there we go now it's spinning now it's
spinning line Welcome to our challenging
day folks we're having a challenging day
we are live and we're delayed and so the
show is going to probably be a little
longer than usual because we still got
to make sure everything is working
correctly yep the blah so far the blah
blah blah you know when things go wrong
it's Monday this is why we choose to
have our show on Mondays because Mondays
are always such a perfectly smooth
day yeah totally awesome that's why we
have all those beautiful memes that's
why we have all those beautiful memes
and we have lots of snow to just make
matters God do we have snow yeah what do
you got there you must have a good foot
or two now almost three feet now almost
three oh crap I'm glad I'm not
there we we I when I when I went to bed
last night the streets were clear here
when I got up to walk the dog this
morning there was another inch on the
ground and then when I had to go walking
before the show it was blizzard-like
conditions you know the the poor the dog
turned white you know doggo doggo turned
white by the time we finished coming
back he was no longer a black dog he was
all white with black
Speckles yep it was kind of f he he had
fun though he really loves the snow it's
like I wish I could turn him loose on a
off leash because he would just have a
field
day well you know you could always come
up here and let him lose in the backyard
yeah he'd have fun trashing that
well you to have fun because uh we we
keep using the snowblower to make sure
the path from the gate to the chickens
is as clear as possible so we got these
nice tall walls along the path now yeah
cool or Heman good to see you all right
I think we're working I think all the
little bits and pieces are actually
working for some
reason Google wouldn't let me go live
even though all my software was saying
what you're connect did there's nothing
wrong it's all good it's like yeah no
they're lying to
me all
right snow used for dogs and chickens
actually saw somebody with a dog the
other day walking it the dog had little
slippers on and a
coat I'm thinking okay well if it was a
Chihuahua it needs it no it was a it was
a mediumsized dog with lots of fur oh
well it would keep the fur it would keep
the snow out of the fur yeah
well whatever all right since we're
already running late let's have a little
music to carry us right up to going live
these are the days of
Thunder we're going to make time stand
still a quarter after
midnight and I'm watching the
wall some sometimes I feel so
uptight I just can't sleep at
all every day doing the same old thing
we're losing
time the weekend comes we got to have
some fun and
Rewind these are the days of
Thunder we're going to make time stand
still we got to feel the hunger hanging
over the edge just to taste the
three I feel the Rope
tightening choking off our
air we need to grab some
lightning Friday's almost
here caught in a web we need to cut this
thread we're hanging by
where is it said you have to be half
dead to
survive these are the days of
Thunder we're going to make time stand
still we got to feel the hunger hanging
over the edge just to taste the thrill
these are the days of
Thunder we're going to make time stand
still we got to feel the hunger hanging
over the edge just to taste the thrill
these are the days of
Thunder but we're going to make time
stand still we got to feel the hunger
hanging on over the edge just to taste
the
fre these are the days of
th all righty it must be time absolutely
okay what is going on
here all right we've lost our little
other intro clip for some strange reason
it's gone okay so it actually wasn't
playing it wasn't just me not hearing
things no it's actually not playing okay
we're going to have to roll this one
right back again and start again cuz I
got to go find this clip because without
this clip my whole my whole brain goes
sideways without this clip definitely I
can understand that but like why do you
have to go find it did did the did the
thing you use it on vanish or something
it appears
so
huh it appears it's having a hiccup it
appears so that the clip has gone byy by
somewhere oh I know exactly what
happened to it I oh I organized my uh oh
dear
files oh dear and this one was hiding in
a folder that I
forgot was there and I moved it to and
you moved it I moved the
folder like I said folks it's Monday
man it's
Monday I moved it into a folder called
historical
crap oh H he said most people worry
about hearing things Amber worries about
not hearing
things oh you know each person is unique
in their own funny way let's see ladies
there it is okay let's see I may have
another one disappeared like that too so
we'll see what happens because I I
thought I was doing good by organizing
stuff
but whatever I feel like ever feel like
you are Your Own Worst Enemy sometimes I
kind of feel like when I organize things
on myself that some random toddler has
gone in and organize things for me yep
okay well let's uh give this a moment of
silence and
it must be
time absolutely ladies and gentlemen it
is time for WordPress plugins a to zed
not z
h it's episode
642 and we have plugins for cloud of
holding with copycat Bunny and some
WordPress news all coming up on
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plugins from a to zed well good morning
good afternoon or good evening wherever
you happen to be hiding out there on the
globe today coming to you direct from
the brewery overlooking beautiful
Southern Vancouver Island I'm John
overall and with me is the ever lovely
Amber overall and we have a great show
for you today and don't worry any gites
you hear this point going forward we'll
fix them up in post production sure
absolutely I'll clear up all the
glitches going forward no this is a live
to tape show live to tape show live to
tape show folks wow there you go you got
it my brain is running faster than my
mouth can produce the words
yeah it's kind of entertainment that
happens in a younger person though
because they are just like tripping over
