 Awesome. All right. This is how to edit a video on learn.wordpress.org. But if you are not updating videos on learn.wordpress.org, we have some very exciting things that you can apply to your own work as well today or your own just open source, whatever. So, quick little overview. Hi, Sarah Snow. I use pronunciation she her the Florida resident by weekday traveler by weekend and a former middle school teacher so you will see that definitely come out here. I'm a parent and a sharp hey mom I love cooking learning languages. I'm studying American Sign Language French and Spanish now, and the ocean, and I'm a training team contributor sponsored by automatic slash mad scientist so you're going to see that a little bit today my chaotic creative process. I'm hoping that by the end of today you can find either a small or a big way to contribute to the WordPress training team today. So, or just in general not really right now. So as always expectations here, please stay courteous respect yourself and everyone in this room we are learning together including me your facilitator. I'm doing free open source technology today which I'm not as familiar with. So you may see me stumble a little bit but hey, I'm learning with you and you can see that hey learning is absolutely a process. So also note that you are the source of brilliant information so when I said hey find your chat box over here. What I mean is you are welcome to share your ideas here. And answer other people's questions as well. You may be more skilled in WordPress in video creation or whatever that than me, or you may be learning just for the very very beginning. So that's totally fine so this only works with kind deliberate participation. And I don't really believe in in wrong ideas I do believe in three I hate whatever comes to mind. So, of course, as always stay curious and patient and this is recorded and you can find these recordings at learn dot WordPress dot org for those of us who are new I try to show you where that is every time. So if you had to learn dot WordPress dot org. That's where the tutorials that we are going to be updating live you can find those over here here's a whole big list of those. But if you're looking for this specific recording or the other one that I did about some other like recording, you know tips and tricks from the very get go. If you scroll down to where it says upcoming online workshops there's a button here that says if you all online workshops. Okay, if you click that button there is another button that says hey view the recorded online workshops for many of these live. So in you can search any of these here you can see ones that have been done in the past, most of them not all are published here. So if you want to see another video or learn WordPress I think I did one of these before as well, but it's like I can't find it right this moment. Oh, there it is. It is right there. So if you wanted to see another version about this where it talks about like technology and some considerations there. You're welcome to bookmark that link that this is a completely different presentation from that one. I'm going to try to find this and let's keep going. Also, if you're hearing a random screaming parrot in the background a bird that is just my bird she's upset that she's out in here with me right now so I apologize if you hear that. So today, I'm going to talk about how to make a super fast contribution to learn WordPress or learn WordPress.org. How to make the web a better place. The second thing that we'll talk about our considerations for editing existing videos, either from or for learn WordPress. And finally, depending on time there will be a demonstration of the chaos of my creative process and how this works and using open source and playing with things and just kind of seeing like kind of how all of this works and how it all works together and and how I think through things as I edit videos or make videos. I'm curious I just want to make sure everybody can find the chat box so first off like what kind of videos are you hoping to make or edit and these can be as simple as one for learn so that's my answer learn about WordPress.org videos. But I'm sure you're here for your own purposes as well as there anything in particular that you are hoping to learn that you're hoping to do contribute to the training team make something for your client stuff like that. Why are you here today. Some people are saying yeah so for learn WordPress awesome thank you so much for contributing but also for your blog and YouTube channel the things that you learn here today if you do have a blog if you do have a website where you make learning videos. This will help you today so I'm very happy to see you all here. Oh, it's almost make the first workshop. Excellent. Ah, so great. How to videos yet maybe make some short videos on your blog. Yes. Oh, I love it. I think is that America Americans with disability. Maybe that could be interesting. All right. To learn how to make a video to show you to help people fix bugs from the WordPress forum. Okay. Oh what a great idea. You can definitely do that. I feel like that's a slightly different skill that you can use with like screen casting technology. So, anyone knows of a really good screencast technology that you use to make quick little, you know, either gifts or videos. Drop those in the chat the one that I've used in the past is dropper. The other is the one I use it's not. I don't know that it is free though, looks like someone else is saying screencast a manic awesome so there are ways to do this a lot faster so the help forms are generally a little bit less polished this one is going to these are going to be for videos that are, you know, between five to 10 minutes long maybe two minutes, the shortest there they try to be polished. So we want to use like transitions and things like that. So this may be this may be a little bit more in depth than that but the screencast of manic droppers when I use any others that you happen to know of that might be a good way to help people in the forums. Oh, what a great, what a great heart. I love it. Snag it okay that's another good one not free but sometimes it can be helpful. So one thing that I want to do today is just get just a quick sense of where you are today so this is going to just help me know that you're learning. So I can talk to my boss and make sure that they know that I'm helping you learn about my, what I'm doing is effective today. So all I want to know is and this is totally anonymous, it doesn't. Yeah, okay so your email address is not shared, and it's just asking hey how