Now Justin's home.
We're going to make time stand still
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.
[Music]
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 edes to taste the thrill.
These are the days of thunder.
There we go. So, it is time. Let's uh roll this
almost. It's episode three of WP Plugins A to Zed Unplug.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is time for WordPress plugins A to Zed, not Z.
And today I have a new plug-in reviews, some news, tips, plug-in extras, and more coming up on WP Plugins or Plug-in
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how do you sort the junk from the gems? Welcome to WP Plugins A to Zed, where
we've been keeping the pulse of WordPress alive for over 16 incredible years. Join us every week for an
unrehearsed real talk breakdowns of the latest and greatest plugins, developer, and community member interviews. Some
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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 Oallin, all by myself
today. My daughter Amber, who's usually on the show with me for this show, she got married over the weekend, and she's
she's skied daddled out with her uh new hubby to go on a honeymoon. Well, you
know, I guess they got to go do that after everything. They were pretty burned out after all the effort of the wedding, but it was a great wedding. And
for those that might be interested, you can catch it all at lenoverall.com.
Uh up there for the world to see. I thought it was lots of fun. Proud daddy here. like to see that she's doing well
and uh all of that great time. So, she's got some time off to go enjoy her new
husband. Don't she'll be back in two weeks time and we will get back to working real hard. All right. What am I
doing? I've got a show and we're going to see how long we can keep it going and it will be rather fun and entertaining
at times. and we're just going to talk of some things
that are going to take us through a couple of different paths. I'm going to showcase a plug-in live and uh talk
about a couple of things that went down in the WordPress world over the last week and or so.
First thing up, we're going to have a little discussion on
Bing. Please turn your camera on. Camera's on. Oh, yeah. I haven't I
haven't changed the image. Find me. There we transition to me. How's that?
It's better. Oh, I've tried to trans time.
I have to do things differently because I'm doing it solo here.
All right. So, what have we got? First up, there was a very interesting
discussion started by Kevin Gary, who came to my attention back in last spring
when he had that one big long show. I don't remember the fellow's name right
now, but uh talking about nobody that you should not build a website for
$5,000 or less than $5,000, which I thought was an interesting concept. He's
come in with a whole new aspect and that is this here and
he was spouting off about low code no code era is dunzo
and what he was talking about for contents he was context he was talking about three groups of people who work on
websites or have websites the lay person with very little patience for building a
website the lay people beginners intermediates who have a lot of time and patience and desire to get through with
learning and uh experienced pros who use low code no code vibe tools and
simplistic page builders and oh no he goes low code no code vibe tools and simplistic page builders fail each of
these groups in different ways we'll cover this one out his his in
group one he says the group thinks it's easy tools will help them but they really have no time and patience and give up quickly well I kind of agree
with him there. I find that regularly with clients that come to me, they can do it myself and they get into it and
they find out it's actually work to use those tools and
they can't be helped. You're right. Group two, he's saying these ones will push through and spend countless hours
learning proprietary, no code, low code, vibe code, UI, and actually be able to build stuff eventually. But it comes
with a massive price tag because the same time could have been spent learning actual skills that are transferable to
any number of pro interfaces. Instead, they have tons of hours invested, relatively basic, proprietary
that got a bit of a point there in that uh you can learn the basic skills or
learn the skills where you can jump from tool to tool to tool, whichever one happens to uh work best with your brain.
