Native
Apppresser.com
Mobile App Development Platform & MBaaS | Appcelerator
Apache Cordova

Sé Reed's API Song – not available anywhere else
let’s talk about REST baby
let’s talk about data that’s free
let’s talk about all the endpoints and the routes from A to B
let’s talk about REST
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On this episode of WPwatercooler we're going to be discussing how to organized your content in WordPress. From tags, categories to custom post types we're going to be discussing it all.
Show airs October 17 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 6PM UTC

Google Search Console
Redirection — WordPress Plugins
Google Search Console
Template Hierarchy | Theme Developer Handbook | WordPress Developer Resources
Author Templates « WordPress Codex
Sitemaps — Jetpack for WordPress
Enable XML Sitemaps in the Yoast SEO plugin – Yoast Knowledge Base
Posts vs Pages – Make WordPress Support
Taxonomies « WordPress Codex

Mini Horses:

Mini Horse with baby
Working Mini Guide Horse
Mini Guide Horse Shoes
Mini Guide Horse on the subway
Mini Horse on an airplane

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This week on WPwatercooler we're sharing our wishlist for future versions of WordPress.
Show aired October 10 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 6PM UTC

WordPress 4.7 Design Wishlist – Make WordPress Design
Add a custom taxonomy dropdown filter to the WordPress Media Library – Hand Built
How to Add Categories and Tags to WordPress Media Library
Enhanced Media Library — WordPress Plugins
Airtable
REST API Merge Proposal, Part 2: Content API – Make WordPress Core

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This week On WPwatercooler we'll be discussing the pros and cons of drag and drop in WordPress. From WordPress themes to drag and drop forms and interface builders we'll be discussing them all.
Show aired Sept 19 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC

@WPwatercooler is talking about drag and drop page builders, not dragon drop builders… #WordPress pic.twitter.com/DsQeUo34hY
— alex vasquez (@alexjvasquez) September 19, 2016

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be recapping WordCamp Los Angeles #WCLAX 2016. We'll be speaking with the organizers of the event and recapping the events that occurred during it.
Show airs September 12 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 6PM UTC
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This week on WPwatercooler we’ll be discussing the various plugins that you can use to help speed up your WordPress website.
Show airs September 5 at 11am PT / 2pm ET / 7PM UTC

Images

Imagify-Online and CMS Image Compression 00:04
WP Smush-Image Optimization 00:04
Kraken.io Image Optimizer 00:04
EWWW Image Optimizer 00:05
Simple Image Sizes 00:07
imsanity – WordPress Plugins 00:08
Photon — Jetpack for WordPress 00:09

Caching

WP Rocket 00:11
WP Fastest Cache 00:12
W3 Total Cache 00:12

Advanced Caching

Apache module for rewriting web pages to reduce latency and bandwidth.
WP Redis
Memcached Object Cache

Cloud Firewalls

CloudFlare-The web performance & security company
Sucuri Website Firewall

Things to watch out for

Avada – WP Theme 00:18
Visual Composer 00:19

Tools for finding slowness and to help optimize further

P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler)
Plugin Organizer 00:24
WP Asset Clean Up 00:25

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be be discussing the differences between responsive websites, mobile plugins that make a site mobile friendly and 3rd party sites providing a mobile website.
Show airs August 29 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing the latest version of WordPress 4.6.
Show aired August 22 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC

WordPress 4.6 “Pepper”
WordPress 4.6 “Pepper” Released, Streamlines Plugin and Theme Management – WordPress Tavern
WP REST API Team Aims for WordPress 4.7 for Merge Proposal – WordPress Tavern
What’s Coming in WordPress 4.6 (Features and Screenshots)

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be talking about the last 200 episode of WPwatercooler and a look into the future.
Show aired August 15 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC

WPwatercooler: The origin story
EP106 – WordPress security best practices – Sept 29 2014 WPwatercooler
EP1 – WPwatercooler – September 24 2012 WPwatercooler
EP61 – Our favorite WordPress people to follow on social media – WPwatercooler – Nov 11 2013 WPwatercooler

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing how you can get hired at a #WordPress focused company.
Show airs August 8 16 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing what happens when someone gets a new WordPress website and what new users should do after their website launch.
Show airs August 1 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing beta testing WordPress core, how you can do it and why you should.

WordPress Beta Tester – WordPress Plugins 00:07
WordPress – Support – Alpha/Beta 00:12
Get Involved – WordPress 00:17
DesktopServer – Create locally installed WordPress Websites – ServerPress, LLC.
Get Involved – WordPress 00:20
Varying Vagrant Vagrants: All Grown Up | 10up 00:24
GitHub – Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants/VVV: Varying Vagrant Vagrants is an open source Vagrant configuration focused on WordPress development. 00:25
Debugging in WordPress – WordPress Codex 00:26
tail -f /var/log/nginx/error.log 00:27
Query Monitor – WordPress Plugins 00:27

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing how you can create a WordPress website locally using DesktopServer. We'll discuss the ways in which you can migrate your locally built site to you webhost for people to see online.
Show airs July 18 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be recapping the various events that made up WordCamp OC 2016, we'll be speaking with the organizers and some of the volunteers that were involved. If you are wanting to learn more about running a successful WordCamp this is the discussion you want to watch.
Show airs July 11 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing the benefits of traveling to a distant WordCamp.
Show airs June 27 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC

WordCampTV | WordPress.tv
Schedule | WordCamp Central
WordCamp Central | WordCamp is a conference that focuses on everything WordPress.

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On this episode of WPwatercooler we're discussing Content Marketing tools for WordPress
Show airs June 20 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC

Revive Old Post (Former Tweet Old Post) — WordPress Plugins
How to Use MonsterLinks‚ to Load Your Popup with Click of a Button
Post Status | WordPress News
Lists made easy + social + fun! | Listly
Caching Plugin for WordPress – Speed up your website with WP Rocket
NextScripts: Social Networks Auto-Poster — WordPress Plugins
SumoMe – The Best Website Traffic Tools
Learn how IFTTT works
Imagify – Online and CMS Image Compression
ImageInject — WordPress Plugins

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On this episode of WPwatercooler we'll be discussing ways to learn more WordPress through the use of build side projects. Sometimes having yourself as a client allows you to see things from a different perspective, spinning up a site to learn a new plugin, theme or even a coding using a new technique may help you in the long run.
Show airs May 29 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC

Maslows Hierarchy of Needs
The Oatmeal – Tesla
Website Weekend LA
Give Camp
My Headphone Collection
Beyond Good
WPwatercooler
WPblab

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On this episode of WPwatercooler we'll be discussing the ways in which you should educate your clients about WordPress.
Show airs May 23 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
WP Stage Coach
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This week we'll be discussing how to evaluate your project and technical needs of different types of hosting. When it is best to be on a shared server, going the managed hosting route, or rolling your own and going VPS.
Show airs May 16 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing WordPress 4.5 and then many changes that were added to this version.
Show airs May 9 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC

Version 4.5 – WordPress Codex 00:01
WordPress Beta Tester – WordPress Plugins 00:04
Target=”_blank” – the most underestimated vulnerability ever 00:08
Imagify – Online and CMS Image Compression 00:22
Imsanity – WordPress Plugins
Giphypress – WordPress Plugins 00:27

GIF?

GIF vs. JIF Pronunciation Debate | Know Your Meme 00:28
GIF Talk: Do You Say It With A G Or A J? : The Two-Way : NPR
President Obama weighs in on pronunciation of ‘GIF’ – The Washington Post
How To Really Pronounce GIF

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing what goes into a WordPress version release. We'll be joined with Mike “Shredder” Schroder who was the lead on WordPress 4.5 he was also lead on WordPress 3.9.
Show airs May 2 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC

WordPress 4.5 “Coleman”
Performance improvements for images in WordPress 4.5 – Make WordPress Core

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On this episode of WPwatercooler we'll be recapping the April 23-24th 2016 WordCamp San Diego event with organizers and speakers from the event.
Show airs April 25 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC

WordCamp San Diego 2016 | Make Waves
Kari Leigh Marucchi @foundartphotog) | Twitter

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing abandoned plugins, adoption and finding them a new home. We'll be discussing how the adoption process works from both the adopting and the putting up for adoption and ways you can go about it. Lastly we'll talk about dealing with abandoned plugins and how we can help find them new homes.
Show aired April 18 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC

Display Registered Image Dimensions — WordPress Plugins
WordPress Plugin Adopt-Me tag
Move Posts from Uncategorized — WordPress Plugins
Force Strong Passwords — WordPress Plugins
WP Recycle: Fresh Perspectives for Starving WordPress Plugins – noupe
Does WordPress Need a Notification Center? We Think So, How About You?
adopt-me — Tags — WordPress Plugins

#sketchnotes from today's #wpwatercooler episode on #plugin adoption and abandonment with @jasontucker and guests pic.twitter.com/DlJzDIovYf
— Jessica Boctor (@JessBoctor) April 18, 2016

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing and recapping WooConf 6 – 8 April 2016, Austin, Texas. We're looking for folks involved in the event's creation and people that spoke at the event.
Show airs April 11 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC

WooConf: Learn. Develop. Sell. 00:01
I'm making a change… – Chris Lema 00:02
T-Shirt Printing & Fulfillment | DTG, Sublimation & Screen Printing 00:08
Codeable.io – #1 outsourcing service for WordPress 00:09
Andy Sernovitz – WooConf 00:10
Andy Sernovitz's Damn, I Wish I'd Thought of That! 00:11
Chris Lema – WooConf 00:11
Bob Dunn – WooConf 00:11
Why WooConf will be worth it for store owners – WooConf
Brian Krogsgard – WooConf 00:12
Patrick Rauland – WooConf 00:13
Agenda – WooConf 00:14
An Executive's Guide to Scaling WooCommerce 00:22
Do the Woo Podcast with BobWP 00:23
Webinar: Myths, Mistakes & Management of WooCommerce at Scale 00:24

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing going from sites like Squarespace and Wix to WordPress from data migration to drag and drop page builders we'll be discussing it all.
Show airs April 4 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC

WordPress Page Builder Plugin | Beaver Builder
Squarespace
Weebly Website Builder: Create a Free Website, Store or Blog
wix.com

Moving from Squarespace

Squarespace – Importing content from WordPress – Help
Squarespace – Exporting your site – Help

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing caching plugins and which ones we recommend and why.
Show airs Mar 28 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC

Frederick Townes Confirms W3 Total Cache is Not Abandoned – WordPress Tavern
Caching Plugin for WordPress – Speed up your website with WP Rocket
Comparison of Popular WordPress Caching Solutions – Taylor Lovett
Sandwich – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Batcache — WordPress Plugins
WP Super Cache — WordPress Plugins
OSI vs Taco Bell – Slashdot

Awesome hosts

WordPress Hosting, Perfected. WP Engine®
WordPress Hosting by Pagely®. VPS and Enterprise Managed WordPress
SiteGround: Quality-Crafted Hosting Services

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing how to manage your old content on your WordPress site. Removing, refreshing, reusing and redirecting we'll be discussing it all.
Show aired March 21 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC

Archived Post Status – WordPress Plugins 00:04
Old Post Notification – WordPress Plugins 00:04
Simple 301 Redirects – WordPress Plugins 00:10
Website maintenance: clean up old posts & pages – Yoast 00:11
Post Expirator – WordPress Plugins 00:12
How to Archive Posts Without Deleting Them in WordPress 00:17
Home | Carrie Dils 00:17
Content Update Notification – WordPress Plugins 00:19
WordPress LMS Plugin By LearnDash® 00:21
Need Someone To Blog? 100% Unique Website Content. Need Safe Blog Posts? Hire a Ghost Blogger! 00:24
45 Ways to Amplify a Blog Post-Hire a Ghost Blogger! Blog Coaching & Safe Blog Posts by Need Someone To Blog. 00:25
DIY SEO Courses | Search Engine Optimization Courses 00:29

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On this episode of WPwatercooler we are going to be discussing implementing Google AMP & Facebook Instant Pages on WordPress
Show airs March 14 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 6PM UTC

How to Start Creating Facebook Instant Articles for Your Blog: Facebook and WordPress Team Up – The Buffer Blog 00:02
AMP – WordPress Plugins 00:03
Accelerated Mobile Pages Project 00:06
open the bookstore 00:06
GitHub – Automattic/amp-wp: WordPress plugin for adding AMP support 00:08
What Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP means for consumers, publishers, and the future | 10up 00:16
Glue for Yoast SEO & AMP — WordPress Plugins 00:17
Facebook Instant Articles & Google AMP Pages by PageFrog — WordPress Plugins 00:17
AMP — WordPress Plugins 00:17
Facebook Instant Articles & Google AMP Pages by PageFrog — WordPress Plugins 00:26
CPP: A Standardized Alternative to AMP – TimKadlec.com 00:27
Content Performance Policy 00:27

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing various ways to find help and discuss WordPress.
Show airs Mar 7 at 11am PT / 2pm ET / 7PM UTC
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This week on WPwatercooler we'll break down what makes a good WordPress theme framework.
Show airs Feb 29 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC

Carrington Core
Hybrid Core
Options Framework
Redux Framework
UpThemes Framework
Genesis Framework
WP Canvas
BootstrapWP
Foundation
960 Grid System
Bourbon Neat
Beaver Builder
Visual Composer
X Theme

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be recapping WordCamp Miami 2016 with the organizers and a few speakers from the event.
Show aired Feb 22 at 11am PST / 2pm EST / 7PM UTC
Website:

2016.miami.wordcamp.org/
Slides:

2016.miami.wordcamp.org/slides/
Slack Channel Signup:

wcmia2016.herokuapp.com/
Speakers:

2016.miami.wordcamp.org/speakers/
Schedule:

2016.miami.wordcamp.org/schedule/

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On this episode of WPwatercooler we're going to be discussing how to pick a non-custom premium WordPress theme.
Show airs Feb 15 at 11am PT / 2pm ET / 7PM UTC
Mobius – Responsive Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme – WordPress 00:07

Cleaning Out Your Naked Shortcodes – Matt Cromwell 00:11

Ad Optimized Magazine with Powerful Advertisement System – Shockmag – WordPress 00:10

Salient – Responsive Multi-Purpose Theme – WordPress 00:11

DesktopServer – ServerPress 00:14

Michigan Website Design and SEO | Web Savvy Marketing 00:22

Genesis Child Themes | Premium WordPress Themes 00:23

Premium WordPress Themes – StudioPress 00:24

GitHub – 320press/wordpress-bootstrap: Bootstrap in WordPress theme form – Bootstrap 3.3.1 00:27

Elegant Themes 00:28

Bueno – WooThemes 00:29
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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing how you can create better WordPress navigation menus.
Show aired Feb 8 at 11am PST / 2pm EST / 7PM UTC

Class Reference/Walker « WordPress Codex 00:04
14134 (Menus item are limited to 16 item and will not save more than that) – WordPress Trac 00:12
GitHub – ivycat/Network-Nav-Menus: Network-wide Navigation Menus for WordPress Multisite 00:21
Menu Image — WordPress Plugins 00:22
Font Awesome, the iconic font and CSS toolkit 00:23
Max Mega Menu — WordPress Plugins 00:24
Menu Social Icons — WordPress Plugins 00:28
Off-canvas | Foundation Docs 00:29
Sticky Menu (or Anything!) on Scroll — WordPress Plugins 00:30

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing how to integrate social into your WordPress website. From like boxes to sharing and logins we'll discuss it all.
Show airs Feb 1 at 11am PST / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC

Nextend Facebook Connect – WordPress Plugins 00:05
Nextend Twitter Connect – WordPress Plugins 00:05
GoogleOAuth – WordPress Plugins 00:09
WPScan Vulnerability Database 00:11
OnePress Social Locker – WordPress Plugins 00:16
Mashshare.net – Grow your social traffic with this extensible social media ecosystem 00:18
Jetpack by WordPress.com – WordPress Plugins 00:19
Sharing – Jetpack for WordPress 00:19
Monarch 00:20
Sharrre – A plugin for sharing buttons 00:21
Socialite by tmort 00:21
ShareThis: Share Buttons and Social Analytics – WordPress Plugins 00:21
Instagrate to WordPress « WordPress Plugins 00:23
Show your social media posts: easy & beautiful! – WordPress Plugins 00:24
EP122 – What WordPress comment system should I choose? – Feb 9 2015 WPwatercooler 00:27
Brianna Privett: Rich Pins, Twitter Cards and Facebook: Super-Charge Your Social Media Strategy with WordPress | WordPress.tv 00:29
Facebook Comments Importer « WordPress Plugins 00:29

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be sharing with you the various tools we use to build and maintain WordPress powered websites.
Show airs Jan 25 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC

Aptana 00:00
Komodo Edit | Komodo IDE 00:00
WordPress › Advanced Code Editor « WordPress Plugins 00:00
Atom 00:02
PHP CodeSniffer with WordPress Coding Standards and Atom – rezzz.com | Jason Resnick 00:02
Editing Files « WordPress Codex 00:04
Coda 00:06
PhpStorm IDE :: JetBrains PhpStorm 00:10
Move work forward · Asana 00:12
Trello 00:12
JIRA Software – Issue & Project Tracking for Software Teams | Atlassian 00:12
Tab Suspender – Chrome Web Store 00:16
www.codebox.io 00:17
Dash for iOS – Documentation Browser for 150+ APIs – Kapeli 00:17
Dash for OS X – API Documentation Browser, Snippet Manager – Kapeli 00:17
SassMeister | The Sass Playground! 00:20
Velocity – The Documentation and Docset Viewer for Windows 00:20
JMeter, Load & Continuous Performance Testing Platform 00:201
Mobile Browser Emulator. Safari Mobile, Android Browser & Opera Mobile 00:21
CodeKit: THE Mac App For Web Developers 00:21
Create a new fiddle – JSFiddle 00:22
codepen.io 00:22
Cross Browser Testing Tool. 300+ Browsers, Mobile, Real IE. 00:23
Pastebin.com – #1 paste tool since 2002! 00:25
old.fontlab.com 00:26
TypeStyler by Strider Software 00:26
FontBook™ – The Original Typeface Compendium, est. 1989 on the App Store 00:26
Kai’s Power Tools – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 00:27
Icon Font & SVG Icon Sets ❍ IcoMoon 00:28
Titler Service – BrettTerpstra.com 00:28

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing the various ways you can clean up your WordPress powered websote, from unused image removal to removal of unused WordPress themes and plugins.
Show airs Jan 18 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC

WordPress | Remove Orphan Shortcodes | WordPress Plugins
29580 (When a child-theme is active, the parent-theme should not be deletable.) – WordPress Trac
WordPress › WP-Optimize | WordPress Plugins
Common database optimizations for WordPress sites. · GitHub
Function Reference/strip shortcodes | WordPress Codex

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This episode on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing how to interact with tech support and how to write a support request that won't get ignored. If you do a lot of support request and get results we'd love to have you on, if you work in support and have a winning strategy please join us.
Show airs Jan 11 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC

Cockos Incorporated | LICEcap 00:12
LICEcap – Download 00:13
Recordit: Record screencasts fast & free! with GIF Support! 00:14
Down For Everyone Or Just Me -> Check if your website is down or up? 00:18
Is Mercury in Retrograde?: 00:19
Support Details | Tech Support Management 00:22
What WordPress Theme Is That? 00:26
BuiltWith Technology Lookup 00:27

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On this episode of WPwatercooler we'll be discussing what other WordPress related skills you should learn outside of learning Javascript deeply.
Show airs Jan 4 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC

Matt Mullenweg: State of the Word 2015 | WordPress.tv
ActionScript (just kidding) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nginx Guide: Introduction – Envato Tuts+ Code Article 00:07
WP REST API Documentation 00:09
Introduction to the JSON REST AP
An Introduction To LESS, And Comparison To Sass – Smashing Magazine 00:11
Bootstrap WordPress Tutorials – BootstrapWP 00:11
RegExr: Learn, Build, & Test RegEx 00:11
1 WordPress Page Builder Plugin – Visual Composer 00:13
WordPress Page Builder Plugin | Beaver Builder 00:14
Hello World – GitHub Guides 00:16
Learn to Code and Help Nonprofits | Free Code Camp
Join the largest learning event in history – Hour of Code 00:18
Sketch – Professional Digital Design for Mac
Swift – Overview – Apple Developer
Ultimate Guide to Learning Swift in One Day 00:21
15 Free Sources To Learn Swift Programming Language – Hongkiat 00:21
WordPress & Drupal Hosting and Website Platform 00:24
Command line interface for WordPress | WP-CLI 00:25
Built-in Commands | WP-CLI
Desktop Server 00:26

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing WordPress 4.4 – New Default Theme Twenty Sixteen, Responsive Images, post embeds, REST API, terms meta and other awesome nuggets.
Show airs Dec 21 at 11:00 AM PST / 12:00 PM MST / 1:00 PM CST / 2:00 PM EST / 7:00 PM UTC
Show Notes

Version 4.4 – WordPress Codex
Hogg Blog – Sunrises, sunsets, EDM
How to use responsive image support in WordPress 4.4
Using the new REST API in WordPress 4.4
WordPress › Changes to fields output by comment_form in WordPress 4.4 – Make WordPress Core
WordPress – TinyMCE Advanced « WordPress Plugins

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing the various ways to run a podcast using WordPress.
Show airs Dec 14 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC

Seriously Simple Podcasting -; WordPress Plugins
Blubrry PowerPress Podcasting plugin – WordPress Plugins
Paid For EDM
Podlove Podcast Publisher – WordPress Plugins
Seriously Simple Podcasting – WordPress Plugins
Blubrry PowerPress Podcasting plugin « WordPress Plugins
Podlove Podcast Publisher – WordPress Plugins
Discover #HamOnt Podcast
Podcast Motor – Concierge Podcast Editing Service
www.premiumbeat.com
Blue Microphones | Yeti – All-In-One Professional Recording System for Vocals
Rode Podcaster USB Dynamic Microphone: Amazon.ca: Musical Instruments, Stage & Studio
Amazon.com: Rode Podcaster Booming Kit: Podcaster, PSA1 Arm, and PSM1 shock mount: Musical Instruments
Call Recorder for Skype – The Skype Audio/Video HD Call Recording Solution for Mac – Ecamm Network

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Rode Podcaster Booming Kit: Podcaster, PSA1 Arm, and PSM1 shock mount

Blue Microphones Yeti USB Mic for Recording and Streaming on PC/Mac, Blue VOICE effects, 4 Pickup Patterns, Headphone Output and Volume Control, Adjustable Stand, Plug and Play – Silver

Rode Podcaster USB Dynamic Microphone

This week on WPwatercooler we're going to recap the events that unfolded in Philadelphia from WordPress getting it's on day, Matt's State of the Word and all of the awesome talks and events. We're talking WordCamp US 2015, join us!
Show airs Dec 7 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
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This week on WPwatercooler we will be discussing the new WordPress.com, the changed they recently did to it and how these changes work.
Show airs November 30 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
Show Notes

Javascript, APIs, and the Future of WordPress – Scott Bolinger
Dance to Calypso | Matt Mullenweg
Calypso, 24 Hours Later | Matt Mullenweg
WordPress.com – A control panel for your desktop
Welcome to the New WordPress.com and WordPress.com App for Mac — WordPress.com News
The Story Behind the New WordPress.com | Developer Resources

You can also watch Matt Mullenweg on a few other podcasts where he talked about Calypso

Gillmor Gang: More Gravy | TechCrunch
Interview with Automattic CEO, Matt Mullenweg, on Calypso and more | Post Status

Transcript
[Jason] – Hey, what's up everyone, this is Jason Tucker and this is WPwatercooler, episode number 164. Today's topic is the New WordPress.com. Let's go around the room real quick and get everyone introduced. We have almost a full cast and crew here. We got nine folks. George, tell us a little about yourself.
[George] – Hi, my name is George Stephanis, I work on Core and I work at Automattic. I didn't have that much to do with the new WordPress.com admin interface, but I'm a regular here, so I like to show up and shoot my mouth off, anyways. Also, Happy Blue Beanie Day, everybody.
[Steve] – A happy what?
[George]- Happy Blue Beanie Day for web standards.
[Steve] – I heard a Happy Belinia Day.
[Jason] – No, in other news.
[Russ] – I thought he was talking about alcohol and doing belinis.
[Se] – I don't even know what you people are talking about.
[Jason] – Folks, we got nine people to get through, Jason Cosper, tell us about yourself.
[Cosper] – Hey, I'm Jason, I'm the developer advocate over at WP Engine, and I'll let someone else go.
[Jason] – Awesome.
[Jason] – Kevin.
[Kevin] – I am Kevin, I am a designer at Automatic, and I did work on WP Calypso for the past 20 months or so.
[Se] – Oh my God.
[Kevin] – You'll answer any questions, or if you hate it, then I'll just log off or something.
[Steve] – Just like Kevin, act like there's technical problems and just quit.
[Jason] – Yep, yep.
[Jason] – Sorry, you're breaking up.
[Kevin] – Yeah, yeah, the microphone.
[Se] – I'll just sign off right now.
[Steve] – What?
[Jason] – So tell us about yourself, Robert.
[Robert] – Oh, good, my name's Robert Dall, I'm a WordPress designer in Vancouver, Canada, and I really need a haircut right now.
[Se] – That is relevant information.
[Jason] – Russ.
[George] – How is your dating life?
[Russ] – Hey, my name is Russ, lead organizer of WordCamp Vegas, and I feel like we took Apocalypse Now and the Mel Gibson movie Apocalypto and we put them together and made Calypso.
[Steve] – How long have you been working on that line?
[Russ] – All week.
[Russ] 30 seconds.
[Se] All week.

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing some tips for presenting at a WordPress meetup.
Show airs Nov 23 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 6PM UTC
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EP162 – How to get the most from your first WordPress WordCamp
Show airs Nov 16 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing sanitizing data stored in custom fields in WordPress, this is a continuation from our EP159 – WordPress user generated content, what to look out for. Join us as we dig deeper into storing user generated data and sanitizing such data.

Javascript and XSS 00:03
SQL Injections 00:04
xkcd: Exploits of a Mom 00:05
esc_html 00:06
wp_kses 00:08
Security advisory: Stored XSS in Jetpack – Sucuri Blog 00:10
Data Validation « WordPress Codex 00:10
Writing the Prince symbol in Unicode – parker higgins dot net 00:16
Solid backups – WPwatercooler 00:18
minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings · GitHub 00:20
EP56 – Do's & don'ts of social media integration with WordPress – Oct 7 2013 WPwatercooler 00:29

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This is a replay of the live broadcast with Jason Tucker, Kevin Hoffman, Verious B. Smith III, Bridget Willard, gregdyer, and Austin Iuliano
https://www.wpwatercooler.com/click/beaverbuilder/

https://business.pinterest.com/en/rich-pins

https://yoast.com/rel-canonical/

http://www.learndash.com/

http://chrislema.com/elearning-on-wordpress-wp-courseware-learndash/

https://www.wpwatercooler.com/click/dynamik

https://blogvault.net/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/

https://wistia.com

https://www.wpwatercooler.com/click/wpengine

https://www.siteground.com/tutorials/wordpress/transfer-wordpress/

https://www.wpwatercooler.com/recommendations

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wistia-wordpress-oembed-plugin/

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This week we'll be discussing how to build a email newsletter using WordPress from forms to rss fed content we'll try and discuss it all.
Show airs Nov 2 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 6PM UTC

Getting MailChimp to Send my Blog Posts to your Inbox 00:03
ConvertKit 00:05
WordPress › Event Calendar Newsletter « WordPress Plugins 00:10
WordPress › WP Email Capture « WordPress Plugins 00:11
ConvertKit Demo by Pat Flynn – SPI TV, Ep. 28 00:11
Email Archives – Easy Digital Downloads 00:11
OptinMonster 00:15
ConvertKit 00:16
LouisCK.net | Mailing List 00:16
Transactional Email from MailChimp – Mandrill 00:19
Email Delivery & Transactional Email Service | SendGrid 00:19
Transactional Email API Service for Developers by Rackspace – Mailgun 00:21
WordPress › SendGrid « WordPress Plugins 00:21
Email Archives – Easy Digital Downloads 00:22
EDD Product Updates – Easy Digital Downloads 00:23
The best apps. Better together. – Zapier 00:26

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We asked people on Twitter to submit their questions using the hashtag #AskWPBlab
What are the most effective SEO WordPress plugins?
Are there plans to integrate better security measures in WP core? For example, not allowing ‘admin' as a username?
What's your weekly maintenance routine look like for your sites? Beyond backup and run updates, what else do you do regularly?
What's your best tip for meeting wordpress people IRL? How do you find where people are and make yourself part of the group?
What is it about the #WordPress community that makes it different from or better than or worse than other similar communities?
What are the benefits of using #WordPress over others like Wix, Weebly, etc.?
What are the most popular WP frameworks and how do you go about choosing the best one?
Is there a place for newbies in the WordPress community?
This is a replay of the live broadcast with Jason Tucker, Oscar Gonzalez, Adam Silver, and Bridget Willard

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing user generated content, dealing with sanitizing data from public facing forms and then how to display it. Last week's episode we discussed Building Directory Sites with WordPress and at the tail end of the show we found that working with user generated data tied perfectly into this.
Show airs June 16 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 6PM UTC

Gravity Forms
Formidable
Blacklist Updater
Little Bobby Tables – XKCD
Buy some Ugg Boots
Advanced Custom Fields

Next week we're discussing Custom Fields!
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This is a replay of the live broadcast with Jason Tucker, JennyWrites, Bridget Willard, and Devin Walker

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This week on WPwatercooler we're discussing how to build a directory site using WordPress
Show airs June 16 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 6PM UTC
Posts 2 Posts « WordPress Plugins

Business Directory Plugin « WordPress Plugins

Search for directory « WordPress Plugins

Ultimate Member « WordPress Plugins

Formidable Pro Form Plugin for WordPress

Gravity Forms Contact Form Builder and Lead Data Management Plugin For WordPress

WP User Frontend « WordPress Plugins

WordPress-WPJobBoard « WordPress Plugins

WordPress Job Board Plugin

Best of NJ Lifestyle: NJ Events, Weddings and Polls – The Best of Everything in One Great State

Events Manager ESS « WordPress Plugins

Factual | The Location Platform Enabling Mobile Personalization
Watch our related episode: WordPress User Generated Content – What to look out for
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This is a replay of the live broadcast with Bridget Willard, Jason Tucker, Tracee Loftus, and Jonathan Denwood.
We're testing SimpleLivePress
Question is Vaultpress a good backup plugin? – @joel_birch

WordPress › Duplicator « WordPress Plugins
BackupBuddy – The Original WordPress Backup Plugin :: iThemes
WordPress › UpdraftPlus Backup and Restoration « WordPress Plugins

Question what do you mean “a tweet lasts 60 seconds”?

How to Embed Actual Tweets in WordPress Blog Posts
WordPress › Click To Tweet « WordPress Plugins
Getting your business online isn't costly with WordPress

Looking for solid webhosting?

SiteGround: Quality-Crafted Hosting Services

Question I just bought Genesis Framework, with the Altitude Pro child theme. Any thoughts/opinions?

Altitude Pro Theme by StudioPress

Question Does Genesis framework lock you into using Genesis web developers if you need customization? Does that become an issue?
Is Your New Website Layout Killing Your Engagement?

Is Your New Website Layout Killing Your Engagement? – Neuromarketing

We discuss user testing

www.usertesting.com

How to disable remote styles using a bookmarlet

Edit Bookmarklet | Edit Bookmarklets at Marklets.com Search Engine

Going oldschool with a guestbook plugin

WordPress › Comment Guestbook « WordPress Plugins

Building your own guestbook with Gravity Forms

WordPress Forms – Gravity Forms Contact Form Builder and Lead Data Management Plugin For WordPress

Displaying a guestbooks of images using Foo Gallery

WordPress › Foo Gallery « WordPress Plugins

Check out WP Tonic

We Specialize in Supporting & Maintaining WordPress Websites

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This week on WPwatercooler we're going to be talking about the various solutions you can use to manage you banner ads on your WordPress website.
Show airs Oct 12 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 6PM UTC
Show Notes:

The AdSanity Plugin
Responsive Ads | Playground from ZURB
Can AdSanity Override AdBlocker? – The AdSanity Plugin For WordPress
WordPress › Advanced Advertising System « WordPress Plugins
Advanced Ads for WordPress
WordPress > AdRotate > WordPress Plugins

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This week on WPblab twitter nerd Bridget Willard and IT Manager and WordPress Web Developer Jason Tucker answer the following questions:
Q: My website loads slow, what can I do to speed it up?
Try changing the following:

Use a caching plugin, we like WP SuperCache if that doesn't work then…
Get a new webhost, we like
Small to medium sites: Siteground
Medium to Large sites: WP Engine
Try a CDN, we like MaxCDN

Q: What is a CDN?
Content Delivery Network
Q: Who is the best CDN?
We like MaxCDN
Q: What is a good CDN for photos that is cheap?
Photon a module that is part of the JetPack plugin is great for a free CDN that optimizes your images.
Q: Whats the best way to make sure my featured images and social images show faces in the images and won't cut them out:
My Eyes are Up Here Plugin
Q: I want to use Adsense on my WordPress site but I'm on WordPress.com
Move to another webhost because WordPress.com doesn't allow adsense on their sites. We recommend Siteground and WP Engine, they are both great hosts

Small to medium sites: Siteground
Medium to Large sites: WP Engine

Q: What is the best way to manage Adsense?
Advanced Ads is the one Jason uses on large sites, it works on smaller one stoo!

They have a pro version too: Advanced Ads Pro
Q: I want to run an accessibility Blab.im, should I get a WordPress site? Should I post the Blab on the site?
Get a YouTube channel going and make sure to look at this site for tips on making your website accessible: http://accessiblejoe.com/

This week's WPblab can be viewed here on blab.im

https://blab.im/d80cbcdb813d428198c9e646fcc7b21f

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* WordPress Essentials episode of WPwatercooler
* SMMOC
* Chris Lema
* Sé Reed Media
* How to use Child Themes in WordPress
* Commerce.io – text based ecommerce
* Commerce.io – example
* WordPress Podcast Themes
* Kindrid – Text to Give
* Give – WordPress Giving Plugin
* Caldera Forms
* What plugin is best for Podcasting? PowerPress
* Jason's talk on Podcasting 101
* WP Dating – Build your own dating site using WordPress
* What podcast player does Jason use? OverCast

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This week on WPwatercooler we're talking about WordPress maintenance.
Show airs Oct 5 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 6PM UTC
Security, mediation, blacklist removal

Sucuri Security — WAF, DDoS Protection, Malware Removal, WordPress Security, and Blacklist Removal
Sitelock.com

WordPress Maintenance Companies

WordPress Support Services Starting at $29 per Month
WordPress Support – 24/7, unlimited small fixes $79 by WP Curve
WordPress Support and Maintenance Services by Maintainn

DIY Maintenance

ManageWP – Manage WordPress Sites from One Dashboard
WordPress -WP-Optimize « WordPress Plugins

An awesome podcast

kitchensinkwp.com

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This week on WPwatercooler we're recapping WordCamp Los Angeles. We'll be joined by their organizers and volunteers to talk about the event.
Show airs September 28 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 6PM UTC
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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be recapping the events of WordCamp Las Vegas 2015. From the location to the keynote and to the most memorable talks we'll be discussing it all.
Show airs Sept 21 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
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This week on WPwatercooler we're going back to the basics and discussing the essentials to running a WordPress website.
Show airs June 16 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
Show Notes

EP153 – Essentials for your WordPress website WPwatercooler
WordPress – Theme Directory – Free WordPress Themes
WordPress – Make WordPress Documentation – Making WordPress Docs
WordPress – Introducing Twenty Sixteen – Make WordPress Core
Web Design and SEO Classes in San Antonio
VaultPress – WordPress Backup and Security
BackupBuddy – The Original WordPress Backup Plugin :: iThemes
WordPress – UpdraftPlus Backup and Restoration – WordPress Plugins
Screen Options – Support – WordPress.comUsing Permalinks – WordPress Codex
WordPress SEO Plugin • XML Sitemaps & more! • Yoast
WordPress SEO Premium by Yoast
WordPress – W3 Total Cache – WordPress Plugins
WordPress – WP Super Cache – WordPress Plugins
Tiled Galleries – Jetpack for WordPress
WordPress – Google Analytics by Yoast – WordPress Plugins
Google Analytics by Yoast • GA WordPress Plugin • Yoast
WordPress – Sidekick – WordPress Plugins
Child Themes – WordPress Codex
WordPress.tv | Engage Yourself with WordPress.tv
EP147 – Where to place the blame when WordPress problems arise WPwatercooler
EP149 – Optimizing WordPress for shared hosting – Aug 17 2015 WPwatercooler
Professional WordPress support for busy bloggers and small businesses » ClickWP
WordPress Support Services Starting at $29 per Month
WordPress Development Stack Exchange
Sucuri Security — WAF, DDoS Protection, Malware Removal, WordPress Security, and Blacklist Removal

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing how to go about improving the UI of your WooCommerce store. From an increase in sales to a better users buying experience we'll cover it all in our 30 minute show.
Show airs Sept 7 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 6PM UTC

WooCommerce One Page Checkout – WooThemes
EP22 – WordPress Child Themes or Starter Themes which is better?
Make — A free drag and drop WordPress theme

3 Things you can do right now

Change font size – your target customers may be older
Learn how you write great copy – Copy Hackers – Copy Blog – Over 50,000 Readers | Copywriting by Copy Hackers | Conversion Copywriting and Web Copy Ebooks for Startup Marketers
Match the call to action with the title

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On this episode of WPwatercooler we will be talking with GoDaddy's Jeff King SVP & GM Hosting, Security along with GoDaddy's Evangelist Mendel Kurland to speak about hosting WordPress sites using their hosting service.
Show airs August 31 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 6PM UTC
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On this episode of WPwatercooler we're talking all about content in WordPress.
Show aired August 24 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC

Post Promoter Pro – The most effective way to promote your WordPress content.
Revive Old Post (Former Tweet Old Post)
NextScripts: Social Networks Auto-Poster
Sendible.com Powerful Social Media Management Software
MeetEdgar.com The only app that stops social media updates from going to waste.

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing tips and tricks for optimizing WordPress for a shared webhosting environment.
Show airs July 17 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
Show Notes
Wikipedia Shared web hosting service

Urban Dictionary “Hosting”
Hosts most of us like
Siteground

Dreamhost

WP Engine
Plugins and Services
Cloudflare

Siteground CachePress

WP-Supercache

W3 Total Cache

Imsanity

Kraken Image Optimizer
For the bit more experienced
Jason Cosper's Common database optimizations for WordPress sites
Hosts we're not too fond of (and why)
Why

$$$
The webhosts:
A Small Orange

Arvixe

BlueHost

HostGator

HostMonster

iPage

JustHost

NetFirms

Verio

Site5

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be answering a viewers email about where to begin and best practices.
Mark Nottingham writes:
As someone who is learning WordPress, HTML, CSS and trying to learn some PHP to develop my own websites, I am interested in what you folk at WPWatercooler use in the main to develop your own sites and themes. I am guessing that you need to know HTML and CSS inside out, but what about PHP considering that WordPress is based on it? What about JavaScript, Jquery? Also what is your work process? Do you start with a Photoshop mock up and transfer that to web? Or do you just go straight to a theme? I would love to hear what you think.
We'll see how much of this we can get though to get his questioned answered.
Show airs Aug 10 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC

Software
Photoshop

Agile Design

Styletiles

Balsamiq

Invision

Coda2

Sublime

Dreamweaver

Aptana studio 3

PHP Storm

DesktopServer
Online Learning
Codecademy

w3schools

Learn PHP

Learn HTML

Learn CSS

Learn jQuery

Lynda

Treehouse

codepen.io

CSS Tricks
Books
Professional WordPress: Design and Development 3rd Edition

WordPress for Dummies

jQuery for Designers
Other Resources
Meetup.com

wordpress.org

wordpress.tv

codex.wordpress.org

Heisenberg Theme

Pragmatic Programmer in WordPress

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None

Professional WordPress: Design and Development

jQuery for Designers : Beginners Guide, 2nd Edition

WordPress For Dummies

On this episode of WPwatercooler we will be discussing “where to place the blame when WordPress problems arise”
Show airs August 3 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC

Blame Avada?
Learn the best way with Lynda
Build your site, learn how to use WordPress and then add additional functionality.
Be responsible, educate your clients on how WordPress work and then how the theme used on the site works.

