 Sorry, he taught English as a second language. He worked in the not-for-profit sector before he became a web developer. He is a film buff. He is a Metz and Eagles fan. And he went to Temple University. He's going to be getting us started this morning with Getting Started with WordPress. Okay. Thank you. Can you guys hear me? Yes. Awesome. So first off, thank you for coming. It's a lot of sweat and work that went into putting this thing together. And so I'm really excited it's getting going. And a big shout out to the staff here at the Workforce Training Center and also to the organizing committee and all the volunteers. Thank you, guys. So this kind of this first talk, it's going to be, you know, I'm just going to warn you now it's going to be a little bit, it's going to be very, very basic. Trying to explain sort of the basics of WordPress. This is really geared for people that are really new to WordPress and want to kind of get a feel for what it is and how it can help you achieve your goals. And if you like, feel free to text me at 505-234-6148 with any kind of questions you have during my presentation. And that will, that number will be on every slide moving forward. So let's meet WordPress. So what is it? I assume a lot of you guys that are here probably already know. But just in case, it's lots of things, but it's a content management system. What I would say, it's set up to allow civilians to make changes to websites. And I don't say that in any kind of disparaging way. I say that more just it empowers people to be able to make changes on their website. You can use it to build out your website. It's a very powerful publishing platform. And finally, it's magical. And I'll speak a little bit more to that a little bit later, but it's a really magical technology. I think probably some of you guys have already experienced that. So why WordPress? Why WordPress instead of all the other ones out there? It's not necessarily a versus thing. It's just sort of talking about what makes WordPress great. It's open source. It means the code's accessible to everyone. It's reusable, modifiable. It's extensible. It's a really big thing, right? So you can make a WordPress site into just about anything. There's a great online community. So there's lots of resources, meetups. If you get stuck, there's a lot of content out there to help you out. A lot of people use WordPress, so people can rely on each other to support each other online. You can self-host it, which means you don't need to necessarily use someone else's platform. And out of the box, it's fairly SEO-friendly. There's always things you can do to make it more optimized. By SEO, I mean search engine optimization. But out of the gate, it puts you in a good place. So just to explain the difference, some of you guys are coming at it from WordPress.com. So WordPress.com is a little bit different. It's a platform online, it's more of a service, so it's limited in what you can do in terms of customization. But there's customer support, there's maintenance and backups, and I think the metaphor I would use is kind of like renting, but with a lot of overlap in terms of what you can do and how it's set up with WordPress.org, which you can customize to your heart's content. You can make it whatever it is you want it to be. The drawback is there's not really customer support except for whatever support you can find online and whatever you want to pay a consultant to help you out with. And you're responsible for maintenance, backups, it's like owning a home, right? The landlord's not going to come and fix something and bail you out. You've got to fix it or you've got to pay someone to fix it. So installing WordPress on WordPress.com, it's done for you. There's a lot of managed WordPress hosting that's one click and very simple to get everything installed. You know, there's other hosting where it can be more involved, it depends. You can even set it up on your own server if you're really into that. I'd say it's still fairly easy compared to lots of other content management systems and similar technologies. I do want to shout out the community, the community here in Albuquerque. There is the URL for the meetup. Part of the reason we're doing this WordCamp is to bring people back to the meetup. And it's there. You guys should sign up. You guys should propose talks. I've done a bunch of talks there. I'm sick of doing talks there. I want you guys to come and do talks and share your knowledge because it's really about sharing and empowering each other. So please go check it out, sign up for the meetup and come and do talks and et cetera. You know, there's lots of consultants here in Albuquerque in New Mexico at large. There are tutors. There are people that teach classes. I just want to highlight a couple. CNM has a WordPress class. You can CNM Central New Mexico, I guess, is it Central New Mexico University? Is it Community College? Are you sure it's still that? Okay, whatever. It doesn't matter. Anyway, CNM, they do WordPress class. I've talked at it. It's a really cool class. There's also Girl Develop It, which is a national program. There's a chapter in Albuquerque. I've taught the intro to WordPress class there for a while. It's not just for women. It's open to women and men. It's pretty affordable. So if you look up Girl Develop at Albuquerque, you can check it out. And there's lots of other informal classes and lots of different people doing classes. So there's a lot of opportunities in the community to keep learning and keep growing within the WordPress ecosystem. So I want to do a