 I worked very, very hard. It could be a very long way to entertain y'all today and teach y'all a little sum sum, okay? So when we get started, I'm just letting y'all know as I go on the presentation, you're gonna see the energy gradually go up right now. We gonna be calm just so I don't scare y'all. But as things go, we gonna go up, okay? Like planes in the air. We ain't coming down till we done. I hope y'all not shy either. I don't know how many people are going to be here. At this point, it doesn't matter. I perform in front of a hundred, a thousand or one. I'm gonna give a hundred percent regardless. I do feed off the energy of the crowd though. And I have created a chant that I'm looking at everybody's eyes intentionally right now to see how daring you're going to be today to sing a short chant with me on WordPress. And if people feel like they don't want to be involved in that chant, that's okay. You don't have to say anything, but I will look at you sideways, okay? All right. No, no, no pressure on me. I'm making sure I'm in pressure on y'all. It's just hot. Athens is hot. You know what I'm saying? I'm sweating because it's hot, right? It's real hot. But I thank y'all for joining. We're at the one minute I was letting people kind of trickle in and stuff. So I'm gonna just kind of get into the introduction and all that stuff, all that jazz. And then as people come in, we'll really get deep and dive, deep diver into everything we're talking about today. How's everybody feeling, first of all? Everybody all right? All right, all right. Everybody came a long way, pretty short. So nobody traveled hundreds of thousands of miles to get here? Yeah, we have William as well too. Nobody else, huh? All right. So yeah, I've been waiting for this day for almost two months. I've prepared really, really, really hard. I've been through a lot to be here. I was just in Albania two days ago. And let me tell you, that was a trip. I had to take a train to a plane to a taxi to a ferry to get to Albania. Lovely people, lovely people here in Greece as well too. But I've been learning a lot about different cultures since I've been in Eastern Europe, which is a little different than the Western Hemisphere. So my mind and brain has been open to a degree that has never been before from an experience standpoint. And that's something that I'm aiming to bring to the table for you all today, every single person here. Yes, the topic is about templates. And I'm gonna tell you right now, a lot of you guys know about templates already. Let's be honest. But I'm gonna put a fresh perspective on it, give you guys a little bit of jazz, a little bit of entertainment as well. Because one thing I did, and I studied everybody's workshop for the past two years. Yes, I did. I watched every single one. I wanted to see what people were doing, their mannerisms, how excited people were in the room. I wanted to be different. And I also wanted to model what worked. And one thing I didn't notice was I felt like a lot of the workshops were a little monotone. I'm not sure if that's a WordPress thing or that's just a geek thing or that's just an art thing. But I want to bring a little cultural flavor, if that makes sense into this. I don't think we have a lot of that in WordPress sometimes. So that's what I'm gonna be bringing to the table today on top of the templates. And I'm hoping y'all, you guys will rock out with me a little bit. I'm also gonna walk around this stage, too. Cause I saw everybody be standing right here. So if I move from the, you know, Mike, does that affect you guys' recording? Yes. It does? Yeah. Do you want the scholarship? Yeah, let me get the hand here. I'm moving. Come on, baby, we moving. We ain't standing still. We gotta go. We on a mission today. Shoot. I told people this is gonna be the best workshop that anybody has been to in a very long time, if ever. And I was gonna make an historic landmark today. Thank you. Okay, can y'all hear me? Should I turn this off for an echo? Or do you turn it off? Okay. Hey, I wanna be honest. I don't, listen. I've been to a couple of work camps and I've trusted the sound and the video and I've been let down some time so I can't prepare my own stuff. So if y'all need some help, I'm AV2. Let's work together. Love is love. Come on. See, internet connection dropping right now. That's, look it, that's how they do it, y'all. Right now, that's what I'm trying to distract y'all and make sure this internet is going good. All right, okay. So, presentation is called Fresh Off the Block, Transform Word Press with Templates. Let me get some of my water, because it is hot. Okay. So just a little bit about me. I already gave you guys a little gist of my journey so far, I haven't given you a lot. It's been crazy. But a little bit about me. I'm a brand webmaster and founder of the iconic Expressions, it's a creative agency. Eight years ago, I have eight years of experience, excuse me, in marketing, strategy, development, project management, more things, more things, blah, blah, blah, who cares, right? I started Iconic Templates in 2022, and the reason why that's significant, because that's what gave me a lot of confidence to even have the presentation I have for you today. It's kind of like my sub-brand of my main company, where we provide free and premium templates for people based on WordPress. Outside of just Gutenberg or theme-based templates. I try, I want to hit a different angle because a lot of plug-ins have the export and import capability that most people don't take advantage of, and those are templates. I'll go deeper into that. I saw that face. That was a half-lil, what are you talking about, Willis? What you talking about, Willis? All right, look, I'm gonna say some American jokes and then some other jokes, some universal jokes. I'm gonna see which ones y'all get, because listen, we all got to learn today. I enjoy using technology and strategies to simplify life, cooking, reading, and traveling, and more and more. So without that handy phone right there, I would be, that's my best buddy. That has been my best buddy, this entire, my best friend, this entire trip, because without my phone and GPS, and I would be lost, y'all. I would not be here today. Y'all be like, where's Maestro? He's not