I've been bouncing around different tools over the years myself. And um as final one, experienced pros, a
group intensely frustrated by the limitations and inherent in no code, low code tools, jump ship almost
immediately. Yes and no. There's a ton of experienced pros out there that use these low code
tools because it saves them a ton of time. they can still build just as high
quality stuff. And of course, he's talking about pushing his Etch C most of the time is where he's working with this
one here. And in the interview I did last week with
folks, I I have I have name I have name issues. Easily pop back up here. pop in here
with James Webb. There we go. James Webb, the the interview I did last week, we got into talking about the Etch uh
product because he really loves it and I've only glanced at it, but he did help
me understand what Etch is and that Etch from his perspective and after I looked
at it again, yeah, he's kind of right. It's kind of like Dreamweaver or WordPress. And for those of us that
started in the Dreamweaver era, well, that was one of the tools we used to make our lives a whole lot easier
because we could develop something and it would give us a visual output at the same time we're looking
which is very helpful. These days I build in Elementor which gives me a pure visual element and if I need the code I
can go and dig into the code. All right. So anyway, Kevin goes on uh
saying the industry spent 10 years trying to engineer low code, no code tools, been essentially an abject
failure. Well, what he's done,
I can't say it's low, it's low code. It's a high code high code tool. Um
and then he's like the PE group group two will completely disagree with it. of course. Um, and his advice, anyone wants
to persist in this industry, take your medicine, learn to acquire real school skills, use real tools, the AI era has
no use for lowskilled workers. Well, he's right there. Um, from what I've
seen with AI and those that uh have been using AI and um
the AI stuff, uh, if you don't have any skills and you use
AI to build that happened in the very beginning of this year, I saw it
saw it a couple of times. Hey, I built this wonderful cool app. And then a little while later, the guy comes back
and goes, "Oh my god, I got this great bill for my API key uh usage because I forgot to uh I didn't know about
protecting the API key." That's the problem. If you don't understand, the AI
will build it in the simplest way possible. It's like going back to the early years internet when code was first
created. It wasn't as secure as it is now because it didn't have
it was way easier until all of the scammers, hackers, and the evildoers for
lack of better terms for them all. All of those showed up and started screwing with the system and uh messing with it.
And then we had to start building stronger and stronger and stronger and stronger security to the point now where
security is a real pain in the ass to get anything done. That's the way it works.
Now, we'll pop in here with a couple of comments from different people. We've got a whole another thread based upon
this thread that came from Andrew Hoyer. We'll be popping into that, but I just want to see a couple of things here.
One, Matt Mullen popped in on him and said, "Except WordPress itself is a no code, low code, and massively
successful." He's mostly right there. It don't have to. If you use WordPress at
its basic level, it doesn't require any coding. But I kind of think that Kevin here is
is getting beyond the point of all the people who need websites. And there are
ton tons of businesses that need websites that can't spend the five grand. They need to be somewhere around
a one to $4,000 area. And they're basic they're building basic websites to put
their business out there so that they can be found a little not depend upon all the social media which is constantly
changing their algorithms and everything else where businesses it still happens to these people build up a business on
Facebook marketplace or somewhere else and they do something that pisses off the people who run it say the wrong
thing and boom their whole business is wiped out. they've been taken down because they said something that someone
didn't like. Still happens. Um, also with uh I haven't seen one happen in a
while, but there have been numerous social media companies that get really
big. People start to build on them and then the company goes, "You know what? We're folding up shop. We're done. We don't have enough money. We're not
making enough money with this. We're done. Bye-bye. You got 30 days to collect your money." Actually, one
occurred recently. It wasn't social media. It was another services or software. It was some sort of online tax
account and they closed up shop after years of running. People only had
x amount of time to get their data off there.
Let's see where we got here. And of course, Gary comes back. He doesn't know a single person who could
come in off the street and build a WordPress website without suffering through an agonizing learning curve.
Well, that that's pretty much true. If you come in straight off the street cold, you'd have a tough time doing it.
Nowhere near. This is one of the reasons why we have the rise of u Shopify and
Wix and others because people can come in off the street and all drag and drop
and plug and play and they end up with websites that aren't nearly as bad as
the old um Geio Cities, but they're pretty close. No, Gio Cities was the
most famous one for that one. Just the Geio Cities days, the cool one.
See how we're going here. All right. Um, so this the conversation continued
for quite some time back and forth here.
There was a nice uh comment here from general
generalist generalist Sam and he was going well this isn't true. The statement of no code low code tools
don't actually serve anyone reeks a bias and I get it especially coming from a developer perspective but you need to
look beyond the WordPress bubbles. Tools like framer web flow are growing fast.