little showcase of sites that are built with or incorporate WordPress. Of course, our site. But I think, and I do this to kind of communicate how much is possible using this technology. So you got your publishers, WordPress kind of started as a blogging platform. So you have your publishers that use it and it's a very powerful publishing platform. For example, The Village Voice. I don't know if any of you guys have read that. When I lived in New York as a kid, or as a young person, I read that all the time. The site like TechCrunch. I've got Ghost3 and AdBlock, so you're probably not seeing all the ads, so sorry. So TechCrunch, big site, a lot of traffic. You have this site, The Undefeated, I don't know if you guys are into sports. It's a pretty neat site. I think maybe, I don't know, I think LeBron, James founded it. I might be passing along bad information. But it's actually a site I go to all the time and runs on WordPress. You got the Obama Foundation. Runs on WordPress, really cool. Okay, I want to highlight this site, a site called for Quantum Magazine. And I want to highlight it because I went to WordCamp, New York City. And I spoke at WordCamp, New York City in, I guess it was October. And I met a guy who did a talk on headless WordPress. So for developers in room, it basically means using the WordPress admin side, but then having it completely decoupled from the front end. So he worked on this site, and this is a headless WordPress site. It's really cool. It doesn't look much like a traditional WordPress site. There's a lot of stuff, cool stuff going on. If anyone wants to do a headless WordPress site and has a bunch of money to spend, let me know, please. Because I love the idea. Just never find the client to make it happen. I can answer that in the Q&A. I can go into that a little bit more. E-commerce, right? So you've got a site for GhostBed. By the way, I'm not endorsing any of these things, just some examples. You've got GhostBed, you've got Ripley's, believe it or not, bookstore, right? You've got whole universities use WordPress for their sites, right? So you've got a university like Georgia State, where basically all of their functionality for their university website is running WordPress multi-site. Same thing for Boise State University, right? You have online learning, right? Like WP Elevation, which is an online learning site for WordPress consultants. So if you guys are interested in being WordPress consultants, maybe check it out. And yes, I like EMT Review, which is to help people training to be certified EMTs. So it's a wide range. You can do so much with WordPress. So whenever people tell you, oh, that's just for blogs, it's just not true. It's really a world of things that you can do. And so I'll go back to my presentation here. Oops, sorry. Okay, so just going to give you a brief tour, and then I'm going to play around on the back end of a WordPress site. So just to go over some basic principles, right? WordPress, you have different users, different roles, right? I listed all the different types of users. Probably most of you are familiar with administrator user level. Basically full access can do pretty much anything. But imagine that if you're running a publishing platform, these user roles are really excellent, right? So the editor role, the idea would be it's somebody that can publish and edit others' posts, right, or write their own. An author can publish and edit their own posts. A contributor can write and edit posts, but they can't publish, right? So if you're a publisher and you have a contributor, then they're not going to be able to write and then just immediately publish online. They have to go through an editor. And then the subscriber role, which basically can do nothing. The useless role. Manage your own profile. You know, an explanation, pages and posts. You know, the simplest way I can put it is that posts are, posts are for, you know, timely content, you know? So your hot take or your article, right? And then posts can be governed by taxonomies like categories and tags. Whereas pages, you're generally, you know, stashing permanent content that doesn't change too much. And then with pages you can have nesting, which means you can have parent and child relationships between the pages. You know, WordPress sites have themes. And the themes, they govern largely the way your site looks and the way it works. And, you know, examples like colors, typography, layouts. And there's lots of free themes available in the Theme repo. And let me add one thing about themes. You know, in my experience, especially when you're starting out with WordPress, like, there's definitely a temptation to get a theme that claims to be able to do it all, right? You know, something for everyone or everything. You buy one theme and it could be this or that or the third. Those themes, in my opinion, they tend to be bloated. And, you know, if they're trying to solve every problem, they're probably not solving one problem. So be a judicious, try a couple different things out, check out some free themes and, you know, before you decide to buy the one theme to rule them all. Talk a little bit about plugins. You know, plugins, when I'm talking about extensible, right, they're the thing that makes your site extensible, right? So they're adding functionality to your site. So for example, it may add an e-commerce component or a learning management component or memberships, social media sharing, SEO, and the list goes on and on. And there's a ton of great free plugins available on the plugin repo and there's plugins that