here. That's because he's somewhere he should not be. And not because I wanted to be there either. All right, so here comes it out. I did prepare y'all. I gave y'all icebreaker before the icebreaker, right? The icebreaker was coming. Look, I see a couple of frowns, smiles, a little side, you know, I see some things. I'm looking at eyes. I'm looking at eyes. I'm looking at eyes. I'm looking at eyes. I'm looking at eyes. All right, so the icebreaker. I came up with a very, very, very simple anthem. Very simple. If you guys can't get this, I don't know if we can do the rest of the presentation. We're gonna, it's gonna be the test right here. Very simple, very simple anthem. But before we get to that, I'm doing twice. I prepared y'all twice, because I kind of feel the fear that some people are gonna try to escape go out of the anthem. There is a free giveaway that I want to do. All you have to do is submit a webpage since we're doing a presentation on templates. I just want us all to be able to say, hey, do you feel like you have a webpage that looks really, really good and really, really nice? At the end, we'll just vote and say who's, you know, who's got the best one and I'm going to give you just a giveaway. Now, here's the thing. I did not want to get it yet until I knew who won because what I was gonna do originally was get something from Greece. But what I didn't wanna do is get something from Greece that's very, you know, native and then the person from Greece gets it and they're just like, ah, you know, why'd you give me this thing? And I already have this. So it was like, let me wait and see because depending on where you're from is what I want to be able to give you. And it's just gonna be something simple. That's all. All right, y'all ready for this next part? I've gave y'all three ice breakers right now. Let's, okay, all right. All right, so I'm gonna say it a couple of times. Y'all are gonna get the gist. Y'all are gonna hear the cadence to it, the tone. I use cadence for a key word because we're gonna get into that later. Y'all are gonna get, I'm a big person. I connect dots, you know, you know, we'll bring it back and then bring it forward and bring it back. I didn't know that connected with like a movie. You know how the movie, like the movie where they connect the at the end of the movie to the beginning of the movie, that one thing they said and it comes back. All right, so it goes like this. I'm fresh, I'm fresh off the block, the block. And that's my word, my word, press. Now, I said it very bland and simple intentionally for you guys, but I'll put no up into it to show you how simple it can be. If you can't do it that simple, I don't know. I'm gonna do it again with a little more jazz, okay? I'm fresh, I'm fresh off the block, the block. And that's my word, my word, my word, press and press. I'm fresh, I'm fresh off the block, the block. And that's my word, my word, my word, press and press. Okay, I'm fresh, I'm fresh off the block, the block. And that's my word, my word, my word, press and press again. I'm fresh, I'm fresh off the block, the block. And ask my word, my word, my word, press, impress. One more time. I'm fresh. I'm fresh. Of the block, the block. And ask my word. You got it? My word, my word. Press. Impress. One more time. I'm gonna turn to you, you know. I'm fresh. Of the block, the block. And ask my word. My word. My word. Press, impress. OK, I'm a little impressed. I'm a little impressed. You get the press work, y'all come on, man. Now the reason why I wrote it that way is because one, presentation is called Fresh Off the Block. That's very simple, right? Okay, why would I name it Fresh Off the Block? The reason why I named it Fresh Off the Block is because I'm from Cleveland, Ohio. I literally came from the hood. So I come from a very poverty stricken area and then in Cleveland we're trying to change that. And we consider that for my culture being on the block. I'm sure y'all have heard that term in some way. Movies, TV shows, something, right? Also, in WordPress, there's a thing called blocks. Double, double usage, block, block. Y'all ain't rocked lately, come on, come on, man. Geez. And then we also use the term word. So when people say like, hey, you're gonna do the word. Word means like you're holding your promise. Or it means what is is, it's done. I got it, word. So you going to the conference, the WordCamp Conference, the EU, yet word. That's how we, so word, oh my God, I'm moving on. I'm moving on. Let's go. Y'all just wanna get into the presentation and stuff. I'm trying to have some fun with y'all. Told you, I worked hard for this. It came a long way. Agenda, so let's talk about this agenda, okay? The agenda, we're gonna start off with templates. We're gonna go into a WordPress setup. We're gonna talk about page building with templates, forum building with templates, video publishing with templates, and we're gonna do a group fresher size. Not exercise, fresher size. Ah, I'm gonna clap for myself on that one. Come on, y'all. So one other thing y'all are gonna notice about this presentation, it's very thematic, right? Very thematic. I went hard with the theme. Like I went hard with the theme. So everything here, you're gonna see little nuances and snippets, like a theme. I'm a big fan of movies. I'm a big fan of stories. I'm a big fan of setting the scene. So it's not just all this stuff that we're gonna be talking about. When it comes to kids, you gotta give them the sugar with the medicine, right? Right? So the same thing when it comes to education, you know, this stuff is boring sometimes. So if you add color around it, no pun intended, but pun intended, add some color around it, it may be more palatable for people. So that's why I got real, real big on the theme and I had my designer for my company do all this jazz and stuff for you guys. Otherwise it would be all white screen black text and it would be plain Jane stuff because that's how I'd be sometimes. I keep it simple. So let's talk about templates. Templates and WordPress are considered things like patterns from Gutenberg, reusable blocks, video presets, reusable videos, hooked elements, child themes, design libraries and code snippets. So now you're understanding this word that we call templates