comfortable are you editing videos about WordPress so a zero is hey I don't know a single thing about editing WordPress video which is totally fine. And a 10 is I would feel very comfortable editing an existing video about WordPress. So for me, if I were taking this I would say I was beat about a nine I do this quite a lot. I'm not very great at it like I wouldn't say I do my best but it's definitely not like my primary skill set so that's why I'm not a 10. And you can answer in the chat if you'd like but also please put it in the Google document. Oh we need permission. Oh no. I fixed it. Oh no. Edit. Okay. Do I need to add. Here we go. Anyone with the link go ahead and refresh that that just helps me to keep track of this I'm going to try and do this more and more perfect thank you. So let's see. I see some ones don't know where to start that's great. You're in the right place. I'm going to drop a copy for free which is not free and use Penocto okay great so some of you have some great background here and if you know of something that you see I'm not doing particularly well and you're like hey try next thing drop it in the chat we will all learn from you that way. But yeah please fill out that survey. Super quick tell me where you are and then we're going to fill it out again at the end just so that I know how successful I was in teaching you today. So maybe a five okay great. But just one last questions thing. I'm not update man. I had this all figured out. See here I go learning with you. You might need to refresh the page. Try this one more time collaborators should be that anyone can view let me try getting a new link has all right that one and it doesn't work then we're just going to skip it and I will know for next time. Thank you so much for your time today. Some people have other technologies that they use, CleanShotX, GreenFlow, I use Camtasia a lot, but today we're gonna be using open source software. Okay, we'll go ahead and skip that then for today. So if you are brand new to WordPress and you're like, hey, I would like to contribute something really fast to the training team. I wanna get some videos updated, but you only have a few short moments. There is a way that you can contribute. Now this way, I don't believe gets you a badge, but if you head over to learn.wordpress.org, and you click on a tutorial. Yeah, don't worry about the form for right now. I'll fix it for next time. But let's say that you are looking the slightly older tutorial. Let's do different site editor, page editor. Let's see what comes up when I search this. Understanding the page editor versus the site editor. So I know that this is a little bit of an older one, just kind of off the top of my head, but say that you're just watching this and you notice that the related version is 6.0, right? So that's the first thing. Oh, hey, this may need to be updated. 6.2 just came out. One thing you can do if you're watching this video and you don't, oh, I got distracted by the sound. That's okay. And you're looking at this and you realize that the editor looks a little different. That some of the screenshots are not up to date. Maybe there's the gear over here. The settings gear has recently been replaced. So that's one of the changes with 6.2. And you're like, man, this would be really hard for somebody new to follow. You can contribute and help us fix this and alert us by scrolling down and finding the suggestion box here. Clicking this let us know button will take you to a quick form. And you can just write your name, your email, a link to the URL where you just were. And then you can say, hey, there's an error, it's outdated. And then just say, hey, there's a screenshot between one and I don't know, one 10 needs to be changed to reflect the 6.2 dashboard. It can be super detailed like that or it could just be like, hey, this video needs to be updated. If you click the send button, that's going to go directly to the training teams inbox and one of our community members will take a look at that and they will be alerted to the fact that we need to make an update to this tutorial. So that is a really important thing, just reporting those errors and letting us know. If you're not sure, feel free to, feel free to just write. We'd probably prefer to hear more rather than less. We generally try to make changes to things that will become really confusing to newer users. So just something to keep in the back of your mind. But yeah, so that's one way that you can contribute really quickly to a learn.wordpress.org tutorial. You don't even have to do anything else. Okay, any questions about that before we get into the longer contributions and video editing considerations? Try to give adequate wait time. I think we're good. You have a question, drop it in the chat. Let's keep going. Let's talk about what it means to edit videos on learn itself. So if you wanna edit videos on learn.wordpress.org, we generally want you to join the training team. Now, if you edited a video and sent it to us at learn.wordpress.org, like I don't know that people would be upset about that but generally you wanna join the training team. I know we've got several of you, I think who are a member already. I know Laura is and several of you are around all the time in these workshops. It's so lovely to see you. So if you're like, hey, like I wanna make some videos. This is exciting. Heading over to this getting started page. We have a quick video introduction. There are different ways that it'll walk you through getting set up, if you're WordPress.org account, et cetera, et cetera. And it's kind of a choose your own adventure type thing here. I'm gonna keep this super, super brief but basically if you're like, hey, I'm really excited about updating tutorials and I want my voice and my video contribution skills to be over here on learn.wordpress.org. You wanna make a short video tutorial that is the page to go to. So since somebody just came in, I'm gonna copy and paste it like one more time. But yeah, so you'll join the training team that way. So in the training team is not just the videos, basically anything that you see on learn.wordpress.org is something that somebody has contributed to the open source community. So we've got a short video tutorials that the topic of today's online workshop. We also write lesson plans, which is something that you can use whether you are a member of the training team or not. If you decide to go to a meetup, if you are a classroom teacher, if you wanna use one, I don't know, teacher cat, you can find a lesson plan and use it and it'll teach you basically how to teach it. So