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing purchasing WordPress themes and plugins from 3rd party marketplaces.
Show airs June 16 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
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This week's WPwatercooler topic is a continuation of last week's topic of building and launching a WordPress plugin.
Show airs July 20 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 6PM UTC

Travis CI – Test and Deploy Your Code with Confidence
WordPress › WordPress Plugins
WordPress › Requests « WordPress Plugins
WP Pusher Aims to Provide Pain-Free Deployment of WordPress Themes and Plugins from GitHub
WP Pusher | Pain-free deployment of WordPress themes and plugins
The WordPress Plugin Boilerplate | A Foundation For Building High-Quality WordPress Plugins
Ship: A New App for Shipping Plugins from GitHub to WordPress.org
Zennaware » Home of Cornerstone Subversion Client for Mac OS X
Cornerstone SVN | Planio
WordPress › The « WordPress Plugins
Style Gravity Forms Easier with Gravity Styles
Gravity Forms: Suzette Style | Gravity Styles
bbPress.org
SupportPress
Retired Themes | WooThemes Documentation
SupportPress | Open source, help desk software
Zendesk.com | Customer Service Software | Support Ticket System
Help Desk Software | Customer Support Software | Support Ticket System
Product Support – WooThemes

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing WordPress plugins from when you should why you should and how you should go about getting started.
Show airs July 12 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC

Pluginception < WordPress Plugins
wordpress.meetup.com
WordPress Codex
The WordPress Plugin Boilerplate | A Foundation For Building High-Quality WordPress Plugins
Professional WordPress Plugin Development: Brad Williams, Ozh Richard, Justin Tadlock
Writing a Plugin < WordPress Codex
In WordPress, prefix everything | Nacin

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Professional WordPress Plugin Development

This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing a topic we hear all the time at our local WordPress meetup: What is a landing page? Why do we need one? How do I make one in WordPress?
Show airs July 6 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC

Landing page – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Squeeze page – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
WordPress › A/B See
www.seedprod.com
LeadPages software – mobile responsive landing page generator
Instapage: Landing Page Software for Better Marketing
Landing Pages: Build Publish & Test Without I.T. | Unbounce
Clickfunnels
OptinMonster – Best Lead Generation Software for Marketers
EP142 – Page Builders, should you use one & which one? – WPwatercooler
Pardot – The B2B Marketing Automation Platform from
WordPress › WordPress Landing Pages
MaxInbound
OptimizePress – Create Landing Pages, Sales Pages & Membership Portals — OptimizePress

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This week on WPwatercooler we will be discussing if you should be using a page builder and if so which one should you use. There are many out there and each has their own approach to working with page content and enabling the admin to design it how they see fit. We'll discuss the ones out there, why you should use them and if you should use one on your next client site.
Show airs June 29 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC

Visual Composer
Beaver Builder
Page Builder
What is a shortcode
Make
Make Plus
Divi – Elegant Themes
Obox – Layers
Pagelines
Headway
VelocityPage – Mark Jaquith
Story Theme
Thrive
Fast Page layout
Aqua Page Builder
Motopress
Themify – Builder
WPMU Dev – Upfront
iThemes – Builder

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing WordPress, plugins and theme updates and some best practices before pressing that update button on your live website.
We'd like to discuss running a local install with Desktop Server and Vagrant, using staging servers, testing plugins before live updating, WP Rollback and techniques on reducing the occurrence of a whitescreen of death, never ending Maintenance Mode and dreaded internal server error.
Show airs June 22 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
Show Notes:

Speak at WordCamp Vancouver | WordCamp Vancouver 2015
Call for Speakers | WordCamp Vegas 2015 | Sept. 19th – 20th | Innevation Center
DesktopServer • ServerPress, LLC.
WPsitecare – WordPress Support Services Starting at $29 per Month
Maintainn – WordPress Support and Maintenance Services
Suzette.Pro
GeekstreetWP.com – WordPress Support Online 24/7
WP Rollback « WordPress Plugins
Code Snippets « WordPress Plugins
WP DEBUG « WordPress Codex
Duplicator « WordPress Plugins
VersionPress – Git for WordPress sites

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On this episode of WPwatercooler we'll be discussing the customizer and what it's current functionality is, what is to come of it and what we'd love to see happen to it. From user to admin to developer we'll talk about it all.
Show airs June 15 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC

WordPress Mentioned in Popular Media #OITNB3 Episode 7 – Suzette Franck
Automattic/o2 · GitHub
This is why we can't have nice things!
WordPress › Feature Plugin Merge Proposal: Menu Customizer « Make WordPress Core
Evolving the Customizer
WordPress › Front-end Editor « WordPress Plugins
WordPress › Make WordPress
WP Make (@WPMake) | Twitter

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be recapping the recent WordCamp OC event. Most of our regulars on the show were part of this event as organizers so we'll share the inside perspective of this camp.
Show airs June 8 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 6PM UTC
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This week on WPwatercooler we're going to be discussing why you shouldn't hack WordPress core and if you feel that you need to ways to achieve the same result.
Show airs June 1 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing the joining of Woo Themes with Automattic.
Show airs May 25 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing building a band or music website using WordPress. From gig listings to embedded audio and video there is a lot that can go into a bands website.
Show airs May 18 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
Audio / Video Streaming

Audio — Support — WordPress.com

SoundCloud – Hear the world’s sounds

Bandcamp

Jetpack supports bandcamp Shortcode Embeds — Jetpack for WordPress

Music for everyone – Spotify

Embeds « WordPress Codex

#Music – YouTube
Audio Podcast

WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE

Welcome to Night Vale – YouTube
eCommerce

Unsigned – Woothemes

#1 Free E-commerce Shopping Cart & Online Store Solution – Try Ecwid!

Easy Digital Downloads – Sell Digital Downloads with WordPress

GigPress
Gigs

Local Concerts and Live Music Recommendations from Bandsintown

Songkick – Concerts, tour dates, & tickets

WordPress Tour Dates Plugin – Bandsintown

WordPress › Tour Dates « WordPress Plugins
WordPress Themes

AudioTheme — Premium WordPress Music Themes
Email Capture & Mailing List

Gravity Forms

Send Better Email | MailChimp
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On this episode of WPwatercooler we're going all out by having a Random Conversation about WordPress Topics. With as much prep as we did for this episode it should be a massively fun filled experience for all.
Show airs May 11 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
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This week we're discussing how you deal with pricing for clients you've had for a while. Old client, new project.
Show airs May 4th at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
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Their week were talking about WordPress 4.2
Show airs April 27 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC

WordPress › WordPress 4.2 “Powell”
WordPress › Working with “split terms” in WP 4.2+
Emoji « WordPress Codex
Embeds « WordPress Codex
WordPress › WP-Clippy « WordPress Plugins
Streamlined plugin updates
New in WordPress 4.2 « Make WordPress Accessible
Add orderby meta_value_num option for WP_User_Query – core.trac.wordpress.org

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This week we're discussing if you can run a large scale website on WordPress.
Show airs April 20 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 6PM UTC
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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing how to create a starter theme for WordPress using Underscores and Zurb Foundation. The crew at Zeek has built a starter theme using Underscores starter theme with Zurb Foundation as the CSS / SASS foundation and built Heisenberg. We'll be discussing how they and others have built starter themes using both Underscores and Zurb Foundation.
Show airs April 13 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC

ZeekInteractive/heisenberg
Steve Zehngut Build a WordPress theme with Foundation and Underscores
getbootstrap.com
Introducing Heisenberg, our starter theme for WordPress
Bower
npm
Library
Getting Started
Media Queries
heisenberg/assets/sass at master
Grunt: The JavaScript Task Runner
BrowserSync + Gulp.js

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Are you a photographer or build website for them using WordPress? On this episode we'll be discussing WordPress websites for photographers.
Show aired April 6 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC

Professional Photographer Instagram Workflow – Flaunt Your Site
Woothemes.com
22768 (EXIF/IPTC captions should populate caption/post_excerpt on upload, not description/post_content) – WordPress Trac
Patrick Rauland Archives – WPwatercooler
Showcase Archive – Art Wolfe
How to Disable Image Attachment Pages in WordPress
Products Archive – William Bay Photographic Arts
Austin Powers “Help! I'm in a Nutshell!” – YouTube
Photon — Jetpack for WordPress
Buy Patrick's Book! WooCommerce Cookbook

Inside baseball links

Live Stream from House Finch Birds Nest – YouTube
Alanis Morissette Ironic Lycics
About DradCast – YouTube
About WPwatercooler – YouTube

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WooCommerce Cookbook

This week we're recapping WordCamp San Diego 2015, talking with speakers, attendees and the folks that made it happen putting in the hard work to pull off such an awesome event.
Show airs March 30 at 11am PT / 2pm ET / 6PM UTC
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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing teaching WordPress. From in person and online education to WordPress meetups we'll be talking about all things WordPress education.
Show airs March 32 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 6PM UTC
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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing using Genesis Framework on your WordPress site. We'll be speaking with WordPress developers that use Genesis and what they like about it.
Show airs March 16 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 6PM UTC

Fernando Genesis Theme
Genesis Child Themes | Premium WordPress Themes
WordPress › Search for genesis « WordPress Plugins
Genesis Framework
MrExcel.com
Helping You Build Great Things-Carrie Dils
Search for “genesis” on ChrisLema.com

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On this episode discussing analytics within your WordPress site. Were going to be discussing all of the different ways to go about analyzing your stats.
Show airs Mar 9 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
Google Analytics

Tealium

Lost's Numbers

Occam's Razor by Avinash Kaushik

Analytics Talk by Justin Cutroni

Yoast SEO

Google Analyticator

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On this episode of WPwatercooler we'll be discussing how to deal with backlash regarding your business, service, plugins or themes.
Show airs March 2 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
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On this episode of WPwatercooler we'll be discussing various gallery solutions for WordPress.
Show airs Feb 22 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
Show Notes:
Robert Dall's Trac Ticket to make Gallery better in WordPress

core.trac.wordpress.org
Plugins Mentioned
Tiled Galleries — Jetpack for WordPress

WordPress Gallery Platform – MaxGalleria

ACF Gallery Field

WordPress Gallery Plugin NextGEN Gallery

Best Responsive WordPress Gallery Plugin

Enhanced Media Library

core.trac.wordpress.org

FooGallery WordPress Gallery Plugin

Instagrate to WordPress

Flickr Album Gallery
Websites using Galleries that we mentioned

Showcase Archive – Art Wolfe

alicia murphy music – video
If you want to win $999 and a Sucuri Security package for building a new and awesome plugin to be judged:

Plugin-a-palooza
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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be talking with free, freemium and premium plugin developers on how they support their WordPress plugins.
Show airs Feb 16 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
Plugins Mentioned:

Pinkify It!

Draw Attention

Paid Membership Pro

iThemes Security

Display Registered Image Dimensions

iThemes Security

WP Rocket
Helpdesk Software:

http://www.helpscout.net/

http://www.zendesk.com
Announcing Plugin-a-palooza at WordCamp OC 2015!!!!
How it works:

Send us your pitch for the type of plugin you’d like to build. Deadline for pitches is February 20.

We’ll confirm your entry into the competition by reviewing these pitches. There is room for 10 teams to compete.

Each team member can only be on one team in the competition.

Build your plugin!

The plugin has to be able to be released in the WordPress repository – in fact, it must be there by May 29. So you’re going to need to submit them to WordPress plugin review no later than May 15th in order to get them approved. This means the plugin has to be completely GPL compliant.
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On this episode of WPwatercooler we will be discussing which comment system is the best and if you even really need one.
Show was recorded Feb 9 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
We discussed the following plugins and services on this episode:
Discus

LiveFyre

IntenseDebate

JetPack Comments

Facebook Comments

Postmatic

WPDiscuz
This episode was brought to you by the letter W.
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On this episode of WPwatercooler we'll be discussing plugins, free and paid services to help you with your WordPress website performance.
Show airs Jan 26 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
Las Vegas WordPress Meetup

9Seeds

Maintainn

GeekStreetWP

JetPack

Update Control

WP Optimize

Sucuri Scanner

Sucuri Security

ManageWP

WordFence

iTheme Security

System Snapshot Report

VaultPress

WP Backup

Updraft Plus

Pagely

SiteGround

WP Engine

Suzette Franck
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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing what someone should look for in a business theme for their WordPress powered website.
Show airs Jan 19 at 11am PT / 2pm ET / 7PM UTC
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On this episode of WPwatercooler we'll be discussing why you should optimize your WordPress site. From plugins to image size to using SVGs we'll be discussing as much as well can in 30 minutes.
Show aired Jan 5 at 11am PT / 2pm ET / 7PM UTC
http://caniuse.com/#feat=svg

https://kraken.io/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/kraken-image-optimizer/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-smushit/

http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/

http://yslow.org/

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/

http://validator.w3.org/

http://quailjs.org/

http://gruntjs.com/

http://gulpjs.com/
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On this episode of WPwatercooler we will be discussing GPL, Trademarks and re-selling other people's plugins.
http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/basics/definitions.jsp

https://twitter.com/wpavengers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_free_and_open-source_software
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This week on WPwatercooler we will be discussing how to go about managing your clients expectations.
Show airs Dec 22 at 11am PT / 2pm ET / 7PM UTC

The Client is always right.
Email is the worst form of communication.
Don't react.
Shut up and listen.
Take ownership.
Don't assume.
Keep your promises.
Tell your client you aren't perfect.
Honesty is the best policy.
You cannot over-communicate.

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On this episode of WPwatercooler we're going to be discussing how one should evaluate inexpensive WordPress hosting. There are many factors to consider when looking at an expensive web hosting. Do you have plans for doing your own backups? Are you able to restore from those backups easily? What if the neighboring website on the same server gets hacked? This cost really that big of a deal? Will it cost you more and extras to pay less per month for web hosting? We'll be discussing this and much more on this episode of WPwatercooler.
Show aired Dec 15 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
Hosts that have inexpensive hosting:
Site Ground

Dreamhost

GoDaddy

Site5

Performance of 7 top WordPress hosting companies compared – WPSiteCare
Backups:
We talked about his on Episode 47 of WPwatercooler watch that episode

Backup Buddy

VaultPress
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On this episode of WPwatercooler we'll be talking with WordPress Meetup organizers around the world and have them share tips for a successful WordPress meetup.
Show aired Dec 8 at 11am PST / 2pm EST / 7PM UTC

The Las Vegas WordPress MeetUp/
WP Vegas
WordPress Naperville MeetUp
WordPress Naperville MeetUp
Milwaukee WordPress MeetUp/
WordPress WP518
OC WordPress MeetUp
OC WordPress

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On this episode of WPwatercooler we'll be sharing with you our list of WordPress Plugins we loved (and not so much) in 2014
Show aired Dec 1 at 11am PST / 2pm EST / 7PM UTC
Favorite plugins in the repo
Jason's Favorite Plugins

Chris Lema's Favorite Plugins

George Stephanis Favorite Plugins

Steve's Favorite Plugins

Suzette's Favorite Plugins
Our Favorite Plugins
AffiiliateWP

Gravity Forms

Gravity Forms addons

Backup Buddy

VaultPress

Advanced Custom Fields

Codepress Admin Columns
NS Automation for WordPress SEO

WordPress SEO by Yoast

Video Thumbnails

User Switching

Adminer

Leadin

Vice Versa

Mashshare

ptypeconverter

WordPress Social Login

WP Migrate DB

Pinkify It

Foogallery
Adopt a plugin

https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/adopt-me
Not so favorites

NextGen Gallery – FooGallery is a great alternative

Types & Views

SlideDeck2

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On this episode of WPwatercooler we will be discussing the changes proposed and being added to WordPress 4.1.
Show airs Nov 24 at 11am PST / 2pm EST / 7PM UTC

http://www.cloudways.com/blog/wordpress-4-1-beta-1-review/
https://www.gavick.com/blog/whats-new-wordpress-4-1/
http://suzettepress.com
http://www.cnet.com/news/checking-out-photoshop-for-chromebooks-network-computing-revived/
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2014/10/29/title-tags-in-4-1/

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This week's topic is, should WordPress go corporate?
Show airs Nov 17 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing the Latest WordPress Design Trends.
SVG & Font Icons

Iconic

http://useiconic.com
* Dashicons

https://github.com/melchoyce/dashicons by mel
* Fontawesome

http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/

http://fontawesome.io/

Examples and inspiration

Swiss Style graphic design
Grid Based Design
airbnb microsite – Will and Chain
I Touched Myself Breast Cancer site (safe for work!)
Kickstarter
Ali Edwards
mobile first design book

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On this episode of WPwatercooler we will be discussing WordCamp San Francisco 2014 and recapping the events that occurred there.
Show airs November 3 at 11am PST / 2pm EST / 7PM UTC

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On this episode of WPwatercooler we will be discussing the best ways for you to monetize your WordPress website.
Show airs October 20 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC

OptinMonster
WPmail.me

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On this episode of WPwatercooler we will be discussing what you should do when your WordPress traffic explodes. New hosting? CDN? Caching? We'll be discussing what things you should do when your site gains popularity.
Show airs Oct 13 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
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On this episode of WPwatercooler we will be discussing the many ways you can give back to the WordPress community. WordPress at it's core is open source and with any open source project it needs the support of the community to keep it going. We'll discuss the ways you the WordPress user, designer or developer can get involved in helping out.
Show airs Oct 6 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
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On this episode of WPwatercooler we will be discussing simple techniques and best practices for securing your WordPress website.
Show airs Sept 29 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC

WordFence
Better WP Security
Brute Protect
Automatic Acquires BruteProtect
Sucuri Security
Crossword
WPSecurityLock
Clef
VaultPress
Google Authenticator for WordPress
How to fix shell shock bash vulnerability
Sucuri Blog
WP Site Care
iThemes Security Pro

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On this episode of WPwatercooler we will be discussing some simple modifications that can be done on any WordPress theme. We'll talk about best practices using child themes to the simplest modifications that anyone can do on any WordPress theme.
Show airs Spet 22 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
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On this episode of WPwatercooler we will be discussing blogging for your business. Learn why blogging regularly for your business can bring you more sales and inform your clients of the type of work you do for your other clients.
Show airs Sept 15 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
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On this episode of WPwatercooler we will be recapping the recent WordCamp LAX 2014 event. We will be speaking with the WordCamp organizers about the events successes, struggles and the laughs along the way.
Show airs Sept 8th at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
Links:

If you attended, please leave a review for each of the speakers: http://wclax.reviews/
Snap Yourself photobooth: http://snapyourself.photos/galleries/14-09-06-wordcamp/

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On this episode of WPwatercooler we discuss treating your WordPress business as a real business and not a hobby. Treat it like a real business and you'll being in more clients, make more money and gain a higher level or respect with your clients. Show airs Sept 1 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC [LISTATTENDEES event_identifier=”wp102-your-wordpress-business-its-not-a-hobby-september-1-2014-5-5403d921cc” show_gravatar=”true”]

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On this episode of WPwatercooler we will be discussing WordPress events that aren't “WordCamps,” why these events exists and which events are out there for you to participate in.
Show airs August 25 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
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On this episode of WPwatercooler we celebrate a milestone, 100 episodes! Join us as we discuss everything that has been going on since our first episode back on Sept 24 2012 and what the future holds for our regulars.
Show airs August18 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
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On this episode of WPwatercooler we will be discussing how to use Foundation framework to build a WordPress theme.
Show aired August 11 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
http://bwawwp.com/using-the-foundation-framework-in-your-wordpress-theme/

http://isitsharkweek.com/

http://themeshaper.com/2014/08/11/sass-comes-to-_s/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-foundation-shortcodes/

http://www.slideshare.net/digibomb/build-a-responsive-theme-in-wordpress-with-zurbs-foundation

http://wpdevtable.com/

http://www.abookapart.com/products/mobile-first

http://wordpress.tv/2014/06/11/steve-zehngut-build-a-wordpress-theme-with-foundation-and-underscores/

http://themefortress.com/reverie/

http://bower.io/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-foundation-shortcodes/

http://foundation.zurb.com/develop/download.html

https://github.com/geoffgraham/FoundationWP

https://incident57.com/codekit/

http://foundation.zurb.com/develop/download.html#customizeFoundation

http://foundationpress.olefredrik.com/

http://foundation.zurb.com/forum/posts/1214-foundation-5–wordpress

http://320press.com/wp-foundation/

http://foundationpress.olefredrik.com/

http://themefortress.com/reverie/

https://github.com/milohuang/reverie

http://torquemag.io/developers-guide-learning-sass-twenty-minutes-less/

https://github.com/shelob9/app_starter

http://callmenick.com/2014/03/26/slide-and-push-menus-with-css3-transitions/

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On this episode of WPwatercooler we'll be discussing all the things you need to know to start and run a successful WordPress meetup. Here in Southern California it seems like we have a different WordPress meetup going on every day of the week. With so many meetups to attend, us SoCal folks have honed our craft to provide great meetups to our visitors. We'll speak with WordPress meetup organizers about how they run their meetups and where/how they got started.
Show airs August 4th at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
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On this episode of WPwatercooler we'll be going back to the basics of blogging and will share our top tips for WordPress blogging.
Show airs June 28 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
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On this episode of WPwatercooler we will be sharing with you the best free WordPress plugins for your website. There are plenty of paid plugins that are staples in our plugin collections but there are plenty of free plugins out there that do just as much and sometimes better.
Show airs July 21 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
Simple Custom CSS

Code Snippets

Google Analyticator

Broken Link Checker (don't leave it activated, but run frequently)

Rainbowify (Suzette and Se love it!)