and this is something that I am gonna have a conversation with some of the uppers. Oh yeah, I'm getting up, I'm getting there. I'm here now, so I'm gonna talk to some people, y'all. But this thing when it comes to templates has been very confusing. There's a lot of terminology in WordPress sometimes that gets confusing. And so I wanted to help kind of alleviate that confusion to say all these things are considered templates, even if they're named different things. They're still templates. Does that make sense? Okay, because one thing I got confused of was the patterns. Like why don't you all just call them templates? Why are they called patterns? I'm used to patterns being polka dots and triangles and things like that, right? Not necessarily templates. So the naming convention matters because one plugin calls one thing, another plugin will call another and it's the same thing. And then we get confused in conversation and communication when we're trying to make things happen. So that's why I said, hey, let me share what templates can be considered. There are also kits, blueprints, processes, SOPs, standard operating procedures and models. So templates could be a lot of things. No matter what the actual name of the template type, templates are a lot of things. So that's one thing I wanted everybody to understand is that we aren't just talking about templates in Gutenberg, but we're discussing the concept of what templates are and then diving deeper on how to use them within WordPress and Gutenberg. Does that make sense? All right. I'm gonna be asking y'all that throughout the presentation to make sure y'all are awake. So if y'all fall asleep on me, I will ring the bell. We gonna make it work. We gonna fly today. Shh, I told y'all, didn't I say the energy's gonna go as we go? All right. So let me give y'all a fresh tip real quick. Fresh tip, told y'all, the theme is coming. Here's the template advantage. The first thing is, is when it comes to templates, they basically give you a great starting point. If a template's not giving you a great starting point, it is purposeless. Like, there's no reason for you to have a template if you feel like you gotta start from scratch. So that's what templates are for. They also give you a great framework to work from. So you don't have to start from scratch. You also, you have something that you're able to model with. And then templates also help in the WordPress world create less development. You shouldn't be developing as much. And I know we have some developers in here. I'm looking to see who's gonna wink at me. Like, I'm a developer. I ain't gonna wink yet. Okay. So, helps you less develop for people who are or are not developers. I finally got a smile. You are a hard one, man. Dang. So people are less developed. And then it also gives you more free time, right? You should have more free time. If you're using a template and it's not giving you more time back, so you can go do whatever you wanna do, then the template is, I don't wanna say useless, but it's not efficient. I didn't wanna say useless, but I know these days we have to be careful with the words we say. We can't make it. But the template ain't right. So that's what templates, the template advantage is supposed to give you. And if it doesn't give you that advantage, then it ain't give you what you need. So let's talk about WordPress. I believe they gave everybody the ability or at least the heads up of getting the local installation of WordPress on your computer if you wanted to follow along. And so I'm just kind of reiterating that with the two platforms I use. I mainly use local WP and sometimes I use Kinsta. There's one more I use, but it's more of a sandbox site, but I use it as just WordPress, just temporary sites myself. So if you didn't have it, here you go. So I'm gonna go to the next one. All right, nobody's bringing out their phone. We're good. They're pretty easy to find anyway. All right, so these are the plugins. If you have not added these plugins yet to your site, I'm hoping everybody here has a sandbox site or a playground site or some type of fake site or just a practice site, whatever site you wanna call it. But these are the plugins that we're gonna talk about today that will give us some, we'll say experience, practice, or understanding with templates. This is not a term, exhaustive list. This is not a definite list. You can use whatever alternative tool or plugin, your favorite thing, as long as it has similar abilities that these have, but I just wanted to share that with you. So we have Cadence WP, and that's the reason why I said before, that Cadence, and that's the reason why I actually added the Anthem and I said, hey, follow my Cadence. And I said, I'll bring it back because that's actually one of the tools that we'll be using once again. I brought it back. Oh my God. Fluent form. So that's the next one right here. It's a form plugin. It's one of my favorite ones. I believe the owner here, his name is so hard to say. I just wanna call him SJ, but we took a picture last night at the social event and it was pretty great. Like just meeting one of my favorite developers and owners of a plugin on our company. So it was kinda cool. But we're gonna be using that as well. You can use whatever you wanna use as long as there's an export import feature, but I would advise just to try this out for today. And then Presto Player here is a video plugin and we're gonna be using this when it comes to templates as well, just to give you a demonstration. These two have more alternatives. Presto Player is a lot more unique than what you're gonna find alternatively in WordPress in the repo. Page building with templates. So when it comes to page building with templates, I did mention this before as far as the word patterns. I know I'm gonna get a stern talking to you after my presentation at some point in time. I'm gonna do something wrong. I know it, you know I'm gonna, it's just the WordPress gods are gonna get on me. But either way, patterns and reusable blocks. So patterns are templates and you will find that in Gutenberg editor. And then reusable blocks are also templates that you won't find in the Gutenberg editor, but you create in the Gutenberg editor. And I'm gonna show you that as well too. I