if you're interested in writing lesson plans, that's another way that you can do it. Apparently if there's a video on top of this lesson plan, fascinating. What you are watching right now on your screen with me, this is an online workshop. This is something else that you can do as a training team contributor, which is really fantastic. So if you're interested in running online workshops, hey, come join us. We would love to learn from you, whether you are a beginner or super advanced, like we just, we love a variety of voices. And the other thing that you can do that's a little bit longer are writing courses. So these are all text-based courses and they will walk you through how to do all kinds of different stuff, whether you are using a WordPress data layer. I don't know what that means, but maybe you do. If you are a developer, learning how to use block themes for the first time, if you are getting started with WordPress for the very first time, you're an absolute beginner or you're just learning how to use block themes, these are text-based courses that will walk you through a lot of things like that. So you can take these courses as a learner or you can write them as someone who contributes to the training team. Yeah, so that is joining the training team and what the training team does in a nutshell, we do a lot more than that, but that's the basics. Let's get started. So you can use tutorials from learn.wordpress.org in several ways. You can use them at a WordPress Meetup. If you're a teacher, you are welcome to use them in your classroom. You can also use these videos as a learning supplement for clients. You can't charge money for these videos, but you are welcome to make and modify them. So if you are just getting started here and you're going to learn.wordpress.org, we're gonna be focusing specifically on tutorials here. So you are welcome to take these videos and under this license, repurpose them under the same license. So that license is known as the GNU Public License. Since we're not gonna go super in-depth about this today, but basically it allows you to make derivative work. So you can make videos from these videos. You can smush them together. You can take clips from them. You can basically repurpose them for your own purposes, basically as long as you're not selling them. So the key parts about this, and again, so you're welcome to use this in different ways that you see fit. Basically, this license forbids anyone to deny you these rights or to surrender them. So you are able to change the software. You are able to use pieces of it. You have freedom to distribute copies of the software, but basically you have to say that, hey, if you're going to do this, these same things that other people can take, your source code can take your source video that other people can change that, that it becomes available to people. That just needs to continue to apply. So if you do do this, if you are making things for clients, if you are creating your own supplemental learning stuff, we would love to see it over on learn.wordpress.org kind of to get back to the community as well. But yeah, so definitely read this at your leisure, but you are definitely welcome to use this for more than just making videos at learn.wordpress.org. So any questions about that? That was a lot of information really fast. Time to save time so we can get to the meat of this. Thank you, Laura. I appreciate that you say it's great stuff that you didn't know. Yeah, so there's a lot here that you can do. So let's say that you want to contribute. Now we're going to be using this today. This is going to come a little later. That is the open source software known as OpenShot Video Editor. And it is free and open source, but let's say that you wanted to update a tutorial. So there's one tutorial that I am updating about template editors. What is it? The template parts. That would be great. Template parts, here we go. So this template parts video is six minutes long and you'll notice that this is as old as WordPress 5.9. This was made in like early 2021. So you maybe want to update this for learn.wordpress. So there isn't a download button here, but you can find this by going to wordpress.tv and you can search for that. So I'm going to look for parts. This is that same video here and comparing this. I can see that this is published. Oh, I'm sorry, 2022, not 2021. Either way, it's over a year old and it probably needs an update. But, and I know that it does because I've looked at this. But basically what I'm going to do is there's a download button here. So I did this on both a Mac and a PC to make sure that it worked. I'm going to click this button and then it's going to start playing and it's not going to download. You'll notice this is still not downloaded. So what you're going to do here, there's three buttons in the corner, both on Macs and on Windows computers. You can then download this video here. So it is downloading. I've already downloaded it once here, but this is how you get this onto your computer. Yeah, so that's good to know. And other things that to know, let's see wordpress.tv license. So the thing that's really cool about wordpress.tv is that it is licensed under a Creative Commons attribution sterile. So it's similar to the GPL, the GNU that we were talking about. So from wordpress.tv, you are welcome to share. So copy, redistribute the material in any medium or format. You are welcome to adapt, remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose even commercially. So that's something to know about that, but you do have to make sure that you're sticking with that same license. You do need to give appropriate credit and you do need to indicate that if and where changes were made. So if you're seeing something and you're learning something really fascinating and you think it would be really helpful for you or for learn.wordpress.org, you're welcome to make those changes. And I think that that's really exciting because I actually didn't know that before I started working on this today. So Ann, you said, hey, are the names of the videos are the same in both places, learn and TV? Yes, they should be. If they are, there's an error, but if you are looking at wordpress.tv, anything that is here on wordpress.tv you can use for these purposes, but you can generally just search for the same title. So understanding the site editor and page editor, if I search for that here, you can see Georgina Reader and then I can search for it in the same place over on learn.wordpress.org. So that's if you're updating things for learn. Yeah, okay, cool. Let's keep going, great