 Okay, so that would be a lot more impressive if the last guy handed me this way interesting I reckon he was gonna be really dull and have to wake his up, but he wasn't he was really interesting However, what has Jeremy got to do with wordpress? So most drums have a skin and a shell and that skin is attached to the shell with like nails or something and most drums sound like And that's the only thing you can do and if you want to get a big funky beat you have to get a load of drums together So that's why you see a drum kit on stage Because you needed to have loads of drums So at some point in the Malinese Empire a good 600 years ago a Blacksmith saw this problem and said to the drummer. I know how to keep your drum really tight We're going to weld up some metal rings and put them around and then we'll attach the metal rings to the drum And that'll sound great and it kind of worked But then a weaver came along and said I know how you consume those drums So that one over there Sounds bassy and this one over here Sounds nice and high So the weaver added in his nice what we call the Mali weave and that's allows us to tune the jambon What has this got to do with wordpress? There was a creative. He wasn't caring about joinery or carpentry. He just wanted to make some music So he got a bit of wood and they hauled it out He stuck a skin on it and it allowed him to make some music Then somebody else in his community with completely different skillset the blacksmith he came along and he added his Technology to what the musician had already done and things got a little bit better And then somebody else in the community with a completely different skillset came along and added in his weave And all of a sudden the music got really good And that's what this has to do with wordpress Wordpress is not a log platform. It is not a piece of software Wordpress is a community made up of all of us. We all every day make it a wee bit better Even if it's only by visiting a WordPress website or logging into a WordPress website We're all part of the community and the bigger and the stronger that community gets the more resources go into that community To make it bigger and stronger to the point now where wordpress as we've seen time and time again today Dominates the internet as the platform of choice for people to use Well, I want to talk about today. Can everybody hear me? Okay? Yeah, he doesn't stand in front of the mic What I want to talk about today is not so much the Technical solutions and the bits of code and the short cones that we use and I use an awful lot of my day-to-day work And I'll show you the output of some of that What I want to talk about is how we as members of this community can use our skills to create really Functional websites websites that really dramatically impact our clients Most of my work is to do with small to medium businesses small businesses You know if we need a website, but that's about it We don't really even think too much about what they're going to use that website for And I come along and I sort of listen to them and talk to them about remark and plans And realize that the best thing for these people to do is to tell their brand story as strongly as possible Using their website and websites. That's what they're for, but it's not always that easy to do that For example a builder. He's out on site. He's just made a beautiful house He wants to whip out this phone and say kitchen picture sitting in picture Really interesting feature in the ceiling picture and upload that to his blog He doesn't want to have to log into the website and then go navigate page and hit add you and add a title Look for the feature village. He's a builder. He's building houses Because he doesn't want to do that stuff in the interface doesn't mean he shouldn't have a functional website That's telling his brand story. It's just my fault I haven't been able to give him a really good interface that fits in with his work and day If I give him a simple form that sits in his mobile phone, but on site He can fill in and say Bobby's house picture one picture three picture three And then that goes off and fills a template like they'll show this Then we've got someone that's really powerful. My builders run around place He's building houses. He's building the house a week and after the end of the year He's got 52 case studies on his website compared to the other guy who has to log in and click page add you Never does it and therefore has no case studies on his website So if we think a little bit more outside the box about what we can do at WordPress We acknowledge the fact that it's hugely powerful and virtually every business problem has already been solved on the platform And we think outside of the box and we listen to our clients problems We can start doing really powerful things very easily So I'm gonna run you through some real-world examples of where I've taken the stuff bill showing me about how you build up a theme Talked about custom fields and how you can add in certain extraneous pieces of information to the site I'm going to show you how we can then build upon that to deliver business solutions So the first one you're saying at the minute It's a slide show of images from Dunnegull and that's a little personal passion project of mine. I'm an amateur photographer I'm not a very good one, but I like my work So I have all these cool images of Dunnegull and I needed to organize them in a way that I could find my way around them So using the tools I've now learned as you'll do very quickly build this up for myself A little themed up website where I see the site. I was here and there's the photos for it And then also just with me up on the photos. I was getting this cool website I was bringing it all together and then one day sit and have a cup of tea was doing a bit of cooking in the kitchen My workstations in the kitchen too. I thought I'd love to see all of the slides about all of the main beautiful images My favorite images in a slideshow So using the tool I'm using that was