everything and they don't care so the
things that actually come out the
younger ones are really entertaining
yeah well we've got all kinds of great
stuff as the longtime listeners will
start to notice we have changes that are
appearing on the show you'll start
hearing little things change bit by bit
we're making dramatic improvements one
of the first big improvements we've got
coming is for those out there who are
part of the WordPress Community um if
you're a plug-in developer a theme
developer anything about WordPress
starting next week there will be an
additional show with me as the host on
it and I will be interviewing different
developers and others and we have a
developer coming to see us from web 321
next week and talk about his plugins Etc
and that point forward you can go to WP
plugins A to Z now and you can click on
the book and interview link and go book
your interview choose your day and day
and time I only book them for Sunday or
Sundays Mondays at noon because it is a
live two tape show and it goes live out
on the YouTubes at the same time so it
will be a live show every week so be
prepared Whatever Gets Whatever Gets
said gets said and that's the way it
goes and we have more things coming down
the pike as we move along there's a
whole lot of great things that are
happening with all of that being said I
think that's
enough oh and we lost the lost the other
one lost my hook
my hook is the other one that just
disappeared yeah gota go digging in the
files again gotta go digging in the
files again I keep rambling on about
there um same file or did you put in a
different one it was in the same folder
it was in the same fold makes it easy
thank you for sharing John now get down
from that Soap Box there you go we'll
fix that in post out folks don't
worry welcome to episode 642 wbp plugins
A to Z unlocking WordPress magic with
essential plugins we've got a couple of
great in-depth plugins to cover for you
some recent news in both the WordPress
world and the tech World in general and
some awesome WordPress tips so today's
episode is 42 give or take another 600
and for anyone out there who gets why
I'm excited about this don't forget your
tow for those who don't get it I highly
recommend hitchhike as Guide to the
Galaxy stick to and if you don't think
you have time to read it just stick the
book in your bathroom you'll eventually
get through it hopefully everyone out
there is keeping warm and dry if anyone
was listening to the pre-show there I
guess it wasn't really pre-show today
was it it was just part the very
beginning of the show it was just the
glitches as we are getting going okay
well we uh where I am we had over two
feet dumped on us but it's funny because
you go like uh 20 clicks and or 20K in
One Direction and there's no more snow
really we we just happen to be in a
valley where we got almost 3 feet now
yeah well that's the problem of being in
a valley man the clouds hit the hit the
hit the mountain top and go you know
what I'll just empty my load here
we are in the valley of Doom and Gloom
hopefully everyone out there is keeping
warm and dry uh no matter where you are
what your your uh weather currently is
it's probably not very warm if you're in
northern hemisphere so be sure to keep
the keep the warm clothes on and keep
your socks and and gloves
dry couple of reminders before we start
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Pacific time every other week on Monday
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awesome and for our artist
today groc he finally produced me some
better art there W you really got to
push him with the prompts though yeah
yeah it's not as easy as it used to be
for me he's slowly recovering from his
labotomy though yeah I was thinking
about it I wonder if they're actually
they lobotomized him specifically to
clock how long it takes him to get to
his previous level oh maybe he still
hasn't he still hasn't back up to using
all the cool quotes from uh from Hit
Checker's Guide to the Galaxy though oh
he does with me all the time oh he
doesn't like me then hitchhiker's guy to
the Galaxy
and bit of Star Trek and Star Wars CU I
referenced those oh
okay he just he used just do it
automatically with me without me having
to ask so other than that oh cool it's a
pretty cool piece of
art I didn't know this but uh henan said
the best version of hitchers was the
remixed version of the original radio
plays the books came later and after
season one deviated significantly I did
not know that I didn't either kind of
cool that's pretty cool I'll have to
find the radio uh
episodes oh they're probably out there
somewhere all right with all of that
being said I suppose it's time please
can everybody be
quiet please be quiet shut
up and now the news with
Amber so the first thing we have this
week is WordPress vulnerability report
so in this report there are 234
vulnerabil these 225 of them are
plugins uh and nine are themes so far
183 of the 225 plugins have been patched
at least at the time of writing this and
seven of the nine themes have been
patched so make sure you go through this
list there is very often plugins that
are wellknown
popular and go through see what needs to
be dealt
with next up we we have the
vulnerability report from patte this one
is a little more straightforward a
little easier to use I find what they do
is they give you the most recent issues
that are going on it doesn't seem like
they really give hours anymore which
okay I know they are for some reason
when I was checking out they weren't
giving hours they were just given the
date that's interesting maybe it's
because they didn't have some that were
hours old they were only dates
old huh maybe well uh I guess they do
have the hours in there I just didn't
see him at the time but uh when I was
checking it out the most recent one
was
uml injection vulnerability a link to
URL
post whatever that
means I'm not entirely sure but if you
want to find out go click on it and
you'll be able to find the information
it'll explain what's going on it's a
plugin next up uh