questions y'all. I'm so excited that you're here. Where was I? We're gonna talk about the slack in a little bit, but not right now. So once you've downloaded the video, you can determine what updates are needed and you can use whatever process that you would like. That's the outdoor, we're gonna use the one that we saw. I'm trying to decide if we have time for actually watching it, but you can determine what updates are needed. So I decided to make a quick list of things. There were sort of references to 5.9, replaced it with a screenshot, Google Drive Squares. Let's actually watch it really quick. Let me make sure that my screen is gonna share the thing. And then in the chat box, if you notice something, you're like, oh, that's out of date, just write it down. And you can kind of see, notice what you notice. Where is my thing, share? Computer sound, ha ha, I found it, okay. So let's watch this tutorial. Anything you see that's a little out of date, drop it in the chat box. No right or wrong answers here. If it could just be clear, if it needs to be updated to 6.2, if you just have a suggestion, whatever you see, write a note. Are you interested in personalizing header or footer that can be used throughout your entire site? Have you ever wanted to edit a header or footer beyond what the customizer allowed, but didn't wanna make changes to the theme's code? In this workshop, we'll explore how template parts block fits into the array of full site editing features and gives you flexibility in designing your own header and footer. The template part block is an advanced block and it's used to organize and display your site structure. For context, this block is best used to create areas like your header, footer, and sidebar. Once you have created a template part, you can use it, reuse it, or edit it. When you change blocks inside a template part, the editor will update the blocks on every block template that includes that template part. If you change a template part in one place, it will change everywhere it has been used. For this workshop, I'll be making changes in a local test site called MyTravelBlog. I'll be using the 2022 block theme and running WordPress version 5.9. Feel free to pause this video if you wanna try it out on your own. First, we'll need to access template parts. One way to do this is through the editor. Make your way to dashboard, appearance, editor. Click on the W in the top left and then template parts. You'll find any existing template parts listed on this page. You can either edit an existing template part by clicking on the template part you wanna personalize, or you can add a new template part to your site by clicking the Add New button in the top right corner. Let's start by editing an existing template part. I'm going to click on header, which brings me to the template part focus mode. This is a dedicated mode that only shows the selected template part. From here, I can edit the header by customizing existing blocks, adding new blocks or removing existing blocks. For instance, I'm going to upload a site logo of my initials to the existing site logo block. I could also click on the existing navigation menu and delete it. And then I could click on the plus sign to insert a block and bring the navigation menu right back in. You'll notice that that familiar experience from the editor applies to template parts now like your header too. I'm going to hit Save in the top right corner and it'll alert me that changes are being applied to this specific header template part. That means that any place that the particular template part appears throughout my site will also be updated with these changes. Great, now let's add a new template part to our site. We'll access the template editor focus mode the same way as we did to edit an existing template part. From your dashboard, navigate to appearance, editor, click on the W in the top left corner and then select template parts. However, this time we're going to click the add new button in the top right corner. Since it's a new template part, we'll have to select the type we wanna create either general, header or footer. If you select general, it's not tied to any particular area unlike a header being at the top of your site and a footer being at the bottom. I'm going to select header. And now I'm going to give it a name and call it my travel blog header. Once the name is entered and the area selected, you can click the create button. Now I can create a header from scratch. I'm going to click on the plus sign to access the block inserter and type in cover so that I can add in a cover image. I have a picture for my travels in Montana already uploaded to my media library. So I'm going to select that, wonderful. I want to change this color overlap how it's a little bit grayed out. So I'm going to click on the cover image and open settings. Let's scroll down to color and reduce the opacity to zero. Now I want to add the site logo into my header. So I'm going to go back to the inserter, type site logo and click on that block to add it. I now have created a brand new header. I'm going to hit save so that I can reuse this template part throughout my site. You might be wondering how to add a template part into an existing template. Let's explore that now using the editor. I'm going to access the editor from the dashboard by clicking on appearance and then editor. I am currently editing my site's homepage which is indicated by where it says home in the top middle of the screen. My homepage with the 2022 theme already comes preloaded with a header that has a cover image of a bird, a site logo, site title and navigation menu. I have the option to simply make edits to this header similarly to how we did it with the template focus mode. However, I want to show how to add a header into the editor. Let's get rid of this existing header first by opening up list view, hovering over header dark small, clicking the three vertical dots to access options and then clicking on remove template part. Now I'm going to go to the toggle block inserter which has that plus sign to add a template part. I can do this a few ways by adding the template part block or the header block. I'm going to select the template part block. It will automatically insert this block at the bottom of the page. I then have the option to choose an existing template part or to create a new template part. But this time I'll be able to edit it right from within the editor. I'm going to select choose existing. Any available template parts will then be available to choose. There are the preloaded headers for my theme but also the header we