really easy click click fish bash I had a little short code for grabbed all of my featured images and bashing into this slideshow And that's what you guys are watching now. Okay, so we'll get away from Dunnegull. So the dive in at the deep end Here is my flagship site This was a client I work with who provide home care solutions So they're sending the people out into your Grammy and grand this home to provide all sorts of domiciliary care They have a huge remote distributed workforce So the guys are in their cars calling around all sorts of different regional areas Somebody phones into the main office and says don't go and see Miss Sally because she's sick. She's in hospital All of a sudden I cascade of phone calls to try and reach the people who are going to see Miss Sally to get down I heard When I come into the company, that was their main problem was communications. There was a couple of mobile phones They were always backed up people were trying to text text for getting lost, etc So the first thing I was able to do was go and ask WordPress community How'd you get people to talk to each other in a nice private format? I started off with the P2 thing hands up If you ever use the P2 thing Okay, yeah, so P2 theme was an internal to automatic the company behind WordPress built to facilitate team chats So we used P2 and it worked for a while and I mean something more. So we went into using body press hands up use body press Okay, cool. So a lot more hands out time round. So body press is like a private Facebook. It's a wordpress bill Facebook engine provides a way that you log into the site You can put up a quick status update and you can log back out and then everybody can see that status update Start commenting on it and adding pictures We know what that's like for Facebook for a business with remote workers people out in the face of the not the office It was transformational all of a sudden people could get in contact with each other Communications weren't just one way anymore. They were very symmetric one person said something Everybody who needed to was able to hear it, etc So that employer of a business owner I was working with got really excited By what WordPress could do for his business and he still to this day tortures me with can it do Now that's fantastic because as a web developer that guy is recurring revenue for me and in any business recurring revenue is the real Manor for web developers. We typically build the site and we add you know We ask for whatever it is. We're going to ask for that site We go away. We build it for everybody takes me a big check Yeah, and then we're back into the boom boss cycle trying to find fresh work trying to find another website Go and build if you've got a client who's coming to you every month Something else and you know that clients coming to you for that Well, then you've got buying low recurring revenue and for me as a small business owner as a dad It's been completely transformational to know but every month There's a wee bit coming in because I've got these guys addicted to redeveloping their websites on a continual basis So this is like I say this is the real combination. This is the biggest most complex thing I've built to me. Okay, and this is an HR platform. So for this company Staff can log in they can send messages all around each other They can file mileage expense reports. They can send direct reports each other They can report on each other and then completely anonymous whistle-blowing fashion Supervisors can go out into the field and bring up a form that runs them afraid exactly how they do a nice compliant supervision It fires that back out to the right guys management does all these wonderful great things But it's been built up a piece at a time. So HR records Have you heard of that you that was a module that we built one month spot checks add annual document check That's you know checking drivers licenses are up to date check of insurance, etc That was another month road is mileage is etc Each one of these modules was not built because of a huge spec the client to give me the client could never have ridden This spec because they didn't know all the problems they had until they really got down to the minute really But working with the client asking their problems finding the pain points and then knowing that I as a non-php Gifted developer could lean on the tools and lean on the WordPress community to deliver any solution I was confident not to say yeah, we can fix it. We can fix that. Don't worry In Northern Ireland, we've got a bit of a problem with Two sites that community you might have heard and that poses a particular problem for a lot of businesses here They want to recruit people like any business. We go to WordPress land. We say I need a job application Plug-in, I need a recruitment plug-in and there's a whole plethora But not one of them is built to ask are you a Protestant or a Catholic and in Northern Ireland We have to ask that question to have a nice equitable equal rights and equal opportunities based recruitment process So this time said if you build your recruitment form up to your staff here all day We just cut and paste the photocopy application forms. I said, yes, sure. I've got a problem Build them solution hand them solution. He said it doesn't find out the Catholic or Protestant day. There's no yes So that was me going off a wet charts already for this and even got the solution And I was one of the number of things that I'd let me to find to figure out how I could build a custom framework of forms And easy ways for customers to add data and then pull that data out in the interest of money So we created a normal Irish compliant recruitment process and it's become really happy And it becomes something that again is more and more recurring revenue for me So first of all they wanted application forms to go the essential data then they wanted an automatic reference check So it's only built in the form the platform goes off and ask the referees for the reference They're not having to get