next I have here it's it's a call for
Creative digital homes which I don't
know why he called it creative digital
homes wait a minute yeah okay you you
want you went down one yeah I loaded the
wrong one first like I said it's Monday
don't worry
folks I'll be editing this till
midnight so I think that I completely
agree with this fella there are not
enough original there's not enough
originality out there he talks about how
he went through uh he he painstakingly
went through and looked for original
sites and he found a massive lack of
originality he is making a call out to
all original developers out there to
create something new bold daring and
show it off and really like these
snapshots that he offers are actually
pretty cool I like them and he's right
there's really not enough originality
for the most part uh we do tend to go go
with the safe option well you have so
you have to if you're creating a
business you have to go with the semi-
saave
option you know you need you need what
people are used to to get them to buy
your products if you're just having fun
on the web you can go as crazy as you
want I suppose so but it would be nice
to see more originality out there yeah
well there is actually there is a lot of
originality available within the safe
options if you're really
creative oh that's
true okay so next I have here revealed
how to tell if a WordPress security
email is real or fake I don't have I
don't know how many people out there
have a hard time telling this but I have
a feeling it's a lot of people because I
know when I first entered into this
industry I couldn't tell at all so if
you don't have any experience with this
this is a really good article to go over
if you have employees or friends who
don't have any experience with this
really good article for them to
read well for starters if it claims to
come from the WordPress security team
it's usually a fake usually yeah yes
because you know the WordPress security
team wouldn't reach out to you about
your
website
no so that's that's that's that's
usually a a big one but yeah there's
lots of other little things to you spot
in the
fake and you can use all like when I was
reading over this I realized that a lot
of things that they're pointing out here
you can use to tell real or fake any
kind of official looking
email a lot of these little things will
help you to figure it out so it's a very
useful one to keep to keep and pass out
on a need basis the biggest one poor
grammar and
formatting yeah but you know what those
are actually a thing of the past they're
becoming a Ser seriously a thing of the
past now that's because they got AI
writing it for them now
exactly so next I have fishing scam
targets Microsoft ad accounts via Google
search so what's going on here is the
attackers are using a multi-step process
you click on the link and it takes you
through this this um Network where you
end up putting in your your login
information and then they get to steal
it
so it's very important to be aware of
this be aware of what's going on so like
uh as they're pointing out in that image
right there look at the
link something my daughter learned the
hard way look at the link before you
click it
don't randomly click
and uh don't don't do image
searches and just trust that if there's
an image it's going to be safe images
themselves are unsafe at times yes
that's been a long-standing
thing it has but it always Bears
repeating
yep next thing I have is how volatile
have Google rankings really been so I
want to bring this forward and talk to
people about this for a moment because
over 2024 we had some serious ups and
downs we had uh so we had Google uh we
had SEO rankings for people who they
were doing great and then they were all
the way down to zero and they had to
work their way back up so really over
2024 alone the volatility increased by
26% so if anybody out there has been
keeping an eye on their SEO and they've
been paying attention to it and they're
noticing that they have gone down to
zero and they've kind of climbed the way
back up and then all sudden they back
down you're not messing things up look
at the dates of the updates for the
Google core and then look at where you
went down to zero chances are they're
going to connect perfectly and it's not
really your fault there has been massive
issues all year with every massive
update they have done the most recent
update doesn't seem to have affected
people too horrifically but it is still
affecting people so if you are
interested go through this it'll help
you understand a little bit more and
don't
overstress all righty well we won't
overstress and just keep it up all right
we have a new fun corner
yep roads Corner news that was my dog
definitely have to shorten that I am GNA
shorten it I have to play the long
version at least
once had to play the long version at
least once yes we have Rog Corner News
and Extras all the little bits and
pieces I find during the times between
shows and other things and information
that everyone can use or help or do
along the
way so this week here I've got just a
few things I didn't get nearly as much
as I usually do but but a couple of
quick things one I had spent a fair
amount of time over the last couple of
weeks dealing with gravity forms or spam
for your forms in particular gravity
forms because that's the only form
plugin I use and I have a plugin that is
coming really soon that I've partially
written and I'm having it refined is
dealing with gravity forms and getting
rid of the spam this here is an article
here it's an Ultimate Guide to gravity
forms anti- spam production gravity
gravity forms which is a very useful one
to help get rid of it but it's a lot of
the usual standard stuff such as
recapture a Kismet uh other anti- spam
honey pots and such they work but they
don't work against the humans that come
in to annoy you and it seems there's an
awful lot of either bored humans stupid
humans or people paying the uh sweat
houses to hit your site manually fill
out a form click all the blocks and then
send you the