you can pay for support. And so, you know, again, another kind of caution with plugins, right, and I work on a lot of different WordPress sites, maintain WordPress sites that, you know, I didn't build. And so, you know, the temptation definitely is when you're starting out is to build a WordPress site and then install, you know, 50 plugins, you know, when you probably don't need to. But you feel like, well, I could use this, I could do that, and I could do this. You get diminishing returns the more plugins you install. So you have to be very judicious about what you're installing, why, how it can interact with other plugins, et cetera. And definitely, you know, my company does maintenance work and we'll get people saying, hey, fix my WordPress site and then we'll get in and, you know, the big sort of epic frowny face of, oh man, there's like 70 plugins and where do we start? So, you know, take that for what it is. You know, with the self-hosted WordPress.org, I listed a couple of plugins, not an endorsement, but these are two plugins that are free that you could check out that you can set up backups with updraft plus you can set up backups to regularly schedule with duplicator. You can basically do a one-click backup that you can download. There are lots and lots of other paid or premium backup solutions. I would encourage you guys to set up regular backups for your WordPress sites, just as a best practice. And then, you know, just some brief, brief security best practices and that this list could go on. I mean, these are just the simple ones that I can identify right away. Use a secure password. What I mean by that is, you know, try as much as possible, follow the best practices long, different kinds of characters, you know, phrases, et cetera. Don't, please don't, you know, test one, two, three or, you know, your birthday or whatever. You know, just, and, you know, a lot of people say, well, I can't remember, if I use an obscure password, then I won't be able to remember and then I won't be able to get in. Well, then I would recommend getting a password manager like LastPass or OnePassword that lets you randomize passwords and stash them securely to fix that solution. It's a much safer solution than just using the same password that's really easy to figure out on every credential you create. This is a real pet peeve of mine. When you make a WordPress site, don't create an account with the admin username. Okay, don't just admin, that's your username, okay? That's a vector for attack. So, like, so for example, there are sites that, you know, we'll get into, we'll set up our sort of security monitoring and then we'll notice that, you know, there have been a hundred attempts to log in using the username admin, right? And, you know, even though the username doesn't exist on the site, right? So, it's a vector for attack, so don't use that admin username. If you're going to install themes and plugins, make sure that you find them from reputable sources. There are stores that are reputable. The theme and plugin repos are reputable. Something that you're, well, usually, something that your trusted consultant is building for you is reputable. You know, be careful. Don't just, you know, the temptation sometimes could be to download some off of some dodgy site, so be careful with that. You don't know what's in there. And then, I encourage people to use a security plugin. I'm not gonna talk about specific ones. There are lots of great options that are free. And so, yeah, you know, check them out, do your research. One with a firewall is ideal, but do your research. So, let me show you guys. So, I spun up a quick WordPress site locally. So, there's lots of different solutions to spin up a quick WordPress site that's, you know, just on your machine so you can start playing around and learning instead of online. Map, Wamp, et cetera. But I've, for me, the easiest thing that I've found that people can install on their computers and get going right away is a product called Local by Flywheel. Now, that's not, it's a free product, so download it and use it for free. There's some premium features. I'm not endorsing it. I just think it's a pretty easy solution and it's free. There are lots of other great solutions that are free too. That's just the one I prefer for me. So anyway, and it's just a basic WordPress install with the 2017 theme, which I think is a default theme installed on your WordPress installations. And it has this, you know, we call it like a hero section and you scroll down and then here's a list of your posts and then here's a sidebar. And there's a footer proudly powered by WordPress. So real basic install, real simple thing. And when you log in and you can access the login screen by wp-admin, right? It'll have a username, password and then you'll log in and what you'll see over there is the dashboard. And this is what the dashboard looks like. And so there's the welcome to WordPress stuff and lots of quick links to get you going very quickly. Of course, every time I see this, what I do is I hit that and make it go away. And then there's all kinds of other little widgets here in the dashboard. If you wanna make a really quick post draft, there's this, I almost never use that. And if you click on screen options, you can actually control what you see on the dashboard. Right, so I'm gonna undo that. You get a little dashboard widget talking about WordPress events and news around here. So you can tell WordPress today, I feel like you probably don't need to know that or you already know that. And then you have like activity