created earlier called my travel blog. I'm going to click on my travel blog header to add that into the homepage template. And for my last step, I'm going to open up list view, click and drag the header up to the top of the template page. And now let's preview. You can now add that template part header to any templates throughout your entire site. And that's it, beautiful. So I just want to get a sense of how you're feeling right now on a scale of one to five, one being, whoa, I have no idea where I'd even start here and five being, I know exactly what I would do first. How do you fall? I think I would probably be at like a three inch. Like when I first looked at this, I felt like maybe like a two. I was like, oh man, there's a lot there that's moving. Okay, so we've got some threes or fours. Okay, okay. I'm seeing some confidence. If you're not feeling that way, that is okay too. I'm just kind of curious to see how this next part will go. Beautiful, three or four. Okay, cool. Ah, I love it, welcome. All right, I'm gonna learn some things from y'all. Okay, so we watched the outdated tutorial and obviously there's some analysis there. There's definitely some background information that you need to know in order to update this. I will say this right now. Perfection is the voice of the oppressor. Okay, we're not looking for perfection. We are looking for done. We're looking for clarity. We are looking for things that will cause some problems. So like we noticed that like the beta button when we were in our, that's the Anna Locke quote, just to give, just to attribute where I got the quote. But the beta button, for example, next to editor, I think that if someone were brand new, it might be kind of weird that it said beta next to it. Like that might give me pause, but at the same time I would still know what button to click. So certain small things like that maybe don't need to be updated as much, but not being able to find your templates or seeing a completely different menu than where templates were before may be tricky. So you can kind of pick and choose here a little bit too and you can get some feedback from the training team if you're making this on learn specifically, but done is better than perfect. So these are some of the changes that I saw removing references, replacing the screenshots, et cetera, et cetera. And then I decided, you know, the first thing that you need to do is get your tools ready because if you just try and dive right in, you're gonna find yourself pausing a lot and be like, wait, what, huh? What am I doing? What needs to happen for a second or third? So the first thing is I highly recommend using a local WordPress environment. You can use MAP, Shamp or local by flywheel. This is what we will be using today. So if you, and eventually a WordPress playground, that's something that's in development, it's a WordPress installation that works just in the browser. Ho-ho, very exciting. Not ready yet though. You also can use Zoom to make screencasts and recordings. So that's one of the things that you already have because you're attending here now. You'll notice when I started this that I said, hey, record this, record this session. I can take those recordings and drop them and edit them into my video software. So you're already further along than you think that you were. The third thing is I highly recommend utilizing Google Slides. We've got this resource for you. It's got some colors and stuff. It is accessible from a color perspective. It can be modified, adapted, changed. You can modify, adapt and change. You can even change like this background image to something else if you want. But yeah, so this is a really good resource for you to make slides. And the other thing that's really cool is that you can use this to make animations. And it's just a really good resource. So I'm gonna show you a little bit about how that works in just a minute. But just know that you can have this resource, save it, use it, it's polished, but you can make it even prettier if you wanted or you could, I don't know, completely change it. The choice is yours. I'm not a designer so I like having templates. And then the last thing, if I can not get lost in my own thing, is utilizing a video software. So I had thought that you could use Windows Movie Maker, but as I discovered today, they no longer support that with Windows 10, which absolutely breaks my heart. So there are lots of video editing softwares. It does exist still. You can also use iMovie if you're using a Mac. Today we're going to be using OpenShot as well. This is an open source video editor. It's available for Linux, OS, X and Windows. So Macs, Windows, whatever you're using for the most part, you can use this and it's completely open source. So that's really, really cool. If anybody has, I think we mentioned several others earlier on that people have used in the past. So are you okay there? But we're just gonna look at this one today just because it is free, it is open source and I'm getting the hang of using it. Hopefully today's demonstration portion doesn't go completely haywire. So with this in mind, yeah, we got our tools ready. I have a local WordPress environment. I've already downloaded it. It is somewhere, I think I put it, not there. Not there, I always lose things, y'all. That's the actual thing itself. Okay, I guess I'm just gonna reopen it. So off to local we go. You can see that we have a training team Slack. So if you ever get stuck while you're doing this and you're making stuff for Learn WordPress or you have questions about joining the training team or just wanna be like, hey, I made a thing. This is where you would do that, then make WordPress training. But that's not what we're doing right now, right now I'm doing local. So I remember that Roxy called it my travel blog. So I'm gonna go ahead and click WP admin here. And this is updated to the 6.2 version automatically. You can always check that by checking your update section. Make sure that you are at the most recent. And I know that she said that she used the 2022 theme. So the 2023 theme is what's currently active right now. I'm gonna go ahead and switch to the 2022 theme just because that's good. I know that that's probably gonna get me closer to what she did. And then we can get started. So let's start from the very beginning which is a very good place to start. I was playing with this earlier but I'm gonna just kind of remove this and show you some of the tools that I use regularly. Let's just go file, new project. So this is a brand new project. This is using OpenShop Video Editor. It's pretty similar to