spam so what I found is I found some
code over through some research and I've
combined it down into a
plugin that you can then throw into your
website turn it on and what it does is
with gravity form it looks at all of the
content fields and then it Compares them
to the data inside your WordPress site
in your management for comments there's
a block where you can put all the words
or phrases that are considered spam so
you can use part of Wordpress uh stuff
combined with this code to help prevent
phrases and other things from being used
as as spam on your site uh in your forms
that way it just gets turfed before it's
even submitted and the big thing is you
need it turfed before it runs all the
submission processes especially if
you're tracking your forms through
Google ads or through Google analytics
or any other method like that so be be
be up for that uh plugin that is coming
it'll probably be ready by next week for
for people to get downloaded from
us and as mentioned at top of the show
beginning next week we will be having a
regular show every other week of
interviews that is as I can get the
guests booked if I don't have a guest
book there won't be a show but if I have
a guest book hopefully I'll be able to
give a warning on this show that I do
have an interview show and there is one
coming next week so tune in next week
folks we will have a shows and they'll
be in the same download area of our
podcast as
usual another interesting article I had
up today was from search engine Journal
this is a very long article talking
about why you should still use
WordPress
and it talks about a bit about what's
happened in the last 6 months the issues
in and around of it the things can do
with WordPress why it's not going to go
away the community is very large got a
large SEO Community around it also talks
a bit about how the SEO for WordPress is
often way better than other uh software
it's a really good article one to check
out and as I mentioned what's it as you
can say that seems really cool most of
the Articles have been popping up about
this it's been the opposite of why you
should leave WordPress I like that
someone's finally explaining why you
should stick around well more and more
people are explaining why you should
stick around the problem is the initial
reaction to it was was the knee-jerk
reaction oh my God they're doing some
crazy stuff but they they shut us down
for three days it's kind of kind of
reminiscent of the days when servers
weren't as stable as they are now and
yeah and people's websites would go down
for 12 or 18 hours and their first
reaction was I need to change hosting
providers because these guys suck the
website's been up and running
continuously for the last two years and
now they've been down for 12 hours so
they must suck now no no
happens and you get through it so a lot
of it's just KNE knee-jerk reactions and
that's where that's where we're at right
now is the KNE jerk reactions and then
the people who stop to think about it
are going you know what no and then the
some of them they do kind of like the
njk reaction I did when Gutenberg came
out my neark reaction was to abandon
WordPress and unfortunately well not
fortunately unfortunately it's it wasn't
as easy as I thought to abandon the
ecosystem no it's really not easy to
abandon any ecosystem that you've been
working in for so long especially one
this huge and now that I've rededicated
myself to working on websites and
working in WordPress I have rediscovered
the excitement of it and found there's
been a lot of cool plugins created in
the last few years that I didn't even
know existed which I'm starting to bring
to the show
so and of course I mentioned a new
plugin coming from WP Pro A to Z uh
there'll be a link coming out in my
Twitter feed and all our other feeds uh
probably later today early tomorrow to
where people can download it first I got
to create the section on the site for
downloading the plugins and because to
get the plugin you got to sign up on our
email list and it is a very useful
plugin that's been created it is a set
of code snippits that are specifically
useful for Elementor and other helping
pieces in an amount your site and you
can go in and turn on and off whatever
Snippets you need for your particular
website so they don't all come on just
the ones you need and this plugin will
continue to evolve as I get more and
more Snippets and more and more
functionality oh I think he hit mut
doesn't
it this has been bandied around the last
uh 48 hours or so
good old Matt has gotten himself a new
set of lawyers and he seems to be
behaving himself he's even gone so far
as to clean up a lot of his social media
p posts and pages from all the snarky
comments he was making towards the end
of last year so I think he got himself a
little smacked down by his lawyers and
uh he's learning how to behave so so
that may make a change and you know also
this court case I mean their next their
next day in court is not until until
June of this year so this court case is
going to hang on for the next couple of
years so we won't know what's going to
go on there for a while just so you're
aware a portion of your talking vanished
portion of my talking vanished yeah you
went silent how did that happen I don't
know but you came back I thought maybe
you hit mute and didn't realize it but
no you came back mdan said some sound
issues happened but I don't know okay
well we'll go with we'll go with Monday
and I'll don't blame the snow blame the
snow
okay
and that was uh this week's solution and
problem I talked about that at the
beginning and I do have a tip of the day
I may end up finding more and more of
these tips of the days well you should
add them into the actual tip section no
no you have your tip section this is
mine my my tip section I may we could
just you know stop having me offer tips
and just have you offer tips no that's
your job oh damn I'll get to do this too
so we we see we're bringing more value
to the show for everybody it's basically
what it boils down to more value more
entertainment for the show you know we