somebody to stop me off Again over here venus is complete over this paper last Christmas service users service user records view current map the map We built them a database so that they could have centralized place for all of the information on all of their service users All of their needs much more importantly all of the interactions their staff have with those service users So at any point in time we can go back to say what happened suddenly put a sticky plaster on wrong It was Sally it was John it was Jimmy and it was a such-and-such plaster and actually they filled it before me Say they put the plaster on correctly. Are you sure you've got your information line? So this sort of a platform like say this is really complex This is a way far down the line But this is what you can get to when you've got knowledge like bills and you understand how WordPress does things And I simply really make things and then you're able to use other plugins like advanced custom fields Or you want to talk about toolset to them really big things like so Custom fields anybody who's in the last talk saw custom fields It's part of the WordPress editor where we can add in specific meta data or bits of information that are pertinent to the page But they shouldn't know in the main content block and then we can use PHP or the things to call that meta data in certain places Now the WordPress editor is awesome. It's about to get an awful lot better with the Gutenberg development However, I still find users struggling with it. They just see an interface and that is enough for them to go Oh, I need to be a techie to do this So one of the things I like about platform I use toolset is it makes creating front-end and content entry forms extremely simple What do I mean? I mean this at a client who sells cars In the UK, there's a whole load of indigenous sort of car sales websites that people go to This guy was pet in the fortune And I also know if he did his own thing and advertised through Facebook, could he see it when he moved off the big guys? So he's a car mechanic, so he's technical fella, but he didn't want to go near the interface So we built with this ad new car, and this is a form where he can enter in all the details needed to create This so I'm not a designer either and this site didn't get a graphic design treatment So don't judge it on the design But more of a fact that my mechanic the car sales guy has a wee app on his phone But when he gets the car into the yard, he takes the pictures on his phone He adds in the details. He hits upload and it's on his website. It's a way off the Facebook He doesn't have to think about anything. He's not logging into WordPress. He's not editing a website He's not editing pages. He's just filming his way for me to cover up that and then he's getting on with his work And leading back to my example about the builder in small to medium business needs to be doing content marketing They need to be telling their customers what they do for a living They need to be showing them examples and like I said as WordPress developers the easier we can make that the more business They will do the better the community becomes So again, we can see that this format to create at the bagel sales page. It also created the listing Because of the wonders of PHP templates. We can now start to pull this thing Another thing I like to all set is it gives you the option you can if you're gifted enough and you can lean into the tentative files It'll give you all the functions in the world. Don't call all your custom stuff If you're not that way inclined to be gives you a really nice friendly graphic user interface Where you can say over in this piece of the page. I want this thing to happen So that's talking about really complex examples where we build up an HR platform for a Really busy business with an awful lot of stuff there. You can see their their entire Staff contact out of this or you can't see it because of privacy reasons. I'll put away and pass the filter in there But on a more simple note thinking about what WordPress does out of the box before we start to customize it I see an awful lot of sites where I'm called in to go and fix problems and I go in There's a plug-in stack of like a hundred plugins and that's not a bad thing as long as they're all doing something important When I get in there, I often find that there's 20 plugins all doing something But it's a core WordPress feature and users don't get this but plug-in offers and theme offers, etc Make money by selling plugins. It doesn't matter if it's needed or superfluous They're gonna make money by selling because you'll find it easier in the plugins Then you might find it by looking in the codex or wherever So thinking about what WordPress does out of the box Two years ago, I decided to completely turn my business around from being a service business to a product-based business So instead of me being a web developer and I worked with you, we did all these cool things I just wanted to sell you a website. What website do you need? And I wanted to get a really clean streamlined way to figure out and show the client what sort of website it was They needed because it had a problem managing expectations with clients I wanted them to know exactly what they were buying from me and more importantly, exactly what they were not buying from me So thinking about how WordPress solves business problems and said Dave, is there not a way you can do this for yourself, your web developer? Will the platform not sell your web products? So, yeah, of course it will So I rebuilt my website. Does anybody recognize the theme? Hands up if you recognize the theme I'm feeling really good because you see the amount of websites I have built using 2017 almost feel ashamed, but it's such a good thing I don't So I took the this is the stock WordPress theme and this is 2017 whenever you install WordPress for the first time This is the theme that's included One of my e-fossils with business is trying to do the most with the least that you have And