on what's been going on on your WordPress site and you get how many comments, how many posts, how many pages, what version of WordPress you're running and then what theme, right? So that kinda gets you started right away. If you look, your navigation primarily is going to be here on the left-hand side. From time to time, a plugin or a new version of WordPress Core will pop up saying you need to update or maybe a translation or a theme will say you need to update. Be, just be careful about updating just, just because it says to update. I encourage everyone to do backups before they update. You know, it can be annoying, but what you do, if you do a backup and then you update and something gets broken on your site, you can go back to your backup, right? And if you're new at WordPress, you will break your site. It's just a matter of time, you know? You'll see the white screen of death or you'll change the style or you'll do something and you'll break it. So always good to have a backup to revert to, but this is where the updates are managed and usually you'll get a notification up top also that'll say you have updates and how many updates. Let me just get posts first. If you click on media, you'll see your media library. You can drag and drop or you can select files, images, video, PDFs, docs, right? Anything that you need to link on your site or want to show on your site, like an image. You can upload it there and then get going from there. It's something, another sort of helpful tip on uploading images especially. People get really excited with quality images that are five megabytes, 10 megabytes, just these enormous images, right? Yeah, they look beautiful, but they're going to take forever to load on your site. So what I would encourage you guys to do, there are plugins that compress your image and keep the quality of the image but compress it for the web. You can take a look at those. I oftentimes use this guy. It's free, it's a site called Tiny PNG. It is lossy but it's really, really hard to tell the difference. And then you can drag your PNG or a JPEG and get a compressed version that you can then upload to your site. And it'll reduce load times and things like that which is always a good thing. Okay, let me actually pause and just take a look at some random questions here. Okay, thank you for your presentation. Will your PowerPoint be available to us? I will check my Twitter which is at Alonzo underscore IN. I will be putting a link to my slide presentation there. Okay, let's see here. What's a WordPress? Who has that? Okay, anyway, very funny. Yeah, support is available. Okay, yeah, someone wanted to mention support is usually for WordPress.org support is usually available from plugin developers. That's true. But if you use a plugin and this is something I should mention about plugins. If you use a plugin, let's say you install a plugin. Let's say you install a plugin and the plugin, this is really helpful right here. How many active installations of this plugin are there? And what are the ratings and reviews look like for this plugin? And also, when was it last updated? Okay, because a lot of these plugins are just made by developers and because they're free, they don't necessarily put updates out there all the time and so forth. A lot of plugin developers are awesome and they do handle support requests and they do a great job but sometimes plugins get abandoned. So when you're making decisions on which plugin to install, really take a hard look at last updated, how many active installations, what the ratings are because the better those things are, the more mileage you're gonna get out of your plugin, the more you'll be able to rely on some support from the plugin developer. Okay, another question. How does one necessarily know a site is hosted on WordPress? Well, there are many ways but if you have Chrome, there's a Chrome extension that you guys can check out. It's called WAP-a-Lizer and you can install it and what it will do is you navigate to a site and it will do its best guess at, it's called, yeah, sorry, W-A-P-P-A-L-Y-Z-E-R, WAP-a-Lizer. And it'll give you its best guess as to what the technology is behind the site. Another trick, which is not 100% reliable, is to go to the site and then put a slash WP-admin, not 100% reliable, but if you get a login screen, it's probably a WordPress site. And if you're, if you're into this kind of thing, you can go in Chrome or in any, actually any major browser, right? You can go and take a look at the sources and if you see WP-admin in the sources, it's a WordPress site or at least some component of its WordPress. So all different ways. What does lossy mean when you're compressing images? It means it does lose some quality, but whether or not it's perceptible is a different thing. And for the purposes of your first couple WordPress sites, it may not mean much of anything. Okay. So let's see, where were we? Oh yeah, media. Okay, so posts. If you'll see here, we have the default post, right? The default post is showing up here. Posts, hello world, right? If you click add new, you can create a new post. Let's edit this post. You can edit an existing post. I'm not gonna go into the nitty gritty of all the five million things you can do with posts, but like I said before, you can categorize them. You can add new categories, create new categories. You can add tags. You can set a featured image. The featured image has to do with the theme. Like certain themes will take the featured image and then display it. You know, display it like when you're looking at the post either at