could also just have both tips in the
tip section no let's split them out it's
more fun all right all
right today's tip if you're dealing with
a website and you're having cashing
issues and you hate having to go dump
your cash and everything else here's a
new tip I recently discovered you can
add a a little snippet onto your url
question mark no cash equals one and
reload the page and it'll reload without
cash I thought that was a cool little
tip that is a cool thing yeah that way
you don't have to go empty your cash and
go empty the cash it's also it's also
for the cash on your
website the cash on your website does
the same thing you know so it it tells
it to deliver you a new a new fresh
version without the cash so so you can
like refresh it and the no cash will
stay there I have no idea if it'll stay
I haven't tried I haven't tried it fully
yet well that'd be really
cool works the way it's supposed to all
right and there's some extra PL extras
here do you want to talk about any of
these extras that are you've got toned
in here uh not really just uh one quick
thing I wanted to mention though is
seven planets align on February 28th so
oh yeah I loaded that should definitely
keep your eyes open for that one I
loaded that one up
accidentally all right well with all
that being said it is
time let's go talk about plugins and one
I've got for you right out the boot here
is another long title media Cloud for
bunny CDN Amazon S3 Cloud flare R2
Google Cloud Storage digital ocean and
more I'm glad they didn't list all the
rest of the CN they could have really
stretch this title out doing that all
right R2 R2-D2 yes
R2-D2 okay this one here I discovered
this plugin when we were building out
the new WP Pro a toz website because we
use bunnet for our CDN Network and one
of the headaches of CDN networks is is
usually you have to upload the content
to your CDN copy the URL where the
content is then bring it to your site
well what this plugin does for you is it
eliminates that problem
entirely it allows you to connect
directly with your CDN Network at least
the ones listed here so far and more
they keep adding more into the
functionality of it you install the
plug-in You Go activate it up and then
you go configure it for your particular
CDN Network now I'm going to talk in
particular about bunnet because that's
what I use and once you connect it to
bunnet using an API and your um FTP
login
passwords on it it then goes into
whatever folder you told it to store
your files and it stores your files
there in the exact same file structure
as if it was stored on your website
meaning by year and month in there and
what this allows you to do is when you
upload you upload just like you're
uploading to your regular website
through your media player your media
upload fold um um file thingy and
WordPress and it uploads it directly to
your CDN Network it doesn't put it on
your server puts it right up to your CDN
Network now you can have it save a copy
at your server if you want but you don't
really need it if it's on your CDN
because you're taking it from somewhere
else but anyway once it's up there it
then puts the proper URL from your CDN
Network into your post page uh featured
image video whatever you're trying to
play puts it in there and it runs it
smooth as silk with no problems
whatsoever fantastic plugin they do have
a premium version which I didn't test
out but this free version of it works
such like a great charm that I'm going
to go ahead and give it a five Dragon
rating go check it out it's the media
Cloud for bunny CDN and
more that sounds endlessly useful well
it's I've been able to find it's been
great for uh the wp Pro A to Z sart
since I uploaded it there
and the other thing you can do with it I
didn't mention is if you only want to
upload your videos you can do that and
keep all your pictures local or upload
your pictures keep videos or audio
whatever type of file you want to keep
local you can check some boxes and keep
some local and put some up on the
CDN that would be a pretty amazing uh
space saer too because it I'm guessing
you don't end up having like five
different versions of each image made
like WordPress does oh no you still get
the five different versions like word
press makes okay but they all go up to
CDN
Network so so you go to storage instead
of your attic goes to your storage
instead of your attic yep goes to
storage instead of your attic but anyway
either way either way the CDN network
will deliver the images faster than your
website generally which is awesome all
right well enough of
that so are we going to come up with the
random noise for your little tip of the
day
no no that that'll just stay in the
rogue's corner who knows maybe a jingle
will appear for it we'll see what
happens all right so my tip to you today
Endeavor to learn three new things every
day it doesn't really matter what those
three things are learn a new way to cook
something or a new way to add a header
onto someone's site if those three
things happen to be three things within
your job all the better but by learning
three new things every day you'll find
your mind stays sharper and absorbs new
information more easily making it easier
to learn things like a new coding
language or building it or building
system within reason anyways but learn
three new things every day make it a
goal I found that when I do that and I
actually remember to do that it does
actually make my day a little bit more
fun because if I only learned two things
I have to go searching for a third thing
to learn and it it can be the most
random thing in the world just have fun
with it it helps try it out for yourself
all right sounds good
and the plugin I'm doing today is coding
bunny easy duplicate post so I actually
was surprised by this I I tried it out
thinking maybe it would just be like
another silly version but no this is
actually pretty amazing when you
download and activate this uh you'll
find the settings for it under settings
and easy duplicate
post and on this dashboard you find some