Yeah, I heard about heard that name a couple of times. So there's these tools all exist in
numerous ways. And what I think they don't take into consideration here is
they don't consider the different person's mindset or how different brains
can latch on to something to build the same thing. I mean for every problem you
have on the internet you want to solve there's at least a dozen ways to solve that problem and come at it from
multiple angles and because different people see a different path like climbing to the top of a mountain
there's path to the top of the mountain some are just harder harder than others and some are wellbeaten paths to the top
of the mountain so you know some some of them you have to come up the sheer side
of it but anyway what else do we got here. Let's see what else is uh poking around
in this one here. Um the was James Webb. We talked about
uh theme stuff in
Yeah. No, couldn't use it. Um
divy. That was one. But I keep hearing these new things about Divvy. So, let's pop into the what
led me to this thread originally was Angie Hoyer's uh uh and he was he was
kicking out to web WordPress devs, weigh in, check out the quoted post and thread. What do you think? Developers
and agencies that use any number of page editors of no code at risk of being replaced. I think that was something
else that uh was said in uh Gary's post there. And this is the big one is that
the discussion went off this way with all these no code tools. Are you going
to be replaced as a developer? This is where the thread went here. And no,
absolutely not. I mean, you can look at everything that has occurred in WordPress over Well, WordPress is now
21, but I've been working with it now for 17
years. No, we're they've had a lot of changes,
a lot of new tools, a lot of easy builders come and go. Um, some of them
have managed to stick and become better and better. A lot of people have abandoned it to go off to other places,
but many of them come back to WordPress. Biggest reason why is
it's a low point of entry for WordPress. It's a very low point of entry far as
cost go. And that meaning in that aspect there, it's for those that have time on
their hands and not a lot of money. If you have time and not a lot of money,
WordPress is the best place to start building a website for your business. Or
if you're looking to build a business and have a lot of time and no money, WordPress is an excellent place to build
a business once you find your it.
But what that allows is for those that are building a website for say their business, we're going to go with the
with client version of WordPress. And
I've I've had a few businesses that have become clients of mine. They started out doing it themselves and they used
WordPress to do it and that allowed them to get started. They built fast sites
kind of ugly, little problems, little problematic here, but they managed to get it up and keep it going. And
eventually as their business grows, they realize that they don't want to do their website anymore. They don't have time to
do it. All they want to do is make sure it's kept up to date. Maybe they want to improve it with a more professional
design to match their business as it's growing. Professionalism. So they end up, you know, out to developers to do
this. They find themselves a developer through recommendations or online or
and so that's what's going to happen. And this will continue to happen along that line. It will never replace the
developers. They will always be there at various levels. There's always going to be developers that produce the $500
websites and there's always going to be developers that produce a what do they charge for
big ones I heard that millions of dollars to build out a web. So, and still on WordPress.
WordPress scales depending on what you need. Now granted, as you scale, you
might have to scale up from the shared hosting onto your VPN hosting onto your
own server. That makes it even better. So you you'll as you scale, you scale.
Now, one of the things that I saw through all this articles in here, there
was a bit of discussion came back in about businesses not needing a website
and that they can live with social media. Well, that's not true at all. And um
and what that does is people do need a web presence aside from
Google Places, Facebook Marketplace, Facebook or Twitter or others that can
help you find some people, but it won't help you find enough. If you have your
own website, you now have what used to be a yellow pages ad. This is the one
argument I have to give some businesses, especially if they know about the yellow pages because well, many people don't
know about the pages now from the very few out there that still have a couple of yellow page books hanging. I remember
when they used to be so thick you use them for booster seat, small kids to table. Last time I saw one, it was
thinner than a uh weekend comic book. So they they just they yellow pages, they
really screwed up at the beginning of the internet. But that's a whole another rabbit hole to go down. But I had a
business back in the 90s, automotive shop, and I had to buy a yellow page ad
so people find me. Yellow page ads back then, this 90s. My yellow page ad for
eight page ad used to cost me $400 a month, some ridiculous sum for
the small smallalish yellow page ad, you know, to have a decent, you know, you
got a free listing, but your name was just listed. You need ad to stand out. And that's kind of a good comparison
for Google Places, Facebook. They're they're like they're like free listings in the yellow pages and people have to
scroll through them or go use them to find you. Whereas your website is your
big yellow page ad. And back in the day you budgeted in anywhere from $200 to
$1,000 a month depending on how big of an ad you wanted into your monthly marketing budget. This is what a lot of
businesses have lost in their building of a business is they don't put this into
their marketing budget for managing their website. A website can cost you as little as, you know,
15 bucks a month in hosting, 24 bucks for a domain name, and uh whatever time
you put into your own website. But if you want it professionally done, you got to hire a professional, and they can run
you as much as 75 bucks a month for upkeep, maintenance, and SEO. Actually, SEO costs way more than 70 a month. But
the point being is you need a professional help you get beyond the basics and let you have more time than
money. That's always a tough one when you're starting out with a business.