what I usually use which is Camtasia which is not free but it does allow me to do a lot of what I need. So in order to get this, one thing that I discovered on my Mac by my Downloads folder, see all of my work, here we go. So this is the video that I downloaded from WordPress.tv. If I right-click and press open with, it doesn't really give me an option to open it with anything else. I had a hard time finding it there. So what I did was I minimized this. I'm a big fan of the drag and drop. So I'm just gonna take this video here and stick it on track one. And that just moved that entire MP3. So now if I press play, which I can do either by pressing this button or by pressing space four. I'm interested in personalizing. Done, you can see that this video exists in here. So the first tool that I use that I really, really like when I make this a lot bigger right now is there's a cut tool. So I'm gonna go over here because if I refer back to the guide that I made for myself, which I am going to reference now, it was right there between 57 and 115, there's some sort of reference to 5.9. And I think I can just take that out and not have it be too terribly weird. So let's play this and see where we are. We'll test site called my travel blog. Okay, that's normal. So the appearance editor there might be something that I wanna change. So I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna split this. So one thing I do, so what I just, I right clicked here and this is what you can do on a Windows or a Macintosh. I did check this today. There is this lovely button that says slice. And I'm gonna press collect both sets. And what that's gonna do is it is going to separate my tracks for me. So now I don't have to worry about anything over here. I'm just gonna work on this one over here. And if you wanna move them, you can kind of use your choice. I'll be using the 2022 block theme. Okay, so that's normal. Again, that editor button is still there. So I'm not sure how much I like that, but she's using the 2022 block theme and I got that set up. Wordpress version 5.9. Okay, WordPress version is probably not as important. Most people have hopefully updated at least to 5.9, 6.0, 6.1 by now. So I'm thinking that's not as relevant. So I think what I wanna do is completely take that out. So I'm gonna back this up a little bit and I'm gonna pay attention to where the sound is here. I'm gonna press play. And running word. Okay, and running WordPress. So I'm gonna back this up again. Running word. So it's around. I need to lock theme. And I paused it. Okay, so I paused it right where I believe she's starting to say that. So I'm gonna split this again. So I'm right clicking, clicking on slice. I'm going to keep both sides because I don't wanna delete anything yet. And I'm just gonna let it now play past where she says, hey, 5.9 area. And running WordPress version 5.9. Okay, I think I can just remove that. So I'm going to slice this one more time. I'm going to keep the right side only. You're gonna see the left side disappear from this one little chopped up section. And now it's gone. So what we do, there's a blank space here. I'm going to drag and drop this. So I'm just clicking. Oh, they're both selected. That's not gonna work. Control Z, undo. Move both of those, uh-oh. So I'm just getting used to this new one. I'm going to double check. Okay, so it definitely moved it. Fun fact, when I press undo, it only moved this one back. So I'm gonna move this one back here. Now I'm just gonna select this one. Apparently this evidence by the red highlight around it. Drag and drop it. That blue line tells me that there's no more space. So let's play it and see what happens. See if this makes enough sense. A site called my travel blog. I'll be using the 2022 blog theme. Feel free to pause this video if you wanna try it out on your own. Okay, so the sound part from 5.9 got removed, but we still see like the current version 5.9 on the screen. So I'm gonna let this run out to the end of the screen. And as I do that, think about what you might do to fix this, right? Because the current version out of date, the beta button out of date. What do you think that you would try and do in this situation? Drop a thought in the chat or just watch and we'll figure it out together. There's still needs. Learned transition could work, yep. We could rerecord, yep, that's another option. So I noticed that this faded to black for me. So I'm gonna go ahead and I am going to slice this up one more time. I'm going to keep both sides because I don't want anything else to disappear. And as I move this back, you can kind of see what's visually on this screen. So we talked about this earlier about how it's kind of fun to have this computer here and it is possible to just overlay this screen with something else and we can show you how to do that if you want. But it is so tiny, I can barely see it on my computer screen as it is. So you have two options here. You can rerecord that the screen and you can do that using zoom. You just fire up a zoom like we are here and say, hey, record and you can just click, click, click, click. Like that's totally fine. I really struggle with that personally if you're good at that great A plus. But for me, it's really hard to get the timing just right. I'm not sure if I can adjust the timings of these good. Let's find out if I can animate. There's a fade option. Oh, that's pretty cool. I can animate an entire clip, the start of a clip, the end of a clip. That's some cool stuff. I can rotate things. I can speed things up or slow things down. Okay, so you definitely could rerecord this. If you're like me and you struggle, I highly recommend taking some screenshots here because the thing is you don't necessarily have to show somebody moving from place to place to place. It doesn't have to be in real time and I find that a lot easier in making some quick edits. So I'm gonna watch this and I'm gonna start thinking, okay, what screens do I need? So I'm gonna re-watch this with you just real quick. Back it up a little bit. Not that far. What do I need to show here? I'm gonna press play. It called my travel blog. I'll be using the 2022 blog. So I could click on appearance. It'll be on this video if you wanna try it out. And then editor. And then I think I might just skip this screen. So I think I need two screens. I think I need a screenshot where it says appearance and then a screenshot of the theme that I have picked. So yeah, using a series of images is a super easy way to do that. So that's what I'm gonna do. Let's do this together really quick. It's 345, we're doing pretty well. I