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Life Updates
- Adam: “Joined” F3. Sore. oh so sore!
- Dustin: Still unpacking boxes and house projects, installing smart home things, garage door openers.
WordPress News
- WordPress 5.1 to Replace “Blogging” References with “Publishing”
Changes
- Mendel GD to Geek Adventures
- Jeff Matson left Gravity Forms
Wearing/Drinking
- Adam: WCUS 2017 shirt/water! / Mindset
- Dustin: yellow Gutenberg shirt / never coffee/lots of water / Atomic Habits by James Clear / just finished Jack Reacher – Past Tense
Questions
- How do you get started freelancing in WordPress and making websites for clients? via Sara Dunn at WCUS
- What is an aspect of WordPress which is really not working for you these days? > Bot attacks and working with the host to correct it. from WC Jackson Questions.
Segment: Tagline you're it.
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Life Updates
- Kyle: Played the worst game of poker I’ve ever played last night. But it all ended well.
- Adam: Rain. Lots of Rain. Still weird to see car missing from driveway..ala Avalon took it. Going to Join F3.
WordPress News
- WordPress.com – national advertising/commercials to start 2019! “Anything is possible”
Kyle’s Latest Song over on Soundcloud
Wearing/Drinking
- Adam: WPEngine Beenie / coffee / The Daily Stoic, Ryan Holiday
- Kyle: BigCommerce “Kind of a big deal” t-shirt, Sandhills Development hoodie / virgin mimosa / Harry Potter of Chamber of Secrets
Questions:
- What are the best options and practices for emoji use and do you recommend a resource for determining possible meanings? – Jen
- Is there a question you were afraid to ask? > Location services: Block or allow? Is there any risk with allowing this? – Nehemiah
Segment: Top Dev
- A segment where we give each other “ingredients” to build a site with certain required tools.
Lyrics to Kyle’s Song I’m the biggest WordPress fanboy that you’ve ever seen making websites every day now Every single one is optimized and feature rich and so incredible everyone is asking me how Well sit down and let me show you how to develop a website install WordPress everything is just right A couple points a couple clicks now we’re almost there load it up in the browser and prepare to stare Oh no! Too slow! I guess I’ll go to Magento Goodbye WordPress You couldn’t pass this test It’s you, not me You lack this one thing that I need WordPress, no contest Is the world’s OKest CMS Ecommerce is my specialty I employ WooCommerce, Ninja Shop and EDD especially Every site that I deploy brings joy but more importantly makes big money I’m a master, earning profits much faster, every alternative would be a total disaster Get rich I shall but what’s this I’ve gotta ticket ‘bout a problem with PayPal… Oh my! Can’t buy! I guess I’ll move to Shopify … The WordPress admin is so easy to use I point and click and publish, round the interface I cruise When I release new posts I watch my traffic soar all my followers are begging me for more I live by the rule that content is king and benefit from open source publishing I’m a gifted writer all my fans say I am I’m moderating comments which…are mostly spam? I shoot, I’m toast I guess it’s time to switch to Ghost … I got all the themes and plugins that I’ll ever need giving me the design and features to succeed These tools are so powerful with prices so low But one of them is asking me to upgrade to pro? What a disgrace I’m now migrating to Squarespace … I’ve got menus and custom post types and these new block things that seem alright There’s nothing more stable you will find that’s a fact oh shoot did my site really just get hacked? I’m filled with rage and sticking to a Facebook page
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Life Updates
- Adam: Back from Cali. Boys. Friends. Family. Good time.
- Kyle: Holidays with the family. Things are good.
Changes
- Adam’s friend Jessica joined Automattic as Happiness Engineer
Wearing/Drinking
- Adam: WordPress Engine Beanie / Coffee / Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs
- Kyle: LearnDash / Coffee / Harry Potter – 1st book
This week we recapped our 2018 Predictions and gave ours for 2019.