the top of the post or sometimes like when it lists all the archives, it'll show the featured image. It really depends on your theme, how the featured image is displayed, if it is at all. You can, when you're making a new post, you can save a draft and then, this is pretty neat, you can change when it's published. The publication date, I don't know. I guess probably be ethical about that. You can change the visibility. So something, a really cool thing is that you can password protect WordPress sites out of the box. They're like WordPress posts, right? So I want to password protect this post. Always hit update. If you don't hit update, nothing happens. And see now the post is password protected, right? And that's the only way I can see it. And then you can change the status to a draft or published or need a pending review, et cetera. And what that means is if you change the status to a draft, it won't show up on the site to everyone, right? It's only gonna show up on the site to everyone if it's published. Oh, I was, oh, Elaine, thank you. Yeah, good point. Changing the date is useful for scheduling posts. Yes, that is a useful, yes. I'm always just thinking of the dodgy thing to do, right? Which is just to change the old post's date for some reason. Oh, the different formats with reference to creating posts, good question. That depends on the theme. It can change the way it's displayed. I'm not gonna get into all that because that would take some time, but definitely Google it to learn more, but it's dependent on the theme. And then what's the difference between categories and tags? There's lots of different, I mean, is there a wrong way and a right way to organize your posts with categories and tags? I don't necessarily think so. They're just two different kinds of taxonomies. Taxonomy is just a way to categorize something, right? So for example, it typically, category is a little bit more general. A tag is a little bit more specific, right? So I might write a post about, I might write a post about lions at the Albuquerque Biopark and the category could be lions or zoos and the tag could be Albuquerque Biopark or something like that, right? There's not really a wrong or a right way necessarily to do that. There's lots of different opinions on that, but that's generally the way we approach it. Okay, cool. And pages looks much the same. You can set a featured image for a page, but minus the taxonomies. You can't do taxonomies, right? And so you're looking at the visual side and the text side, okay? On the text side, you can put in an HTML, right? On the visual side, it's all gonna kind of roughly look like what it's supposed to look like on the front end, on the part of the site that's visible to everyone. Okay, I'm gonna install a new plugin. This is not an endorsement, okay? Even though it's a good, even though it's just for the purposes of this demo, okay? I wanna show you installing a plugin like Yoast SEO can do, right? If I would ever install. Oh, there we go. So this is a plugin I found in the public repo. You go there, you do a search, you find your plugin, you install it, then you hit activate, and now it's activated, now it's working. And what you can do is if you go to, let's say your pages, right? Click on your sample page and now you have a box below, right? Which is Yoast is, it's their way basically to let you change things like keywords and phrases and let you change the way it looks on Facebook, titles and descriptions, give you a sense of how readable your content is, et cetera. So it's a pretty neat little plugin, but this is how WordPress is extensible, it's that simple, all right? Search for a plugin, install it, activate it and go. Let me show you themes. So we have 2017 right now is activated, right? Let's say I wanted to go, let's say God forbid I wanted to use 2015. It's as simple as hitting activate. And this pretty site that we had here before is now magically looking like this. Yeah, a lot of people, I saw a lot of reactions like, eh, eh, eh, yeah. So this is where you can, you know, like I said, this is where you can activate, change your theme if you want. If you hit add new, you'll see a bunch of free themes in the theme repo and you can try out and change. Now caution about changing your theme. If you have like a custom theme that you've built and you have a lot of content that's dependent on the theme, when you change your theme, bye bye to that content. So I'll show you something else, widgets. Each theme basically dictates where you can drag and drop widgets, right? So if you have widget content that's part of one theme and you activate a different theme, it's not gonna show. Now you can activate back to the old theme and it'll show again, but just a word of caution, it's not so simple as just hitting one button and then changing the whole look of the site but keeping a lot of the content. So just be careful with that. And like I said, widgets are theme dependent. If, jeez, let's get away from this, okay, thank you. You look at the sidebar, you got posts, comments, archives, et cetera. If we go to our widgets, you'll see blog sidebar and there are all the elements, right? Search, recent posts, recent comments, if you see. Search, recent posts, recent comments, et cetera. And so I could drag, for example, let's see here, what would it be? I could click text, add it to, yeah. There we go. And I hit save, important to hit save. And now there's my stuff. Can you see it? Is that better? Okay. So anyway, this is by far. Not a thorough tour of what composes a WordPress site. Just to give you