just kinda wanna show you just these tools and some of the things that you can use. Okay, I fired up a sample website. There's local. There's this, okay. So I've got a screenshot here. I'm actually gonna go to my dashboard. Appearance, editor. Now, learning to take a screenshot is super, super important. So there's a couple of considerations that I have here. First off, we've got like all of this junk up here, right? I am a very messy thinker. I'm very chaotic. So a lot of the time my screenshots are not particularly pretty. So I'm gonna try and cut out some of that. So I know how to take a screenshot and I'm gonna give you some resources real quick. Where were they? Learning to take screenshots is a little bit of an art. Once you get the hang of it, it becomes a lot easier. That's how you do it on Windows. This is where to go, load. These are the directions for how to do it on Mac. So that way you have them, you can definitely save them. If you're not even sure, save those guides. It will make your video editing lives a lot easier. And then I'm gonna start closing some things so that I can stop getting lost, y'all. All right, here's my dashboard. So I'm gonna take a screenshot and I'm doing this when I'm pressing Control-Shift-3. That did the whole thing. Control-Shift-4, waiting for that to go away first though. Do-do-do-do, go away thing, okay, went away. All right, Control-Shift-4, which allows me to select just the dashboard here. Although I do need the appearance here because that's one of the things that I said that I wanted. I'm just gonna take a lovely little screenshot here. And I think, you know what? I'm just gonna drag it in here for right now because I'm gonna utilize Google Slides here. So I'm gonna make this take up the entire screen. So you can do a couple of things here. This is one way that you can use video markup without having a problem. If you use your tools here, insert, shape. I can grab a square here and say, hey, let's click on Editor. Now it does take a little bit of time just to say, hey, I don't want this to be transparent and I want this to be outlined in a bright red color so that it is easy to be seen. But now if I press the slideshow button and I'm on this page, this is now annotated for me. I can use this. I can take one more screenshot and now I'm going to drag and drop this right over here. So you've got some options here. This does, the software does allow you to put things in different places. So let's see, I'm going to shrink this. Oh, it didn't shrink the right thing though, interesting. Okay, so I think I did something that I was having trouble with. So you'll notice that this cursor over here shrank things down. I think what it was gonna do was it was going to make it start big and shrink. So I'm gonna try and put this at the very beginning because this is just an interesting little quirk of the software. I'm gonna make sure that just this is selected. Now I'm gonna try and shrink it again. No, it's doing it again. Why is it doing that? Let's see what happens when I play. Oh, it's my travel vlog. Oh, nope, there it is. I thought it was gonna shrink down. Why is it not shrinking down? I did this earlier, y'all, there we go. Now if I back it up. So I'm not sure how to fix this yet because I have been playing with this just today. But apparently there is an effect that I just created which will shrink this down to the size that I selected here. So you can see it happen. I'll be using it 20, 20, 20. Cool effect, something that you can definitely learn to play with. So if I wanted, I could move this around. Looks like it moved it as well on here. What a cool thing that you could do. I need to figure out how to not do that. But the other option that I have is just to take these two things out. Now, if I delete them without removing the audio, the audio is gonna go away. So now what you can do is, hey, there's a button here, I right click it. I am going to select both of these by pressing, no, can I, I'm not actually sure I can select both of these. I'm just gonna select one at a time then just in case. I'm gonna remove the single clip. You'll see that it's got that waiting thing. And you'll notice that the sound is now a little blue button down here. And I'm gonna do that over here too, separate audio, single clip. So both of these are changed. So I'm gonna, I can move this up and down I discovered today. And I can literally just take this audio now and move it to a higher track. That blue line means that it's lined up with this video piece over here. I'm gonna do the same thing down here. It's lined up where I think it needs to be. I hope, I think. And now I'm going to remove both of these. I'm gonna clip. I'm gonna shorten this up a little bit. I'm gonna try and delete some of the things. Can I remove the properties? I don't actually know. We're gonna find out. But right now I'm moving it down here and I'm gonna fill up the black box. So you can notice there's a little bit of difference between the black here and the gray here. I believe what this means is that that's the full video size. And it may have different dimensions than I'm used to. Oh, also that's not fixed. Fascinating. Okay. So this is gonna take a little bit of trial and error. But I should now be able to play. I'm gonna call it my travel. I'll be using the... Oh, I moved that a little too much. So I'm gonna move it back. Oh, travel block. Some of this is just trial and error. I'll be using the 2022 block theme. Feel free to pause this video. So I'll be using the 2022 block theme. Well, it's my travel blog. Travel blog. I'll be using the 2020 to 2022 block theme. So I'm definitely moving more things around than I do too. So this does take a little bit of time. It does take a little bit of skill. But now you've seen that, hey, you can separate things. You can move things and you can use, what should we call it, Google Drive to make those types of changes. The other thing that I could do is I could just demonstrate this right now in front of you. So this is being recorded. I can drag and drop this recording once it's done into one of these other tracks. It looks like it's up to track number five and I can chop it up so that we can show it. So what I would do for that is I, again, I would fire up a Zoom. I would start recording. I would make sure that my face was not on the screen. Unless you would like to be involved in one of these videos. And rather than take screenshots, which is totally valid and I find that easier, I could really just do what was done initially just with an updated screenshot. So let's go here. Okay, so I know that she