WPwatercooler - Weekly WordPress Talk Show

Does WordPress have a naming problem? Is everything just going to be called JetPack in a few years? What about WordPress.com? Full Site Editor? Site Builder, Page Builder, Cosmic (we’re pulling for you Paul), Page Builder, GutenPage?

We think WordPress has some naming issues we need to get addressed and the community is taking different sides to this issue. Here is ours.

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.

Phil Karlton

Giving FSE a More User Friendly Name https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/07/27/giving-fse-a-more-user-friendly-name/ Now is the time for a photos-only app for WordPress-backed sites, I am just saying https://twitter.com/helenhousandi/status/1552807222769602560

Panel

Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com

This week on WPwatercooler we’re continuing our series on the Full Site Editor and are joined by Nick Diego who is a Developer Advocate at WP Engine and developer of Block Visibility. We’ll be talking with Nick on his journey through using FSE and how people should approach converting their sites to FSE after making the decision to do it.

• Nick Diego: Builder Basics – Let’s Build a Custom Theme (No Coding Required)
• The Chemical Brothers – Block Rockin’ Beats (Official Music Video)
• Beck – Loser (Official Music Video)

Panel

Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog Steve Zehngut – zeek.com Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com Nick Diego – nickdiego.com

This week on WPwatercooler we’re joined by Chicago-based Brian Gardner who recently made the WordPress theme Frost and a new beautiful unreleased Full Site Editor theme. Brian will be speaking with us on designing themes block-based themes and we’ll be discussing what decisions he’s made along the way and what he’d love to see added to Full Site Editor.

Check out Brian’s past episode on WPwatercooler – EP413 – Full Site Editor for Agencies.

• https://wordpress.org/patterns
• https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/
• https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/how-to-guides/themes/theme-json/
• https://frostwp.com

Panel

• Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog
• Steve Zehngut – zeek.com
• Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com
• Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com
• Brian Gardner – briangardner.com

In this episode – WordPress released 6.0 and also turns 19, and oddly enough our episode number is 419!

• WordPress 6.0 Development Cycle
• WordPress 6.0 “Arturo”
• WordPress 6.0: Making Gutenberg “Guten-Better”
• wp19.day – Celebrate WordPress’s 19th Anniversary!

Panel

Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog Steve Zehngut – zeek.com Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com

In this episode, we speak with Marc Benzakein Operations Manager of ServerPress about them recently sunsetting their product WPSiteSync. You can read about their decision here WPSiteSync and on WP Tavern.

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Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog Steve Zehngut – zeek.com Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com Marc Benzakein – serverpress.com

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As your friend and mine, Steve Zehngut would say, “Not all web hosts are created equal” which I think is a good thing. With them not being equal the features each have are vastly different and some of these you may need in order to host your site with them.

We’re going to explore what you get in 2022 for a web host for your WordPress site.

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Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog Steve Zehngut – zeek.com Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com

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There are a lot of ways to apply automation to your WordPress workflows. In this episode, we’re going to work through the many ways of using the WordPress API and webhooks to make things work hands-free.

• https://www.submittable.com/
• https://www.airtable.com
• https://automatorplugin.com/
• https://wp-webhooks.com/
• https://buddy.works/
• https://youtu.be/qybUFnY7Y8w
• https://www.google.com/search?q=%23rubegoldberg
• https://wpfusion.com/
• https://buildwoofunnels.com/

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• Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog
• Steve Zehngut – zeek.com
• Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com
• Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com

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This week on the show we’re discussing Cyber Security with Robert Rowley of Patchstack.

• Chart: How Safe Is Your Password? | Statista
• WordPress Vulnerability Database – Patchstack
• WP Last Modified Info – WordPress plugin
• WordPress 5.9.2 Security Update This security and maintenance release features 1 bug fix in addition to 3 security fix. Because this is a security release, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately. All versions since WordPress 3.7 have also been updated.
• State Of WordPress Security In 2021 – Patchstack
• UA Cyber Help IT and cyber security assistance

Panel

• Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog
• Steve Zehngut – zeek.com
• Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com
• Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com
• Robert Rowley – patchstack.com

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The tangled Web we WordPress. This week on WPwatercooler we’re continuing a discussion we started last week on episode 412 which made its way onto Twitter where we discussed with Brian Gardner and Bill Erickson on using WordPress Full Site Editor and if it’s ready for Agencies to use. Are we really storing all this in post_content & post_meta? Where do we go from here?

• Frost – WordPress Theme – https://frostwp.com/
• 1.0 Is the Loneliest Number https://ma.tt/2010/11/one-point-oh/
• Building the New Pagely.com – https://zao.is/blog/2021/11/22/building-the-new-pagely-com/

“the core should provide features that 80% or more of end users will actually appreciate and use. If the next version of WordPress comes with a feature that the majority of users immediately want to turn off, or think they’ll never use, then we’ve blown it.”

https://wordpress.org/about/philosophy/

Twitter Thread (thanks Amber Hinds @aucoeurblog for the mention)

.@bgardner We’re not building FSE themes yet, but are all-in on the block editor and theme.json. Our reasons for not using FSE yet: 1. Too beta for production sites. Gutenberg is *barely* production-ready, with breaking changes in every major WP release.

2. Need ability to lock down template editing so non-technical clients don’t accidentally break site. We had to stop using reusable blocks because too often clients accidentally deleted all content in it instead of removing the block, which broke content globally.

3. We want our themes to be version controlled. When you “edit” a FSE theme or the global styles, it saves your changes in database. GH repo does not reflect actual site and will make future updates more difficult.

4. I believe in separating design, code, and content. HTML files with hardcoded block markup makes this more challenging.

That said, I think FSE is a big step forward for the majority of WP users. Most users/businesses with a WP site don’t have budget to hire an agency to build a custom theme. FSE vastly improves their capabilities. I agree w/ @aucoeurblog it’s not ready for enterprise / larger biz.

Originally tweeted by Bill Erickson (@BillErickson) on February 24, 2022.

Panel

• Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog
• Steve Zehngut – zeek.com
• Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com
• Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com
• Brian Gardner – briangardner.com
• Bill Erickson – billerickson.net

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This week on the show we’ll be discussing building custom blocks with ACF.

ACF Blocks

Panel

• Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog
• Steve Zehngut – zeek.com
• Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com
• Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com

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