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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
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This week we welcome Tara Claeys to the show. Tara runs the Design TLC Agency and is a co-host of The Hallway Chats Podcast
Life Updates
- Kyle: working on some talks for upcoming WordCamps.
- Adam: just took daughter to work.. She drove!
- Tara: Hanging at the Jersey Shore.
News
- WP Simple Pay joins Sandhills Development
Changes
- John Parris leaves Sandhills Development and joins WP Engine
- Weston Router and Thierry Muller leave XWP and join Google
- https://weston.ruter.net/2018/09/19/becoming-a-googler/
- https://make.xwp.co/2018/09/19/a-new-season-for-xwp/
Wearing/Drinking/Reading
Adam: WCOC 2016 / Coffee WC2014 mug / finished Your Second Life Begins When You Realize You Only Have One & The Richest Man in Babylon. Reading ROBIN.
Kyle: Mojo Marketplace hoodie over Yith Plugins WCUS17 t-shirt / Coffee from TJ Max / The Drawing of the Three
Tara: Women Who WP Shirt/Black Coffee/ Just finished Little Fires Everywhere (a novel) Celeste Ng. About to start a book of short stories for a book club. Also just ordered the book The Magic of Tiny Business – You Don’t Have to Go Big to Make a Great Living, by Sharon Rowe
Questions
- Here's one that's been bothering me lately: if I have several ongoing projects at once, how do I divide up my time? The work requires enough concentration that I lose a lot of productivity if I try to work on multiple projects in the same day, and sometimes in the same week. Do I tell the clients “Okay, YOU get the first week of the month, the next person gets the second week,” or what? Plus of course, they all have urgent issues at the same time It's not made easier by the fact that I have unpredictable health issues that throw me off schedule. – Sally Goetsch
- What is an aspect of WordPress which is really not working for you these days?- Daryl Alexander
Segments:
- Personal Question
- Unordered Lists
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Life Updates
- Kyle: Had a nice time at the annual Sandhills Development team retreat.
- Adam: Working. Kid to turn 18 this month! Crazy! Oh.. and got 2 really nice testimonials! One for the dev work my agency did the other for the podcast!
WordPress News
- Someone from this podcast speaking at WCUS!! (It’s not Adam)
- Matt Mullenweg Announces WordPress 5.0 Release Plan, Estimates Release Candidate to Ship in November
Changes
- Kevin McKernan leaves behind agency life and joins a startup called AirDNA
- Mihai Joldis joins Sandhills Development support team
- Mike Schroder moves to GoDaddy
Wearing/Drinking/Reading
- Adam: Gravity Forms t-shirt, coffee in special mug. Paul Mosca from MoteeAPP • Empty Bowls Fundraiser,
- The Richest Man In Babylon
- Kyle: AffiliateWP t-shirt and Sandhills Development hoodie / Covfefe / The Drawing of the Three
Questions:
- This is about theme building. I’m wondering whether I’ll need a paid license for using scripts like fancybox if I’m submitting a free theme to WordPress. Probably no for free themes? Then, what if someone using this free theme with fancybox built-in is trying to sell something on the site? Is it the site owner’s responsibility to pay for fancybox license?
- What is the biggest question relating to WordPress or the web or your work that you are struggling with right now? aking sure sites are ready for Gutenberg.
Segment: Tag(Line) your it!
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Life Updates
- Kyle: picking up lots of sticks
- Adam: Didn’t go to WCLAX. Really wanted to. Surprise my SoCal peeps. // Managing time, clients. New client via referral.
WordPress News
- WPForms has acquired Pirate Forms
Changes
- Russell Aaron changes jobs
- Chris Wiegman goes to WP Engine
Wearing/Drinking
- Adam: Coffee/Water WC Los Angeles 2016 shirt and not reading at the moment!?
- Kyle: WordCamp US 2017 t-shirt / Coffee / The Drawing of the Three
Questions
- Looking for advice on how to stay in touch (in a non-annoying, natural way) with former clients and contacts (people I meet at conferences, former coworkers etc.) -Emily Patterson
- WC Jackson Q: What is the biggest question relating to WordPress or the web or your work that you are struggling with right now Answer: How to find good themes (companies) / decide about builder tools so each website project isn't starting from scratch. -Nehemiah Harmsen
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Kyle
- Kidding
- Season 2 of Up and Vanished
- Morten wrote about WordPress LTS
- Disgraceland podcast
- A Good Firm Handshake
- Bunny Ears
- Elon Musk on Joe Rogan
- Broken Record podcast
- Sara’s latest videos
- Every Packers game
Adam
- Spotify! Crazy deep / workouts!
- Billions – TV Show
- The Dodo animal rescues on Facebook
- Podcast: Secrets of the most productive people
- Podcast: ZigZag
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Life Updates
- Kyle: working on exercising more
- Adam: managing a bunch of projects – a good thing. Hurricane Florance aka Florence
- Sara: MIX Design Day
Changes
Wearing/Drinking/Reading?
- Adam: Coffee, WC Nashville WPEngine 2017, Fall until you Don’t & Robin
- Kyle: Water, AffliateWP Shirt, The Drawing of the Three
- Sara: Comfy clothes / Coffee and a protein shake / Setting the Table
Questions
- I work with mostly larger organizations, and I'd love to get more business from other departments. But this has been difficult. People can be very proprietary about their contractors (ex. had a client tell me she wasn't referring me to another department for additional work because: “I don't want XYZ team using up all your time!”). Other times, the org knows me for only one specific skill. ~ Emily Patterson
- What is the biggest question relating to WordPress or the web or your work that you are struggling with right now? His Answer: SEO (Peter B)
Segments:
- Tag(line) You’re It
- Vague Rant Up
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Life Updates:
- Adam: Back from an amazing vacation in Paris.
- Kyle: Moved into a new house. Celebrated daughters 1st birthday and had a tornado across the street!
Changes:
- Joel Worsham leaves Real Big Marketing and joins DMI as a Software Engineer
- Rebecca Gill moves to emagine:
WordPress News:
- Petition to remove Gutenberg from WordPress core.
- ClassicPress – Torgue interview
Wearing/Drinking/Reading
- Adam: French Coffee + French Water, WC Asheville Shirt & not reading anything!
- Kyle: Coffee, WC Kent 2018 shirt, The Drawing of the Three
Questions:
- How to decide which tasks to outsource and when you should start outsourcing? Tara Claeys
- What are examples of jargon you heard people talk about but don't understand?
Segment: Deletable History
Follow us!
- The Show: @get_options
- Kyle: @MrKyleMaurer
- Adam: @heyadamsilver
- SOUNDCLOUD @get_options
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Life Updates
- Kyle: Cracked rib. Missed no WordCamp speaking engagements.
- Adam: Happy 20th to my wife.. “Tomorrow”. / kids are in school YAHOO!
WordPress News.
Changes
- Andrea Rennick leaves CopyBlogger to do quilting full time
Wearing/Drinking/Reading
- Adam: GiveWP / Coffee / 12 Week Year
- Kyle: Gravity Forms / Caribou Coffee / The Drawing of the Three
Questions
- How do you get the info you need to give an accurate quote? In the easiest way possible for both me and the prospective client. -Rene
- Who has the best daughter? -Avalon
Segment: Open Source Options
- Stagnant side projects?
- Where should I go live for a month?