Photon (part of Jetpack)

Types Plugin (custom post types)

Codepress Admin Column (great for managing all the columns that get added by Yoast SEO)

The Events Calendar (Modern Tribe) – Se's favorite

Buddy Press

Debug Bar Shortcodes

What template file am I viewing

What The File

Event Organizer (Chris Lema)

Updraft Plus (for backups)

Convert Post Types (Steve Z) (for converting Posts to Products, for instance)

Edit Flow

Post Forking

Conditionals (for showing different menus to different kinds of users

If Menu

Google Analyticator (don't authenticate through Google)

Woo Commerce

Exchange

Shopp (Se says its free!)

Regenerate Thumbnails

Query Monitor
Special thanks to Celeste Epstein for the show notes!
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On this episode of WPwatercooler we will be discussing all of the new features in the upcoming WordPress 4.0 release. Show airs July 14th at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
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On this episode of WPwatercooler we will be continuing our discussion on selling WordPress themes as a business and focusing on if you should sell your theme in a marketplace or on your own site. We'll be discussing the various options for each method.
Show airs July 7th at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
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On this episode of WPwatercooler we will be discussing things to think about before starting a WordPress theme company. This part one of a three part series on starting a WordPress theme business.
Show airs June 30 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
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On this episode we discuss what is the best prices for a WordPress theme this from both the seller and the buyers perspective. Show airs June 23 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
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On this episode of WPwatercooler we'll be talking with WordCamp OC organizers, speakers and a few attendees to recap the events of WordCamp OC.

WordCamp OC
Speaker Slides
Speaker Videos on WordPress.tv

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On this episode of WPwatercooler we will be discussing tips for when your WordPress developer or designer goes AWOL We've all been here before, we've hired someone to design or develop a website and mid project the person disappears. Some of us have inherited projects like this or have had to deal with burnt clients and dealt with the aftermath. What should they do and what can they do to minimize the effects of something like this from occurring. This one is going to be near and dear to our hearts, lets share some much needed help on this topic. Show airs June 2 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
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On this episode of WPwatercooler we will be discussing How to understand and use WordPress from a design perspective. This will be a designers only episode (with our regulars joining in, of course). Show airs May 26 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
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On this episode of WPwatercooler we will be discussing the Best / Fastest ways to build a custom theme. Show airs May 19th at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC Links from this episode:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/custom
http://www.westcoastcustoms.com/
http://3daysuitbroker.com/
http://foundation.zurb.com/
http://wptavern.com/introduction-to-underscores-a-wordpress-starter-theme-with-konstantin-obenland
http://roots.io/
http://themble.com/bones/
https://wordpress.org/themes/customizr
http://generatewp.com/
http://www.abookapart.com/products/sass-for-web-designers
http://sassmeister.com/
http://suzettefranck.com/lets-get-sassy-mt_suzettes-talk-minneapolis-wordcamp/
https://netbeans.org/
http://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/
http://make.wordpress.org/themes/guidelines/guidelines-accessibility/
http://gruntjs.com/
http://mor10.com/accessibility-ready-tag-required-wordpress-themes/
http://gulpjs.com/
http://wpbacon.com/tutorials/grunt-wordpress/
http://css-tricks.com/yay-for-hsla/

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On this episode of WPwatercooler we will be recapping WordCamp Miami 2014. Show airs May 12th at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
Related Links
http://2014.miami.wordcamp.org/
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On this episode of WPwatercooler we're talking about WordPress membership sites and the plugins that power them. Live stream starts April 28 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
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On this episode of WPwatercooler we will be talking about red flags, things that tip you off on a horrible project. We've all had that client but we didn't see the tell-tell signs that they are going to be “one of those clients” until it was too late. We'll share with you the red flags that you should look out for when accepting a new project. April 21st at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
Related Links
http://clientcopia.com/
http://clientsfromhell.net/
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On this episode of WPwatercooler we will be talking about what is the best hosting plan for your next website. From shared hosting to premium WordPress only hosting to rolling your own with a VPS we'll be discussing the reasons to use each and why. Live stream starts April 14th at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
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On this episode of WPwatercooler we will be discussing various ways to add some polish to your new WordPress website. Customizing login forms, html emails, url redirection, optimizing SEO, author bio boxes and dashboard customizations oh my. Live stream starts April 7th at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
Caching

W3 Total Cache

WP Super cache
Favicon

wpfavicon
Custom Post Types – At a Glance

Glance That
SEO

WordPress Seo
WP Help

WP Help
UserVoice

User Voice
CodePress Admin Columns

Codepress Admin Columns
IM8

IM8 Box Hide
Webmaster User Role

Webmaster User Role
Hover colors
Font sizes
Awesome examples of 404 pages

http://fab404.com
Browser / Device Emulation

SauceLabs.com

Responsinator.com

Chrome load up Console > show drawer > emulation tab
Protect your clients from themselves

Webmaster User Role
Lightboxes

FooBox

Easy Fancybox/

Simple Lightbox/

Magnific Popup
Author Box

Fanciest Author Box
HTML Emails from WordPress

WP Better Emails
Olark

Olark for WP (Live Chat)

Olark Live Chat service
Editorial plugins

Post Forking/

Edit Flow
Optimizations

WP Optimize
black studio tiny mcd

Black Studio – TinyMCE Widget
Text highlighting

http://sumome.com
Dashboard tweaks

White Label CMS
Sidebars

Custom Sidebars/

Content Aware Sidebars

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On this episode of WPWatercooler we will be discussing various methods to resolve client problems. From early on in the relationship with scope to “I want this to be more red, and make it pop” to “Mr. Client you owe me your final payment” we'll talk about the gotchas and how to resolve client problems. Live stream starts March 31st at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
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On this episode of WPWatercooler we will be discussing when is it appropriate to use WordPress Multisite. Live stream starts March 24th at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
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This week on WPwatercooler we will be discussing the best ways to learn WordPress and what resources we suggest are the best to learn about it. Live stream starts March 10th at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
Show Notes
AdvancedWP Facebook & Google+

StackOverflow WordPress

BobWP

Justin Tadlock

ShopTalk Show

Justbuildwebsites.com

Theme Hybrid

Lynda.com

wpbeginner.com

twitter

Do a talk about something at a meetup

Writing your own content

“The best learning resource is yourself” @mor10

Searching twitter and limiting the timeframe

Update your posts on your tutorial websites

Meetups are a great way to share what you know and learn more of what you don't

WPBeginner Glossary

WPBeginner Guide

Feedly.com

Professional WordPress: Design and Development by Brad Williams

WordPress For Dummies by Lisa Sabin Wilson

WP Tuts+

QueryPosts.com

ChrisLema.com

WordPress.TV

AlistApart
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Professional WordPress: Design and Development

WordPress For Dummies (For Dummies Series)

On this episode of WPwatercooler we will be discussing what is a WordPress theme framework and why should you use one when developing a theme? What if you are not developing a theme, does it matter what framework the theme used? Live stream starts March 3rd at 11am PDT / 2pm EST / 7PM UTC
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On this episode of WPwatercooler we will be discussing the various plugins, services and techniques for managing ads on your WordPress website. Live stream starts at 11am PDT / 2pm EST / 7PM UTC
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On this episode of WPwatercooler we will be discussing the various solutions to find help for your WordPress site. Be it paid services, free services or plugins to make you or your customers lives easier.

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This week on WPwatercooler we will be discussing the various options that photographers have for their websites. Themes showcasing their photos, plugins to build galleries and sliders or tools for selling photos on their website. Live stream starts at 11am PDT / 2pm EST / 7PM UTC
Mentioned Plugins and Themes:

Prophoto

NextGen Gallery

Envira

Soliloquy

Jetpack

Manual Image Crop

TinyPass

Enable Media Replace plugin

Suzette Franck
Media Temple

Developer
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Chris Lema
chrislema.com

Software Architect, Marketer
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Natalie MacLees
Purple Pen Productions

Developer, Designer
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Sé Reed
Sé Reed Media

Developer, Designer, Marketer
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George Stephanis
Automattic

Developer
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On this episode of WPwatercooler we will be discussing which WordPress theme best matches our viewers business goals. People are always looking for a good theme that will take their business to the next level and hopefully reach their goals. Let's discuss which goals are the most popular and what themes would work well for those goals. Live stream starts at 11am PDT / 2pm EST / 7PM UTC

Suzette Franck
Media Yemple

Developer
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Dave Jesch
SpectrOM Tech

Developer, Software Architect
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Chris Lema
Chris Lema

Software Architect, Marketer
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Sé Reed
Sé Reed Media

Developer, Designer, Marketer
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Jason Tucker
Tucker.Pro

Developer
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Alex Vasquez
DigiSavvy

Developer, Marketer

On this episode of WPwatercooler we will be discussing ecommerce with digital downloads. There are many solutions to this and we'll be talking about some that we have provided to our customers.
Live stream starts at 11am PDT / 2pm EST / 7PM UTC

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On today's episode of WPwatercooler we will be recapping the events that occurred in Chandler AZ. Live stream at 11:00am PST

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Live from WordCamp Phoenix #WCPHX 2014 in Chandler AZ

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Live from WordCamp Phoenix #WCPHX 2014 in Chandler AZ

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This week on WPwatercooler we will be discussing the upcoming WordCamp PHX 2014. Many of our regulars wll be attending this event and some of them will be speaking too!
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On this episode of WPwatercooler we'll be discussing how to get started in WordPress theme development. Everyone had to start from somewhere so let's see if we can get our new developer viewers a point in the right direction. Live stream starts at 11am PST on Mondays.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy

http://wphierarchy.com

http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/

never use query_posts()

http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query

http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

http://wphierarchy.com

http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Unit_Test

https://wpcom-themes.svn.automattic.com/demo/theme-unit-test-data.xml

http://make.wordpress.org/themes/

http://themeshaper.com/
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On this episode of WPwatercooler we'll be discussing strategies for blogging more in 2014. We will be discussing tricks, tactics and routines folks should do to blog more in the new year. Show starts at 11am pacific
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Today's topic is WordPress Developer's New Year's Resolutions – How to get better next year.
On this episode of WPwatercooler we are talking about WordPress Developer's New Year's Resolutions – How to get better next year. Live stream starts at 11am PST
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Today's topic is Tips for WordCamp Speakers. We'll be sharing our tips and tricks to a great WordCamp presentation.
WordCamp Speaker Preparedness
Here are some helpful tips for planning and presenting your WordCamp presentation.
Preparing to present:
Practice, practice, practice.
Know your material in and out. You’re speaking as an expert so it’s important that you actually know what you’re talking about thoroughly.
It’s a good idea to run through your presentation out loud several times. This will help you with your timing and your transitions.
Make sure you use the time given to you for your presentation, but leave a few minutes at the end for any questions your audience may have.
Practice your material at a local meetup before taking it to the big time.
Delivering Your Intro:
Don’t start off with slides of your family or pets or vacations. No one is interested in that.
You have 30 seconds to 2 minutes to hook your audience. If you don’t capture their attention within that window, you’ve lost them for your entire presentation.
You might want to start your presentation highlighting what you’ll be speaking about and what you hope they will take away from it.
If you have the ability to arrive a bit early and head to the stage, you can then begin having conversations with your audience in an effort to get them warmed up to you and engaged with you ahead of time.
Slides:
Font size. Make sure your font is large enough to be seen from the back of the room. This is especially important if you’re trying to present code on the screen.
Do not stand there and read your slide to the audience. Keep the slides minimal.
Use the slides as a cue to help you move from point to point. You want your audience focused on what you’re saying rather than reading your slides.
If you do want to have bit more information, don’t just read from it. Some people will want to go back later and reference your slides.
Be prepared for something to go wrong. Save your slides in multiple formats (for Windows and Mac), have it on a USB drive, save it to the cloud , save to dropbox, and have a PDF deck as well.
In General:
Be kind to yourself. No one expects you to be super polished so cut yourself a little slack if you make mistakes.
Know your audience. As you’re speaking, look at the audience and see if they’re engaged. Maybe you’re starting with something to basic or too advanced.
Consider inviting questions at the beginning. Let them know the presentation is for them and you’d like to meet their needs. If someone asks a question on a point you’ll be getting to later, you can tell them you’re getting to that and just hang tight a few minutes.
Saturday sessions usually have more people attending at a beginners level. The Sunday attendees are fewer and tend to be more technically minded.
Make sure your presentation title isn’t cutesy and fun and doesn’t tell them what your presentation is actually about. Articulate what you’ll be speaking on.
Keep in mind that people will be attending 8 or so sessions at a WordCamp. They will not retain everything they heard. Given that, stress that one thing you want them to take away and build a talk around that one thing rather than covering a lot of material.
Mic control is important. Speak into the mic and be clear. If you don’t need a mic because the room is a smaller room, ditch it and talk loudly.
Don’t give the same talk over and over. Change it up! Make new points. You can use the same basic topic but change the delivery. Hit the talk from different angles.
Lastly, don’t be afraid to share your knowledge! Just put yourself out there and do it!
Slide creators:

Reveal.JS – http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/#/
Biggie – http://www.macwright.

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On this episode of WPwatercooler we will be discussing the various form plugins that are available for WordPress, which you should use and why.
Forms show on your website and allow you to put data into the website. Depending on which form you’re using it does different things with it. Forms will take the data and send it to email, paypal, a post… etc.
This allows you to collect data and send it off to another service or save the data and save it for yourself.
In order to decide which form plugin would work best for you since there are so many options and they all do similar things, is really look at what your goals are. What is your work flow, will you get very detailed or keep it simple/ The more info you can provide before looking for the form, you’ll be able to figure out which one will work the best.
It’s important to note that there are certain types of information you shouldn’t be collecting and storing such as credit card information, medical information, or anything about children. With information you collect regarding medical and children, you have a responsibility to make sure it’s HIPAA (medical) or COPPA (child) compliant.
Whatever form plugin you’re using should be captcha compatible.
Gravity Forms is the WaterCooler pick for best plugin.
Form Plugins:

Gravity Forms
Formidable Pro
Formidable Lite
Contact Form 7
Jetpack
Form Maker
Contact Form Maker
Contact Form Manager
Easy Contact Forms
Ninja Forms
Fast Secure Contact Form
Visual Form Builder
Wufoo Forms

Other Mentions:

Mail Chimp
Akismet
Picatcha
WooCommerce
InfoGenius Advanced Form Analytics

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Today's topic is our favorite plugin Jetpack.
What is Jetpack?
It’s a plugin that comes with WordPress, it’s not always automatically installed but it does require an API key in order to work.
Although in some server infrastructures it is automatically installed.
Boiled down, it’s basically a lot of plugins within one plugin.
Jetpack has 2 main focuses. The first is to offer a lot of cloud services that are hard to do on a small shared hosting environment. The second is to offer a closer feature parity to WordPress.com so if someone has their blog on wordpress.com and they want to spin it off into a self hosted site, there are some short codes they may be missing from their content or widgets they might not have. By offering those in Jetpack, they have the ability to let their content flow in either direction.
Some of the Jetpack modules:
Photon – Free image CDN (content delivery network)
Tiled Galleries: With Tiled Galleries you can display your image galleries in three new styles: a rectangular mosaic, a square mosaic, and a circular grid. The rectangular and square tiled layouts also have hover-over captions to save space while making captions accessible.
Stats – WordPress.com Stats lets you know how many visits your site gets, and what posts and pages are most popular.
Likes – is a way for people to show their appreciation for your posts. It's also a way for authors to show the world how popular their content has become.
Notifications – It allows you to view and moderate comments right from the toolbar, anywhere on your site or across WordPress.com.
Happy Face – it’s for non javascript users. It’s an image that’ll be loaded even if you have javascript disabled and triggers that hit.
Json API: Jetpack will allow you to authorize applications and services to securely connect to your blog and allow them to use your content in new ways and offer you new functionality. Developers can use WordPress.com’s OAuth2 authentication system and WordPress.com REST API to manage and access your site’s content.
Publicize: Publicize makes it easy to share your site's posts on several social media networks automatically when you publish a new post.
Contact Form: A contact form is a great way to offer your readers the ability to get in touch, without giving out your personal email address.
Monitor: Jetpack Monitor will keep tabs on your site, and alert you the moment that downtime is detected.
Custom CSS: The Custom CSS Editor allows you to customize the appearance of your theme without the need to create a child theme or worry about theme updates overwriting your customizations.
VideoPress: The VideoPress module allows you to upload videos from your computer for hosting and playback directly within your site.
Gravatar Hovercards: A gravatar is your profile on the web, and the Hovercard is one way your information is made visible to others. It’s an easy way to help people find your blog, or access your identity on other services like Twitter, Facebook, or Linkedin.
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On this episode of WPwatercooler we will be discussing the best ways to work with WordPress Multisite, why should you use it and what are the best ways to extend it's functionality. Live stream starts at 11am PDT / 2pm EST / 7PM UTC
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Multisite
Multisite is the art of having one WordPress installation manage many multiple sites on one WordPress instance. Each site on the network gets its own tables and each site will get its own table except the users table. You get 1 easy way to install plugins and themes and so on.
Three types of multisite:

subdomain
subfolder
virtual domains

When not to use multisite:

If you’re a WP beginner
If you don’t intend to use premium hosting

Good uses for multisite

Creating enterprise level solutions for multiple states/locations/etc
When you have multiple sites that use the same theme
Universities/restaurants/medical facilities/religious institutions/real estate

Highly recommended plugin to help with multisites:

Proper Network Activation
Plugins to break off your database and make it more manageable
HyperDB
SharDB
WPMU – good resource for many multisite plugins