- For 2018, Kyle “won” 9 to 8.5 in the points.
Adam’s 2019 Predictions
WP Software Project
- 2 releases: 5.1 and 5.2
- core Trac open tickets down by 1000
- I will get “props”
Community – jobs/ changes
- 1 big merger with hosting
- 1 medium-sized agency closing.
- 9 people making a move that we both know.
- 2 new guests on this show
- Sara Dunn and Dustin Hartzler both on show at the same time
Personal for myself.
- grow the maintenance biz by 3x (or shut it down! )
- launch a new podcast/show
- Surprise Dustin.
- Attend 8 WordCamps / 2 other conferences
- Speak at a non WP conference. Possibly for money!
- Take at least 2 vacations of more than 3 days each.
- Visit another country.
Personal for kyle
- another blessing? cat / dog / baby?
- live outside USA for 4-5 weeks
- be in a documentary.
- run in a 5k
Kyle's Predictions:
WordPress the software
- One major release
- Something will be gutted from core and there will be some commotion about it
- Core trac will surpass 50,000 tickets all time=
- We’ll see the final 4 digit tickets closed (83 remain)
WordPress the community / ecosystem
- WordPress will get another reference in pop culture which gets written about in WP news
- One major change to the WordPress journalism space will occur (Tavern, Torque, Post Status, WP Lift, etc.)
- One of the camps that Adam or I plan on attending (Dayton, Jackson, Ann Arbor, US, Raleigh, Asheville, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Chicago) will end up cancelled
- Someone will make a WordPress graveyard site/page
Personal
- Adam will take a job
- One of us will produce a musical piece which gets attention outside of our normal audience
- We will present something together at a WordCamp
- I will surprise someone else in WP
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Life Updates
- Kyle: WCUS. Wow. I spoke.
- Adam: WCUS. Wow! I spoke! Surprise! // Daughter 4/4 colleges apps!
WordPress News
- WCUS 2019 – dates announced – Nov 1-3, 2019
Changes
Wearing/Drinking/Reading
- Adam: JetPack WCUS 2015 / coffee / Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs
- Kyle: Pantheon shirt + SandHills hoodie / coffee / The Drawing of the Three
Questions
- What are your predictions for the eCommerce space in 2019
- What are examples of jargon you heard people talk about but don't understand? -> JasonAPI
Segment: The Personal Question
Thanks to Project Panorama for sponsoring this weeks episode.
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Life Updates
- Kyle: Lots of time practicing talk for WordCamp US next week. It’s pretty set. But fitting this amount of information into ten minutes is a real challenge.
- Adam:Landed a new client for CWP Maintenance.
WordPress News
- WCUS is this week! Woohoo! We are there right now?
Wearing/Drinking
- Adam: WooCommerce WCUS 2015 shirt/coffee/ The Upside of Irrationality
- Kyle: Polyverse t-shirt and WC Chicago Hoodie /eggnog/ The Drawing of the Three
Questions
- What does custom database tables mean
- Best automatic membership plugin? (users pay a fee to become a member, renewals are automated)
Segment: Vague Rant Up
- Kyle: Why are WordCamps always on weekends?
- Adam: Clients baffled when prices go up, 8 years later!?
Thanks to OrganizeWP for sponsoring this weeks episode.
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Updates
- Kyle: Holy Hickory! I cannot handle all the leaves. Please send help….with rakes!
- Adam: Low Key Thanksgiving. Turkey sandwiches and all the sides! Yum.
WordPress News
- WP 5.0 Delayed… until?
