 I'm going to come across a one called Tabula Rasa. Tabula Rasa. Okay, it's a Latin word that basically means a black slit. And this is how a black slit looks like. It's black. There's nothing greater than that. However, in the way we've grown up listening to our grandparents, to our fathers, our sisters, our aunties and uncles, usually they start with the story by saying, in the beginning, or at least those who follow different scriptures, you know, they always say, in the beginning, everything happened. And in the beginning, the big bank happened. So we also have a difference in what we say in the beginning in our traditional languages. The Mahgharna will say, our Rathukha, the Rasoga will say something similar. Now I'm going to challenge everyone of us. If you notice the Mahgharna and the Rasoga, I would like you to just tell us how you say in the beginning in your language. Everyone, what's the point in time? Okay, that's one. Anybody else willing to share? Yes? Naibandu. I hope you all had. Could you just say it out loud? Naibandu-ling. Okay, what language is that? Lingala. Lingala. Anybody else? If nobody's going to raise their hands, we're going to make you all dance Lingala. That's the topic of today's Good and Back. How do we tell our story? My name is Lawrence Bahira. I'm on Twitter. And I'm on the Chigai as my handle. Many people don't know how that comes about. I'm a Chigai by tribe, but I'm a guy. So I just put the two together, so I'm a Chigai. I'm also the same name of chigai.com. That's where I do my blogging. Things started by evolution. Okay? First, the Nyandapo all the way to the modern man. But there was one thing that was particular about it. Early man had his own tools that he used. The stones that were shaped into hammers, the knives were shaped also from stone. But as time went on, as we evolved, as we became more civilized, man got modern tools. Like the hairbrushes that we do get. So we were able to comb our hair without actually having our scalp. Okay? So that is one of the tools that we do have. And to be honest, that's the reason why we have put it back together. It started with us having simple tools that we did use. And eventually we came up with something that was a lot more complex in a way in quotes. But it is something that is going to help us do a lot more work in an easier fashion. All right. So at the beginning of WordPress, we had what we call the Classic Editor, which I think if you've used WordPress before, it allows you to just do basic things. The best thing is you can mention your other picture and what everything else is up to you to be able to make it look better, look a lot nicer. But there was one problem. This Classic Editor is not sufficient for building and maintaining complex edges. Let's say you're a designer and you have a design that is very intricate in nature. It's very hard for you to use the Classic Editor to be able to handle your content and yet also utilize design in ways that are eye-catching and memorable. So the other thing that we realized about the Classic Editor is that what you see, imagine you're putting things together and eventually you think, okay, now go to the perfect look, this thing is supposed to be. Now you go down on the front end. This is the back end. What you're seeing here is the back end. But you make your nice pretty structure and everything and then you go on the front end and then you have a big space coming from one to the other because you press enter many times. You find the picture is not as big as it should be but you're thinking, I did this and it looked perfect. What happened to it? So those are some of the challenges we got with the Classic Editor. However, you know, people are smart and I've been talking about evolution from early man to the modern man. Some people became creative and say, you know what? We can actually tap into this Classic Editor and then we can build plugins because one press is so expensive it allows you to tap into what is already existing and make things that are yours things that allow you to do certain things in a way that you would prefer to happen. So people build plugins. You could be able to write your own short codes and you could be able to write your own small pins such as the ones like, you see we have the boards and talents and so on. You could be able to come up with your own style and write a small plugin too. I hope you achieve that. But that was hard. That was tedious. That took developer time. That took you calling the developer telling them, are you available? Are you doing this for me? So within the take five years doing it by the five years are done by the take the five years are done you actually don't interested in that you want to actually do something that is completely different. So with that it has gotten back and we're going to have a small demo we're going to have someone who has fairly is the wrong one to use someone who is starting out on how to get back. So I want to see how you would experience it being something new how you experience it. So I'm going to call Serena to come and work with me through this. I'm going to work with Lawrence actually it's a plugin right now yes so wow I've been trying to learn how to use this editor I am not a developer so I don't I'm a developer challenges but at least because I'm a writer and I blog my experience is one is this editor actually has blogs a blog yes so as Lawrence mentioned it helps this editor helps you work with blogs I already have the blogs here now the first blog is it's your fault I'm fat so your fault so this is actually the heading right now and it came from the blog there so we are there I'm putting it down here just to show you what how I got to that heading or it's your fault I am that way yes and then it also helps you change the color I wonder if people who have been using the classic editor have been able to change the background and the background color and then the point color anyone how have you been doing it coding yes you've been coding but the good news here is you don't need to code anymore because this this in the okay in the blog you already know like in the paragraph let's go to the paragraph you already have what would you call it the blogging the editing tool is already there so the challenge I find with this is it's very hard for you to know where to get the editing tool the color how to change the color because while I began actually how to call Lawrence and ask him so how do I get to change the background color and how do I get to change the point color so I try to look at the color until when he came and then he showed me that I actually had to go to setting I know most of you have my look at the screen here you see yes so where do I go color setting so I'll go to the color setting and I'll change you see that's the background color and then I'll be able also to change that color so you don't