have my sandbox site up. I'm gonna have to bring it up here in a second and I'll bring it up here in a second. I just wanted to keep this presentation on top. And then we also have the, oh, there goes the internet. They be messing with us, man. Because yeah, the picture is not supposed to be blurry like that. All right, I'm gonna go back one and we gonna go back to it. There we go. See how simple that was. All right, so when it comes to templates, there is most of them like elementor and stackable. What else is there? Somebody named another popular one as far as blocks. And anymore blocks, blocks, blocks wise, does anybody have any favorite block based plug-in types that they use to build websites with? Generate blocks. They generate blocks, that's a good one, thank you. So I'm just saying to say that they have design libraries and template libraries too. That's the point of my bringing it up. So you know what I'm saying? If you have a favorite one, just look for it there. And then with cadence's theme, they also have what's considered starter templates. Again, other themes have this. And that's something that I want people to really understand. There's templates that are based in Gutenberg based on blocks and there's templates that are based on themes. They're not the same thing. People get very confused on that. Now, when you bring up a template from any type of like elementor or cadence or divi or visual composer, things like that, yeah, it's gonna add the blocks with it to build but it's not the same thing. It's gonna add the blocks with the theme. It's gonna style it out for you and then add the certain areas, the blocks and the elements and stuff. But they are two different things because you can technically use cadence as blocks without using cadence theme. You can use generate press theme if you want to and then use cadence block. People typically use two to three block based plugins when they are building websites. So here's another fresh tip right here and then we're gonna go into the WordPress site. Duplicate pages and posts. So this is another great way for you to be able to create templates. Just make a page, use either a code snippet plugin or you can use a actual plugin to be able to duplicate the posts. There you go. You have a template. Just duplicate it. So let me bring up this one second. So I'm gonna go here so you can see the plugins and again, as I mentioned before, FluidForms, cadence blocks, presto player and then for this situation, I did add the plugin duplicate page instead of just adding a code snippet plugin and adding a code. But these are the ones that will help you create templates. So I should've definitely changed up the order of my screen, but that's all right, we're on the fly. So let's start, let's go to cadence. I wanna show you real quick. So if I go to pages and we're going to go to, we'll just add a new page. How about that? It's called fresh off the block. Let's start with a fresh page. That would just make sense, wouldn't it? Yeah. Talking to myself, but I'm talking to you at the same time. You gotta do that sometime. And we're gonna see how this internet acts. If not, I'm gonna go to data and hope it works. Okay, okay, let's try it. Refresh, refresh, refresh. Can you use, yeah, yeah, use local. Yeah, that's fine. No, I mean, even in a local environment, all the plugins that I'm demonstrating, you can find those in the repo, even in local. So nothing outside of the local is what we're gonna be focusing on. I try to do that just in case, to your point. So if you're using local, you don't have to use something that needs. Oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, you're saying when we were on the slide, you didn't catch the, and did it go to the form? Yeah. Okay. The page URL. Yeah, yeah, just drop any page, the page URL that you wanna submit. Yeah, any page URL that you wanna submit that you've deemed worthy to, yeah, to be, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it. Is that a trick question? I don't know, this is a test. Is this a plan here? Like, where's Ashley Kutcher? Am I getting punked right now? I mean, this is a, no, it's gotta be WordPress. Don't get me in trouble now. It's gonna get on me. You might show, I know, listen, I would normally, but we be a watch right now and record it, you know what I mean? It's like, you got me sweating just off of that question. All right, listen, I'm gonna try to redo this, turn off the Wi-Fi, reconnect the thing. Let's see, let's see. If not, I'll just have to use my, okay. Is there, I wasn't told this before. Okay, I see it now. Look, I'm lucky I got an ethernet adapter because some of these adapters don't come with ethernet chords. I'm just letting y'all know. I actually bought one just in case for this situation. So, whew, you gotta come triple prepared. It's great to be prepared, you don't ever know. All right, now let's try. We're in here now, all right, good. All right, so, let's just get this mouse going. And as I mentioned before, for instance, cadence, we have the design library. And so, okay, there we go. So, when it comes to the design library, you can pick, you know, choose and click it to import a template like that. And it's very simple. Same thing when it comes to patterns. I should say patterns. Let's click off of here and try this again. Interesting, interesting. Listen, the patterns was just showing up 20 minutes ago. Normally it's right here. I mean, you know, even in the picture, I showed y'all. So, that's interesting. And this is why I love stuff like this. There we go. See how it wasn't there? Y'all would've thought I was crazy, like. I mean, y'all saw that, right? Okay, y'all are probably questioning me. Like, he didn't come prepared. I told y'all, I've been practicing this two months. But you always get tested. I need a witness, can I get a witness? Hallelujah, I need a witness, goodness. Okay, all right, so patterns are the same thing here. And so you can click anything, you know, any type of pattern, and it just gives you a template. So I just wanted to, you know, show you and demonstrate that it's the same thing. You can use WordPress's native templates with your patterns, or you can use your plugin-based template, your block plugin-based template to be specific