obviously when it comes to my own business, I want to spend as little so there's no point going looking for a really fancy theme Or writing a really fancy thing if the one in the box is perfect and it is for my needs So then thinking about how I can use WordPress and the tools in the box etc. and plug is to solve my problems I realized that WooCommerce was the way for me to go So let me see if I can get past the portfolio and here we have WooCommerce picking up so Ignore the prices there while I value my work app But you can see here for any of us if you're a web developer, hands up if you're a web developer, that's your business All right. Okay. Great stuff. So within that you can see for me. I come from a marketing sales background That's what I did all my days until I got fed up Explained into marketing people that it wasn't difficult. You just leave over. Let me fix it So that's how I ended up getting into development But I thought that when it came to my business, I'd be amazing at selling it quick Everybody else's business it turns out when it was my business I was terrible at selling it because all of a sudden I couldn't sell you a bullshit anymore It was me and I don't like to work with bullshit Sorry, so that's where I really started to fall down and when I was having sales conversations with clients I was over explaining massively because I'm really passionate about the project passionate about technology and talking to the client I got really fired up about what I was gonna be able to do for them the clients just noise noise noise after a point You know, so using we commerce I was able to get all my products onto my website set a price point That's nice and caring apparent for everybody But it also did something really cool I'm talking to a business and they are a hotel a restaurant a joiners Or there's something trying to put on a word camp on my website. I already have that solution But I'm not looking you trying to figure out what you're worth what my website's gonna be worth what plugins I'm gonna have to get into what all that costs. I really have to figure it out So I figured out what the main genres of website are and this applies to any service-based business Yes, we provide our services in a custom way, but they tend to fall in the same categories So for this I was able to show my clients here. We have the webpage Here's all the things that are in this particular box and what you're getting from price I might say what you're not getting is very clear Whenever I'm going to meet the client I hit control pay in the page of my website And they are gonna sales collateral in the hand to show them and give them a nice collateral handoff Whenever it comes time for that order to get closed I'm not having to remember to send them a proposal and then a quote I'm going to chase that quote up and then don't ask their accounts details their accounts for the details I say brilliant. You want to go for that? Here's the link fill in the form the customer goes Yes, I need that. I don't need that that reinforces for them exactly what they're buying They then come through the normal WooCommerce checkout and I get all the information I need to run my accounting I get their company details. I get their contact details and most importantly, I get their billing details Something that's really changed my business here And I didn't think about it until I was literally with the checkout page together was putting in a credit card option So sometimes I have to wait seven days for people to pay me But I love it when I get a notification going. I have said your proposal Already it's amazing. It's brilliant, but I didn't think about that until I put this together So for my business, it's been complete the sales process has been completely transformed Just by lifting a simple to WooCommerce out of the WordPress box and can figure it for my business when I was at sales meeting I know exactly what I'm gonna say and exactly what I'm gonna hand them It's all there and I'm excited what the price is and I know that the after sales the bit I'm pretty terrible at is also all automatically taking care of for me So the customer gets nice branded invoices proposals and a big worksheet of what's happening all nice and all So just got my 10 minute warning I just want to sort of recap there that What you can use various different plugins like jetpack like WooCommerce like toolset types, etc To do is lift your current skill set Where way way above where you may think it is currently two three years ago I would never ever thought I could do these sorts of things The only reason why I think I could do these things now is experience of the WordPress community I know if I get stuck I will find an answer to my question I can walk into any plant meeting and look my plant in the eyes and we will do that And I've yet to let them down I've had to go back to my few times to say it's gonna take longer and make us a little bit more But I've always been in to deliver it for me. That's very powerful thing very powerful so This is supposed to be a bit more of a workshop like said just got my 10 minute warning When you use this like questions time Can anybody throw me a business problem that they've seen recently cured recently or can think of That they haven't been able to cure that I might be able to cure using my knowledge of plugins And then go out for a walk and get what I can do So whenever you're selling let's say what's the mean problem you have when you're selling? Are you really good at staying on top of the client like getting back the information? Are you really good at asking them consistently right questions to specify the project? Or is anybody using a third party to handle invoicing or do you do your invoicing manually? Hands up if you do your invoicing manually Okay, so up until a couple years ago, I did my invoicing in the focus shop It was really beautiful It was awesome looking at boys. I mean you saw my invoice. You're like, oh, he's the money But it was a bit of the arse obviously. It