Takeaway:
Know that implementing multisite takes a lot of planning and know how. It might be best for you to hire someone that really knows what they’re doing and plan to keep them on retainer.
If you’re a dev, have a test site to make sure you plugin plays nice in the multisite sandbox. If it doesn’t then document that.
Other Mentions:

DesktopServer

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Today's topic is How to manage events in WordPress. Live stream starts at 11am PDT / 2pm EST / 18:00 GMT
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How to manage events in WordPress
Deﬁne what your requirements are when deciding which plugin to use such as do you need recurring events, purchase tickets, multiple tickets etc. The plus side to a premium plug in – When the business is using a plugin to make money, they should be expecting to pay for a premium plugin that offers good support.
Plugins Available:

The Events Calendar
The Events Calendar Pro
Event Espresso
Timely
All-in-one Event Calendar
Event Organizer
Ajax Event Calendar

Mentions:

Brown Paper Bag
WooCommerce
Gravity Forms
JetPack
Stripe
Eventbrite
WooThemes

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On this episode of WPwatercooler we will be discussing our favorite WordPress people to follow on social media. Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Github Dribble even Instagram! We're not leaving one stone unturned (ok, we may.. this is a 30 minute show!) Live stream starts at 11am PDT / 2pm EST / 18:00 GMT
Google+ mentioned
WPChatter
Advanced WordPress
Twitter accounts mentioned
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On this episode of WPwatercooler we will be discussing mobile solutions for WordPress, themes, apps and ways to integrate mobile with your project.
Mobile solutions
Start by asking yourself what the purpose is? Define what the goal is, who your audience is, how will they be experiencing your website?
If you’re serious about making your site responsive and mobile, start with Mobile First Design by A Book Apart It’ll get you thinking about how people will be interacting with your data and what they’ll likely be doing when accessing your content.
Stop thinking about mobile versions of your site as an afterthought. Think about mobile first before you begin the design process.
Know that they way people use a mobile site is different than how they do on a desktop. Just adding a responsive theme to your site is not going to cut it.
Make sure your mobile site loads fast. No one will wait for your site to load when they’re on the go.
The term “Mobile” means more than iPhone and Android. It means devices that sometimes don’t have color screen, javascript or css, gaming consoles and so on.
25% of your audience will access your site ONLY from a mobile device and that percentage is rising.
Track your stats so you know who’s trying to access your site and how. Gather data through analytics.
One way to implement this is to make your desktop site blazingly fast. You can use picturefill and make sure the content is the main thin you’re seeing, not images and sidebars. On mobile you simply want to see content.
Simple speed tricks
Having a caching plugin in place like WP Super Cache or W3 Total Cache or something better if you have something like WP Engine.
Adding a CDN such as Max CDN so images load as fast as possible.
Aside from the web browser itself what are other ways for taking content from a WordPress interface and display it on a mobile environment?
Appmaker.com
redfoundry.com Both of those will take an rss feed or customized type of feed, and deliver them to an app that you can now use to deliver to an app store.
For more advanced devs
Titanium from Appcelerator
Phonegap – These both take some programming know how.
Some people will take a Json feed or an xml feed from your WordPress site and use something like phonegap which allows you to make a native app with HTML and Javascript and get your content into it that way. The problem with that is you still have to build a static site and all you’re doing is taking a feed from WordPress.
AppPresser is a way to use all of the native WordPress plugins and themes and use that as a native app and you’re able to use things like the device camera, and the contacts etc… through WordPress using the skills you already have. You won’t have to get your hands dirty with native code. Available soon
Other Mentions

Appbreeder
WPTouch
WordPress Mobile Pack
is_mobile()
JetPack
Store Locator
Geo My WP
HTML5Rocks

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Today's topic we will be discussing the use of images and galleries in WordPress. There are many plugins and prebuilt solutions to help with these, we'll be exploring a few of them from the 1000ft level and then digging deeper into our favorites.
Tips for working with imaged and galleries in WordPress
When used correctly (as in do not upload all images or even all files from your computer onto your WordPress site) the new and improved Media Library and its ability to attach and put galleries directly into your post without needing any plugin is pretty amazing.
Make sure you properly name your images so they’ll be searchable.
Plugins for managing images consistency and size:
WP Smush.it which is supported by WP Engine. It has a way of being able to smush down those images, remove the excess metadata and reduce the file size.
Auto Image Resizer: This Plugin reduces all uploaded images to the maximal used image dimensions of your WordPress website.
Imsanity: automatically resizes huge image uploads down to a size that is more reasonable for display in browser, yet still more than large enough for typical website use.
Simple Image Sizes: This plugin allow create custom image sizes for your site. Override your theme sizes directly on the media option page. You can regenerate all the sizes you have just created and choose which one you wanted to regenerate.
Typically if you’re going to use a gallery, especially with a lightbox, what happens is it’ll give you thumbnails with the right size. But the links inside of those actually link to the original full size source file. So if someone has uploaded a 3000×4000 image, that’s what’s going to pop up when they click on the gallery.
Plugins for managing a gallery:
NextGEN Gallery: It provides a powerful engine for uploading and managing galleries of images, with the ability to batch upload, import meta data, add/delete/rearrange/sort images, edit thumbnails, group galleries into albums, and more.
Soliloquy: This plugin is technically a slider and it has an addon called (see next)
Soliloquy Thumbnails Addon: and what that does is it puts an image on top which is the slider and puts the thumbnails of the rest of the pictures below it which is the gallery. These plugins are responsive.
Other Mentions:

ACF Advanced Custom Fields
Foobox
Picturefill: A javascript file that allows you to serve up responsive images.
WP Engine
Colorbox
Simple Lightbox
Jetpack Carousel

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Today's topic is WordPress 3.7, auto updates and quick iterations.
3.7 released in October and 3.8 will be released in December. Is that a good/reasonable release schedule?
It’s possible that this kind of release schedule will create more diligence as far as custom theme developers in keeping the standards and prevent “hacked” versions of themes.
A rapid release cycle is a discussion about how they’re going about building WP so instead of everyone contributing to 1 branch of the code that will hopefully get rolled in and become the new version, they’ve decided to approach it via plugins.
They rapid release approach is an approach that changes the model for how they construct software and how they collaborate to build software.
Auto updates: it’s less about HOW things get built, it’s much more about how things stay updated for customers. Right now the auto updates are really related to security updates, small patches.
The “dot” releases ( ex .1 and .2 versions) are security releases and not functionality changes. Moving from 3.6 to 3.7 is a functionality difference. People will have to move from 3.7.1 or 3.7.2 to 3.8
34,000 people had been on the previous release and they did the auto upgrade to the release candidate 1, and no one had to roll back. The code was looking to see if anything broke, and nothing did. They aren’t looking at small things such as plugins and widgets, but making sure everything is functioning properly. The code appears to be stable long with the update process.
If you use standard plugins that are well maintained, there typically won’t be many problems. Problems arise when people are using themes and plugins that are several years old.
Whatever technology you’re using, just pay attention to ratings and # of downloads and how often they update the technology of the theme or plugins you’re using.
Keep in mind you have the ability to turn off auto updates. If you choose to allow auto updates, it’s imperative you have good, current backups of your files and database and NOT stored on the same server as your production server. Of course you should be doing regular backups anyway, but especially if you’re allowing auto updates. We talked about his on EP47 – Backing up WordPress regularly and before an upgrade – WPwatercooler – August 12 2013
VaultPress is an excellent option for storing your backups. There are 3 pricing tiers you can chose from.
A few more WordPress 3.7 features:

Stronger passwords built into core.
Improved search results
More global support (Language packs)
Read more here

Other Mentions:

Go Daddy
MediaTemple (mt)
Jetpack
SearchWP
Search Meter
FacetWP

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Today we are talking about the latest plugins we are using in our day to day WordPress web development.
What’s a Plugin?
A plugin is architecture which allows users and developers to extend WordPress's abilities beyond the core installation. Each plugin offers custom functions and features enabling users to tailor their sites to their specific needs. These customizations range SEO (Search Engine Optimization) enhancers to content displaying features, such as the addition of widgets and navigation bars.
Our new favorite plugins
Codepress Admin Columns: Allows you to add extra columns to admin screens – aka backend. You can tweak every post type and how it displays from the admin screen. This is highly recommended customizing your backend and have access to data you wouldn’t normally see. It’s also really fantastic for photographers.
WP Migrate DB Pro: You’re able to push and pull databases to and from your local environment and a staging or production server. It allows you to sync between a test site and live site. $39 for 2 sites. Unlimited is $99.
Brandfolder: You can go into your dashboard and access any brand assets like a logo or a logo bug and that kind of thing and put it in the file section. It lets you also upload fonts and if you use Google Fonts it shows you a preview of the font in the dash board. You can put in color palates so if they have a web color and print color, you can put the colors on the same color swatch. It’s totally free, but you do need to sign up for a free account.
Soliloquy: Responsive slider. Makes slide decks for presentations.
Slide Deck: makes slide decks for presentations
Forms 3rd Party Integration: Connects a form plug in, either Gravity Forms or Contact Forms 7, and connects it to a 3rd party source. If you need to post info from a form to a custom CRM, it allows you to do that. It has hooks and filters built into itself. It has a full customization panel.
Before – After Viewer: Your gallery that can show one or a list of before/after items
infoGeniuz Form Analytics for Gravity Forms: (In the paid version) You can set up virtual pages so when they finish inputing information into a gravity form, it will trigger an event in Google Analytics that will allow you to know when someone has finished a form in jquery.
iMapper – WordPress image mapper: You can put up an image and add hot spots on the image for presentations. This is a paid plugin.
What the File: For Theme Developers. It allows you to go to any page on your blog or website that has a drop down on the admin bar that allows you to see which template files are making up the existing view. Great debugging tool.
WordPress Debug Bar: Another good plugin for developers
Video Thumbnails: It pulls in thumbnails from any url you’re using for embed codes from all the major video services. You can even make a featured image for you. WPWatercooler uses this one.
Fluid Video Embeds: Makes any any youtube and vimeo video fluid so that your video is responsive.
Simple Lightbox: Anything you have linked to the media file pops up in a nice lightb...

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Social media is here to stay, whether you like it or not. What is the best way to use it on your WordPress powered site and when not to do it. We'll be talking about how it affects performance and which plugins to use to get the job done.
Keep in mind there is a difference between “Social Media” and a “Social Network”
Defining Social Media: An outlet for social interaction
Blogs (especially with comments)

A WordPress site
Major Social Networks:

Facebook
Twitter
Pinterest
LinkedIn
Tumblr
Google+

Do’s and Don’ts of Social Media:
Do:
Make it easy for people to share your post

Have social share buttons on your posts (Jetpack)

Easy to look at and share on a phone

Choosing relevant titles for content you intend to share

Target your audience – Make sure you know who your audience is so you get the most out of your SM push
Don’t or Use your best judgement:
Use affiliate links

Use automatic publishing to push to Facebook
Tools for Integrating Social Media into WordPress:

Lazy Social Buttons – Plugin When using SM Buttons, your site will have a performance hit. You’re pulling data from SM sites and that’s extra info being pulled into your site. Lazy Social Buttons is a plugin you can use to help speed things up. It uses an image rather than the dynamic content from SM sites. It loads things on the site much faster. The downside is you won’t get the stats you might value from this method.
Floating Social Bar – Plugin Does the same as the above but allows you to receive the stats.
Evergreen Post Tweeter – Takes old posts and will send out tweets linking back to your older content. This works best for “evergreen” content
Tweet Old Post – Does same as above
Sociable
Share This – It’s configurable and you choose which SM site you want to post to
Inline Tweet Sharer

Mentions:

BuddyPress
Disqus
Jetpack
Klout
Instagrate (Makes new blog posts with your instagram pictures)

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On this episode of WPwatercooler we're going to be discussing meetups.
We'll be discussing: how to find one, how to run one, why would you do either and what are the motivations or running one or attending.

What is a meetup? A great way to get like minded people together and share ideas.

Steve: OCWordPress began with the intent of finding local WordPress talent in order to outsource overflow work for his company.
Natalie: SoCal WordPress MeetUp Los Angeles started Feb 2009 after reading an article about MeetUp.com. She started the WordPress meetup after finding a void at meetup.com
Patrick: Greenbay WI – Someone set up a group on MeetUp but never actually did anything with it even though there were plenty of people that joined the online group. He decided to run the meeting.
Se: WP for Small Businesses – The organizer for the group left the group so she decided to take over the group.

One of the hardest parts of organizing a meetup is finding the space. Here’s how some of the organizers handle that.

Steve: they outgrew their office rather quickly so he looked for a location for his business that could also handle a large gathering of people and move his company into there.
Suzette: WordPress for Artists – She found an art gallery that was willing to host the meetups.
Verious: Inland Empire meetup. They had a very hard time finding space. It took about 8 months to be able to find a regular location. Now they meet at a hacker space called Riverside IO.
Se: She works with the Small Business Dev Center and they have a satellite office she can use in Long Beach.
Chris: North San Diego County Meetup: One of the people that wanted to join the group is a firefighter and worked it out so they could use the firehouse for their meetups.

What’s a good way to come up with topics for your meetup? Have a companion Facebook group. Get your fellow attendees to join the group and keep the conversation going between meetups. Then you can source the group for topic ideas.
Topics are dependent on who is in the room/group. Find out if they’re designers or developers, end users or what. Don’t be afraid to have a small focus for your group. It’s often better to have a smaller turnout of like minded people than a large group of people at all levels.
Does anyone charge for their meetup? No. In the beginning, Natalie tried to charge to recoup costs for the space that she sometimes had to pay $100+ for. That didn’t work very well.
They’ve all found that no one wants to pay to attend a meetup no matter what the charge is.
Meetups are a good way to test out your material before presenting to a larger audience.
Happiness Bar: It’s a way for people to ask an expert questions they have about WordPress
If you’re looking for a WP meetup, go to wordpress.meetup.com. There are 490 groups with over 100k members. If you don’t find a local group, start a meetup! There are 19 meetups in the SoCal area. If you can’t find a local group, check meetwp.me They have an online meetup.

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On this episode we are recapping the events that happened during WordCamp Los Angeles 2013.
WordCamp LAX was really smooth and well managed. General thoughts are that it was hard to imagine this was a first time organizer group for a WordCamp. It was also representative of life and diversity in Southern California.
Events
Friday: The traditional Speaker/Sponsor dinner in Hollywood
Saturday: All day sessions running in 2 rooms at Cal State LA followed by the after party at the Blue Cow Kitchen and Bar in Downtown LA.
Sunday: Afternoon sessions at Cross Campus in Santa Monica
Q: Why did the organizers decide to spread the weekend out over the Greater Los Angeles area instead of keeping it to one location for the weekend?
A: Natalie has a really good relationship with Cross Campus and immediately thought it would be perfect for the smaller Sunday event since not as many people attend the Sunday event as they do the Saturday event. The Saturday venue needed to be much larger, and they were having trouble finding an appropriate location. Cal State LA kind if “fell into our laps” and it just worked out that way. It wasn’t planned to cover the east side and west side.
Saturday Presentations
Steve: Really enjoyed Paul Clark’s talk on Saturday Sass and Less CSS. He’s a great speaker and funny with a great sense of humor. He inspired Steve to research Sass and work it into the development process.
Steve also liked Konstantin Obenland presentation The Customizer and learned a lot.
Sass is a different way of creating CSS much more efficiently.

Jeff: Favorite was Paul Clark.
Jeff also enjoyed Scott Bolinger’s talk on Lesser Known but Super Hip Responsive Design Tricks.
Jeff was also inspired to take the information from Konstantin’s presentation and implement it into his own work.

Chris: Was anticipating the WordPress Consulting for Large Companies by Karim Marucchi, John Giaconia and Kara Hansen. A collaborative presentation between Velomedia and The Walt Disney Company.

Takeaway for future presenters
Speak on a topic that you know. It’s that simple. If you know your topic, it becomes a conversation and that’s what makes a good session. A good session is not reading off of slides. It’s when an audience is responsive to what you’re talking about.
WPwatercooler Saturday presenters

Steve: Underscores – The only theme that matters
Chris delivered the Keynote
Se: DIYWP: Making WordPress Work for Your Small Business
Suzette: You’re Live! …Now What?: Post Launch Setup Process and Procedures

WPwatercooler Sunday Presenters

Jason: Improving Support Documentation by Using Video in the Dashboard
Jeff: Part of the Business Panel Discussion

Mentions

Huberts Lemonade (sponsor of WCLAX and provided a ton of cold bottles of lemonade to attendees.
GoDaddy

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WPwatercooler streamed live with a panel from WordCamp Los Angeles 2013. We rounded up some of the brightest names in WordPress from the camp and got them on the show to talk shop and share their experiences. Due to low bandwidth issues at the event the video cut out at the beginning of the discussion.
Many of regulars and past guests that have been on the show will be speaking at the event, here is our compiled list:

Cody Landefeld – Building your start-up with WordPress, Business Panel Discussion
Jeffrey Zinn – Business Panel Discussion
Mike Schroder – Command Line Workshop
Sarah Wefald – What is a child theme, and why/how should I use one?
Sé Reed – DIYWP: Making WordPress Work for Your Small Business
Steve Zehngut – Underscores – The only theme that matters
Suzette Franck – You’re Live! …Now What?: Post Launch Setup Process and Procedures
Wes Chyrchel – Setting Client Expectations in WordPress Web Development
Scott Bolinger – Lesser known but super hip responsive design tricks
Chris Lema – Keynote: The Commoditization of Intellect
Jason Tucker – Improving support documentation by using video in the dashboard.

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On this episode of WPwatercooler we celebrate about our first birthday and discuss the year in review. Live stream starts at 11am PST Mondays
The one year anniversary of WP Watercooler
Favorite Episodes:

Episode 28 – April Fools Day show – Drupal Watercooler
WordCamp Live shows
Orange County
Phoenix, Day two
Miami, Recap
Show and tell

Favorite Guests:

Siobhan McKeown
Andrew Norcross
Carrie Dills
Jeff Zinn
Sarah Wefeld
Morton Rand-Hendriksen
Natalie MacLees

Stats as of the September 16:

54 Guests on the show
2,982,983 episode views

Other WP podcasts:

DradCast
Matt Report
This Week in WordPress

Mentions:

github
jetpack
Media Temple
blamelema

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This week on WPwatercooler we will be discussing analytics for WordPress.
Analytics is the way you go about tracking information about the people going to a website. It tells you how they’re arriving on your site, what pages they’re viewing, browser type, country of origin.
There are 2 types of analytics.
Site based: Input code into the site and google will monitor the flow of traffic to/around/from your site.

People Based: It answers “What are the people doing on the site?” You can follow a person’s movements through your site.
What can you do with GA?

real time analysis
segmentation
integration of specific goals (such as tracking purchases and newsletter sign ups)
track pages they took to get to certain pages
Follow the dollars they spend

What are resources to learn GA
Beginners should look at WPBeginner

Google offers its own training as well. sign up for free and go through their library of resources

GA is constantly changing so you should look at those resources often

Spend time using it as much as you can

Jetpack
How long should you wait with a new site before really getting into GA?
At least a month or 2 for a new site.