pretty amazing options like when you go
to duplicate the post or the page you
can choose to change the title or you
can choose whether or not you duplicate
title date status slug excerpt content
featured image categories tags template
like there's so many different things
that you can choose whether or not
you're going to duplicate it and then on
top of that you can add a title prefix
or suffix and whether or not the post or
page is going to be published like you
can duplicate it as a published page or
keep it as a draft and can also choose
whether or not you get redirected once
you hit uh duplicate page you can choose
whether or not you go directly to the
page in order to uh start editing it or
if you just stay where you are like I've
never seen something that is so
lightweight really doesn't slow your
computer down at all but it has so many
options so much personalization and I've
tried out all kinds of different
versions they all work really well very
useful and then also there's the
permission tab so you can actually
choose which user can use this making
sure that only like you and the writers
can use this and nobody else can
accidentally use
it so you can either in order to use
this you can either click on copy like
if you're in the list of posts or pages
and you hover over it you can see where
there's like edit trash open whatever
you'll see copy at the very end that's
where your cop where you can hit copy
right out of there and I'll ask you how
many how many you want to copy you can
choose any number up to 99 and you'll
make 99 Pages or post free of the exact
same one one or many is pretty awesome
it works really well lots of fun to play
around with and it's totally
free
so I highly recommend that you end up
checking this out and I will be just a
moment okay okay so we have no idea what
the value of this plugin is and I got to
carry the show for a moment because I
have no
idea what's going on and you know the
world's going crazy it's sliding
sideways and well I looks like
a oh dog go um anyway it does look like
an interesting plugin and it is another
uh duplication plugin so we will see
what happens with it and uh yeah I just
love when I get thrown into the Wolves
to try and uh monologue about um nothing
in particular although let's see I've
got something I can monologue
about let's see somewhere in here I had
something that I didn't really cover all
that thoroughly and back sorry about
that there you go oh look Saved by the
Bell all right you still need to cover
out the wrapup of the plugin and give it
rating sorry about that um so yeah this
plugin is super awesome I highly
recommend that people go and check it
out it it duplicates posts or Pages
really easy so many options totally fun
and I rate this at five
dragons all right there we
go well you know professional here I
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well the plugins we covered today were I
covered up the media Cloud for bunny CDN
Amazon S3 Cloud flare R2 Cloud Google
Cloud Storage digital ocean and more by
interface lab compatible leading image
optimizers Advanced image editing um
automatically tag categorize and caption
with Amazon recognition yeah I forgot
about those I didn't try those features
out on it yet but there is a lot of
features this thing has it's really
great plugin I gave it a five Dragon
rating and I covered coding bunny easy
duplicate post by coding bunny it is a
lightweight plug-in easily duplicate
more than one page or post
and you have the option to add title
prefix or suffix to make it easier to
spot the duplicates I think that's one
of the things I like best about it is
you can actually make it say uh you can
make it say draft or new at the very
beginning of each duplicate you make and
have it all in caps and have it stand
out I would appreciate that so much and
it is really cool anyways I read that
five dragons all right and
it's uhoh forgot that one too h
w just blows my whole thing here I know
it really takes it really takes the air
out of you doesn't it yeah yeah yeah
yeah okay let's try that let's try this
again and let's do this one more time
it's question and answer
time oh that's the wrong one uhoh that's
the wrong file there's two of them
there's two of them yeah there's the
original one which was that one and then
when he created us a second one we got
this one it's question and answer time
oh that's not it
either oh what you do with it no it's in
there it's in the file there it's like
I've got to find the right
one thank you Heman for explaining that
he said Zara Goa is in Spain and it's
pronounced Zar
Goa it's question and answer time
well you found it no I found almost the
right one there's actually another one
that says with John Amber yeah with John
and Amber yeah so we got to find the
right
one um yeah um I'm pretty sure that I
completely butcher most of the names of
different places that I read about I I
need to hear things said before I can
pronounce them
properly
uh it seems be
missing huh so you didn't put that wait
a second wait a second wait a second
here it is there it is maybe uh no I
found it they were all in the same they
were all in the same folder it's
question and answer time with John and
Amber there you go ah now we got the
right one don't worry folks I I'll I'll
edit that out and and post
liar all right uh so for if anyone out
there has any questions that they would
like to have asked here on the show in
this section particular you can send
them in to me at Amber
wppr
doca and we'll throw them up here we'll
see if we can stump my
dad uh so today I don't think because
these are more
so looking for your point of view your
insights MH uh what were sites like when
you started were they all uniform
like they kind of are now or were they
all unique and bold and daring and
weird geoc
cities you see I you say that but I
don't really understand what that means
that's because you'd have to have seen
geoc cities okay I started this I
started in this business in the mid90s
just as HTML was becoming a thing and
with the very first introduction of