Let's see what else do I have in here on I'm rummaging on this.
All right, I've got some summaries on these.
Let's go with a summary from uh Andrew's post and
his summary. The summary on this is he's quoting from uh Kevin's post who argued low code no
code era is over. It's not. It's never it's not going away. It's going to be here for quite some time to go.
always be new tools that people will be able to use.
And he's predicting that uh tools such as simplistic page builders will replace in
the AI era. Well, we're already seeing the attempts at AI to replace those
tools and those attempts at AI replacing those tools are not
overly effective and they are going to create problems down the road. I'm looking forward to the day when all of
the AI mess and they have to hire developers like us to come in and clean
up that mess, which is what's always enjoyable when people do this.
And uh as Blake says, uh sticking to those
outdated models, PHP themes are at a higher risk. AI and page builders like Elementor will thrive. Balancing pro
features with ease for edit. Well, that is one thing that Elementor is doing well and Elementor is
bringing out a new type of editor they've been working on in beta. I've
only briefly touched it. I put it fully up on one of my dev sites and see what
going to do, but it's going to make accessing the code a whole lot easier.
Going to be it's it's going to be using class bases.
One of my devices has all right. I think that's enough
babbling in this particular zone here. So, where I'm going to go now,
see where I'm at here. I always put them in a nice order until
I look at them. And of course, this weekend was a absolute utter chaos.
as the wedding went on. It was storming, raining. It was just a it was a rough
weekend. So, I didn't have time to finish all my notes till this morning for the show. All right, here's one
thing. U some news bites, couple of news bites for this week. Now, I've got a
news bite here from Mullen WG doing an interview for
Search Engine Journal. And in this Q&A session at uh Word Camp
Canada, um Mullerweg discussed strategies for protecting the platform's open-source ethos from profit driven
companies that may not contribute back to the community. And my big problem
with this sort of thing is that everybody in the WordPress community is
profit driven in some way, shape, or form. uh unless they're well even pure
information people start ads on there. Everyone's profit driven in one way, shape or form. They're profit driven for
cash or they're profit profit driven for recognition or they're profit driven for something. But at any rate, thing is is
he was outlining ways to incentivize positive behavior, including enforcing
GPL compliance, which isn't overly hard to enforce. And you got to remember
that's a it's so vague the GPL in that you know
have the companies out there that buy up the pro GPL licenses strip out the code that
requires the license and then they resell them which to me is absolutely wrong but that's about ethics not the
license boils down to the ethics for license
it's always a problem and Today's you know he's talking about
voting with your wallet by supporting ethical companies and discussion
highlighted tensions in the WordPress ecosystem balancing community values commercial motivations suggesting
proactive measures like certifications to promote good actors. Well, who defines a good actor? You know who
defines who's doing the right thing? Well, whoever is in control of the switches there at word.org or defines it
um as I'm a I'm a perfect example of that myself in that I am not welcome on
the word or website took away all my credentials and hoping
to go away so I've stayed away from them years but I'm still doing lots of good
things in the community I still believe in this software I still believe there's
the ability to make a living for all kinds of people
in here and you don't have to be involved into the WordPress community of
the WordPress.org community. You can be involved in the other aspects of the WordPress community podcast for one.
It's been going now for 16 years and once upon a time I used to take the
reviews and I used to publish them over at.org or which is why I got banned
because I used to put my reviews there and I used to mention in a review, hey, I reviewed your show, your plugin on my
show. They didn't like that much advertising. I guess that's one of the things that annoyed me most about this.
It's like, well, wouldn't they like to know everything I said instead of just a
little snippet here about how we showcased it? But no, they at any rate,
that's what they do. They decide who is who is contributing the most based upon
how much money you put in there. And they also I haven't looked into the framework but I guess that contribute
five the five for five or something like that is based upon certain types of
inputs into WordPress doesn't include other WordPress input such as a podcast
which shares the news and promotes and showcases how easy and good WordPress
is. One of my big reasons for WordPress is because it helps you maintain control of all of your data.
See? Yeah, we just lost a thread on that one, but that's okay.
Coffee. That's what it is. We need more coffee.
