The eclipse has nothing to do with this. So I just had to get this.
I just had to get this in. Because a friend of mine in Cleveland took this picture.
And she was in the path of the total eclipse. We were not. So for us it was just like a purpley kind of sky.
Anyway, without further, But without, we won't talk too much more about the eclipse, but I will say, so I am Bud Krauss and, I actually have a little slide presentation for you.
There's my name. And what I am is I call myself a content creative. That is, I write, WordPress content for WordPress businesses, not only right, but create videos.
Courses, anything that is involved in really education. With WordPress that's my thing I've been a teaching for ever I've taught Back in, oh, 1998 actually started teaching HTML and CSS and then all the way up till today teaching WordPress.
So I do that of course just online these days, but not in class unfortunately and Amy podcaster.
So this is something I thought I would never do. And, oops, it just. You have to get rid of one little thing here that I just popped up.
Sorry. Okay, yeah. And, Oh, and, let me just go back over here for 1 s.
We'll get this thing. All right. And I started a podcast. I just released it.
Fairly recently called Seriously Bud. It's an unexpected conversation with someone in the WordPress community.
If you stick around at the end, I'm going to give you access to free podcasts.
Yes, of people you may know in the WordPress community that I did recently. So hang around in the end.
That's gonna be your gift for hanging in. Right. We do a little yes, no question.
Lorna, I don't think I told you I was gonna do this. So here we go.
And there's only 2 questions and it gives me a little idea and everybody else think who is here?
Okay, so first question, nope, I sorry, I have this stuff floating around here that I just wanna get rid of.
Here we go. First question, yes or no? Yes, 1, 2, no. Laura, you can tell me the answers in the chat box.
Do you like working with the Black editor? Actually, we should have 3. One is yes, 2 is no.
3 is no comment. And I'm sorry if you're hearing it. You know, looks like.
We have lots of answers, good. Okay, that's good.
Oh, we have lots of yeses and ones. That's the yeses and ones. We got some.
Block editor people here in the room.
Really? So maybe Any no comments any threes
One or 2 threes, but
They're still learning. They're still learning.
Yeah. Okay, and the second one Well, aren't we all, including me? And have you used, a black theme?
This should be question easy one. Yes is 1, 2 is no. I got a feeling. Yeah.
Lots of yeses, yeah, lots of ones.
And he knows.
We have a 2.
We do. Okay. Alright, so then I don't have to get into explaining what the Black theme is because everybody knows.
Okay, good. Alright, so for today I'm gonna do a little talking here with the presentation and then we'll get on to actual demonstrations.
So, 6.5, the big picture, well, you know, came out and April and It's the first of and beginning of April it was delayed a week.
But, it's the first of 3 major releases this year. We're gonna have the second 1, 6.6 in July and then 6.7 will come along.
Probably in late fall. This really opened up. It sort of opens. I shouldn't say really wide opens, but it begins to open up the phase 3 of the Gutenberg project that is what people call the collaboration phase.
Although I think a lot of that is being rethought exactly what does that mean the collaboration phase? You know, it isn't just to make WordPress into Google Docs, is it?
I don't think so. Also the thinking about what to do about the redesign of the WordPress admin.
And in fact, 6.5 does actually open that door. It also is a very technical release.
This is according to my friend and it's really true. Beargard Polly Hawk, which probably a lot of people know.
She was the one that told me the very beginning watch out this is a really technical release and it is but there are changes in it for everyone.
And also, it has many performance security and accessibility improvements. Now, almost all major releases do have those.
This one seems to have even more, okay? Now, for you developers out there, now I'm not a developer, okay?
I'm not even a reluctant website. Developer or builder anymore. I'm not even in that cat.
But for the developers, there were really a major changes or introductions to these APIs. And for example, the Interactivity API, we actually saw that the beginnings of it in 6.4.
When you could click on an image and also make out a little bit bigger. That's a very rudimentary idea of the interactivity API.
Going forward, we're gonna see things like the Mega menu, whether you like it or not.
I think it's coming in core. And then these other things here, these are APIs here.
Allow now developers to work in a more standardized way or plug in developers to work in a more standardized way and bring new features.
To WordPress through their plugins that they can't do yet. So I think we'll be seeing a lot of that.
You know, in the next year or 2 years, actually in the years to come. This will make a lot of really cool things, available in these, in plugins.
Now, There's more work that was done on something that was in 6.4.
The user black editor mode, basically something that, you know, turns on and off black disability. But again, this is like code level.
We also have, improved methods for script handling or script loading, I should say. And last.
I'm having a little problem here. We'll get there. New WP admin notice functionality.
Okay. So let's get on to the stuff for like me. So for site builders, and maybe you folks too.
Okay, so I'm gonna first talk about, or actually what you're gonna see here are things.
We have to get, hold on 1 s here. Okay. We have to, where am I still coming in loud and clear?