as well when it comes to templates. So let's talk about forms, okay? Forms, form building with templates, excuse me, is very, very simple. Yeah, building forms with templates is very, very simple. And let me give you guys a quick story that made me actually appreciate more modern-based form plugins. And I'm probably gonna have somebody in here that's not gonna like me after I kind of give you this story because there's probably somebody who just loves this plugin I'm gonna name. Contact Form 7, y'all. Yeah, oh, yeah, yeah. I learned the hard way. Contact Form 7 is, anybody here work for Contact Form 7? I told you, it's always one! It's always one! Well, anyway, I was working on a client site, working with another agency, working on a client site, and I recommended using this form plugin here to build out the site. We ended up building a site with this form plugin and then a month later, they had requirements that wanted us to switch back to Contact Form 7 for integration purpose or something like that. When I tell you, me and my developer went through so much headache because Contact Form 7 is a little different when it comes to building outer forms. It's not like block-based and we're used to the more modern block-based. So when it came to them asking us for help to edit the form and to change things on the form and stuff, it was totally different than how we're used to working. So we had to create a whole slew of SOPs for them in order so they can learn how to change things on the form. And I really wanted to tell them, I should have just used fluent form. And that was my lesson. And it literally just happened like 10 days ago, being honest with you guys. It literally just happened. So I'm like, it was very relevant to the situation and it made me appreciate a little bit more having more of a block-based versus having more of a code-based. I guess that's the best way I would say it. I'm a nerd, but I am a nerd, nerd, nerd. Like some of y'all are nerd, nerd, nerd. I'm like two nerds down. Some of y'all here are like five steps down when it comes to nerdism. And yes, nerdism is the real word. But with fluent forms, you're able to export import forms and that's one of my favorite, favorite features when it comes to being able to share and give others or have somebody give something to you or be able to just have templates for your own self for your own team and your own internal working. So don't sleep on the export import feature when it comes to templates. So here's another fresh tip right here. See, now I'm gonna help you out because I feel like I hurt your feelings a little bit because I'm gonna let you know I got a little bone to pick with this as well too. But here's another fresh tip. When it comes to fluent forms, you can just go to fluentforms.com backslash forms and you're able to see their demo forms. Now in the plugin of fluent forms and I'm gonna show you here in a second, you're able to see only certain so many forms but then you have to go here to see more of their demo forms and that's something that I'm going to generously make a small, I don't wanna call it complaint but just like, hey. See, when you flew out hundreds of miles, oh, there's a lot of things you've been waiting to say to a lot of people in person. I'm just letting y'all know that right now. You'd be holding it back. Just trying to get through the internet and submit the email and the request page and all that stuff. Yeah, that good, but when you see a person's eyes like I'm seeing y'all because y'all ain't gonna forget me after this presentation, I promise you that. It's a whole different ball game and feeling. Y'all do look good, by the way. I'm just letting y'all know that right now. Everybody looking nice and fresh. We have me a nice drink. The stiffest of all drinks. Okay, so we're adding a new form. As you can see, we see them right here. Like you see a little sneak peek of what it looks like but then as you scroll down, you don't see what it looks like until you click it. Again, to me, that's like a time, you know, waster not a saver for me because I want to see what it looks like before clicking. Yeah, I don't want to have to click it to see it. That's why I gave you all that other website because you can go there and see the forms. And that's something that, again, I think you know, it just could be improved upon but I'm not saying that what's being done is not great. The same thing with Contact Form 7. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. But sometimes there are things that you can do to update, upgrade and accommodate others. Does that make sense? Does that make sense? Okay, yeah, I see, all right, hold on, I asked that before and it was, yeah. And then this time I was like, yeah. I told you, y'all fall asleep on me. Oh, boy, do y'all not know. So let's talk about video publishing with templates. Oh, but let me show y'all real quick before we go there because I was kind of kind of compiling a lot of the stuff at the end but I'm not going to do that too much. Let me go to tools. I just wanted to show y'all guys where you would find it at. So what's in the tool section, export forms and port forms. That simple. That simple. And then you select your form here, whatever you make and then you export it and then that's something that you can give, you can sell, you can hold to yourself. I don't put it in a bottle and put it in the Mediterranean Sea. I can finally say that because I'm near it. But let's go to video publishing with templates. So with the tool, Presto Player, you have what they call video presets. So this is another thing where it's like, why don't you just call them templates? But they call them presets, just like we have patterns. They are templates. That's basically what it is. You click on one of these and it sets up your video in a certain way that you'll be able to kind of have certain features on your video player that you would have to set up in any other way. Who here uses Wistia, Vimeo, YouTube? No Wistias or Vimeos? Wow, that's shocking. If I took a poll right now, I would have never guessed that. Okay, and the reason why I say that is because Vimeo is typically it has a different type of, how can I say it? It's like, Android is too, now the Androiders don't, come on