If it’s an older site that just wasn’t tracking, there might be data available pretty quickly

Jetpack (plugin) is a great place to start for learning GA. You get the basics such as page views and growth, common search terms, outgoing links and more.
Once the novelty of GA has worn off and you will begin to want more detailed information. Be more strategic in what you want to track and make that information work for you.
You are able to set up a custom analytics dashboard.
Jason highly recommends Occam’s Razor. He makes really great prebuilt analytics dashboards you can install with a click and drop on all of your site profiles.
Clients should be in charge of their own analytics. If you need access or they want you to monitor the analytics, they should add you as a user to their GA account. We really recommend you keep client analytics separate from your own GA account.
Mentions:

Jetpack
Yoast SEO
Yoast Analytics
Occam's Razor
OCWP Meetup
Woopra

Analytics Services

Google Analytics
Slim Stats
CrazyEgg
clicky.com
chartbeat
orbtr.net
Analytics360

Higher-end Analytics Services

Dashfolio
Cohort Analysis
Mixpanel
Custora

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Today's topic is Learning resources – What's the best way to get started with WordPress?
Chris’ best tip for any and every WordPress beginner question is to go to google and type in “WP Beginner” and then write your question.
Sarah suggests getting offline and going to a local reputable WordPress meet up. Instead of just reading blog posts and tutorials, get in front of people that know WordPress. Have a conversation in person.
Go to wordpress.com, set up a site and just start playing with it.
About WPBeginner – 95% of articles come from users submitting questions.
You’re always going to be a beginner of sorts because WP is always changing. You’ll always have to be learning.
If you really do know WordPress, be a resource yourself! “Know enough to know what you don’t know.” If you don’t know something, don’t give out bad information.
Resources for WordPress beginners:

WP Beginner (free)
Lynda.com (paid)
Suzette’s Speaker Deck from WC Vancouver
teamtreehouse.com
WordPress for Dummies by Lisa Sabin-Wilson
WP101
carriedills.com for more advanced beginners
wpsessions.com
chrislema.com
quora.com
wordpress.tv
YouTube video tutorials
Find a local wordcamp
support.wordpress.org
StackExchange

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WordPress All-in-One For Dummies

On this weeks episode we will be discussing ways to speed up your WordPress website. This includes plugins that speed it up, explain caching and CDNs, and talk hosting providers that help.
Caching – A way of taking the content and storing it into something more static to that gets pushed out to the internet.
CDN – Content Delivery Network, the way you distribute all of the content be it Java, CSS or images out to a 3rd party that has fast servers.
What are possible causes for a site running slow?

It’s possible that the issue is with your code and no matter where your site is hosted it will be slow.
Themes can also be an issue.
Often problems happen on the front end with a lot of or inefficient JavaScript, large image sizes. Image optimization is key.
Media in general takes up a lot of bandwidth.

What are some possible solutions to slow running sites?

Hosting with a company that provides SSD (solid state drive) technology. SSD currently serves data at the fastest speed available. Compare hosts and find one that uses SSD rather than spindle based drives.
Use P3 Profiler (Plugin Performance Profiler) Use P3 to see which plugins are slowing your sites down. The plugin creates a performance report for the site.

CDN Solutions:

Amazon s3
MaxCDN
Cloud Flare
Google Page Feed

Caching

Use a plugin
W3 Total Cache (not recommended not for the casual users, difficult to use, not set it and forget it)
WP Super Cache – Recommended
Hyper Cache – Recommended
Hosting company
WP Engine
Page.ly
Dreamhost
HostGator
Site Ground
Cloud Flare

Once you’ve run optimizations, how do you check to see if your site is actually faster?

Webpagetest.org
Pingdom
yslow
Google Page Test
GT Metrix

Mentions:

WP Engine
GoDaddy
WPSitecare
P3 Profiler
Jetpack
Photon
Sass
Less
DB Migrate Pro
Lightroom
Photoshop
Gimp
smush.it
JPGmini
CSS Tricks

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Today's topic is Working locally instead of cowboy coding where we will be discussing local web development utilizing tools such as XAMPP MAMP WAMP and other tools like DesktopServer, Vagrant or even Vagrantpress.
Beginners
For beginners Suzette suggests they use DesktopServer because it’s easy to install and you don’t have to ruin your server testing everything out and can test locally.
Shooting from the hip
Cowboy Coding: is when you make live changes to a website everyone can see. If you do anything that might break your site, you’re cowboy coding. You’re pulling the trigger and hoping something doesn’t break.
Local Server
So why use a local server?

It’s too easy to make 1 little mistake and break everything. Doing it locally prevents you from taking the site down live. This way you’re making changes and testing it out on a local server and if something breaks, it won’t take down the entire website.
You get good speed because you aren’t waiting for the internet to load.
You can work with no internet connection at all.

Test Environment
When is it necessary to make that test environment? Some sites are very small and don’t get a lot of traffic. So is it necessary to have a testing environment for those sites?

Steve: Yes you need a testing environment and you need it right away.
If the content is important to the user, then a test environment is very important.
Say something breaks, what good are backups if you can’t repair them locally?
It’s a good habit. Always do it the same way and you’ll be safer.

From the local server you can send it to a staging server to test out before then moving on to a full deployment.
Version Control
Is it always important to always have version control to roll back to previous versions?
For “casual” sites, no. They can use something like DropBox and have the “poor man’s” version control. They can learn the ropes and then segue into a more mature solution such as Git or Subversion.
DesktopServer
About DesktopServer

It’s quick and simple to use. You can set up to 3 sites with the free version and have a local working environment right away. DesktopServer takes something that was really difficult and tedious to do, and makes is quick and simple.
Before going from local to deployment DesktopServer will go through and “scrub” the site to make sure the links have been changed before going live.

Staging Server
It’s really good to move from a local server to a staging server before deployment. It’s likely there will be issues moving from an Apache server to a server running Nginx. There are also PHP versions that aren’t compatible. MySQL may also cause problems.
You don’t have to go with a company that provides staging, you can create your own with your host via sub domain. If you do this, make sure you block robots or set up a log in page or you might get an angry call from a client asking why your agency staging site ranking higher than their website.

Hosts that provide staging servers:

WP Engine (1 click staging)
Site Ground

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On this episode we will be focusing on tools and techniques to backing up a WordPress installation and how to backup before a major upgrade.
Backups are really important, and everyone should backup their sites.
It doesn’t matter what platform you’re using, you need to be checking your restores every now and then to make sure that in the event of a site crash, your backups will work. Make sure your backup is going to a separate server and NOT on the same server your site is on.
How often should you backup?

It really depends on the site and how your site changes.
It’s content dependent. If you have a site that puts out content all day, your would do well to back up several times a day.
Many sites back up nightly.
If you’re in e-commerce and having a lot of customer transactions in a day, you need to back up multiple times a day.
Back up every time you make any change whether it’s upgrading WordPress, a plugin, activating a plugin, updating a theme, anything.

Ways to test your backup/restore:
Restore it locally on a desktop server – DesktopServer is built for just about anyone. It’s a single solution you install on your computer. It creates an entire environment for a WordPress site.
On Migration:
If you pick a host, and your site fails, having a backup is important so you can migrate to another server. The same infrastructure can be used to get you to a different server/solution/company. Some hosts will do the migration for you if you give them a good backup
Solutions for Backing Up in WordPress

Backup Buddy
Sucuri
VaultPress – will restore a backup to a new site
WP Engine – Provides instant restore points with 1 click
WordPress backup to Dropbox (Free option)
BackWPUp
Desktop Server

Other Mentions:

Host Gator
AutoMattic
Dropbox
Amazon S3
WPMigrate DB
Server Press
1&1 WebHosting
Site Ground
GoDaddy
MediaTemple

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Today's topic is Future proofing your WordPress website. The topic was suggested to us by Julie Kuehl.
How do you keep a website up to date?
It’s a misconception that once the website is built it’s done. A website is not set it and forget it. It’s a relationship that you have to nurture and take care of it.
You need to articulate to your customers that the expectation is they need to invest not only in their content, but consider a refresh in the future be it a month, a year or several years.
With WP it isn’t just about content upgrades, but security updates. It’s like a car, you have to get the oil changed or even a new car.
The 1st rule of future proofing a site is Don’t Touch Core!
Se: It’s not possible to future proof a website. you can upgrade the website, you can add in new coding, you can revise some things, build a whole new theme… but it’s not possible to make a set it and forget it website that will withstand upgrades. If you make a themes, you’re going to have to revisit that code in a year or 2.
Jeff: Stay on track and watch the release candidates so you know ahead of time what will come out. Then you can be ready for your clients and let them know a change is coming because of A B and C.
Explain to people you get what you pay for. If you wanted a ferrari but paid for a yugo, you get a yugo.
With WordPress, there is no “stable”. Plugins and themes are constantly being upgraded. We need to make clients aware that this is not a one time fee thing. They will have to update their website.
Chris: At the core of it, defining what success is and building towards success rather than what’s beautiful is core of how you stay in that middle ground. Clients: If the website is consistently delivering customers, even if the site begins looking dated, you’re in a good spot.
Customers may not be as interested in having the latest and greatest upgrades are you are. If their site works well and they are happy with it, sometimes it’s best just to leave it be.
Clients often only care about the look of the website. They need to know that even if they don’t want to change the look of the website, they still have to be made aware that they still have to update the backend of the website or the entire foundation is going to crumble.
When you decide what plugins to use, having a conversation with your peers is key. Make sure you use plugins that are from reputable people. Ask the community what plugins they work with. Ask around and find out who you should be working with and who won’t burn you down the road.
Whenever you pick any platform and build on it, you want to be thinking about what happens in the future when stuff changes.
If you can make your content portable and keep your content separate from the look and functionality of the site, you should be ok. You’ll always have your data and can save your data and import it into something else.
Tell clients that you can’t make a 100% guarantee that plugins will always work. You don’t control WordPress or plugins. Updates will be made. It happens and it’s not in your control.
A maintenance agreement does NOT have to equal monthly payments. It’s an agreement about what is included in maintenance and it’s a description of what you will charge and what rate they will pay to get that maintenance done.
The group agrees there is no way to absolutely “future-proof” a website, but you can be prepared.
Products we mentioned

BuddyPress
WooCommerce
Genesis
Catalyst
WP All Import

On this episode of WPwatercooler we will be discussing WordCamp SF 2013, the State of the Word address and after parties.
The Hallway Track
There are many “Man” or “Woman on the Street” interviews that were conducted by Jason Tucker and Se Reed. Those can be found soon on the WordCamp San Francisco WordPress.TV page.
State of the Word
State of the Word address by Matt Mullenweg:

OCWP got a big shout out for their 10th anniversary party.
WordPress release cycle – updates and plugins will be updated the most
The release of 3.6 has been postponed
3.7 and 3.8 release being so close together will create a lot of problems for people that use it in an enterprise setting
Matt said the releases will be small updates with less iterations

Video can be found here: State of the Word 2013
Our favorite sessions
Mike Schroeder – WP CLI (command line interface) talk was really excellent. His talk isn’t stagnant. He’s constantly fine tuning it so there is always good, new information.
Helen Hou-Sandi – Customizing the WP Admin interface
Carrie Dills – her talk “Co-opetition” Cooperation, collaboration and competition was great. She highlighted best of competition as well as collaboration.
Josh Broton – on Responsive Design. There were 2 huge takeaways: 1) making photoshop images 2.2x bigger and setting quality to 0 then scaling down in the browser saves a huge amount of work. 2) Text in line? justify for grid layouts, if you text in line justify the parent elements and use display inline block on the child elements, you can have completely justified grid system.
Natalie MacLees – Her room was packed out. She gave her talk in a really compelling story-telling manner.
Mika Epstein – Don’t Use WP Multi-Site. She gave basics of what the watch out for if you want to use WordPress multi-sites.
Ian Stewart – Themes – Super passionate and really inspirational. Do not miss it when it’s on WordPress TV
Contributor Day

The most people that have ever gone to contributor day.
Steve learned how to commit a patch
There was a large focus was on the support and documentation team. That’s where Se and Suzette spent their time. They worked on the Theme Developer Handbook. There will be no standardization for theme options.

Shout out to the Dradcast
Activities we did after WordCamp San Francisco 2013

Pandora Karaoke Bar
Tonga Room
Fang

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Today's topic is “The responsibilities you have as a contractor” and it was suggested to us by Steve Zehngut
We’re asking where their responsibilities end in a project and do you define it up front?
Some clients are looking for a firm that will be a “one stop shop” meaning they want someone that will provide logo, social media, website, content. So as a contractor, what do you do?
There is a benefit to being a one stop shop. Some clients don’t want to hire a lot of people to handle all of those aspects. If you are skilled enough to do it and willing, you will likely be hired and therefore have a job. This is a good way to start, but after a while, you might find your niche and start dropping some of the items you don’t enjoy.
As a contractor, it us your responsibility to be completely up front about what is AND isn’t included in the project. Be very clear about your expectations. Communicate, communicate and communicate.
Often potential clients will assume you will be handling an aspect that you have no intention in taking care of, such as content. Several panelists include a sheet with services included. This page tends to spark the most conversation between the client and contractor. If they are asking for a service you don’t provide, let them know you would be happy to refer or subcontract out the portion of the job you don’t do to someone that does that type of work.
Contractors are consultants and guides, not order takers. There should be a conversation throughout the project with the client.
Utilizing a Scope of Work.
Wes’ process: He uses Freshbooks. If anything changes from the original Scope of Work, even if it’s a small change or addition to the original contract, he sends them an estimate that they have to accept before he does the work. When they click “accept” it makes them more mindful that they are asking for changes.
Using a Scope of Work for ALL jobs large or small helps you come across professionally.
If you do a lot of “little” jobs, but you don’t keep records, when the client comes back to you for the “big” job, you won’t have the proof that you’ve done a lot of “little” jobs for them already and now you need to charge more. Record keeping and invoicing often will help show the progression of the smaller projects leading up to the larger one.
When does maintenance start?
Suzette: Once project is finished and delivered and they have made their final payment – anything extra from that point on (updates to code or data entry, etc…) that will be extra. If it’s a “bug” that was your own fault, you should take care of that without charging extra.
Chris: When he’s finished and deploys to his public facing server that they can access, and the work he was hired to do only the development effort (and it’s not in the contract that he will deploy to their servers) then he’s “done done.” Maintenance starts the day he deploys to his server.
Steve: Like Chris, he does not tie maintenance to launch but to delivery. Once the project has been delivered and given the ok, that is when a separate maintenance agreement would begin.
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Today's topic is about Documentation. Documentation for a website, plugin or theme is an important component of a project. It allows the uninitiated to work with your code on either the web side of things or adding to your existing code. Documentation enables your customers to understand how to use what you have built for them. Commenting your code isn't enough, not everyone reads and interprets PHP and Javascript so taking the extra effort to explain how to use what you built will save people time, frustration and racking up support tickets for you to deal with. On this weeks topic of WPwatercooler we will be discussing documentation of all aspects. How does the customer expect the documentation to be and how a web developer can save money in spending the extra time writing, updating and cultivating good documentation for their customers.
Why are some companies so bad at providing documentation?
If you’re a developer and you’ve spent many hours writing code working with or creating API’s, and you want to bring on a 3rd party and have to explain the code, it can take as long to explain the code as it was to write the code. It can ultimately defeat the purpose.
On the flip side? If you employ someone to do the documentation they come with a different perspective to you. As a developer you’ve been immersed in the code for a long time but they will look at it with a fresh set of eyes. Often the developer will struggle to explain it to the non-developers, user documentation writers and novice users. An outside writer is like having a translator for you. The turn “geek” into “normal language.”
Developers really don’t like writing documentation. It’s a lot of work and a time suck. As things change, your documentation is immediately out of date.
How to get better at creating documentation:
There needs to be a differentiation between developer documentation and user documentation. The developer can pass off their own documentation to the write who then creates user focused documentation.
Jason Coleman talks briefly about the process used by Paid Memberships Pro: Once they’ve finished development and put out a heavy release, they shut down development and move into a documentation period.
If you’re finding that you get more user questions from your documentation, your documentation might be the problem. Test it out on a novice developer.
Documentation is no substitute for a good user experience. If you’re back end is a total mess, documentation doesn’t matter a lot. It doesn’t fix bad code.
What about video documentation?
Downside: screencasts take a long time to produce something professional
Upside: If you don’t care about it being professional, you can create something quickly that should answer basic questions. It’s good for many end users, however no everyone wants to spend the time watching a video. Sometimes they just want to get into the doc, find their answer and get out.
Different types of documentation:
Inline documentation with your code
Inline documentation and help info around elements in the GUI
Free documentation as a download
Forums
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So what makes a good shared web host? Is it the support? Security? Caching? Clustering? Long execution times? On this episode we will uncover what our developer panelists look for in a shared host all without a trek to asking Deep Thought so don't panic, don't forget your towel and join us for this interesting topic.
What is it and why do you want to start with it?

A shared webhost is where more than one website is stored on the same “webserver” owned by the webhost. The more sites hosted on a server the more resources are being used to do this.
It’s inexpensive
Most provide good basic support
Ability to ask to move servers if your site is having issues and they usually will do it

About Support from the Hosting company
Especially software support… where do we stop saying we’ll support and help? Installation? Plug-in set ups? The support departments aren’t filled with developers. Remember that. Once you get into code, a line has been crossed. Hosting companies are not there to look at your code.
About DreamHost
They have unlimited (within reason) domains and users. Set them up however you want. You can map them to the users however you want. They offer SSH and you can do what you want with SSH. They will often go above and beyond with helping you, however don’t expect it. They have a user friendly control panel (although Lucy disagrees with this)
About MediaTemple
They have a custom control panel. They allow up to 100 domains. They allow SSH and SFTP on shared hosting sites.
About Go Daddy
What’s the problem with GoDaddy?
Our panelists say that it’s slow and you can’t use sftp so you don’t have the ability to change things on the server (actually it looks like you can now). Good until you need to make changes. You don’t connect to the same server your files are hosted on.
insecure – gets hacked a lot? Lucy thinks so.
You can call them and get a person but when they mention WP, they are less than helpful. The default problem is “It’s a wordpress problem” and they aren’t interested in digging deeper to see if it’s their problem or a wordpress problem.
One Click WP install takes a very long time.
Databases installations take a few hours
Shared Webhosts the panel recommends
Se – HostGator
Jason – DreamHost
Lucy – SiteGround
Steve – Servint for VPS not shared hosting
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On this weeks episode we will be discussing our community of collaboration and how it isn't a competition.
You're benefiting the community by collaborating and not being cutthroat. Instead you're able to share secrets and better the whole industry as a result. By collaborating with the community, you sharpen the industry as a whole.
Carrie will be talking on collaboration at WCSF after having been burned by someone in the community that wasn't even technically her competition. This has lead to some very educational blog posts on her website. Check them out carriedils.com
So why is the WordPress community so open to collaboration as opposed to the tech community in general?

It could be due to WordPress's open source nature.
It's a lot more common in open source communities to share things rather than hold on to it and not give it away.
WP is so popular there are loads of meet ups and so everyone is always out there helping each other.
Without the Foundation maintaining the hard line to ensure it remains open source, it would probably become competitive and capitalistic.
The focus isn't just on the open source software but on the openness of the community. There isn't much kept secret. Anyone can jump right in and get involved and find the support they need.

Competition is motivation.
On the other hand, competition doesn't have to be the bad guy. It drives innovation. It's only when you're looking at what someone else is doing that you can say I think we can do this better. The key is to figure out how to collaborate and compete.
The WP community “iterates.” They see something someone has done and want to make it better.
“Co-Opetition” – WP isn't really one or the other. It's a merging of both mindsets. It's good to be first, but it's better to be best.
You only get out of the community what you put into the community. If you share what you know, you will get other people's knowledge in return.
If a meetup is run with competition in mind, it will likely fail. When your motivation is to share, chances are good that it will be a success.
Without building a community, you have no one to collaborate with. If you build the community in your local area, it will absolutely pay off. WordCamps plant the seed for local meetups to be started.
In the WP community, if you aren't someone that's willing to share and collaborate, eventually people will eventually begin to shun you. People won't respect that in a community built on open source.
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This weeks topic is “How to work effectively with designers”. We will be speaking with WordPress Developers and Designers to share some tips with working effectively with designers. We think that Designers and Developers will surely get something out of this discussion. Show starts Monday June 24 at 11:00am PST.
Working with a designer can be a challenge for clients and engineers. You want an experience where customers are engaged on your site.
How do non designers work with designers?
Designer viewpoint:

Having the developer ask questions. Communication is key for wireframing and design. How should they hand over files to the developers? Do they want CSS callouts? Do they want the whole structure?
Plan that out ahead of time.

Developer Viewpoint:

Plan and communicate. Wireframes are key but communication is more important. Explain WHO the market is for the site. Make sure you’re meeting the needs of the target audience.
Establish how you want your photoshop files delivered. Decide what you want open and what you want flattened. What other pieces you need such as fonts.