was one of those things whenever it's really busy I need to get an invoice like a door. And yes, I need the bloody money But because it was a chore, I got put off and put off and put off So I then find that called wave apps. Oh, yeah way of awesome tool brilliant tool We have asked us like yeah, tell me your customer tell me your products I'll deal with it for you and it does all nice brand appear to work for you And that did me for a while and then using WooCommerce and customizing the WooCommerce emails I'm not doing all that sort of stuff myself, but it's all branded. It's all happening automatically. It's all nice Something else I'm about to start looking into is subscriptions. So I talked about recurring revenue Those of you who says your business is web development Put your hands up please again and put your hand down if you're not getting recurring revenue other than mostly Okay, so a few hands dropped there So the recurrent revenue like say is something that I find was really transformative for me First of all when I understood what hosting was I'm running for old rope And I was able then to first of all set up a nice recurrent revenue for my business I'm getting a really decent WordPress hosting environment for my customers which we weren't getting anywhere else But then on top of that like I say being able to get your clients into the idea that no matter what problem They give you you'll be able to fix it and integrating yourself in their business problem solving toolkit So now I've got a business problem now that somebody said for two hours cut and based on something or whatever the job that they know The team aren't doing right. We're not doing it consistently or something. That's the time where you can step in and say Consistently I'm getting the right instructions at the right time. I get the right information to the right people at the right time Is that happening right away for your business? And I assure you most of the business people you talk to will say no The wrong information gets to the right people the wrong information gets to the video at the right time But vice versa it really happens in the right way So that's where you use the solutions all over the business problems already set in don't talk about till set Don't talk about advanced custom things talk about what problems have you got what pain? Have you got a right now? What can I do to automate that to fix it for you to get it consistently done every time the right way? So I'm doing for time down So you mentioned sorry You mentioned that your car Site was firing like updating the form updates the website obviously and it also updated the Facebook once your weapon of choice for Social for like social automated updating. Okay, so this is something that might split the room. I love Jeff Jeff like out of the box does so many things for me that so many other things want to do for me and Maybe sometimes they do it better and our times they don't For me I install jetpack or course along the board fence as a security with measure I installed jetpack as an analytics measure. So I'm qualified in Google analytics. I love Google. I used to use it Flavio, I've got So tired and fed up installing Google analytics Writing analytics reports the hand of somebody who couldn't afford to do anything with it This analytics report says your landing page is horrible and needs rebuilt I spent five grand on that page when you need a new one What was the point of me right now which report the first place do you know me so most users have heard of Google analytics But they're never going to use it properly unless they are legacy becoming with a decent development team a decent content marketing team and they're going to be able to make changes that you're suggesting with analytics So nine times out of ten install jetpack for the analytics package for its Brute force protection It's got some other things in there kind of work sometimes You can work other times testimonials feature can be really helpful projects can be really helpful the content delivery thing Always lets me down. I don't know if that's just me And that's just me maybe and so jetpack for me is a really good plug-in to stick in So it sorts out a lot of those sort of issues Is anybody else any other questions? Whenever you are Discussing the features that we've said we have with your plan You're sort of saying there that you have a form or a way that they can select what they want to talk to don't work It's not done through the commerce because that's what I find difficult to say. I want that no one thought but then Maybe you have a price for that and say that afterwards If they could just say yeah So, so this is where we commerce is really helpful for me So I've got a whole load of template of products for advanced site hotels and etc However, a lot of the time it's a custom job the client wants that but maybe another premium plug-in So how do I stick that extra hundred fifty clothing? It's easy. I call me a product I call it Billy jobs product and update the price I add in the option and a drop down for it So then let's say it's it's one of those options declines But mental about you know, it's superfluous You know, it's loads of work and it's expensive and it's expensive plan You can put a drop down in flat just to reinforce it for the client You know, this isn't necessary But if you want to drop this boys, I'm going go ahead go ahead make my day You know what I mean? So that's the way you can choose back But there's a conversation before I put them on the website and that's where I do the sort of needs analysis And there is a really cool tool called the post-it note and I love the post-it note for getting a really good step on session What features do you want your website? Do you want to be able to log in post it? Do you want to be able to see a blog post it? What else? Well, we want to be in secret fitness charts We want to be able to see how much stuff the ball of us and if you use post-it notes for that It's really handy. So I said, oh give