 WordPress, right? And we all use WordPress on our website, blogging, or I just interested in the technology because it's fantastic and all. So basically, I'll be talking about how WordPress is good for coding or it's the best platform or one of the best platform that if you know how to code you can utilize very well. Before I start, let's say that WordPress goes beyond creating a website or creating a website easily. A lot of it depends on WordPress because it's quite easy to, you know, do something quickly in a few minutes, you know, if you really know how to code, you can go beyond that. So we'll start with a code that I saw on all the other blogs, but I'm searching for this presentation. It says one of the quotes is, the content programmer is a creator of universe, for which he alone is the long-giver, no playwright, no stage direction, no emperor, however powerful, as ever, it decides such absolute authority to arrange a stage for field of battle and to command and search unsurprisingly beautiful actors or troops, yourself, with them on. Basically, all this grammar that this person is saying is this, if you can code, you are a code. That's what it means. Everything here, everything here says, if you can code, you are a code. A code to the command, a code that can control the commands of an entire system. And if you can control an entire system, imagine how many people's life you can control because you now make people depend on systems to you. So the power to code is the power to control people, to help people at the same time as well. So basically, that's what I'm saying. And I'm going to share my experience with you guys. I've had a situation where, you know, one person is really good to use, right? You know, you enjoy the experience of being able to do things really quick. How to quickly be the website, deadline next week. I think, oh, you have to be in the CSS now and it will take forever to finish, maybe two weeks to really, depending on your skill level and all of that. So, you know, your skill level determines how fast you can finish with the HTML and CSS. But then you're like, oh, let me just stick with WordPress. And WordPress will do most of the things that you can do, blah, blah, blah. And then you just go down the thing on news. And then you now start using the thing that you're going to use in your life. Okay. This is what you're not going to do what I'm looking for. I want to add, let's assume you're creating for, I work for an NGO part-time business, as an intern, tried for a mentor initiative and that should be the moment. And I take care of the IT stuff, the website and all that. So, you know, we wanted to go and rebrand the website. We wanted to rebrand the website. And I bought this thing. I bought this thing. It had most of what I needed, right? And then we installed the team and then started going on, building the website and all of that. And then the boss called me and like, hey, let me come. Go to this website. This is what I want. We are ready to purchase the team. We've done, you know, before you buy the team, you will look at, ah, this thing can do what I want. Let me look at it. Let me go through it. Let me try all the things that all work, blah, blah, blah. And the show's called me all the sudden. How do people have gotten the team? We are ready and ready to own the design I wanted to go for. And he says, we need to change the team. We need to make it look like this other side. I went to the site and I just looked at the team I purchased and I decided that I wanted to build the team. There are two different things and, you know, we start to think, ah, we don't have to purchase that thing and there's $65 again. Ah, they're more expensive than all that. So, what do we do? find you here, obviously, but develop us. And one of the things about coding, one of the interesting things about coding is I didn't go to any school to learn coding, not to brag, sorry. I didn't go to any school to learn coding or when people are like that. But I did go to Neo Rising if you're familiar with it, it is like that. I to learn, I would go into then how to code and then she just took me and I said, okay, there's a program that does coding and networking and some other programs together in one. Let me just pick that course. It's called BCS. So, I will start C++. And one of the, I learned something very, very important. You know, my lecturer would say, the lecturer who first had the school would say, he would ask us to teach us a series of code syntaxes and other languages. So, I'm going to give you guys the problem right now. It puts the problem on the mind says, someone should explain how to solve this problem in code. And the problem is you can't say English. There's no English in the class. You have to say programming words like, okay, we have to create the OPA. We have to do this year. We have to do this year. That's the way the class went on. And the problem is anytime you start coding and you just get to where you're stopped. The next thing you say is, so what do you do? Because this thing is going to make you stop. So, you only have to think of it plan B. So, you take that experience into your WordPress life. If what's the team, you're working with the team, requirements are changing. You need to meet up requirements that have changed and things like that. What happens? Do you just give up at that time and say that thing that you need to do exactly what you want and change your name? Or do