We're blending the beans today from Kicking Horse Coffee. The jolly ass coffee and the smart ass cop
between the two asses. It should make a hole. All right, let's see what we've got going on here.
So, this is an interesting article. It does have a It does have um some of
Matt's spiciest comments from last year when he called out WP Engine as a bad
actor specifically, but he called them. He actually used those ter managed to
capture that. So, we've got a lot going on in this area here and we'll see what
happens. And of course, there's been been some action in the uh in the lawsuit between
between WordPress and WP Engine that's been going on. Uh they added in a couple of things that this week. So, you'll
have to just go find the news. Thinking of finding that news, I've got something that everyone might enjoy. I don't know
how I tripped across it. Probably through. But, um it's called Feedland
wp.feedland.org. and they have the latest up tothem
minutee news feeds from numerous places so you can always find whatever is
happening in like this one here was loaded up a little while ago load they
got WP Minute um search engine journal open channels FM WP Mayor Gutenberg
times WordPress diver uh Dave verse feedber
times um WordPress Matt Mullen wake feed the iconic feed and coming to iconic
here in just a few and more. There's just a lot of really great things in
here and it's a really excellent way to catch up and see what happens. The last one there.
Yeah. 445. I didn't load it.
There it is. Okay. So, it's still the same feed. All right. The feed hasn't been updated yet. But anyway, go check out this feed for some news. You're
smart and jolly today. You bet. Feel
free to comment, people. I'm always up for comments to help change the thread of where this is going. We got five
people watching. Come on. Lots and lots of comments. How you going, Hemmedian? Nice to see
you in here. Sorry Amber's not here. She's off on her honeymoon. Those of you that didn't catch the
beginning of the show, reason I'm doing this one alone this week is because Amber's gone on her honeymoon with her
new hubby. They got married over the week. All right.
All right. We're going to dive now into a new plugin and I'll showcase that
plugin here. I've already loaded it up on my dev site, but everyone knows how to install a plugin, so we don't need to
explain that. Let's go talk in on this. Now, this is from Iconic Nick. Icon
Nick. I IONIC. I've been calling him Iconic Nick. Iconic. That's it. Iconic. He's got
Iconic. I've got it. All right. He built a plugin to curate WordPress plugins and
suggest that you use it and I think you should probably use it too if you're
looking for some of those hidden gems. He's got a really great thing, a really great post here on it. Um, talking about
the 60,000 plug-in problem. Well, that's only the ones that are listed at
wordpress.org. That doesn't include the ones that are listed in numerous other
places across the web. My guess is we're roughly over 120 PL, thousand plug
for WordPress. Some are good, some are bad, some are scary as hell, some are fantastic, and some have claimed the
crown jewels. And because of the claiming of the crown jewels, it's near impossible to find the others. So at any
rate what he did he built a plugin called hidden gems and he also built
another plugin called plug-in curator. Now I haven't tested his plug-in curator
plugin. And what is plug-in curator one? We'll talk about that one real real quickly. What it does is when you load
it up, it allows you to create your own customized JSON file for plugins that
you think your clients should see when they're working on their WordPress
website installed plugins, recommending the ones you think they should load up.
The way he's got this plug-in designed, and I was thinking about it initially, I saw somebody made a comment and say,
"Hey, can you make it so that JSON file is local?" but he's got the files so that it's remote to the plugin. And I
thought, well, it could, but then that would take away from what you're going to do. What you as a agency or web
hosting provider to providing hosting to multiple WordPress websites, you can have this installed on every version of
WordPress that gets installed on your servers. And with your own JSON file,
you can update and change file that is always fed into people. Let's go take a
quick look at that one real. Now, that one there, it's available over at um GitHub. Links will be in the show
notes when the show notes are public. And this one here is you can download
the the files from GitHub, install them up there. He's got a really good readme file, tells you how to use it, and tells
you how to build the JSON file. from his post which you can find in
here. He's got a link to a his own customized version of the JSON file.
Here we go. You can see the c his customized version of JSON file which you can use if you'd like and gives you
a starting point. So at any rate, you might want to go check this one out. So the one I'm going
to talk about real briefly here is the other one which is
going to talk about is hidden gems plugin. And this one is really kind of
cool. I really kind of like how this one works. It helps you dig up plugins that are got few installs and other options
with it. Again, files for that are contained up on GitHub. So, you'll have
to go download it from GitHub and then upload it and install it to your WordPress website. That I'm not going to
be going into. Okay.