now, don't crucify me for this. I'm doing this off the fly too. I ain't make this part of the presentation though. But Android is to what I would say YouTube is what Apple is to Vimeo. Does that make sense? I hear William says it makes sense. I don't know if it makes sense to anybody else. Okay, so that's why I said I would have thought because word pressers are very particular. You see how my voice went, very particular about their stuff. You know, about how they want stuff to be presented and Vimeo, an accommodation world with YouTube. You don't have that same type of nuance and flexibility. You gotta kind of go with the flow of YouTube. And it's not necessarily as private. So that's why I assumed everybody here would be using more Vimeo or Wistia over YouTube. But then at the same time, I'm gonna just keep it real with y'all. Listen, I'm from Cleveland, Ohio and I know budgeting when it's necessary and YouTube is free. And that's why I'm assuming everybody here uses it because we know word presses are cheap. Yes, I said, camera get me right now. Sometimes we are cheap. We don't wanna pay for nothing. Geez, I be feeling bad for these developers or owners. I'm calling some people out. Contact Form 7 ain't need to pay for that. Shoo. All right, so reusable video. Like reusable blocks, you have reusable videos. And again, I'm gonna show you after I show you the picture. I took a long time, I'm just gonna snapshot, right? So, reusable videos, you have a media hub and in the media hub, you're able to add your videos and then when you add your videos to the media hub, anywhere on any page at any time, you can just bring in that video from your media hub. So you create a video, you have the presets and then you bring it in on any page at any time. Once again, it's a video template that if you know you're gonna repurpose a video and bring it back and you want the same settings, don't do it over again. Just create a template. And see, I have it right here. I didn't know as cheapers word pressers we're gonna be on this. I thought we'd be on this. Have y'all heard of Bunny.net? Nobody's heard of Bunny.net? Okay. Well, as Kevin Hart says, you gonna learn today. So Bunny.net is an alternative to YouTube and Vimeo. It came, it started as Bunny CDN and I'm sure we've heard of Cloudflare, right? Cloudflare, okay. We've heard of Cloudflare, Bunny.net is an alternative to Cloudflare and they ended up going into the video storage, video hosting, other nuances and two. And so this, I mean, I put like 50 bucks probably three years ago and I still have 40 bucks in my account. Like it barely uses anything. I'm gonna say that one more time, cheap word pressers. I put 50 bucks on the account three years ago and I still have about $40 left and my video gets played anywhere because it has a CDN attached to it as well too. And it's fast. And guess what? YouTube stuff doesn't pop up when somebody pauses. Okay, all right. I'm gonna pause right there for y'all. All right, so before we get into the group fresher size, y'all get fresher size now, right? Exercise, fresher size. Look, we gonna stretch it out today. Let me go and show you what it looks like. I'm looking at the time. Okay, I'm gonna start wrapping it up in about five, seven minutes and then any questions will go there. All right, so let me go back to pages. Oh, I am in pages. In this one, I'm hoping that I still have this video so I can show y'all on it because I didn't, did I save it? Now I'm gonna go back, let me go back. Shouldn't be a draft. That's the only thing, I can't stand, sometimes where drafts come in and I thought that when you save it, let me see, otherwise I'm just gonna add a video. Okay. So what I'll do is I'll go back here, go to the bottom here, type a, and then we'll add Presto Player YouTube. And then let me get a YouTube video because I wanna show y'all what this looks like because I'm assuming most people here have never heard of Presto Player. Is that assumption correct that most people haven't heard of Presto Player? Okay, well this is about to be your first time. I'm gonna get a WordPress video right here. Just would be appropriate. I would say so. Okay. Okay, I'm about to just get a random video talking about WordPress, okay? Just so y'all can pretty much see. What's up guys? So if you're watching this. All right, so I'm gonna grab this URL and bring it right here. Et voila. Now we have a video here but the thing about this is just not any video. It has a nice skin over it, it's not YouTube. The YouTube's is terrible. And then anytime I click on any of these presets here, it changes a little bit of the different options. Now I'm not gonna get too far into how that's a great thing, but if you wanna go something simple, you don't want people to have control. There's sometimes where you do and don't want people to have certain control. Is the video a marketing video? Is it a sales video? Is it a learning video, right? The control of the video creates the experience. And a lot of times we just create videos and we all understand it's the experience that people have that really gives them more of the result that they're looking for. And it's not just the video itself. So that's PrestoPlayer right there. And then as far as the reusable block standpoint, let me show you all the reusable block while I'm here. For those who haven't learned how to use a reusable block, if I click create a reusable block, I'm just gonna say W-R-O-D. And then now it's a reusable block and you should be able to see it right here. You won't see this until you create a reusable block. Now you have a template right there. Same thing with PrestoPlayer, as far as the gallery, not gallery, excuse me, but the media hub is concerned. You go here, media hub, and then you would add the video here the same way that I just added it before. And then once you do, you can save this and then you can bring this up anywhere on any page at any time. So that is literally how you use templates when it comes to video. Now does that make sense? Okay, notice how it's getting quieter. Yeah, okay. So it looks like we don't need to go to the fresher size. In the group fresher size, it wasn't really anything major. I just wanted to kind of just get y'all's attention. But the main part is that I wanted