you look for a way to walk around? So, we're working on the website and she showed me this new template or the template that she wants us to follow now. And then what we have to do is, what I have to do is I have to sit down and code most of the things that we need for the website. The donate button, we have to redesign everything because the things that come with the special, you know most of the things come with this special donate button, that it's highlighted and stays on one side, that kind of thing. So, we have to basically redo that. We work the entire CSH, HTML structure. We have to remove some JavaScript that we don't need there because we have to put this on the code and all that. And then my second experience was last year. I was working for, I wasn't my job. Somebody called me, partner with me, so I can work together on the website and things like that. So, when we got the requirement for the website, no clients can be really fun, right? Clients can be really fun. The given requirement is that as a designer, he starts to wonder where they got their idea from. I, I, like, this thing will not work. But then, you know, there are clients now, you don't want to have you and they don't ask that to charge your intelligence but maybe he comes to you. That's why you're a fan. So, he came called me and said, this is what you want. And I looked at him and I said, you know, first talk. And he wanted to be responsive to. That was what he probably wants. You know, what he wanted was, as this image is, right, let's assume this is the watch page, then this is the webpage. Let's assume this, everything like this are images and then the purple thing is the background, right? So, they say, this is a picture of a person. And we don't want, we don't want the words that are going to be put on those images to appear on the person's image. And then, mind that, the people that were left never had reason their hands doing a lot of things in the images. So, there's a, there's a huge amount of space to write anything. If you're familiar with HTML, we have to do a lot of patting left, patting right, a lot of float left, float right thing and all that. And then 24 years ago, it was good on desktop, it was great on desktop. And then we just opened it on mobile. And there was something else. And then we have to put that thing in and be like, what are we doing? What are we doing wrong? You know, I, I'm glad that I learned a bit of bootstrap and all those things while I was out at us. That is, I moved everything again. I started, I started fresh. I went on bootstrap, started doing all the bootstrap thing, go long, go long these, go long these, go long that. And then by then it was ready. It was quite responsive, not very much, but it was quite responsive on everything. I said, yeah, what's the problem? When I got three years old person, and it's like, I don't know, I don't think what best we were able to do more than one. And I said, let's just try. So we started again, we went back to WordPress. Then we started doing the entire thing again and then, in which I don't use it. At times you have to put up with your friends and let them know what is possible and what isn't. And explain to them what it was that went through it, to get this thing right. And for the, for the for us, they agreed to let the images stay at the bar and let the text come on top. What am I trying to say? I'm saying that if we are not going ahead to write code and to show them what it would look like if, if we are coded or if we are going their way, then probably we are not, we might not have been able to convince them that there might not be a way to go. That's all I'm saying. And things and plugins, people's limitations for our ability to code will also enhance us in figuring out what to do and how to do it and then giving the target jobs. How are you going to decide if we can get them to get to me? Basically what, what, what's saying is I really want to know what questions you don't get to me. This is up your hands. Okay. How many of us know P3 is a programming language? P3 is a program? Okay. So we don't know that. It's important that P, WordPress has, has a software development program, has a, has a program that helps people to be able to say, excuse me, can we call this software, a, a, a web app that allows you to build your stuff easily. But at the same time, if you understand the mechanics of PHP, if you understand PHP to a certain level, you'll be able to take your WordPress skills to a certain level, given the fact that there are times when we buy plugins, right? We buy plugins or we stop plugins and then we need our plugins to certain things or to get certain details or stuff like that. And bear in mind that, like I said, WordPress goes beyond creating websites. You can create apps, beautiful apps. And I think some of the things today is focused on WordPress and Internet of Things. Imagine, you know, who knows what Internet of Things is, if you know the page of your hand. Okay. Internet of Things, okay. Internet of Things is the capability to infuse technology to our daily lives. That's just me. But don't mind your work, everything up. What IoT means, infusing our homes, all these smart homes I get, that part of the Internet of Things cycle. Being able to use technology to control our home appliances, healthy appliances, to make coffee, to make your phone call, turn on the shower. We get our cards addressed in front of the house so we can jump