me that and then I store quite features from the wall And of course you're going to die going 200 foot 1,000 foot Where's the rest of the post-it notes here? There you go, we're not going on a post-it note today And then that again allows me to go and say okay, that's an event site But it's got all these funny things that the client asked for There's a screenshot that I took a look at in the camera of all the post-it notes So then I'm able to then add that into the item So then again when the clients come along, they hit my website and they're saying a customised product They'll maybe stick some client brands in there They love that Then you get to that page, they say it's a customised product for them There's all the things I need, there's that guy He sat for me for 90 minutes, he asked me every question under the song He knows my business inside and I, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep Bye, he takes credit card Happy guys, like closes it And again that's where the last myelin sales is always the hardest part Asking for the clothes and asking for the sale This makes it really easy, so I'll just send you across the link There's an assumption of clothes I'm just assuming you're going to order from it You get the link, if you don't click on that link My heart's not broken I'm going to give you one phone call to say you need to get that, okay? Yes I did, but that's correct by the way Or, I'll tell you what, we'll show you if you're still humming hand In six months, that link will still be live And I'm going to hide it for now or whatever you want So it adds that last mile Where you've got really cool custom functionality Home for the client, you've had a really interesting conversation This last mile lets them go, oh yes, this is what I am paying for There's another more, as you get to halfway through the project And the client turns around and says, somebody can do this cheaper I'm like, no, no they can't You've got a hundred custom features here Did you tell the other guy about it? No, they've never asked Right, that's why they can do it cheaper, do you know what I mean? So again, you're able to lean back on the sales doctrine And say like, here's the whole thing you've built for it You know, or again at the end of the thing Where they turn around and say, but we thought we were getting one of these Not a year, I don't know why You thought you were getting one of those we never discussed That it's not in any of the paperwork It's not your invoice, and it's not your work list So how do you know how to get that? So for me, as a small business owner managing expectations Was one of the biggest bummers, do you know what I mean? So having it all documented in a nice rigorous way Again, all automatic, I'm not having to do it I've got three kids, two dogs, I've got a small business Life's mental, so all the paperwork I've run in the business I've fired over the newcomers and the standard Just to wrap up, do you want to see the back end of Toolset? Because I've talked about it Really? Yeah So you can see here in the Toolbar This program is designed with Toolset And if I come back to this mental site And we go to Toolset Oh no, it's not pulling in too many teams There's a lot of custom things out But it's not pulling them all in But to look at, let me see A site if I personally will identify with that then So Toolset is a form builder But it's not like any other form builder I've looked at I've had a quick look at grabby forms I reached out to their support department They couldn't do what I needed it to do So I've never had much more of a quick look at grabby forms I know that's a go-to for a lot of people I'm a big fan of Contact Form 7 Because it allows for so much customisation It's really easy to get in with Plus I've been working with it for nearly 10 years now So of course it's going to be a best friend However, there's things that cannot do So Toolset, you can see here when I pull up This hover over menu It's a beast Okay? So custom post types Hands up, you know what a custom post type is? All right, custom post type is a post That's slightly different to your normal blog posts Or your normal posts on the page We've given that custom name And it's supposed to be used in a custom place So whenever we're creating a custom post type in Toolset We create a post type And we say the post type is HR reports And then we create holes in that post type To put in the information So post feeds are what I call holes in the database For information to go to So the post fields for this HR record Would be the first name, employee number National insurance number, et cetera So then the next piece I would use an awful lot Is views And the views is where we can then say Okay, we've got 20 employees I want to see those 20 employees in a list So here's where we've been able to pull in Each one of these guys has a big custom post type in behind That's pulling in all the information they do in the platform And every interaction they do is served users All the supervision history and disciplinary history And all that sort of stuff But here we've used one of those views To pull this out and spit it out to them And it's in the views interface But I turn around and say yes I want to see your name And I want to be able to link to that custom post type I want to see your phone number I want to see where they work I want to see x, y and z So these are things that you can do In WordPress PHP Which is very easy, friendly PHP Using arrays, et cetera But you do have to get into the code And that's a little bit tricky Views allows me to really quickly prototype something So the employer, my client says I want to see this and this Well nine times out of ten He sees this and this He goes, I want to see that too If it had been an array It might be a bit tricky to prove that in Whereas using views I can add it in for them on the fly Let them see it And pull it back out for that too That's what it needs to be So here you can see We've got car finder And we've got car search And we've