kind of a flavor. With WordPress, and I think a lot of what binds people that use WordPress together is that we're DIYers, we're trying to figure things out. Google it. Go out there and Google it. There's a great resource called the WordPress Codex, especially if you're a developer. Check out the WordPress Codex. I think it's wordpress.codex.wordpress.org. And there, but Google it and get out there and figure it out. This platform is made for us DIYers. Last thing I want to mention, just a little coda for you guys. So that's my friend Roger and his son. So I'm not from New Mexico originally. I'm Peruvian, but then I grew up on the East Coast as a person introduced me, mentioned. And part of my time I lived in West Virginia. I went to high school in West Virginia. West Virginia is a, despite what you've heard, a beautiful state with awesome, incredible people and I've like lifelong friends. And so a friend I made in high school was this guy, Roger, who was, he was like a, really into heavy metal. And so I was, so was I of course, as a young man. So we'd play in little bands together, right? And he was a singer, growler, screamer. I played the drums and, you know, we'd play like, you know, so here's him singing. Like we, you know, play like Pantera covers and Metallica and all this stuff. And anyway, so you know, like I went off to school. He stayed home, worked in the furniture factory, but he always kept up his dream of playing metal and was always in like a lot of regional bands and stuff like that. And you know, the thing about Roger is like, you know, one of the kindest people I've ever met, just a really giving guy. So he would organize his concert, you know, every year for cancer, kicking cancer for kids and you know, raise thousands of dollars and you know, for people in West Virginia, that's a lot of money and send it to St. Jude's and just an awesome guy. But anyway, so about a year and about a, I guess it's almost two years now, you know, we talked and he had gotten, he started getting headaches and he had gotten a cancer diagnosis. And you know, it looked pretty grim. And so, you know, it was just a, it was a terrible thing, it was a rough time for him. And so he started talking to me about, he started talking to me about, you know, hey, I want to start a music school in our town for kids to learn how to play rock and roll and heavy metal. Because you know, there were like music lessons, you get the piano lessons, things like that, but he wanted to give something to the kids, you know, something that was, you know, rock and roll. And you know, anyway, sorry. So I built this thing for him in four hours. And it's just a simple one page site. It's a school, it's for the school, you know, in memory of another mutual friend of ours, what the goals are, the classes, where they're at, who the teachers are. This is really funny because like, I didn't know a bunch of these guys and like, he was like, okay, you know, so put Lofa on there. And I was like, does Lofa have like a real name or like a government name or something? But I guess he didn't want his government name on there. But anyway, and then, you know, just a simple sign up with classes you're interested in. Do you have an instrument? Because you know, if people don't have an instrument, they had some donated instruments. And that's it. It took me four hours to do it. And I think it looks good. And it served him. And you know, it helped kids sign up for the school. And you know, I bring all this up because I really believe that WordPress is an empowering platform. Five years ago, this would have taken me an eternity. Right? And I'm not anything special. And WordPress allowed me to build this thing for my friend. So in any case, I want to pass that on to you guys. It's an empowering platform. You can do so many cool things on it. And that's it. Thank you. Have fun at WordCamp and ask some questions. I got a couple more. History of WordPress, Matt, Automatic, I don't know. That's a, I don't have time. Look it up. Google it. Sorry. Yeah, Matt, Matt Mullenweg, should probably know that guy. See here. How do you know that a plugin or theme doesn't have spyware or other sinister stuff going on? If it's on the plugin repo is vetted, right? It's moderated. So that's a pretty good start. You have reputable stores that have a long history of selling themes and plugins. That's a good call. Do widgets come with the theme? And if so, what if you want widgets that theme doesn't offer? You can always customize a theme, but that's a little bit more in-depth than you probably need a software developer to help you out. And yeah, the widget areas, the theme dictates the widget areas more often than not. See here, what else? My Twitter handle is Alonzo, it's at Alonzo A-L-O-N-S-O underscore I-N, sorry. At Alonzo A-L-O-N-S-O underscore I-N, I need to figure out how to spell my own name. Any other questions for me that I can answer? Yes. Sorry, is it, yeah, okay, yeah, good. So she's asking, would I recommend using Tiny PNG instead of a plugin? In general, I don't love putting plugins on your site because it can increase load time and bloat, et cetera. So I try and find solutions that aren't plugin solutions as much as possible. But there's a good use case to use a plugin. So for example, if you have a site where lots and lots of people are dumping lots and lots of images all the time and you're not necessarily wanting them to have to upload the image to a site and so forth, then maybe a plugin that automatically compresses the images every time an image is uploaded, it might be a