need to code it's already working she's being preview for us I'm not so sure that's working so she's being preview for us that's preview what if you just is part of embedded where you get your okay you can get a tweet from Twitter or maybe you can get a link from YouTube and actually embed it in the post so just imagine I have the mochi guy here who is a famous blogger and I need a following I can just go to his Twitter and then get a tweet here this thing goes tweet, twitter, tweet yes that one so I can go to his twitter and then get that link and embed it in the blog post that I'm working on and then I'll be let's do it so which guy should I who I have been tweeting by the way that's right and we are working on this yeah so I need somewhere so I'm going to go to my blog and then say twitter and I will put the link there and say embed let's see I think we have the tweet in our in our edit right there the way to do my tweet alright can you help me delete that tweet so you know I just now I deleted that tweet but you see at the front end I still have that tweet let's say you're writing a blog but someone tweeted something that was very interesting to you and you want to keep keep your readers focused and maybe all link them to a certain tweet so it will never like you can never it will never go away it will never go away in that you keep following like okay the content will be in line with whatever you're writing right like when you're reading the content is in line with everything but imagine I was writing something and then the tweet that was deleted actually is nowhere but then the conversation about shows that I was talking about something that is missing that means followers get bored with my conversations but now even though you delete the tweet someone will already follow up basically what you're saying is the tweet was your reference the what? that tweet what? that tweet of course yes and then the other thing is where I find it you know with that classic editor when you're typing the words you can easily count them those of you who are using that classic editor you can see that count down you're my famous bloke please help me the tradition always so you just write quick here and go to classic editor so I don't know if Maria lies to me because before I came here I asked her so for you how would you count because usually me I count my words in Microsoft Word before I post them I failed to find personally I failed to find so she did like write down yes now me it has already been hard I already first put my words in Microsoft Word and then get the count so I can post them because I am kind of what I first counted them in Microsoft Word then I post them however the good news we the good news now is I can see the word count down here however we I think it's very hard for now looking at the classic editor and then this this good and bad editor if you don't know where the word count is you can never know if you can find out if you can count the words can anyone see where we can count the words from so that's the problem because we all can see where the words what the good news is we see this the information where this content structure we can actually click on it and see that you have 413 words 6 paragraphs and 10 goals thank you I actually do know about the word count and right now I am going to use our frontage and tell you what the future will be like it will be like this or at least I hope that it will be that is what our future looks like we are going to have slay judges ok so that's what we will have but the future for us is modern javascript now javascript for those that don't know is a programming language that you use javascript is growing every single day as a high level language it's growing and it's allowing people to do things that are way way better supported but it's built on javascript and a particular branch that is called react so it's allowing us to do things like this it's allowing us to make the couple of sites initially WordPress was used to store information as a content management system but we are going to be able to create the couple of sites where by yes you have WordPress managing your content editing it like you've been saying you just copy it from your word and put it in your Gutenberg and then allow yourself to develop a mobile app or to develop a website that's completely detached from the demo structure WordPress if you want it using the rest of the API but there are a couple of things that will benefit from Gutenberg Gutenberg is not only going to remain as an editor from what the team has been explaining to us it's not going to remain only as an editor it is going to go into other places like in the widgets section for those who have used widgets Gutenberg is going to go into the widgets it's going to go into the customizer for those that use the customizer and it's basically going to take over our whole publishing experience that we do have currently in WordPress but it's going to give us a class which I'll be able to edit on the front end I mean you just log in on the page on the front end you just write in your article and place it in there they will change their colors if they want to they will change some backgrounds to a place where they don't have to come to answer please change this color or this line for me they can actually do it on their own so it will fit it right so I want you to be very happy so don't worry, be happy Gutenberg is going to be a good thing it's Gutenberg just this is for people who get worried initially I was also worried I was worried as a developer I might need to use my job I might need to use some of the things that I've come to learn but it's just an editor right now so it's not going to affect your content that you have existing that is going to be released in the next WordPress version 5.0 it's going to come but there's no way to destroy your content it will leave your content in a block called the classic block classic block so unless you choose to modify that content it will remain the way it was initially but even if you change it one press has made everything so easy that you just click one button and it will just put in the block that it should be so you can just straighten out a couple of things you will be good yeah so if you're really worried about that you can install the classic editor plugin that's also available it's going to be available until 2021 so you can be able to learn and adjust okay you adjust to Gutenberg which you see now your phone back which is the classic editor this is the port I got from my nursery teacher who said the modern JavaScript comes with modern tools okay we are my nursery teacher it's back in the day so with modern JavaScript you come modern tools so please enjoy the modern tools and what we need to do is we need to learn JavaScript for us developers we need to learn it we need to love it and we need to use it