says, so here I am, I'm in my dashboard. We've got appearance. I'm telling myself to go really slowly. I can definitely remove this audio. And then I'm going to select appearance and I'm going to make sure that the 2022 theme exists there. So that's another option to do this as well. So yeah, the other thing that you can do that I find really easy is to use Google Slides for annotation. So this is just a static screenshot and I'm going to exit out of it. This became just a static screenshot, but if I wanted to, I could delete that. Nope, okay. So what I could do is I could choose to animate this. So one of the things that I've noticed, I'm going to answer Jean's thought in the chat in just a second, is that I don't really necessarily like the annotations to exist ahead of time here. Again, I'm not sure why this one is moving all over the place. That's something I'm going to have to figure out just because this is new software to me. But I definitely like it when things appear. So if you right click in Google Drive, you have the option to animate things. And this one has it appear on click, right? So if I play this, and I'm saying, hey, we're going to be using appearance editor today. I can have it so that when I click, it automatically plays. So here we go. I'm talking about it. Click on appearance editor, boom. It existed where it didn't before. And I can just take that short little recording and plop it right in there. So yeah, so those are some of the basics. We've got five minutes left. So for the sake of time, Jean said, hey, I'm not sure how it would work if you were using someone else's video, but you use the separate zoom audio files for the audio track. You find that easier to work with. Yeah. So you can definitely do that. That's one way. Another thing that you can do is rather than like chunk it up and chop it up piece by piece, you can remove the audio track from everything. So I'm going to click on the separate audio. I'm just going to remove it. One thing that is a little bit tricky here is that I don't think that they have an audio record button. So you are going to need to record using zoom the same way. But I could just rerecord this video using my voice if I wanted to from start to finish because if you had to learn to work with Sutterword and you find the, what is it, template parts, you find the actual thing right here. You'll notice that there is a full transcript here. So if you need to rerecord something, if you're really talented at showing something on a screen as you go, you can definitely use this transcript and you can translate this transcript if you speak another language and you can just rerecord it that way. And that's one way that if you have to make significant changes that you can do. So what I'm going to try and do with the rest of this, not during today's lecture, obviously, but I'm going to try and just use the existing audio and rerecord the different screen grabs using the Zoom technology. And then I will grab Zoom, stick it right in here, chop it up to the specific pieces and that'll be that. So this should get you started with this. Again, I would really welcome you to join the WordPress training team because, I mean, we're around a lot, we're around, someone is around pretty much in all hours of the day. I'm alone in North America, but if you were to pop in here and say, hey, like I'm having trouble with X thing, does anyone have a suggestion or an idea or does somebody have the image to this picture? You can definitely just pop in here and ask a question and someone will get back to you as soon as they can. So yeah, just a couple more tips and tricks. I just showed you a lot of these things. We talked about rerecording anything needed with Zoom, I was recording it. Yeah, and then the last thing, once you finish going through it, just little bit by little bit, there's a whole process there. But yeah, that's probably a later thing. We probably don't have a ton of time. So we have two minutes left. Let's see if there are any questions. And yes, thank you all so much for asking such amazing questions. The Google Slides, would you be modifying or copying? I would recommend, I think you're gonna have to make a copy of the slide. So I sent that earlier on if you go to file and what does it make a copy, you can then modify the slides on your own. So you won't be modifying the same thing. So you make a copy of the slides, but yeah, those are just some of the resources that you have today at your leisure. So any other questions? I mean, this is a lot today. The more, I think about this more like the skills that you need to have, you need to figure out like how to move things around and you have to have like pretty good attention to detail with like the time and getting comfortable with new technology. And you have to figure out like how to set up WordPress so it looks similar. There was one thing that I wanted to mention. I think it might have been behind here. So one thing, if you are in my position, so Roxy is no longer contributing to the training team at the moment. So I don't have access to some of the visuals that I saw in her stuff. So if you're here and you're like, wow, this is a really complicated website and I'm trying to update the visuals but like I can't make it look the same. It's totally okay to transition to, hey, let's look at a different example. And then at the end, if you're going back to the other one, you can say, let's go back to the other one. Like that's totally fine. You can also use a plugin called FakerPress to quickly generate fake content. I should really make a tutorial on that on how to use those for learning. It's really great. And the thing that I really just want to leave you with is done is absolutely better than perfect. We just want to make sure that our learning content is as up to date as possible. So yeah. Any final questions today? All right, just quick check, scale of one to five, one being I have no idea where I'd even start, five being I think I would know like how to start updating a tutorial. Where would you fall? I'm just curious. See a four, I see a three, a five. Okay, okay. A four or five. All right, I'm seeing some improvement. That's exciting. Cool. All right. Well, you can definitely find this recording again on WordPress. And thank you all so much for joining me. Feel free to direct message me in the training team message or in their Slack. I would be delighted to help you through any of these steps. So yeah, have a good one, y'all. I'm so glad that some of these tips are helpful for you. That's wonderful, Sharon. I love it. All right, see you next time.