Tips for starting with a new designer:

Ask what their process is.
Ask questions of the developer. Especially if the dev isn’t giving feedback.
Designers, if you have a question? Ask your developers what they see the end result to be.
Utilize phone calls or a google hangout. It works better than email.
How do designers handle clients that say, “That’s not right but I’ll know it when I see it.”
If after a round or 2 they still don’t “see it,” ask them to provide you with examples they do like around the web. It’s ok to eventually say “maybe we’re not a good fit” and end the relationship.

Tips for clients looking at designers:

Tell them what your ultimate goal is for your website
What are you hoping to accomplish with your site? New leads? New customers? Do you have a logo? Do you have branding ready? Are you ok with the designer establishing that for you?
Have your content ready. If it’s not, be up front about that.
Offer the designer info about what you don’t like. Hate a color? Hate a design? Let them know.

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WordCamp Chicago
WordCamp SF
WP101
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Today's topic is Picking the right WordPress theme for non programmers. Scared of JQuery, PHP, CSS, LMNOP (I made that last one up) we have your back. We'll help you pick the right theme to start from for a non developer on this episode of WPwatercooler. Show starts at 11:00am PST on Mondays.
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This weeks topic is Extending WordPress with mobile apps and custom web interfaces.
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On this weeks episode we will be discussing the recent WordCamp Orange County #WCOC. There were many great talks and events that happened during this awesome camp.

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On this episode of WPwatercooler we are talking about the 10 year anniversary of WordPress. Live stream starts Monday at 11am PST
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This weekend discussion is about methods of providing support to your customers, or as a customer how do you want to be supported?
Live stream starts today (Monday) at 11:00am PST / 2:00pm EST.
A year ago (about there), WooThemes, StudioPress and even Yoast managed questions and support via a discussion forum (WooThemes & StudioPress on their own sites, Yoast on WP). But recently, we've seen WooThemes & StudioPress shift to email-based tickets and Yoast announce the same. The upside is better ticket management. The downside is lower visibility, less community resource, lower interaction of users helping users.
How do you support your customers? How much is public? How much is Private? What do you think about these shifts? Support? Disagree?
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This week we're talking building websites as a WordPress Developer or Designer and in particular,weekend emails. This is when customers send you email on the weekend, do you reply? Yes or No. Is there a right answer? Is there a wrong one? This episode was inspired by Chris Lema's recent post over at ChrisLema.com
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This week's topic we are focusing on how we help other people learn WordPress. Tools, resources, sites, approaches, techniques, etc.

What are the gotchas, as people learn?
What are the best ways people learn?
What ways have we tried that sucked?

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Today's topic is our good friend Scope Creep. Scope Creep (also called requirement creep) in project management refers to uncontrolled changes or continuous growth in a project's scope. We will be discussing techniques on making sure a project is properly defined, documented, or controlled.
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On this episode of WPwatercooler we will be discussing techniques that are use to build WordPress websites after a PSD is created. The topic was suggested to us by our own Cody Landefeld
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Today's topic is WordCamp Miami and WordSesh!
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We're streaming live from WordCamp Miami today, Saturday April 6 2013 at 8:15am Pacific – 11:15am Eastern.
There will not be a WPwatercooler on Monday the 8th due to many of our regulars traveling home from Miami.

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On this episode of the watercooler we are talking about all things Drupal. Live stream starts at 11am PST
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On this episode of WPwatercooler we are talking about WordCamp San Diego. Live stream starts at 11am PST
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This week on WPwatercooler we are the upcoming and recent WordCamps: San Diego, Atlanta, Miami and Reno.We will be talking with various speakers from the event and get some insight into their talk topics.

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This week on WPwatercooler we are talking about what are some of the criteria to look for in picking a “business theme” for you next business related website.
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Jason introduces the business theme topic. Chris calls out Steve for being skeptical about the topic. A few OC-ValleyGirl side comments ensue. Steve declares that every theme is a business theme, because every website has a purpose, depending on the business. Richard says there is a major difference between business themes and personal themes. He says personal themes are “blogs, people, comment, conversation”, whereas things like user comments may not be front and center, might focus on calls to action and focuses on making money rather than being a “rage face” site, that business websites focus more on being a CMS rather than a blog.
Sé asks “how is that necessarily related to the theme rather than the content?” Richard agrees, but says you have to have the right layout. He says business themes have calls to action, testimonials, contact pages, Sé says those things are all content-related. Jason says that you need to have areas available to put in your content easily and that newbies will struggle with where to put things. Jason asks “what's a good way to start off and what criteria should people be looking for? Sé says “setting your static front page!” and then says we can all now go home. Richard concedes, it all depends on the business and what you're trying to do with the site.
Julie says people get hung up on the “pretties”, i.e. the colors, the fonts, and not the functionality and if it can do what it needs to do. Steve agrees, that is a pitfall, people back their content into their theme, rather than having form follow function. He then asks Richard, “what if your business is a blog?” Richard says you have to look at how you're monetizing that blog, whether that is ad placement, referrals, etc. and that you can't rely on every theme to have a perfect match.
Sé says it is about what plugins you're using, and that any theme can be used for a business site if the objective of the site has been mapped out. It then becomes about what you add on to make it a full-featured business site, which comes back to “Should functionality go in a theme or should it go in a plugin?”
Chris says we know the answer: Functionality goes into themes. In reference to having ads onsite, he says non-sponsor AdSanity by PixelJar is the best ad management plugin.
Sé says that themes that are trying to fit all of the functionality into the theme contribute to the breakdown of WordPress becoming difficult to use, and that stripped-down themes are better.
Chris says customers that go to ThemeForest and decide they want a specific theme often don't have content and even a perfect theme won't look anything like the demo without content.
Suzette says she spends a lot of time with ThemeForest themes making small tweaks. Everyone agrees. Sé comments that many themes are locked down and small tweaks are very difficult to make. Patrick agrees, says making tiny change takes a long time. He mentions that WooThemes WooFeatures and WooTestimonials are great plugins. Steve mentions WooCommerce. Sé mentions Testmonials Widget. Suzette asks if Testimonials Widget can be used with Custom Post Types, Steve says it creates a Custom Post Type. Sé says something like that can help make even a default theme like twenty twelve into a business theme, while keeping things simple.
Julie says often more complex themes can break plugins, so starting with a streamlined theme allows for plugins and features to be swapped out later on. Steve says _s is the best business theme. Sé agrees,

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Today's topic is One blog or multiple? The topic was suggested to us by Chris Lema.
On this episode of WPwatercooler we are talking about if you should have two sites (with personal and business content on each) or just one (with both on it). Live stream starts at 11am PST Monday March 4 2013.
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Today's topic is How did you get started in WordPress web development? The topic was suggested to us by our own Suzette Franck.
On this episode of WPwatercooler we are talking about How did you get started in WordPress web development? If you ever wanted to know how your fellow web developers got into WordPress web development now is your chance to hear their story. Live stream starts Monday at 11am PST.
Suzette Franck- She started in 1995 and discovered the internet and was fascinated with the internet. She taught herself html and started creating websites for her friends. Shipping ahead 15 year later she had a gallery client that was using blogspot and setup WordPress. She had a record company client that she used WordPress for, and she and her client really loved it. She was able to put together a website quickly vis using Homesite with tables and dealing with all of that yucky stuff.
Steve gets nostalgic and started talking about table padding and table spacing. Se got into the discussion and mentions Tables Reloaded that was recently renamed TablePress.
Steve Zehngut – Steve got into the business in 1991 or 1992 programming in Director and picked up Flash in 1998. Zeek became a full service web shop in 2000 and started using custom CMS's. They picked up a Mombo project in 2002 for Fox reality channel. He got into WordPress because of the political clients that he was building websites for. He asked a friend if he should have used MovableType or WordPress, he picked WordPress.
Jason reminisces and talks about Mambo and hated it.
Dustin Filippini – Started in late 1990's in highschool and helped his friends on the side. Dustin went full time 2 years ago as a WordPress developer. He tried Drupal and got into WordPress back in 1.5.
Dave Jesch – Dave started in 1979-1980 on IBM's building shrink wrap software. In 2008 or 2009 he built a dog rescue site using PHP. He did a little bit of work with Drupal, OSCommerce and a few other packages. His wife was taking a class in social media and was introduced to WordPress. Dave picked it up and started to extend it and started to build ecommerce sites using it. He loves working with SQL, jQuery and Ajax.
Lucy Beer – She doesn't call her self a hardcode developer, but she comes from a marketing background. She spent 8-10 years doing marketing for bands. She started with Blogger and quickly realized the limitations. She discovered WordPress back in 2004 and transitioned from marketing to training people how to use WordPress. She wanted to make WordPress do more, so she learned a bit of PHP and CSS along with theme development and tweaking code.
Jason asked about that transition, she says it took her about a year of transition, and she already had the marketing knowhow so when customers need that she has it.
Patrick Rauland – He fell into it on accident and took on a role as a Student Web Developer at the local university and after college and started with a company that did straight PHP development. He talks about having to build login forms over and over again and saw that a CMS would be the way to go. He tried Joomla, Drupal and landed on WordPress and started working with it.
Jason asked if someone is starting with WordPress as a developer what should their approach be? Patrick responded in that he started with a CS background, and he liked to build things the way he liked it. WordPress gets you 95% there, and that you just need to find the right plugins to fit the need. Steve says “Don't fight with core”. Se says that there is a bit of lazyness that occurs. Patrick says that he agrees and that hooks and filters are where you can get more into that. The core of the product is done you are just adding on to it. Se talks about using plugins like Cyle2 and Soliloquy.
Steve talks about the merits of learning PHP as a way to get into Word...

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Today's topic is website support services.
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On this episode of WPwatercooler we are talking about Value-based Pricing when it comes to website design and development using WordPress.
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This episode of WPwatercooler we are talking about our favorite IDE (Integrated Development Environment) or Text Editors for WordPress Web Development.
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This episode of WPwatercooler we will be recapping WordCamp Phoenix, our involvement in the camp and the topics some of our regulars of the show spoke about during their talks at the camp. We'll also be speaking with Carol Stambaugh Organizer of the camp and asking her how her first real night of stress-free sleep went last night.
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This episode of WPwatercooler we will be discussing WordCamp Phoenix, WPwatercooler's involvement in the camp and the topics some of our regulars of the show will be speaking about during their talks at the camp.
Friday:
Suzette Franck – Hosting and Domains

Sé Reed – Installing WordPress

Chris Lema – Themes

Suzette Franck – Plugins
Saturday:
Dre Armeda – How Anyone Can Hack Your WordPress Site In Less Than 5 Minutes And What You Can Do To Prevent It

Cody Landefield – WordPress Design for the Real World
Sunday:
Chris Lema Success in Distributed Contexts (Distributed Workforce)

Jason Tucker – How to Stream a Meetup or Live Event

Sé Reed – Developing Impactful Websites for Small Businesses

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“WordPress Web Trends for 2013” we are joined with Suzette Franck, Elizabeth Shilling, Sé Reed, Steve Zehngut, Jon Brown, Dave Jesch, Chris Lema and out host Jason Tucker. Recording starts at 11:00am PST on Mondays.
Might be a little difficult to talk about…

Alex has nice hair. Pasadena WordPress Meetup 1/29th.

Talking about the latest and greatest in WordPress.

Jason brings up the revamp of working with Post Format UI.

Post formats is a way to add image, video,etc to posts.

Alex asks how many really use post formats with projects working on.

Steve discusses what it currently offers.

Jason mentions that your looking to do custom post type with post formats mix together.

Steve agrees he that he would want that.

Sé realizes that you can't do that, expand post formats.

Sé asks, “Why not make your own custom post type?”

Steve explains how they work differently; post format is basically a display mechanism. It's a different way to templating. You could use custom post types for the way he's using them, but then you get extra tabs.

Se asks if you can do custom post types and custom formats for the custom post types?

You can do them now, Steve informs; can't expand post formats. Post formats and post custom types are two different things. Chris would give a great explanation if he were here.
Sé brings up Chris' blog post that sparked a conversation about WordPress as a web application platform.

Jason mentions how WordPress is being used more and more for an application environment.

Sé mentions how it's funny they say you shouldn't be doing something that you are already doing. Mentioned how Matt Mullenweg wants WordPress it move toward an application environment and app themes.
Steve brings it back to post formats. He compares it to Tumblr and based around content; what they are for. They are meant to change the display of the post within your theme. Post format can be applied to custom post types; like a custom post type event and a post format around that event would be image.

Alex adds that Tumblr eclipsed blog as a search term.

Sé suggests that maybe everyone figured out what blog already meant and are trying to figure out what Tumblr is.

Steve mentions that Tumblr is a competitor of WordPress.

Sé mentions how limited Tumblr is.

Steve agrees that it was a bold statement. WordPress is a platform and Tumblr is not.

Jason adds that you can't open an ecommerce solution on Tumblr.

Sé mentions how all you can do is blog on Tumblr. It makes sense to say that Tumblr shouldn't become a solution environment, whereas WordPress has been so much more than just even a content management

system.

Steve mentions that Tumblr is a more of a competitor for WordPress.com. Tumblr a better comparison to Tumblr is an Instagram.

Wes asks about making any money setting up Tumblr.

Sé mentions maybe for training.

Steve mentions how he uses it for his clients and how it may meet their needs; basically ease of use.

Jason suggests the possibility of making something in WordPress with Tumblr capabilites for clients and if that what Steve does?

Steve shares his solution.

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We had a full crew on today's show talking about WordPress New Years resolutions. We're joined by Chris Lema, Patrick Rauland, Suzette Franck, Dave Jesch, Wes Chyrchel, Steve Zehngut, Sé Reed, Devin Walker and your host Jason Tucker

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This week's show we talked about our favorite plugins.

Jason Tucker – Easy Invitation Codes
Chris Lema – Microkid's Related Posts
Dave Jesch – Shopp SEO Glue
Suzette Franck – WordFence
Gregg Franklin – Advanced Custom Fields
Jon Brown – Tabify Edit Screen
Drew Poland – Gravity Forms
Wes Chyrchel – Markdown on Save
Steve Zehngut – Custom Post Type UI
Sé Reed – Yoast SEO & Yoast SEO Video

Happy Holidays!

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WordPress Ecommerce Plugins – Today we are joined with Sé Reed, Chris Lema, Wes Chyrchel, Scott Bolinger, Dave Jesch and our host Jason Tucker
Holy War of E-Commerce Plugins
WooCommerce and Shopp
Sé did a 4 hour conference on Shopp, she had previous issues with it and learned quite a bit from this talk. Her fave thing is when it makes cart pages it makes virtual pages not custom post types.
Dave talks a bit about virtual pages ins Shopp
Scott says that Shopp is complicated and the 4 hour webinar would help with learning it.
Se talks about the method of teaching Shopp that they did in the webinar.
Scott and his company likes Woocommerce and how simple it is to use.
Se thinks that Woo, WooCommerce and WooThemes is a bit bloaty.
Chris has gone years not receiving an emailed from Shopp, he received an email from them and he thinks they are ramping up on their marketing.
Chris also like Easy Digital Downloads by Pippin.
Chris also mentioned how Woo has made the theming cleaner and most of their options are unchecked to save you time in turning on just what you need.
Chris mentions that caching that is agressive can mess with things, Scott mentions that he had recent experience with this and his host WP Engine stepped in and helped resolve these issues.
Chris is a big fan of Woocommerce but if you are doing online downloads and such Easy Digital Downloads may be the way to go
Jason asked about the simplicity or complexity of the backend for the site owner.
Chris says Ecommerce is complicated and its a challenge to make it simple.
Sé talks about what she does at the Small Business Development Center and dealing with Paypal.
Chris like how lightweight Cart66 is.
Wes brings up YAK and how light weight the plugin is. This uses posts and pages and is very easy for his customers to work with.
Sé says that Shopp is using CPT and also using an importer to import and export content.
Sé says “it depends” is the go to answer when it comes to E-Commerce and what solution to use.
Wes brings up magento, we all gasp.
Jason brings up using Gravity Forms as a way to create a small and simple shopping cart.
Dave says that doing a Gravity Forms cart would work well for small but the more complicated this will fall apart fast.
Dave rewrote the import tool to import 600 items into Shopp from excel.
Chris talks about an importer for WooCommerce that deals with many forms and formats of data.
Sé talks about Winter time in the LBC
Dave is interested in looking at WooCommerce
Scott talks about Extensions on Woocommerce and how expensive it can be.
Sé mentions behemoth when it comes to Woocommerce, Chris defends Woocommerce saying she's wrong about that. Sé says she was talking about the back end of the site not the front end.
Scott talks about how simple it is to add the template tags into your existing templates to work with WooCommerce.
Sé talks about how starting simple and working your way up instead of having to
Jason mentions WP E-Commerce and everyone freaks out. Jason has used it in the past and didn't have any problems with it.

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Mobile Responsive WordPress – Today we are joined with Suzette Franck, Elizabeth Shilling, Patrick Raul, Jon Brown, Dave Jesch, Steve Zehngut, Cody Landefeld, Wes Chyrchel, Chris Lema and Jason Tucker.
Jon goes in to explain how responsive and mobile are different.
Elizabeth mentions that a lot people use their sites as mobile.
Jon wants the difference between a responsive site and mobile site known and that they are different.
Wes gives the benefit of using responsive as mobile ready site.
Steve Zehngut speaks to his clients regarding their site in terms of how the site will be viewed.
Cody Landefeld asks the group what they think of the saying, “There’s no need to do a mobile site, if you’re not doing it responsive you’re not doing it right?”
Steve mentions how it depends on the project.
Patrick agrees, that’s about 95% of the projects.
Chris shares his take regarding it being an information/architectural question, not a visual question.
Jon describes how he thinks of it as a user experience issue, provides an example of an airline’s needs.
Wes brings up picking an app from your phone an asking, what’s the WebApp equivalent?
OmniGraffle is mentioned and discussed.
Steve shares his opinion regarding OmniGraffle's web knockoffs.
Wes suggests creating a distinction by asking, would this be better as an app, an web app or an website?
Cody provides an overview of his take regarding what factors distinguish whether an app or web app is required.
Wes mentions how we are far from being ready for using responsive completely.
Flexbox was mentioned.
Cody asks “How is responsive now a prerequisite for a plugin you’re using on a marketing site?”
Discussion ensued about images and responsive plugins, specifically sliders.
Jon mentions how he writes plugins with responsive in mind, yet brings up the point that it can’t always be like that. He asks what others are doing?
Suzette Franck uses images Percentages on the width and fonts as ems.
Steve brings up the issue of outside media that clients are using.
Wes shares a strategy to deal with clients adding info to their site from their phone, while still maintaining responsiveness.
Jon breaks down the plugins of which plugins are more likely to handle responsiveness.
Steve adds more info regarding media players and responsiveness; shares the struggle that it is to make some players responsive.
Jon gives his take on other plugins. Suggest that the repo have tags at to which plugins are responsive or not.
Wes brings up how some clients aren’t interested in responsiveness.
Strategies are shared to deal with the client using responsiveness in their site design.
How much site traffic from mobile is brought up and discussed. More and more traffic is from mobile vs. desktop.
Chris mentions a housing application web app program that he oversees at Emphasys and speaks about how much mobile has taken over.
Steve mentions the importance of Google Analytics and how it can be used as a marketing tool.
Cody mentions handling clients' expectations and questions giving the client everything they ask for versus providing guidance for the clients.
First page mobile, Scott, running promotion for 50% off; design a landing page for your website that is very mobile specific. See at Chrislema.com, great to get the site visitor info they need to.
Suzette makes the point that it’s important to have a link to bring up the full version of the site, when looking at mobile.
Wes mentions Content from

This week we are discussing WordPress 3.5 with Sé Reed, Suzette Franck, Gregg Franklin, Austin Gunter, Patrick Rauland, Steve Zehngut and our host Jason Tucker

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This week's we will be discussing WordPress Theme Frameworks.
Dave Jesch – http://www.davejesch.com

Patrick Rauland – http://www.speakinginbytes.com

Sé Reed – http://www.sereedmedia.com

Steve Zehngut – http://www.zeek.com

Gregg Franklin – http://www.greggfranklin.com/

Jason Tucker – http://www.tucker.pro
Chris brings up WPMU reviews, Chris Lema’s site, chrislema.com, and Clifford Paulick has two in depth articles regarding frameworks.
Jason asks for Chris's favorite frameworks. Chris mentions which frameworks he likes: Catalyst, WooFramework
Se mentions which framework she likes, & her views.
Steve mentions his thoughts on frameworks.
Chris mentions the importance of frameworks.
Genesis robust and mentions the results.
Chris delivers thoughts about working with frameworks and becoming a tool.
Patrick shares his thoughts on the value of frameworks.
Steve mentions the value of a freelancer.
Chris mentions the value of some other frameworks.
Jason mentions Headway and a mention of Genesis, he likes it.
Steve speaks about Headway.
Chris mentions what drives the use of a framework.
Chris mentions the popularity of Woothemes control panel for the end user.
Se mentions main concerns about dependency.
Patrick asks Se about her workflow.
Se mentions what she uses.
Steve mentions what he uses.
Gregg uses a lot of everything. Looking to simplify, going modular, he uses “Office”
Dave mentions Thesis, Thematic, & Genesis; the pros & cons.
_s “underscores” by Automattic mentioned. Use what is appropriate for task at hand.
Steve plugs Genesis, and gives his two cents.
Dave sees Genesis as a way to hook in with what’s already there.
Steve goes into cons of Genesis.
Gregg Franklin mentions a theme he’s working with AppThemes, Vantage; seconds the challenge of ‘undoing’ the hooks for what you want is a challenge.
Chris mentions the benefit of being able to unhook. ProFramework some themes that should be plugins become part of a theme.
Dave agrees that there’s a difference between what belongs in a theme vs. a plugin, presentation vs. functionality.
Theme developers installing a theme with plugins is a more complicated install for nondevelopers, Steve counters.
Gregg mentions his experience with AJ at ThemeForest, about putting all as plugins.
Chris brings up how functionality is embedded in theme and the pain it causes.