in. Things like that. Those are what Internet of Things, you know, mean. And then think about it and then think about the power of WordPress. And say, WordPress can control your car. Is it not mind-blowing? For a web app, where everyone just needs that, should be an app where you can create free blogs and all that. And then you hear someone say, you can use WordPress to control your car, or make a coffee. And then you are like, okay, let me take a step back. Are you really sure this small app that we're using to create small blogs, that we're just using to make you access revenue, you can create something that would help you control your car. If you understand the power behind that, then you know the significance of WordPress. Everybody wants an easy life. Why do we create technology in the first place? To make things easy for other people. To make things easy for everyone else to to have easy access to things. They can get adults open and all of that. And, you know, technology is going to the stage where that thing is happening. I mean, we control our TV with our mobile phones. We do that. And we can control our TV with our mobile phones. Definitely, some of you, we need to pay someone to create a website like that and use to control every other thing in my house or in my office or in my child's room, you know. It's, maybe it doesn't, maybe they don't do it here, but you know in America, you have your child and then you don't want to stay with the child. You play camera and then you have the toys around the food and things like that. You just have things around that you want to be able to don't want to go into the room to do. You can do that from let's say your living room or from your room while you're sleeping. Maybe you hear the child cry, you wake up and then you have your laptop and then you just use your laptop to do certain things. Maybe they, maybe they just need to get to Brookings, you know, get back to sleep and things like that. You need to push a little bit more to, what do you call the I feel like the.. The, no the creep, yes. So, all you need to do is You just press one button and then the kid starts moving, just he shakes the baby a bit and then it's full as he begins. Just all I'm saying, basically I'm saying that if you can utilize the power that WordPress has, you'll be able to create all imaginable technology that goes way beyond websites and blogs. Okay, so what happens when your client asks you for teams and plugins, and you go to an interview and then you sit down and then the man is like, oh, so you use WordPress, yes, I do. Will you be surprised that most of your clients know about this business than you do? I've got to wait, have you got to tell me where your client is challenging you? He's looking at you and like, okay, so what do you want to do for us? Okay, I'll purchase the ghosting and the main aim and the SSL site. Just as you've been down mentioned, SSL site, they are creating an e-commerce site and they're like, so how will you secure my site? And then you go security, what kind of security? You know, they're trying to push you to see how much you know about what you're trying to say. So, and they say, okay, and you know what? We don't want to use any of the things that are online. We want you to design our own game for us. Will you not fall down with the job? And let's assume, let's assume it's like an RV or yellow food, so, one of those big brands. But let's say Apple. Apple calls you and then you cannot say you want to fall down the job because you can't create HTML, same page that you're facing with your WordPress. Do you not want money that you've lost? Just want it to be that you've lost a lot of money. Am I right? But if you had like, HTML skills, CSS skills, you know, you can build up from HTML, CSS, they can move on to JavaScript and then go into all these further scripts into LQ in creating more unique websites. I was reading online one time when somebody said something about Bootstrap, he said that everybody's using Bootstrap now and all the websites look alike. And it's true. I go to Thailand and I go to WordPress. I go to Thailand and I go to WordPress again. I go to, it's so, it's so glaring that everyone is using WordPress or even if I'm not using WordPress, I know it's Bootstrap, I know, I try to know what is behind me, the technology. And I can see it, I didn't even have to check the software. That's how fun it is, that's how they resemble. Like, I don't have to go right click and check the software. I just look at the, this is the WordPress site, obviously. So we need to be able to create and extend ourselves from others. And we won't be able to do that if we keep installing things and keep downloading plugins and everything. And then I'm sure you'll be able to hear that. So much plugins are telling me because I really slow. And then they also make society vulnerable. There are as much as possible, install, you're free to decide how many plugins you want or make sure it doesn't exceed 10 to 15. When it's more than that, you have a problem. You need to be for plugins that can do multiple things, not just one thing. You're not solving one plugin for one thing. You have to do for plugins that can do a couple of things in addition and also try as much as possible to, if you have a page, please write your own plugin or write a system that can allow you to do the actually the same thing that the plugin will help you do. Do you understand? WordPress plugins