good bet. I know one's WP Smush, there are many others, but yeah, so there are different use cases. Yeah, go ahead. It's free. I like free. Yeah, so I'm a notorious cheapskate. When I started with WordPress, I wanted to just, like, how can I get every little ounce of everything from free? So I'm pretty familiar with free and bootstrapped everything. Anybody else? Yes. I know it too, but the reality is that once you put up-draft in, there's a few other key ones. I guess my question is, would you say seven's okay? That's not realistic to say, I get your point, but you have to do something. So can you give more, like, a range? Yeah. There's a lot of sites that have a lot of plugins, but then they also have the hosting. Oh yes, yeah, sure, yeah. So she's basically asking, more or less, roughly, how many plugins is a good idea? Same, I don't know if there's a lot of images, WP smush, so like when you're, I know seven's a lot, I guess, like 10's okay, or... Look, I wish I could give you a better answer than it depends, and sorry, again, the question, some idea of the number of plugins, obviously zero's probably not gonna work for most people, but maybe 70's overkill, but is there an in-between and what does that look like? It really depends on the functionality you're installing. I just know, for example, that there are people that install plugins for things that, there are plugins that let you change the site icon, but if you actually learn WordPress, modern versions of WordPress, you can do that in WordPress by default. Like, so there's times when people, they go to the plugin well, but if they just do a little bit of research, they'll find out that they don't actually need to use that plugin, and so my best advice is just to be as judicious as possible, but if you need to get something done on your site, and a plugin can help you out, by all means. Who's to have the functionality you need in your site? Boy, that is eloquent. Yes, that was the eloquent answer I needed. Yes, I don't know how easy, there are plugins that let you enqueue fonts in WordPress. I, I don't know, developer haven't really used them, so I can't testify to how easy they are to use, but there are some plugin solutions, so I encourage you to check them out, try a couple different ones and see how that works. Anybody else? So, oh yeah, go ahead. Yeah, definitely. If you're not going to use a plugin, so you know, if you're not going to use a plugin at all, you're done, you're never going to use it again, deactivate it and delete it. If it's a plugin that you might use again, I'd say deactivate it, but keep it updated, right? I think that's probably the just security best practice. Yes. I think, does the media library have a bulk uploader? I don't know, somebody help me out? Yeah, check the bulk uploader out. And it has bulk delete, yeah. Sorry, yeah, sorry. He was asking how, what's the best way to manage when you need to upload hundreds of images at the same time? I think it does a pretty good job of it. Yes, Jamie. So Jamie's saying there are some plugin solutions that you can install that will add some functionality to the media library to help you sort and categorize your images. If you have a problem, there's, if you have a problem, there's probably of some kind of plugin solution out there for it. Each image, so you have to create the page and add the image. I know. I would encourage you to Google, because you know, someone's had your same problem and it wouldn't surprise me if there was a solution out there. Yes. Oh, oh no, don't put me in that position. So she's asking about page builders. Yeah, okay, so here's my politically correct answer on page builders. If you need to use them to make your site look cool and do the things you want it to do and make it easy for you, do it. There are pros and cons, just like anything else. I know the cons really well. Yeah, I mean, you know, some page builders basically not all, but some page builders, if you're building content with the page builders and you ever want to change your theme or go away from that page builder, you're kind of dead in the water. But there are page builders out there that do different things. I'm not gonna endorse or disparage one versus the other, but Sam? What about Gutenberg? Oh yeah, Gutenberg. There will be future talks on Gutenberg, that is, I'm not touching that with a variety foot pole. Yeah. I have a question. So if you use a page builder, say you've got just a standard theme, 2017, and you use a page builder to make changes to the way it functions. Does that page builder then, in accordance to your comment, does that page builder then continue as an interface between, or does it change the site and then stand up away and the site is now what it is? I guess I wish, so the question is, page builders and how they interact with themes and whether or not they interact with themes in a way that completely changes the site that you can walk away from. The page builder would have to stay there. Page builder, typically. You can still do what you made it do. Typically, a page builder has to stay there, but there are page builders, I don't want to name names, but there are page builders that, in my opinion, are better. But just, do your research, do your research. I'm a little bit constrained because I don't want to, like, you know, talk, these are my opinions and so forth so. That's right, yeah, there you go. Can you just come up here and rephrase everything I'm saying in Anilikoi. Okay, I think we're good. We're at 10 o'clock. Okay, thank you guys. Have fun at WordCamp. See you around.