All right. So, but I do have it loaded up here on my dev site.
And in my dev site under added plugins, I have added it all up there. And what it
does for you when you go to add new plugins, you've got your usual featured ones, which are limited to what
WordPress says you have. Now, if you use the other plugin, the plug-in curator, I
think it replaces the featured. Yes, it it replaces the featured with your
recommendations for plugin here. Uh, then of course you've got the usual popular one, which is pretty close to
the same ones as the ones they feature. Looks like it's mildly changing. recommended ones which of course okay
it's the recommended defeat which are almost favorites which if you have a
WordPress.org or username account and you save your own list of feature
plugins and toss that username in here and get the favorites from
not sure if it works else I haven't used that in years I had built up a really nice
my account then you've got the hidden gems one and it comes up and first loads
up some random ones until you start to sort and what it did was it searched for
any that had less than 100k installs, any star rating, and sorted by the
newest in here. So, these are newest ones in here. Let's see. Take a look at
got here. Um, 19 minutes ago. So, this plugin was just released into the
WordPress world. Last updated 19 minutes ago. Um
Um, okay. So called the smart autocomplete address
autocomplete address plugin completing addresses
here. Oh, Woo Commerce. So at any rate, you can use it for
finding all kinds of interesting plugins that don't exist normally such as digital
a mailer audit wave SEO. Audit wave SEO. Okay, so
it's a new SEO
added zero day. Yeah, these are all the newest zero days ago. These are all
brand new into the WordPress repo. And once upon a time, there used to be a tab for all these plugins that added into
repo. So you could always go see what was new. That was one of the ways we used to showcase plugins on have to use
this to dig out new plug use.
On the whole, it's looking pretty fantastic. So, at any rate, it's a very simple plugin. You can use it to search
for any terms you want. We'll go search for security plugins and pops up a whole
bunch of underused security plugins. Drop it down.
10,000 installs for gives us the same ones.
my newest updated. There you go. There's a neat
one. Guard dog security and sight lock. Super hidden gem. All right. Why did it
get a super hidden? So, he's got a tag on here that tells you it's a super hidden gem and hidden gem. Take a quick
look. Art dog is uh keep their installations clean and
secure. talk here
act user to
okay I would have to go through and read all this but like a interesting security plugin
got 70 active installs of this plugin so nobody knows it exists got the other one here customer email verification for
commerce this one could be very useful for people WP factory
or their plug 8,000 installs
but customer email verification for Woo Commerce. So going to verify the I
assume it's going to verify the email address in Woo.
So this is a very useful plugin. I'll make sure to be bringing it to regular
shows to uh recommend it out for a while until it's more installs. And of course,
you have to go manually install this. It's not available through the WordPress repo. Got to go get it over at GitHub.
All right. to
take a midtow break,
but keep you guys entertained. Play one of my
[Music]
Oh yeah.
[Music] Don't claim to know your story. Don't
even have m in the search for glory. Gone with them sacred rules of old. They
went missing. Down highway 49.
[Music] Devils at the crossroads sitting doing
time. Preacher man discovered passed down from
saint to sage. Like a kindhearted lover who's been lost on this stage went
missing down Highway 49.
[Music] Devil's at the crossroads sitting to his
side. [Music] Come on now.
[Music]
Not saying they are the answer. Not saying they're right or wrong. I ain't no texting dancer or loser where I
belong when missing down high 49. Highway 49.
Devils at the crossroy [Music]
and the trigger to see who done the crime. Captain pulled the trigger. Guess
who's doing time? They went missing. Down high 49.
Devil's at the crossroads. Is he yours or is he mine?
Is he yours or is it mine? [Music]
Don't claim to know your story. Don't even have mouth in our search for glory.
Gone with them sacred rules of all we're missing.
Down high 49.
[Music] Devils at the crossroads sitting doing town.
Devils at a crossroads. Joker doing fine.
Justin doing [Music]
There we go. We're back. Thanks everyone. It's mid- winter sun low on the horizon now.