don't do everything. We all know that, we really talk about, we already talk about that. And then why should we learn to go? I thought, why? I'm gonna look at this. I took this from Smashingmax.com by Jonathan Bowd said, by the way, installing WordPress, installing WordPress, really a few tutorials and customizing a few things does not make someone hit up people about it. They may call themselves an expert and that's fine. They may know more than average person, but they talk about most of the basics and push it down the very boundaries of what is possible. They innovate, contribute to the community and demonstrate the mastery in the work that they do. And that is the only reason why I'm talking about this, right? I want us to be able to push the boundary of what WordPress can do, create more forward press and for ourselves and for the community as well. And like he says, it's like, you know the quote that says the world is a canvas and the world is a canvas, I'm an artist and the world is your canvas. That's the same thing. That's like what this person is trying to say. WordPress makes you an artist and WordPress gives you a canvas to build on. And the only thing stopping you from creating mind-blowing technology is your imagination and your ability to code. Why stop at being the way WordPress developed by your speed website when you can be world-class? I picked world-class. I made it world because I took it from my mentor who told me what was wrong. If you are familiar with the coding with the Google community as well. Then also, the person who writes is a fantastic coder. Anyway, my point is, he always pushes people to be world-class. It says that when I was going to ask him to mentor me, I said, sir, I would want you to mentor me on everything and he said, the first question he asked me was, I'd be better than world-class. And it's not about being just world-class. It's about the readiness and the dimension and focus of being world-class. And what he means to be world-class is to be ready to face challenges or imagine which challenges. And I won't stand here and tell you coding is easy because I'm struggling with it myself. I will tell you that it's possible to learn it if you invest the time in it. And also, it should also open doors for you. One of the things it does is, you make more money, basically. The reason why you make more money is, people buy things for $65, imagine. And these people brag about the million downloads that has $65 times in million. Imagine if it was your team that was called on Team Forest and was bought 1,000 times, 2,000 times, 5,000 times. I remember that, these people subscribed to it. Some of them were for free renewal, but some of them will tell you, maybe renewal for a year. That means in the year, there will be returning customers because that team is so good that people return to pay another $65 a year. So if you can, if out of 1 million downloads, 500, half of that will come next year. Meanwhile, other people will still buy in the beginning that same year. But you have a fixed amount of people that will always come back to your side. There will always come back to buy a thing. At least 500 of them are coming to buy your thing for a year. The amount of WordPress development is high. Appliances are going to pay more for developers who are the best in the field. And the only thing that comes to make you stand out from every other developer is your imagination and your music score. That's why I think you have to think whatever you want to be like, like you have to learn how to stand out. But in the end, it's about, if you don't know how to code, how would you modify all your templates, your plugins, your themes to do what you want, make it bend to your rules and things like that. Some developers or WordPress people don't think that you should look for a theme and they try to bend it to your rules. They're right, they should look for, they should look for things that can do what you can do. But the truth is, even though you find those kind of themes, in the end, there are still limitations that you have to fix for yourself and you have to know how to score. And you don't want to also say thank everything like that because sometimes it doesn't help you say, I'm working on it on the website right now and I have a few videos and I have to call someone and he said, can you help me out? And I'm trying to, I'm not really like it brings up because I really can't figure out what's wrong with them. I'm looking at the code and it's looking like nothing is wrong. But you have to have the output that this is actually one of the things about coding. It drives you crazy sometimes, but if you keep pushing at it and you try fresh ice, take a break, take a cup of coffee, sleep, wake up then look at coding again, you'll be fine, just me, you'll be fine. You might take weeks to figure out but it's difficult in the end, you still figure it out because I don't know what I'm saying. So I have to call someone and I'm like, do you want to know if I can wake you up? And she goes real, yeah, right in front of them like crazy. She doesn't even use WordPress, that's why I actually called her. You know, she, I called her and I'm like, help me, help me do this. And then she fixed the first problem in like two hours. I'm like, what happened? I'm looking at like three days I couldn't get it on the program. So she explained to me that I missed a few things I didn't see when I was reading the code. And then