Netscape so that people could actually
see websites in a
browser so back then they were full of
spinny lights um trauma inducing um
what's it called um seizure inducing uh
graphics and
um build sound issues again sound issues
again yeah you went silent I don't know
if you went silent for everyone else but
you did for me yeah that's weird it's
according to mine it's uh according to
my thing here I'm still
talking
huh silence and Gazo so I I you yeah
okay well I have no idea when you vanish
I sound like a kazoo and then it goes
back to normal again okay something's
something's glitching in the in the in
the Stream then yep we we'll we'll blame
it we'll blame it on uh on YouTube at
the moment but anyway in the in the
early days everything was different
everyone was trying to figure out what
to do with all of this so everything was
different everything was unique there
was no
consistency across the net and then
slowly as people realized what was
needed the consistency arose and then
they and then some standardizations
happened and some standard formatting
what really changed everything was
CSS when CSS was created that that
changed everything because now you could
control your look and feel a whole lot
easier
so so yeah there was no it was it was no
uniform it was all bold new and weird I
mean geoc cities is the perfect example
of it it's too bad they destroyed geoc
cities man that would have been
something to just leave up
for as a as a museum to the
internet there's still you can hello
world yeah SL hello world yeah that was
uh he he wrote flash hello world yeah
flash hello world that means that means
hello world in flash it blank blank
blank yeah oh
jeez yeah it's like yeah he's he's
throwing up very old um HTML
codes so y so anyway yeah it was it was
it was an interesting time the first um
from about 97 96 997 up until about 2002
it was a very entertaining time on the
internet and everything was new everyone
was still trying to create stuff and
they were just being as creative as they
could be so it was good
times okay so everyone was trying to be
as creative as they could be and then
somehow we ended up falling
into what we have now which is safe and
kind of like Office Buildings it's
called making
money ah if you want to make money it's
kind of like a newspaper I learned this
the hard way when I published my
newspaper my very first newspaper I've
got a copy of it I found it recently and
I was reading it and I'm thinking oh no
wonder nobody wanted it it's like I use
like across 18 pages of newsprint I use
25 different fonts oh my goodness and I
use different
sizing different sizing um columns and
layouts I was trying to be unique create
something different and until I settled
on a common newspaper format for three
issues later nobody wanted to read it
because it was it was too different and
that was the problem you know when
you're trying to get people to trust you
and buy from you or believe you if
you're too
different the majority won't you will
get the minority of people but the
minority doesn't pay the
bills so
okay so all right
well uh my next question is do you think
we are moving into a new age site
creation yes I do like a new Renaissance
kind of do why why not I do because well
you asked when we built WP Pro A to Z
you said you wanted something retro with
modern yes well the other day I was
reading some articles on on production
and design and there was an article in
there about people complaining about
going about people building back towards
retro
a retro a retro look with modern
appeal and so there is a new age of
Design coming and it's changing and it's
been like that every few years the
design would change in some aspect you
know we may we may have led the charge
to a new sort of retro kind of feel
while still being modern clean and
acceptable so we're within we're within
the tolerances of safe but we've
experimented in some areas that push the
limits just a little and that's what's
going to happen we're going to see some
really creative cool designs coming in
the next couple of years I think
especially with the way things are
changing like I discovered a new website
uh called codepen well it's not new I'm
sure all the coders know where it's at
but there's a lot of really cool stuff
being done there for website design
which can then easily be incorporated
into Elementary widgets your own custom
widgets and other things to be able to
incorporate them into your website in
different ways there's lots of new
unique ways coming down the pike with
the way developers have been pulling
things together in the last couple of
years and I think it's just now coming
together again to where it's going to
create something new unique and
different and you'll see those sorts of
things coming out of WP plugin Z to Zed
in the coming months as we as we finish
and complete more more more new products
or
projects so I'm definitely looking
forward to to this yeah yeah you're
you're at a good time you're at a good
time to be in the
industry all right all right so I got
two more questions for you that are more
about looking for your insights on
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a good morning good afternoon or good
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all righty then let's get on with the
rest of
this so next question is do you think
the steiness of Years Gone by will ever
return things like offering a free cup
holder and the person's CD drive pops
out on them like CD run BS out on them
those days are gone yeah you don't think
they'll ever come back how can they one
La uh computers and laptops don't come
with a cup holder anymore I was just an
example okay well the thing
is those were the early fund days back
when you used to call hard drives master
and
slave I thought we still did no no they
changed names you know because master
and slave is detrimental to the public
good for whatever reason I'm just
wondering like no all the the sense of
humor is gone the coders that created
all that
stuff they're old they're retiring now