It's a nice sunny gorgeous here on southern Vancou. [Music]
Always nice when the sun comes back out. All right, let's see where I've got. I
don't have much else. That pretty much covers up what we're wanted to showcase in today's show. Um, I wanted to, you
know, mention a couple of others. You know, you might want to, if you're not following him already, go follow, um,
uh, Icon Nick Icon Nick. Go call, go follow
Nick. Nick is his name. Go follow him on, uh, Twitter. working really hard to me people. Now,
Nick gets a lot of attention, but then he's a pretty bus fellow and he's he's
put out a lot of uh decent plugins other
weeks last couple of months. He's So, another
one little underrated, nobody really follows them. Um, you know, go give them
some love. They've only got 320 followers. WP Security Ninja. They have
a lot they put out a lot of really good security tips for managing your website.
I also did an interview with them way back. Go dig through our archives to find it.
So, go check them out. If you know anyone you want to recommend, send them
to me. We'll make sure they get into the show notes and showcase the different people. We're trying really hard to
surface the hidden gems of WordPress, underutilized, the people who have been
uh sidelined or sent off to the to the benches for lack of a better term. Right
now, I can go back to about 10 years ago with this show.
Wish I could remember it, but I had I had showcased 12 years ago. It showcased
a me that was brand new, hot off the present would have wiped the face of
every membership existed at the time and I imagine if they kept growing they
would be the number one problem was is he didn't have a very
good he wasn't he's like me not very good at the politics
dealing with all the and He managed to off probably the same
I pissed off and uh they sidelined him and he kept trying so hard and I did my
best to showcase the stuff on my but then one day him and I were emailing
back he says you know what I'm going to go get a job doing something else I'm not
he walked away from I don't know if he ever came back to coding but it was a
shame to lose that kind of talent because of the politics of
or forums. That's where what going to look for forums in WordPress
more than just the plugins and other things.
And from my own personal experience, there's some jerks there and they are not forgiving at all. Even when you try
to make amends, they are like they get on their high go. And there's still people that about the ways they've
been treated in it, which is a shame. And that just goes with the whole
system. At any rate, that's my little rant for
the end here and how when we had that article about Matt talking about how to
improve WordPress, the best way he can improve WordPress is start by improving on the organization
volunteers and semi-paid volunteers. He
Oh, well, no apologies at all, Hemdian. Hey, look, you you're holding on to the number one
crown right now. This gives you the opportunity to completely steal that crown from Amber because it's based upon
a cumulative score. I've figured out because of one show that I popped into
from time make a couple of comments and all of a sudden I've got the I've got a cr I've got the number one crown and
there's lots of other people coming. some reason I frown with only a few.
Well, hopefully it gets you well. At any rate, this is really all I've got. Um,
I've managed to push this show to a whole 48 minutes today and by the time I wrap it up, we might even be pushing 50
minutes. But, thank you everyone for showing up. And for those of you that showed up late to the show, the reason
you're listening to my voice and my voice alone is because Amber has gone, they wouldn't even tell us where they
were going for their honeymoon. They're just saying, "We're leaving. We're going off the grid. They're unplugging their devices." So, they're hiding somewhere
uh where nobody really knows where they've gone. They they just vanished. Oh, good for them. Anyway, and it was a
really great wedding. For those that want to see Amber's wedding, you can go to lynoverall
wedding.com and that's ln. Go check out their website which I'll be
putting up a whole deal that I took later tomorrow. But the
live stream, we live stream her wedding, friends and family that couldn't make it. And for anyone else in the world
that wants to enjoy a good Celtic Scandinavian wedding, what it was Celtic Scandinavian
wedding. Go check it out, folks. It's a really cool thing. And that's really all I've
got today. So to push this and uh say thanks for showing up.
We will talk at you next week. Next week I am doing an interview show. I who I am
a list of come on brain. Where's my brain? I have
a brain there that's supposed to be making comments for me.
Oh, are they resolved in alphabetical order? Well, never because I I but I
don't think her username is Amber. Something else cancelled an M. So,
if it's her username.
All right. So, anyway, I do have an interview next week and I can't find my listing.
Tune in next week. That one won't work. Um, and listen to
the interview. It should be a good one. I always do a nice job of preparing for the with that being said,
we're going to uh close out the show with a little bit of music and we'll talk to you guys next week.
Time stands 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.
[Music]
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 edges to taste the thrill.
These are the days of thunder.
All righty, folks. That's all I've got. Take care now. Bye-bye. Oh my god, that is amazing.
Oh no.