she's looking at something else now and you know how much you're charging me for an hour? 5,000 error per hour. She said, I said, that's so much, you know, but back in the day, that's not that bad. It's 2,000 error per hour. And she has spent, I gave it to her on Tuesdays. She probably spends maybe two hours a day every day just trying to figure it out and then everything. So I'm sure right now my view comes now being maybe 15k or something because of the amount of hours that she has spent on it just to fix it. I think it's a mini problem. The problem I'm maybe doing is not responsive. And then the thing that I'm using it as well, the way it displays people's profile is not responsive. Or it's not responsive. It's in the table. And tables are not very responsive when it comes to mobile. So we're changing entirely to a Facebook-like design. The way Facebook displays your profile on mobile where you have a birthday online, you have an address online, so it's a way to be able to have a birthday name or a reason why it comes this way this time. So basically that's what she's trying to work on. So you can imagine the power of coding. She didn't have to do all the pressure. In all she had to do was to log into my sleep manual and all that. To my team editor and just change a few things and voila. Get the best clients. If you have dynamic-looking websites, yeah, it will still be Menubar and Slider. But then your Menubar has a bit of design. It's not the regular-faded-in or transparent slider. You have a logo that doesn't stay in the header, for example, something that drops way below the overlaps on both the header and on the slider as well. Or you have an header that is not just a straight block of white, let's say it stops halfway and then it calls towards the top. There are things that if you know CSS and JS, there are general scripts you'll be able to do by yourself and make it look more nice and make people see your websites and say, oh, okay, this one's looking way, way different than the other one. Are you gonna actually do this one too? Yeah, I guess I know one. And they're looking at different things that close their mind anyway. They're trying to give you that job because they believe that you do something that is different from every other thing that you've done as well as make their own brand as well stand out. And what does any other brand want to make their own brand stand out from others? One of the ways that you know a brand that stands out is you have to try it from their website. You go to somebody's website and the website turns you off. You're not likely to buy from that person or do business with that person. Am I right? And you know some of the time when you go to, when you try to give a source for a game, and they don't go to the person's demo theme and they're like, they want to use this thing because they want to use the theme because the way they're going to choose you. And then you have the most influence. Being at the top means you have your voice and responsibility and capability to shape the future of WordPress and go that's the ecosystem that is built around it. Basically what this means is, if you go at what you do, people will know you, people will identify you and it will enable you teach others, influence others, help others see the integrity of using the platform that you use as well as enable you to return to the community or give back to the community. And also, because WordPress is such a large community, we can see everybody here today who are like brothers and sisters because of WordPress. Because here we're able to share ideas and talk about our problems as developers and they find answers to those things. And because you're good at what you do, more people tend to come to you and it gives you the gift of mentor, you know, that's... And then beyond WordPress is the data of code. I mean, are we following, like, I mean, somebody has to write in their system out of code. So if you're standing away from code because somebody else has made it easier for you, why not just join the community and develop more so that WordPress can be better for others who can code at all or younger people so that they can have a platform to start learning how to do these things. And then one of the languages obviously that WordPress is, is PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS. These are not languages, they are mock-up text languages. These are proper languages, PHP and JS. If you know all this, then you should be on your way to being a top developer in WordPress. And I'm not just talking about creating websites but I'm talking about teams and things like that as well. And then now make WordPress better. What this means basically is just, as long as you can code, you can commit to WordPress. There's make.wordpress.com, yeah. Make.wordpress.com is a team of people from all around the world committing to do project WordPress. We get from this every time and you don't know where those works are coming from. They're all coming from make.wordpress.com. People spend their time and energy sitting down to think about the problems that we could face as developers and try and fix those problems. If you commit to that, then you can help to that commit as well. We should be good to that. So this is the need to learn more about being a top developer in top WordPress for all of us. My time is up so I probably could get that later. Arigato gozaimasu. That's Japanese for thank you very much.