anybody here to be able to, if you do want to test out templates, as I mentioned before, we have some free templates that you can use, or you can use the cadence library. I'll go back one more time if anybody did want to take a snapshot of it. Or you could use the cadence design library. How you would add it, I'm gonna show you here. Okay, so as I mentioned before, like stackable, obviously we're on here on cadence. Ultimate add-ons with Gutenberg is now Spectra. They all have a similar design library. So as far as building a page out, I would say for the most part, what you wanna do when you're using these templates, think of the different categories, and when it comes to a page, think of how you would lay out certain sections on the page. So if we were building a landing page, and this is now where I'm gonna get a little bit of participation. I'm gonna give away the first one, hero. I would think a hero would make a lot of sense for a landing page. Now when it comes to the second session, if we were building a landing page for just a simple site, what would the next, or could the next section be anybody here based on just looking at the categories here? And anybody can just throw anything out and I'll just add it any time. And you could just say a category, you don't have to say a specific one, but what would the next section, like what would you say, that's a good one. Yeah, I would say features too. And I'm glad you said that and it's not there because this is another thing where it could be there, just could be another name. You know what I'm saying? So everybody doesn't use the term features when it comes to, so that's something that, I'm glad you said that because we have to peep that. We don't, like it's not there, but yet we can still create a features by, let's see, the features. Could this be a feature section? Media and text? Nope, I'll go back to list. So for example, boom. So we go from a hero to the features section we just wanna talk about, this could be anything, this could be the features of our product, this could be the features of our service. That would be the next thing. Okay, bam, we have a hero. Obviously there needs to be some type of a footer but we don't go into a footer. We'll do two more sections. Anybody else have two more sections before we say there's a fake footer there? Services? Is that a word that we see? Nope, nope, no services. Well we can use, we can create a services. It can be a pricing section and then we turn it to services. And so this is why I call it the exercise. You see how either you're not, y'all are getting tired and stuff and you're, or y'all are really trying to think, okay, how would I lay this out using the terms within somebody else's library? You see why we're doing this right now? Because some names aren't gonna be there. That's something that most people don't know and don't learn and it confuses them and it hasn't stuck. So you gotta talk it out and you gotta walk it out and go through it. And just say okay, it's not, there are features, no services, but I can delete this, delete this and delete that and I can create the services part. That's what templates are supposed to be for. If they're not all the way there and ready for you, then you just manipulate them just a little bit. It's just like resources, I agree. So I just wanted to go through that with you all because once again it's just something that when there's different naming conventions, it confuses a lot of people, especially when you're playing in somebody else's sandbox. But if you have a mentality of, okay, that may not be called that there, but it looks like that, I can use that and then change it to my, bend it to my will. Anybody got any questions? I was joking. So let's do a refresher here. We talked about templates. We went over how you can add a local environment to your WordPress website and add the plugins to create the templates. Then we went into page building with templates and then form building with templates and then last we mentioned the video publishing using templates. So those are the main three and the list goes on, but page building, form building and video publishing are three ways that you can use templates very efficiently and it will save you hundreds of hours if you do it without trying to be all, get into that developer mode where you're just like, okay, I'm using the template, but now I'm gonna start doing it from scratch. That defeats the whole purpose of the template and oftentimes we do that. So I encourage you to start fresh on WordPress. You know, if you're building a new site, if you're doing something, I encourage you to try out using templates. If you're not using templates, if you typically build it from scratch, I feel like that it's a great way to get your mind into that direction and then you can continue to build from scratch as you want to, but if you start to train yourself to use templates more, you can train others to use templates as well too because we like to practice what we preach around here, right? And then that way, the people who are helping you or working with you, they can really adopt using templates and then you can continue to do what you do and how you do it. So does anybody have any questions? The question is in templates, are there plugins built in templates sometimes that you have to be careful of? Are there plugins built in the templates that you gotta be careful of? If, for example, you download a theme or a starter kit or something like that, they do typically give you the option to add the plugins with it. So I would say you should always be careful because you never know. But if it's a plugin that is popular and has nice ratings, again, I don't wanna go too deep, but I have a system of type of plugins that I use based on criterias, just for safety reasons, I would use your own method and just be very cautious. But to your point, yeah, you gotta be careful all the time. But did I answer your question? Okay, thank you, by the way. Listen, y'all don't ask me questions, I'm gonna just start asking y'all questions. I promise y'all, I'm gonna just start looking y'all. Didn't I ask you a question? If y'all, yeah, let's you, hello. They want to mic you up. Okay, all right. I don't know if we don't need the official to