Wearing/Drinking/Reading
- Adam: Code is Poetry long sleeved / coffee / The Upside of Irrationality
- Kyle: Local by Flywheel shirt / eggnog / The Drawing of the Three
Changes
- Human Made hires Shinichi Nishikawa as Director of Client Services
Questions
- How to pick a niche -Karen
- How do I get a guest spot. -Elizabeth
Segment: do_enqueue()
Adams Que:
- Podcasts
- Show
- Holiday movies
Kyle’s Que:
- JJJ’s review of 5.0
- Dream Theater: Systematic Chaos
- Sara Watkins: Young In All the Wrong Ways
- Rob Vischer
- Believed podcast
- KSWP and YWE Thanksgiving episodes
- Limetown podcast
- Stuff they don’t want you to know: The Michael Jordan Conspiracy
- Our Soundcloud
- Muppets Christmas Carol
Thanks to OrganizeWP for sponsoring this weeks episode.
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Life Updates
- Kyle: Back from Vacation. Thx to JetBlue!
- Adam: Clients… PM using PP? // Daughter accepted to college!
- Ross: Open digital marketer position. Internal rebranding.
WordPress News
Changes
- Adam Warner – now at GoDaddy
- Chloe Condon – now at Microsoft
Wearing/Drinking
- Adam: WCA2 2016 shirt / Coffee / Never Split The Difference
- Kyle: Water / The Drawing of the Three
- Ross: WCA2 Pull-Over / Water / Creative Strategy and the Business of Design
Questions:
- Why do columns not work in Gutenburg? – Gregg Franklin
- Where do you draw the line between personal and professional development? ….Like how do you choose which conferences to attend and in those which sessions to go to? Jen Miller
Segments: Personal Questions & Unordered Lists
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Life Updates
- Dustin: New house update – still not done. Getting cold in Ohio.
- Adam: Clients stuff. Garage bookshelves 2/3 done!
WordPress News.
- WP 5.0 pushed from Nov 19 to 27th
Changes
Wearing/Drinking
- Adam: Woo Shirt + WCA2 Speaker 2015 Pullover/water / Never Split the Difference (Chris Voss)
- Dustin: Vintage (W) shirt / Water / The President is Missing (James Patterson and Bill Clinton)
Questions
- Halloween Candy favorites – Kyle
- Any “toss the desk” interactions from customers? -Kyle
Segment: Personal Question
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Life Updates
- Kyle: Gig today
- Adam: All things open! // Dodgers in World Series!
WordPress News
- WPMRR Podcast
- Working with Webdev Studios Post
- Advanced Custom Fields post
Changes
Wearing/Drinking/Reading
- Adam: GiveWP shirt / Coffee / Building a Story Brand
- Kyle: AffiliateWP t-shirt, University of Michigan hat / apple cider / The Drawing of the Three
Questions:
- What is an aspect of WordPress which is really not working for you these days? -Nehemiah Harmsen
- Can you tell me how to win the Powerball drawing so I can tell all of my clients to go away and leave me alone? -Paul Oyler
Segment: Open Source Options
- Review responses to our questions.
- Stagnant Side Projects.
- Where to go live for a month.
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Life Updates
- Adam: Work. The realization that when I need focused time for work heading to the library. place 49ers! Dodgers – maybe?
- Kyle: That Packers v. Niners game was so good!!!! Also been trying out dark mode in Mojave.
WordPress News
- Twenty Nineteen Theme
- We are now on Spotify!
Changes
- Tunbosun Ayinla and Mandy Jones join Sandhills Development
Wearing/Drinking
- Kyle – AffiliateWP t-shirt / orange juice / The Drawing of the Three
- Adam- WC Dayton baseball / coffee / Robin
Questions:
- Given the huge growth of page builders now, it would be interesting to tackle the question that one can sometimes get – well, maybe not really a question, more of a comment with a skeptically-raised eyebrow, of “You’re using a page builder?” And I’ve had that both from individual clients who pretty much wouldn’t know one end of WordPress from the other, and as part of contract jobs where they do. -Vaughn Simons
- WC Jackson Q's Is there a question you were afraid to ask? How big a Charlie Foxtrot is Gutenberg going to be – anonymous
Segment: Deletable History
- Adam: Cybernator
- Kyle: Law Firm Commercial