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Today's discussion is a loose format Show and Tell.
Dave Jesch – http://www.davejesch.com

Patrick Rauland – http://www.speakinginbytes.com

Sé Reed – http://www.sereedmedia.com

Steve Zehngut – http://www.zeek.com

Jason Tucker – http://www.tucker.pro
Jason talks about a plugin called “SimpleMap Store Locator” that does multi store locator using Google Maps.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-map/
Patrick Rauland talks about “Limit Widgets” that limits the number of widgets a widget area can have.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/limit-widgets/
Jason demos the Simple Map and shows a table view of the plugin
Patrick demos his plugin Limit Widgets, pretty cool yet crazy simple.
Dave Jesch talks about a plugin concept for allowing a client to post bugs and problems and give the developer info about the clients site.
Jason demos how White Label CMS works and how hes currently using it with gravity forms to work as the mockup or rev 1 of this plugin Dave was talking about.
Patrick asks about using this idea with Zendesk. Jason has it tied into Gravity Forms to work with Freshbooks so a quote is generated when a submission is made.
Jason mentions how weird he thinks WordPress is accepting BitCoin. He doesn't know many people that uses BitCoin. Jason talks about harvesting bitcoins and how people use videocards to generate bitcoins.
Se says Dave “scrapes things for stuff”.
Se also “Decisions not options”.
Steve show an iPad app for Edwards Life Sciences using XML-RPC.
Dave wants to use XML-RPC for the plugin that he and Jason want to build. Here is the talk that Mike Adams did at WordCamp OC Steve was talking about. “WordPress APIs – Feeds, XML-RPC, APP, and REST”
Jason askes about libraries for XML-RPC with iOS. Steve says he does some plist'y JSON silliness to pull that off.
Jason says its a good idea to crack open the open source code of the WordPress app for iOS
Se asks about what other things Zeek has done with XML-RPC.
Se talks about her favorite, “Cycle” a slideshow / slider jQuery Plugin. It also is compatible with Easing Plugin.
Jason wants to do another “Favorites” show about particular categories, expect more of those coming soon. Leave a comment on which plugin categories we should cover.

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WordPress Community Summit is the topic for todays 30 minute roundtable at the WPwatercooler. We're joined with Steve Zehngut, Oscar Gonzalez, Dave Jesch, Jon Brown, Chris Lema, Dre Armeda, Sé Reed, Ben Metcalfe, Brandon Dove and Jason Tucker.
Se Reed mentions that WordPress Community Summit is the Bohemian Grove of WordPress.
Se very excited about WordPress Community Summit.
Ben Metcalfe jokingly discusses about WordPress going to ‘rails' …Dre Armeda adds ‘merging with Joomla'.
Dre opens up about WordPress Community Summit in Georgia at the chapel Miley Cyrus built for her film.
Dre describes the scene at WordPress Community Summit. Open sessions, round table sessions…topic at each table than strong points, bad issues that there having, how to make it better, creating actionable items
Chris Lema asks about where the attendees are coming from Core are they well known.
Brandon Dove got a lot of info for running WordCamps, meeting up with other WC organizers.
Dre mentions ‘The Foundation and Transparency Around It'.

https://make.wordpress.org/summit/2012/10/29/summary-of-morning-discussions/
Chris asks more about Foundations.
Dre goes more into ‘The Foundation and Transparency Around It' .
Jon Brown asks what were the key points that came about WC topic?
Brandon shares what is happening with the Foundation and the money being brought in.
Se asks if there were any answers as to where the money is going.
Brandon discusses current use video at WCs.
Discussion breaks out about video and timeliness of seeing them uploaded on WordPress.tv
Dre mentions Summit topics that were covered during the event; such as, Who’s Really Running the Foundation?
Se asks for answers.
Dre continues with the answers and what will be happen moving forward to working out solutions.
Brandon mentions that there's a big opening up at WordPress; WordCamp sites will be more versatile.
Dre brings up manage WordPress hosting.
Ben discusses what the WordPress hosts went over security issues, sharing information, performance issues
Mentioned sharing information about plugins security with hosting companies and the repository.
Jason Tucker asks about how that might go forward.
Ben mentions that there is already a group that discusses security and what actions that will happen going forward to deal with plugin issues and taking it to the next level.
Jason wonders if the plugin developer will be contacted.
Ben mentions that ‘Matt' suggest that the hosts should review the plugins.
Chris asks how developers are going to be approached about poor performing plugins.
Ben provides a thorough response to how developers will be brought in to the discussion when his/her plugin has performance issues.
Dre gives Jane Well props for putting together the Summit.
Dre mentions importance of WordPress handbook http://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/
Describes it as a huge win.
Brandon mentions what is going to happen noncore code contributions and recognition that will start to occur.
Se mentions that people will be listening to the developers on the frontline.
Chris asks “What was the most surprising thing to you?”
Dre mentions “Safe zone let’s talk openly” tone was set and people were focused.

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Advanced Custom Fields is the topic for todays 30 minute roundtable at the WPwatercooler.
Suzette Franck has used this on an art gallery website that had 7 years of data, she made a custom form on the back end to be put into an custom post type.
Se Reed asks what is the difference between using custom fields and Advanced Custom Fields plugin.
Steve Zenhgut talks about how quicker and easier it is to use Advanced Custom Fields and be able to export the resulting code to be used elsewhere.
Chris Lema talks about a project he used this on where he used both the import and the export feature. The CMS he was using had 18 CPT and each had 5 to 10 different fields. He states that you can assign with mapping the various meta boxes and where they will be used.
Steve talks about the various addons, they recently purchased the “Repeater” addon and it works well.
Chris talks about how he has used this Repeater addon and how it is all stored in Post Meta.
Jason Tucker asks how portable the resulting code is and if the plugin is required.
Steve says that it can and will export all of the code for you when you are done.
Se asks if this can be used for importing other DB data into this plugin
Chris has used this by writing a script to create json data to parse and pull the data.
Se talks about the challenges of working with Post Meta directly in the mysql DB.
Jason talks about importing the data and mapping it.
Chris says that he has only imported the metadata of the post.
Se explains so issues shes dealt with and the challenges shes had doing it the hard way.
Chris mentions how we're all trying to suck all the knowledge from him and just using him for his smarts.
Conspiracies Conspiracies
Dave Jesch asks Suzette about data validation, she says that it does in fact do field type validation.
Apparently a war began in Se's city.
Se talks about Post2Post and it's awesomeness.
Jason talks about how there is a Gravity Forms addon that looks very tasty
Chris talks about an addon his team wrote about using multisite with Advanced Custom Post Types.
Kat asks if beginner users can use this or is it only for advanced. It's so simple anyone can use it.
Suzette talks about how this can be used on CPT and all of the control that comes with it.
Jeff Hester asks about if it can be used on posts and not custom post types he has a metabox for trails that he has on his hiking website.
Steve says that almost every customer has a need for some custom fields in their posts and this is perfect for his clients. This and Gravity Forms are used quite a bit in at his company.
Se asks about if this also generates pages to display everything or is it just adding new fields to work with on your own.
Chris brings up Types and Views and the whole discussion goes into a frenzy.
Se wishes things were harder for a developer the rest of us disagree.
Steve wants better video documentation on how to use Types and Views
Jason comments that 16 year olds made the videos he watched
Chris talks about CPT and Types and Views
Se… again… let the dogs out.
Chris gets back into CPT with Types and Views and how he has used it in the past. Chris mentions that the amount of custom coding he has done has declined just by using these awesome tools
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On today's show we talk about Form Plugins and we later get into ethics.
Forms Plugins –
Gravity Forms we missed Lucy Beer

Se uses Contact Form 7 on her clients sites mainly because it's free

Jeff uses Gravity Forms

Chris says its $39 for a personal license, Formidable Lite is Free

Linda talks about Gravity Forms and licensing

Se wants her clients to be self sufficient and Contact Form 7 fills that need.

Why do we all not like Contact Form 7?

Se likes it and uses it daily.

Verious and Linda like it

Jeff doesn't hate Contact Form 7

Chris mentions that it Contact Form 7 does store the data in the DB.

Se doesn't mind this for her starter clients.

Chris “wants that data”

Dave says he knows of a plugin to add this functionality

Verious talks about WP-CRM to create forms

Se has used Gravity Forms for a quoting system

Steve mentions that you can use Gravity Forms for their clients.

Se cant use her developer license due to ethics issues for one of her clients

Who lets the dogs out?

Chris talks about how requirement lists helps you determine what form solution to use.

Steve says its worth $39 is way worth his time.

Se says that CF7 is good enough for her

Se's love is free

Steve say at some point you are going to hit a cap with a plugin that is limiting.

Se loves the beauty of WordPress and to use various plugins to pull off solutions.

Chris also likes Formidable Pro is cheaper for Dev license.

Chris says that Formidable Pro and Gravity Forms works fine for creating a post.

For creating a post in a custom post type you need an addon for GF, Formidable Pro does this automatically.

To edit a form someone has already used you need to jump through some hoops to make that happen with Gravity Forms.

Verious talks about BreezyForms, he hasn't used it yet extensively, but it looks promising.

Linda says that going with the critical mass you get more extensible functionality

Jason mentions Jetpack forms, no one has used it.

Jason talks about Gravity Forms tying into his FreshBooks using an addon.

The group talks about Bill Erickson's CRM theme, it didn't use Gravity Forms like we thought initially.
Ethics –
Se talks about Ethics and plugins. Do you pay / donate your plugin authors.

How much do people donate? $5, $10, 50? Chris donates $25 to $50

Steve takes into consideration how much time it's saving him and then donates accordingly.

Se asks about if everyone discloses that a plugin is being used.

Steve states that having the right plugin is worth more so he charges more for the benefit of getting a product to market faster.

Linda always mentions that uses using plugins or prem...

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Today we are discussing “Billing for site maintenance” for our WordPress clients with Suzette Franck, Lucy Beer, Steve Zehngut, Dave Jesch, Andrew Behla, Chris Lema, Gregg Franklin, Oscar Gonzalez, and our host Jason Tucker.
Billing for site maintenance
Maintenance defined: Clients that are already launched a phase 1 of a project and now we are moving into scope increase and changes. Any hours that we are going to be spending time on.
Oscar does web development and includes a support contract.
Steve is talking about scope increases and feature changes.
Steve does not write maintenance into their original contract. As he approaches launch he determines how much maintenance is needed for the project. Hourly, monthly & retainer.
Chris upfront during the quote he quotes different rates if they want to post delivery in video format. If the customer is getting all that they need from the videos then the price will go down. If they need handholding then the development cost goes up. Handholding costs more.
Steve says that he like to set the expectation up front so there are no surprises.
Andrew sees this as a challenge and had some examples to share
Steve explains some of his warranty on his contracts.
Gregg talks about a few solutions hes looking at: Backup, Protection against malware, upgrades to core and plugins. Hes using WordFence, WPmanage, InfiniteWP, Warpit.. lots out there.
Chris like being upfront with a letter. Part of his includes hosting, $8 hosting or sends them to Jason Tucker or if they want to spending $30 a month with WPEngine. WPEngine includes a lot of what Gregg was talking about.
Andrew talks about how clients just don't understand how all this works and Steve talks about setting expectations.
Oscar talks about multi tiered warranty plans he offers his customers. Oscar sends an email to his customers telling them about new features in a plugin or such so they can assist them in doing upgrades using his services vs dealing with it themselves.
Steve talks about issues that happen at 3am and the customer doesn't have a support contract with them.
Pricing
Oscar charges $650 – $950 a year or a custom price

Their mid-price $3000 which includes 1 year of basic support, maintenance and backups for 1 year.

Oscar uses host gator with dedicated servers.
Chris Lema talks about the Advance WordPress group. He talks about a hack repair site that provides solutions for this we haven't used it yet. hackrepair.com
Google Apps – Oscar provides this service doing setup and such as well as
Steve talks more about pricing, they use a sliding scale. Their hourly rates are $150 for dev, $200 for project management and less for QA. Once the site is launched they can predict what the ongoing cost will be. If there is too much of this then they go about setting up a Phase 2.
Chris tries to do away with maintenance and he talks about his method.
Steve says that its hard to make money doing maintenance and unpredictable.
Jason talks about it being a hard sell for smaller websites.
Steve itemized out his billings.
Chris has a funny one, for the next 7 days he will change whatever they want for free. After 7 days it will be $1000 per item. The trick is that he wants to build an advocate in the clients end.
Oscar talks about perceived value in Chris' statement.

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Today we're discussing WordCamps with: Lucy Beer, Suzette Franck, Jon Brown, Verious Smith III, Cody Landefeld, Chris Lema, Steve Zehngut, Dre Armeda, Jeff Hester and our host Jason Tucker.
WordCamps

Meeting people face to face and that awkward moment when you realize you aren't following someone you just met.
Networking and social aspects are key for these events.
Observing knowledge and learning, after attending a few events you tend to pick and choose the talks to want to see.
Hallway discussions are used more with the seasoned WordCampers.
Meeting in person makes it feel more like a community then just knowing people online.
Meetups are great for local networking, WordCamps bring in talented people from all over the country/world.
Dre speaks about WordCamp San Diego and how he brings in people that make his WordCamp a great event.
Intensive learning in 1 day is important to Suzette
Best sessions for Steve Z are the ones with more discussions occurring during the talk then just a presentation.
Cody L discusses his recent talk at WPLV and how he may team up with someone else to do more of a discussion about UX than a presentation about UX.
Dre talks about the Sucuri security presentations and how they go about doing their talks at various WordCamps. Lots of interaction.
Jeff Hester talks about various ways that people do things during their talks and how you can learn more by their live demos
Everyone asked Jon Brown about his upcoming WordCamp Maui, no date yet but all 10 of use want to go! Lots of logistics to still work out.
Suzette purchased tickets to BuddyCamp Vancouver
Question: What is the farthest WordCamp you have attended:
Cody – Austin, bbq!
Steve – San Diego
Lucy – Seattle
Chris – Toronto
Question: Where is one that you'd like to attend?
Jeff Hester – Maui and Paris
Dre – Australia
Chris – He'd suffer through going to Maui
Question: Do you bring your family and kids to WordCamp if it's in a remote location?
Dre – He has 30 kids, no way.
Chris – Travels 30-40% a year, he sometimes takes them but typically local.
Jason – Wants to take his up to SF next year.
WordCamp IE?
WordCamp Fresno?

Meetups

Meetup Groups we talked about:
Orange County WordPress Meetup (OCWP)
Pasadena WordPress Meetup
WordPress Wednesday
Inland Empire WordPress Meetup Group (Coming Soon)
Southern California WordPress Meetup Group
Topanga WordPress Meetup Group
Advanced WordPress San Diego
Arizona WordPress Group (Chandler, Avondale & Tucson)
Maui WordPress
Find a local meetup near you on Meetup.com
Steve talks about Zeek's meetup space for OCWP
Verious is looking for a meetup space for the IE meetup.
WordCamp Central

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This is Episode 2 of our WPwatercooler show.

Twenty Twelve theme released to the repo – mixed feelings from all of the panel.
WordPress 3.5 beta 1
Overhaul of the media library
XMLRPC enabled – They did this to allow their mobile apps to work with WordPress installation without users having to enable it.
Comparing the changes to the new changes in the Facebook Images
We feel this is not finished yet, which is isn't.
Links “blogroll” functionality removed.
Privacy settings moved
Press This
Jetpack Mobile Theme
Problems with Jetpack conflicting
Quality Control – webapp for WordPress
Customizing can be a pain with most webapps which makes it harder for the developer to recommend them to clients.
AppSumo – Great place to get deals for WordPress related stuff
InfiniteWP is the new hotness
A few of us host it on a webserver
Security questions regarding it
Jason had issues with Deny ALL, Allow specific IP
Most of us charge our clients to do maint agreements by leveraging InfiniteWP
Themes that suck – Avada | Responsive Multi-Purpose Theme
Justin Tadlock brings the awesomeness – Unique: Customizable WordPress Magazine Theme
Bloated themes
The “plugin in a theme” makes things hard for a developer to work with
Making a newly installed theme look like the demo requires lots of work and confuses users
Documentation, Documentation, Documentation and Documentation!
Woothemes take work to make them look like the demo
ThemeForest take work to make them look like the demo
It shouldn't take a consultant to make easy changes to a theme that should work “out of the box”
Not documenting the prerequisite plugins
Post Type Switcher doesn't work with Press This.
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This is the first episode of WPwatercooler.
We recorded our first episode of WPwatercooler today. A bunch of folks from the OC WordPress community got together and joined in.
Topics discussed:

Woothemes.

Woocommerce.

InfiniteWP.

pricing models.

Building an managing virtual teams by Chris Lema.

Done Done.

WordPress TV.

OC WordCamp and video uploading.

Crowd sourcing ebooks? Idontgivearatsass@gmail.com

Loud typing! 🙂

Back to woothemes and pricing with developers license and their new pricing model.

Monetizing and GPL.

ElegantThemes

StudioPress – Genesis Framework.

Darthvader on the mic.

iThemes developers suite.

Licensing themes and giving your clients access to forums? Client needs to get their own account with the forum.

Types and Views

Dynamik Theme.

Dealing with Child themes and managed clients.

Avada on themesforest

Themeforest themes and updates.

Licensing and paying for a theme for a client.

Woothemes is $200 a year + a per month charge.

Pass the charges off to you client so they are kept up to date.

How much are you bringing in? Is this saving you money or time? It's a no brainer.

There is a value to a solution

Are the themes expensive? For a user it's steep but for a developer it empowers us to provide more for less.

Client is paying for your expertises AND the theme you use.

Sample content to go along with themes

WooCommerce documentation is good

WordCamp Las Vegas

Adjusting permalinks
Folks around the watercooler (left to right)

Chris Lema, David Jesch, Jon Brown, Jason Tucker, Lucy Beer, Suzette Franck, Stephen P. Kane, Steve Zehngut, Brandon Dove and Sé Reed

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