do it again. We don't need to officially do it again. Ask the question again. It was good? Okay, okay. Do I need to ask the question again? Yes. I guess so. Okay. Yeah. Can we do the same thing without using any plugins or to do the templates without using any plugins at all only with the fresh WordPress? You can use different code snippets. You know, there's PHP. I mean, with Gutenberg and the tools, WordPress gives you from a fresh install. From a fresh, yeah. I mean, if you want to, there are people who don't use any block-based plugins and they only use the Gutenberg blocks, you know, to that point and they don't add a plugin. I mean, let's just be honest. I mean, who's not adding plugins to WordPress? I don't know if that's a trick question again, but I'm like, is anybody in here use WordPress with no plugins? Be honest. I didn't think a single hand go up. So, I mean, practically speaking, I don't think that, you know, anybody's gonna use WordPress without plugins, but it is possible. You're just very limited. You got to play within the sandbox of Gutenberg and then use the patterns and the reusable blocks to create the templates, but you don't get to use plugin-based templates. Thank you very much. Did that answer your question, though? I just want to make sure, yes, okay. People use the plugin. Who here doesn't use plugins? What's up? Hi, well, this is not a real question. It's just about your opinion about it. In our agency, we have a great deal of concern regarding the consistency of pages, right? How they will behave, and we have to, at least we try to stick to some templates along the site, and we usually avoid to create a large amount of templates or patterns. So the writers are a bit limited in this situation. It's just, I was wondering if, in your opinion, this is a good approach to stick to some models only, or some templates, or should they have these ability to add more features to the general templates, you know? Should they add more? So you all do use templates. You're trying to avoid creating a whole bunch of them. Exactly, because if you give them the liberty to add some blocks, they will add, and we will lose the consistency of the website, you know? The strategy along the website, and everything. So in your perspective, these guys have good practice, or you think that they should be able to add the features themselves? Added so the people could add the features themselves to the templates themselves. Well, I would say when I think about templates, I definitely want to have the word consistency involved. I mean, that would be the purpose of having a template. So once it makes things inconsistent, and we're talking about templates, now we're kind of conflict, there's a big conflict in my opinion. Before we even get to the whole capacity or overload of too many templates. And then as far as your situation, which I'm just still trying to process your process, I would say that giving these people the flexibility to adjust and change or add with limited ability, I think it helps. But at the same time, you don't know what you don't know. And maybe they don't know anything that they don't know. So it could, you know, your process could be working. And maybe you want to make a slight adjustment. I wouldn't say move too far away from it, because it seems like it's working for you, right? So I don't even want you to move far away from it. But I definitely would say that I don't think you can go wrong with having too many templates as long as they're categorized. That's the key. You don't have a categorization system in a way where a person can easily get to this and the naming convention is so clear, you don't have to explain what it is, then you're good to go. Once you add too much of anything and things aren't clear because the naming convention, that's when it becomes a bad thing. Does that make sense for you? So yeah, categorization is key. Yeah, I definitely think, yeah. Organization, naming, structure, even maybe a quick hint on when you categorize it, this is typically used for this or that. That way, I'm a big fan of eliminating excuses. If I can eliminate as many excuses by saying, okay, you said you weren't here at 10 o'clock, but I gave you five hour ahead, what is excuse? Like, I want to eliminate all the excuses. So if you can eliminate excuses, you'll have less resistance. You're welcome. The last one before we wrap it up, I want to thank everybody for coming here as well too. She's looking around for the mic, she's looking around for the mic, she's looking around who needs the mic. Look, she ain't about to miss a beat. She's about to use you, you're gonna get that mic. So don't be shy. All right, all right. Okay, well, I definitely thank every single person for being here today. I'm hoping that the presentation gave you guys a little bit of edutainment, combination of education and entertainment, and that somebody here has a different perspective, a fresh perspective of WordPress. Yes, I went fresh all the way till I couldn't breathe no more. And then I breathed, and I went back into the fresh. Hopefully it gives you a fresh perspective of WordPress. I am Maestro Stevens, the fresh prince of WordPress. Y'all finally get it now, dang! Had to bring it back! Shoot, look for me on LinkedIn. You'll see it, Maestro Stevens, the fresh prince of WordPress. Not the king, the king gets, everybody's going for the king's throat. I said, I'm gonna be the prince. Just to give a fresh perspective of WordPress because WordPress has been so in areas outdated from when it comes to the knowledge. Most people don't understand the modern capabilities of it, and it frustrates a lot of people. And I talked with people, average everyday people that are not developers and they want to use WordPress and they're so scared because they think it's 1992. And they're using the old version of WordPress. I'm dead serious with you guys. WordPress, the whole point of it is supposed to be accessible, right? It's free. But there are a lot of people who don't have a lot of money and they need the free-ness, but they're confused and they're scared because they're so used to what they think WordPress was. So that's why I'm trying to bring a fresh perspective and say, now it's something new. So thank you all today.