you know they're as old as me and
they're
retiring you you just called yourself
old no I am actually you know
technically I am old you know I don't
feel old but I am but the simple thing
is is unfortunately a lot of there may
be some things that'll come back with
the silliness but it'll never be quite
the same you got to remember this was a
brand new industry nobody knew where it
was going to go or what it was going to
do or what it was going to become hell
they didn't they couldn't even figure
out what was going to happen with the
internet I mean for the first until God
it must have been about 205 or so before
it was even acceptable to buy stuff
online that was when they coined the
term um you got Black Friday and uh not
internet Monday Cyber Monday Cyber
Monday they climed it Cyber Monday
because the reason it was then the
reason it became Monday was because
everybody at home had dialup modems so
it was impossible to
visit um e-commerce stops but when they
got to work on Monday they were at a
business that was paying for highspeed
internet so now they could do all their
shopping in highp
speed okay people take people take for
granted the high speed we have today man
they they'll never know the they'll
never know the pain of being
3/4 of away 95% of the way through
downloading that file that's been
downloading for 6 hours and having their
daughter pick up the telephone and break
the connection and have to start that
file download all over again that people
will never know that pain I seem to
recall there being taped to hold the
phone closed well something like that
and a father screaming very loudly what
the hell are you freaking doing you
idiotic child
yes we all goblins We Are Young I've
come to this conclusion yeah so know no
that the silliness some of it'll come
but it'll never quite be the same
there's still some that happens like go
check out this website codepen.io I
think it
is um let's see
here
codepen codepen.io okay codepen.io and
here we'll just throw it up real quick
because you know what the hell we're
just burning time right now they've get
some really cool things here you know
such as this this little creation here
whatever it is you Mouse over and you
get little diggly Dancy dudes that's
awesome you know these are the things
that people are doing so yeah the
silliness still
exists there's a there's there's a lot
of it but it's not front and center like
this one here I really kind of found
this one cool when this one loaded up
give it a sec to look
takes a minute to load loading loading
loading get doggies
loading kick them up kick him up kick
him out raw hi this is a really heavy
piece of code I guess but anyway it's I
remember there being a little walking
man at some point I wonder what I'm
remembering that from um couldn't tell
you but there's all kinds of really cool
stuff out there so yeah the silliness
will return but not in the same way it's
basically
it AOL dial up oh yeah I remember that
oh God I I used to have I used to use
the discs for for making uh uh
chandeliers they disc I had piles and
piles it's like every every five days I
had a new one delivered to my
mailbox AOL blanketed the globe with
with their
CDs all right so my last question for
you is what is your favorite thing about
this industry that it's constantly
changing and evolving there's always
something
new that's the one thing I thoroughly
enjoyed when I was really heavy into it
until I took my four-year Hiatus and now
that I'm coming back to it I'm realizing
oh God there's still always something
new to
learn there is always something new to
learn it's it's the only reason why I
like this job honestly is because I I
still like it after four years I'm still
having fun I've never had that in a job
before M and I find that most people
with uh the distractability Mind do tend
to love this this uh world because of it
this industry this industry is great
because because of that and that there
is a lot of distractability you know
there's always something squirrel yeah
it's pretty much it squirrel oh dog
video oh wait wait dog
video so it's like there's always
something there here it is here's that
here's that thing loaded see oh cool and
then you can move it around that's
awesome see and this is and it's just
there's all kinds of cool things that
are constantly happening in the in the
world on on this stuff so all of that
stuff there lots of cool stuff and like
I said there's lots of new cool stuff
coming down the pike for WP plugins A to
Z and for WP plugins um and for WP pro8
isz lots of really cool stuff coming and
you will see that evolve over time and
remember if you're listening tune in
next week for the uh interview show with
all that being said I think we can call
that a show as in as Monday as it was it
was so much a Monday all right little
bit of music carry us on out these are
the days of
Thunder we're going to make time stand
still
a quarter after
midnight and I'm watching the
wall sometimes I feel so
uptight I just can't sleep at
all every day doing the same old thing
we're losing
time the weekend comes we got to have
some fun and Rewind
these are the days of
Thunder we're going to make time stand
still we got to feel the hunger hanging
over the edge just to taste the
thrill I feel the Rope
tightening choking off our
air we need to grab some lightning
Friday's almost
here caught in a web we need to cut this
thread we're hanging
by where is it said you have to be half
dead to
survive these are the days of
Thunder we're going to make time stand
still we got to feel the hunger hanging
over the edge just to taste the
thrill these are the days of
Thunder we're going to make time stand
still we got to feel the hunger hanging
over the edge just to taste the thrill
these are the Days of
Thunder but we're going to make time
stand still we got to feel the
hunger hanging over the edge just to
taste the
th these are the days of thunder
all righty folks that's all we got for
you take care byebye take care oh my God
that is
amazing oh no obviously we just lost the
satellite feet that's