got car slider So we go into the car Finder I built this site last year And I'm desperately trying to remember my labels So this is where This is pretty straightforward You can see If you're familiar with queries You'll understand exactly what's going on here So now we've got page loaded So this people display Post types taxonomy as your users We can see that we're filling in the post types Which in this instance is cars So here we've got a custom search And this is saying This is a little bit tricky But you can see it's saying, okay I want you to select all of the cars That have a main equal to So Volvo or Volkswagen A model V70 or 2Rig or whatever Field times, transmissions, engine sizes, etc Whenever we do that Tools set automatically starts to do this sort of stuff for us Now that looks like crazy code That's the sort of stuff that when I look at I shut down Is as well over my head However, with Tools set It adds all of this in for you And it makes it really clear for you where to put The things that you want to put in So you can see here the labels, etc They're then pulled in from the custom post type And the custom post is being sold And you have to do that It's built all of this crazy stuff already for me However, if I needed to get it and customize it It's there, it's not him and away It's right there for me So it doesn't hide code for you It just makes it accessible So that's the filter editor And then you go to the filter editor And that decides What we're going to pull from the database Exactly which fades we're going to pull What we're going to do with those fades Are we're going to combine them Or we're going to mess with them Use them to order things, etc And then that creates this The view template And this view template Leap by the car finder Is a template that we built up Which says exactly Whenever we've run this report Here's how I want the output results to look And there we can see that So we can see the class results I get to do the pointy code plan I can do the protocol now So here we can see that the class results We've thrown in some styles to get it looking right And then we've got on sale for And you can see where I'm adding a label To the custom data that's coming in from the database Two minutes remaining So as you can see This for most of us developer people We're seeing P tags We're seeing proper HTML If you're not a PHP person But you are maybe a little bit experienced In theme development Oh man you're all over this Get the CSS out Make this thing look beautiful Because now all of a sudden Tool set up above Has done all the crazy stuff All the PHP All the finding out what the post-type is And what information for those post-types What and what do you want to do with that information And now down here Go develop make it pretty Make it nice for the user And then down here again That just shows how to blend it to the big error So with tool set It's got all these amazing features I've been using it now for coming on three years I've developed all these really cool Quite interesting Very complex applications for my clients I'm telling you now There's 90% of that plugin I have not touched Because I haven't needed to Because there's so much in there Some of it's very very very powerful If it's your thing Is the layouts So I detest page builders I'm trying to warm up towards Gutenberg But I do detest page builders Because they invariably Don't do what you see What you get You don't get what you see You know Whenever you're prototyping A page builder can be handy If you know your way around it Tool set has one built in Whereby you can set up a template for your cars Now I like developing things I find more than a notepad An awful lot faster than any other way I'm interfacing with a website But for this website Where the client's getting really picky About where went what Oh you need to have the engine number above this You need to do this Doing it this way was really handy Because it meant again sitting with him on the fly I could just visually mess up things So this is a point and click Drag and drop editor Whereby I'll show you Oh look at this site I'll show you how I add in a rule here Let's see So this is the cars page This is this bad boy And if I come down here You can see add in a rule Select how many columns We want whatever we're putting in here to take So that would be full width Now it says what you want to put in here And this is where this is different To most other page 10 Our page builders And the fact that we can see here It's asking us do you want to do just normal stuff Do you want to pull in just standard API stuff With post content etc Do you want to build sliders Or do you want to embed some previous stuff So I'll do some funky layout things Or this This visual editor is where the real interesting stuff happens Because this is where we can pull in All that complex stuff we've built up in the database before So this just looks like a normal WordPress editor But we've got these funky buttons We've got cred forms Not allowed to pull in any post or user forms that would create it And we've got the fields and views And this is where by You can see it brings in standard WordPress data It brings in user data It brings in here You can see our custom post type data So this is where I didn't say Yeah okay The engine size is at the very top Alec There you go You have me now I have 2.9 liter Brutal stuff Where as before it was at the bottom So this is where I can say using that visual editor box I grab my row And I say okay this is full width row And now I can select exactly what I want By the database to appear in that row So it's very easy to quickly Very quickly Walk up a very complex layout Using all sorts of data Dynamic database driven information Right in front of your client using this tool And then if you want for speed You can then go in hard to it So folks that about wraps up my talk And we've really done questions Is anybody else any questions Just before we do finish up Well before we get up Round of applause for them