 Good afternoon All right, we're all switched in not kidding when we're talking about lightning talks even the switch out feels like a pit stop All right, so I'm gonna talk about full site editing FSE is what we in We've been calling it lately and FTW for the win. I think Full site editing is pretty awesome and Yeah, my name is Evan Mullins like I said I work with Bluehost to we're one of the sponsors So if you have questions or anything afterwards come find me at the booth and I'll be happy to to chat through anything with you And we'll be talking about yeah Full site editing for the win but for personal sites And I believe Well personal branding and everything can can go a lot what better once we have now that we have full site editing it makes Editing our sites a lot easier and a lot faster and even more secure So we'll talk about why you should have a personal site And a few things to consider and some helpful blocks for for some inspiration It's a little bit meta, but all these slides and the content and examples are on my own personal site Pushing you guys to my personal site and to talk about personal sites but you can go to Evan Mullins calm and there's a There should be some big buttons right up front that will take you to the slide notes and some examples as well so you can follow along Okay, so the case for personal website I believe that everyone should have their own Personal website whether you own a company and do WordPress for a living or whether you're right content or Or whatever. I think everyone could benefit from having their own personal website So quick show of hands. Do you guys anyone in here have their own personal website already? It's pretty good showing. I'd say roughly half Hands up again. Is your site a WordPress site as a personal site? I would hope most most of them are is it is it updated? Is it the latest version of WordPress 602 which came out a week? Maybe ago? Maybe two I can't remember So yeah, it's it's a lot of work once you have a site to then keep it updated keep it current Sometimes it can get overwhelming there's a The Cobbers children have no shoes saying where Like people that make websites for a living a lot of times don't have their own website or don't keep it updated Because it's just one of those things it gets it gets left behind Let's see All right, so there are many many reasons and uses for a personal website I think things like personal branding for owning your own online identity You don't want some random Facebook post from seven years ago to be your online identity or if you ever get mentioned somewhere For something that you may have done or may not have done If you have your own website, that's usually going to be the thing that comes up whenever anyone looks for you And it's another a nice place where you can share your own thoughts Blogging I think is still alive and well even if there is Twitter and Facebook and Instagram out there too like we we have Almost I want to say duty to like own our own content and put our own content on our own platform Rather than just giving it all to the social media Which brings me to yeah social media links We all probably have some form of some form of social media that it's nice on your own site You can link people to that so that they can get connected with you You can put your resume on your own personal website It can actually lead to getting a job in making websites You can put a portfolio and testimonials all kinds of things you can put on your own website and down at the bottom All the cool kids are doing it so you might as well, right? Yeah, there's a whole spectrum of use cases for your own personal site And that's because we're all unique individuals and we can all have our own unique individual website too So things to consider when you're making or updating your personal site try to think about your purpose of your site The why you want to have a site do you want to have it primarily to share links or to write posts or even poetry? You can write recipes. I mean you can make it your own But make it something that you are interested in you can put code or images on there You can even sell things on your own personal site if that's what That's if that's what drives you Another thing to consider is your domain name. Where is it going to live? A lot of people tend to use their name You know my my site is Evan Mullins.com. You can have I think the last speaker was his name.com as well That's a pretty standard move if your name is not already taken But in the world there's probably another person that's named exactly like you You can get creative. You can use different top-level domains. You can dot blog dot me You can even get really creative with like a vanity URL if your name lines up with it somehow I've seen lots of interesting ways to do it And then also yeah remove the barriers to keeping it current go ahead and enable auto updates on your site Let WordPress keep itself updated so it's secure and and you get the latest the latest thing So yeah, find your focus and start there you can start really small and iterate and build upon it All right, so now we're going to jump into some helpful block examples. I've found that Taylor kind of tailoring Blocks to like a personal website And I think using blocks really gets us to a more a more aesthetic site A lot faster than even just a couple years ago Okay, so This is a list but we're going to go through some of these in their own unique slides There's plenty of blocks out there to go And even patterns you can just insert into your site on your personal site to make it really up and running pretty quickly You can use some custom blocks that fill the gaps between the core blocks and some plugins or you can develop your own plug-in Let's see so and I've kind of just created an example of what I would put on my site And I've actually got a lot of these on my site now just for the example value, but I thought like a Websites a personal website is just like a your own business card really So you could just have a business card on your site that basically is your name your title a quick little bio You can even have a picture of yourself You can have social media links on there There are lots of ways to to go about it So that's a block pattern you can use We've got even just a core cover block you can throw that on your site You can add a headline a button or just some text. It's a nice way to welcome someone to your site It's pretty aesthetic You can find a much better photo. I'm sure to put on your own website You don't yeah, you can you can make it your own I Don't know if anyone's heard of link trees if you're on social media a lot of people You can't put links on posts So they link they put the little like Lincoln bio And they link off to a website called link tree that is just a collection of links You could make that for yourself on your own website rather than again giving your content to some other third-party site So this one is a block pattern that I've actually submitted to the pattern directory You can just I think search link tree And you can just grab this and drop it on your own site. You would be done in a matter of minutes I guess you would you would want to add the actual URLs For your links, but yeah, this one would be a really quick one to jump on to I think they went backwards All right Yeah, another core block you could use is the social link block This one's pretty easy to just yeah, add your social links or other links into And they link off to other sites And then when you link off to another site a lot of the the Icons and images are built in to the to the core block But if you have a different site with a different image you want to include in there you can add like a custom class and a little custom CSS style and I like to use like a favicon icon for that site or something But they're really easy to throw these on to a site and especially I think it makes it lends itself well to a personal website Mentioned earlier resumes. I made a quick little Job block if you wanted to create a resume and put all your job history on your site In case you're looking for a new a new position. You can list out your previous previous positions And this is if it's not a custom full-on custom block It's just a variation of a columns block. So it's just written with a little bit of JavaScript You can create one of these and it comes up as its own block in the Inserter, but it just drops in a column block. That's kind of pre-populated with some some preset values And you just fill in the blanks basically And then we have a skills block I know I think jetpack has like a ratings block that gives you like five stars You can just click on this one kind of more tailored to a resume if you want to list out like your your skills And how much like rate yourself? How how well you are with those? This is just a quick little block that I put together just to kind of Get the idea get Get some ideas for for like what blocks you might want to use on our resume on your site. I Keep pushing the wrong button going backwards All right Another one that may be helpful for you if you enjoy speaking or teaching at conferences or meet-ups You can list them on your site as little talks or meet-ups. I made this little custom block just Experimenting with blocks, but you can add a label and a title and links to the slides and video for your talk And you can upload an image to place on your little The image circle there Because earlier I was just on my own site I would list out where I was going to be speaking and It got complicated trying to like always keep the formatting consistent and ended up just wanting to create a simple interface to do it all But something like that could be easy to use on on any site And also, I hope you guys can look around and get inspired at other what other people are doing I've went around looking through I don't know if you can read those but these slides are online Just kind of linked a whole bunch of personal sites of people in the WordPress space People that are contributors people that have plugins things like that Voices in the community So it's a good idea to go in and look at what people are doing you can get other ideas and get inspired by what they are doing And I think that's all I've got right now if you have any questions, I'm happy to talk afterwards or Yeah, come find me if you want to talk and again all the slides are online you can get to them Evan Mullins calm I have a built a whole block theme that kind of puts all this together And it's on GitHub and there's a link on my site as well, so you can find it all Yeah, thank you