Yes you are bud, you're all awesome.
Okay, just gotta check because there's a lot of stuff zoomy like float around on my screen and it's a little bit distracting so I wanna make sure I didn't click off something.
I says, oh no, I'm only talking to myself. Alright, so the things you're gonna see here are things that I'm not going to be demonstrating, but our parts are part of 6.5.
Oh, we now can add a background image to the group black. You sure know that you can do it with the cover black.
And now it's in the group like I have a feeling that background images will be able to be added just about to any block going forward eventually.
And there is not the aspect ratio functionality in the cover black. This is something that's new.
It really addresses that. An issue that was found in, in mobile design. So, Now, aspect ratio is a control that we've had already with just images, but now that's brought forward to the cover block as well.
There is support for a yet a new believe it or not. You can't make this up another image format.
Okay, so just as you're getting all used to and becoming experts on webp, now you have this AVIF.
Okay, now every not every browser supports this but De, WordPress 6.5 does. And we now have block style patterns.
That are available i'm sorry black style properties available for. For classic themes.
So even though not everybody here, a lot of people are not using classic themes. What that means is if you are using a classic theme, you have style like maybe a margin, padding, border radius, border radius, things like that that are available for blocks and classic themes.
And You also have the ability to access. In classic themes under the, in the appearance section, there's now a link ticket to patterns, okay?
So that's good because you didn't have that before and it was hard to get to the patterns.
And finally, Yeah, there's an easier way to, add site icons. Okay, now I'm not demonstrating any of those.
I just wanted to list those and say, Hey, you, I tick those all off. So let's see what I am gonna, having straight, huh?
Right. I am. Yes, I am. So for the demonstrations really broken down into 4 parts here.
First. We'll look at revisions. So WordPress now has a nice way to especially with styles.
Go back in time, sort of like the time machine actually, to see what you did with styles.
I think that's really cool. Oops. And certainly helpful too. And we'll see how that works.
We also have what are called data views. I call it enhanced views for this for the site editor. And we'll take a look at that.
And show you quality of life. There's a whole bunch of these quality of life improvements. And I'm gonna show you by 6 or 7 of these.
And finally, you're wondering, what about that stock library? I saved it for the end. I'm a little sneaky, but there it is.
So hang around and we'll take a look at the final library. And of course I'm interested too in hearing what people have to say about any and all of this.
So we'll have hopefully a little time for we will have time for questions and answers at the end.
Okay. Now you should know before I get into the browser stuff that you know I am obviously working with 6.5 with the 2024 theme.
So speaking of that, let's have a look now. Let me go over to my. Browser and you know I should have done this before.
Let me just get rid of all this stuff over here. I don't think I mean to use full screen, but you'll get the idea.
Maybe I will. Laura, how does it look, okay?
Yes, that's looking good.
Okay, any questions so far?
Nope.
Okay, you don't wanna know what I was doing 5 min before the, no, I'm just kidding.
So here we are. And of course I'm using the 2024 theme. Let's start with revisions as I mentioned.
So in, in the editor will go. And for that, I want to look now there's revisions in different places now, but the first one that I think makes the most impact is in styles.
And, like for example, you know, these are all the style variations over here. This theme has 8 of them, you know, and it's really good place to start when you're designing your site, I suppose, start with a style variation that closely approximates what you want and then of course tweak it to get it to what you want.
Let's see, I went to this, over here, kinda like that color. And now I click this over here.
And over here now. We have DC in the. Let me see if I'm. So I click on the style button over here.
And over here you now have.
This little icon right over here this little clack icon I guess which is new I click on that.
Actually this was first introduced in 6 4 but it's now more robust. So it'll give you like details so if you click on let's see this over here you can get all these details to what it was back in you know couple of hours ago.
Yeah, 17 h ago. And if you like that style, you can apply it. And now you can have it again.
Okay. And that's, you know, you get the idea. Now, just going back here again.
Was kinda nice too is that if there were other site developers or designers here, each one of their changes would be registered.
When are these changes registered? Every time that the style is is updated through save. I also believe it's done automatically I don't know what the timing is, but I, would, I'm not a hundred percent sure. I shouldn't say that.
Definitely when you click save, that style is going to be saved. If you navigate away from the page without saving, I don't think that style is saved.
So should know about that. Now, down here, one other thing I get to do here, just give me 1 s.
Because this thing keeps popping up that is part of the, okay. And then down over here you can navigate back, I call it the beginning of time.
So if you want to go all the way back to the beginning of time, you can do this. And.
But and it will hold and I think it's now an infinity or close to infinity. I think it's either a hundred saves or endless.
I'm not really sure which one. Endless doesn't really make sense because all this is being stored in the database.
That's gotta have a limit, but quite a few anyway of your revisions could be are stored here.
So it's a nice feature. So if you're working on, for example, let's say you're in the style book, let's go out to the style book right over here.
And you know, you're working over here and you're saying, you know, I wanna make a change.
Let's do. Tell me like this over here. You make a change over here. Let's say to the color of the buttons that's gonna, and you save it.
Well, that's all that's part of it. Let's just do that. I don't really want to do that, but you get the idea if I did want to make a change over here.
I could change the color.
That anyway, let's say I wanted to. Yeah, I'm not gonna go through it, but you if you change anything over here and save it, then you're gonna be able to go back.
To your revisions. And restore it. Here's another. And what's kind of nice too is, you know, you can.
No, I don't want to apply. And. Over here and over here.
So as you do this, you actually can get like a preview of it. Which I like.
Now what I'm doing over here, trying to get back to where I started from. A little bit of zoom in my way here.
Yeah. I'm gonna click apply. I see apply. And.
Alright, and again, back to revisions.
Right, right. And over here. Do you get the idea? If I just click on any one of these.
I should be able to see. Yeah, you could see the change. You could preview the changes before you actually apply.
Now that's 1 place that you'll see revisions, which is nice. It's makes things a lot easier.
And again, if there were more than one person working on this, you would see what their entry is too.
I really like that idea. There's also the ability to look at revisions in your templates.
Not as elegant as this. And I couldn't get this to work for the life of me, did today. So let me show you.
So I'm gonna go over to. Templates right over here.
And I'm gonna show you, let me see, we're gonna go over to templates.
And let's do the. Let's manage all templates. Let's see, right over here.
Okay, and the template I want to managers take a look at is the Let me find it here somewhere.
4 0 4, okay. And you could see right over here, you've got this little icon here.
Now, what this was doing was if I clicked on this, it was resetting it or reverting it.
I don't want to do that. What I want to do is look at the Okay, so.
It was playing around with the 4 0 4 error page. And seeing if I could, yes, right over here.
This is new. This is that clock icon again, but. Watch out because Oh, this is a little better than I thought.
This is Go figure. Oh, this is all the different style changes that applied. Huh. Yeah, this is not what I had in mind.
Wow, this is, oh I know what it is. Sorry, let me just do this.
Let's go back here. And Click into here, right, and. What we need to do.
Is get out of. Yeah, this is what I want. Sorry. All right, right over here.
It says revisions. Now this is new. This didn't say this. Okay, before we were looking at this style revisions a second ago, I wanted to take you to this.
And right over here. Now, this again, this is the 4 0 4 error page template.
Yeah, I could click on this. And let's see if I. Hold on a second here.
Let's make sure we save it.
Alright, click on this. Yeah. So like I said, it wasn't as elegant, but you can roll back.
Now this does look like the kind of revisions we have seen forever with pages and posts. I do suspect that we will.
Let me just. I do suspect that we will eventually have a much nicer way of rolling back, revisions and being able to have previews of what it looks like.
Instead of code, but you actually can if you want, roll back the way you have always rolled back.
Revisions and pages and posts I really do think that this is something that's going to get worked on and it has to get better.
Alright, so much for revisions. Let's have a look at these. Page or enhanced page views.
So over here. And for that, I'll start with this. So you know that you can now access your pages, right, inside of inside of the site editor I suspect that eventually you'll be able to access your post custom post types, everything.
It starts to make you think you mean this is what sort of like what the WordPress the WP admin is gonna work like or look like and work like the answer is probably but if I go over here to manage Oh, okay.
We bud, we have a we have a question before you move on too much. Ed was asking Will the revisions work if I change themes?
Example, go from 2023 to 2024.
You know, I don't know the answer to that, because like, let's say.
Yeah.
My hunch is no. Because if you're making changes to templates, those templates are unique to those themes.
It's like themes. Yeah.
Yeah, and so if they're tied to if they're tied in that way, probably not.
So it'd be sort of irrelevant or, you know. That it's yet probably not.
Lord, does that make sense?
Yeah. Don't know for sure. Yeah, don't know for sure, but it would kind of make sense.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We could be wrong, but.
But, we could be wrong. So it would be something to look on the developers page.
Yeah, because of it. Database.
Yeah, but I have a feeling that we're right because Even though right the structure of these templates are different from one theme to the next.
Yeah.
And you probably can't transfer over your revisions. However, if you went back and reinstall, let's say you went from 2024 to 2023, it came back to 2024 to me the question I want to know is do my my revisions back that way.
Doing to the base, yeah.
And the answer is probably yes. Because the revisions are being stored in the database. So you would think that you would have access back to those revisions.
Yeah. Yeah.
Okay. So here I am in pages. Manage all pages. I hope that kind of help.
And here, this is like the list of pages that we've always seen in the WP admin, right?
But a little bit different. So here it's very like, a minimalist. You don't see all that bulk action stuff yet, okay?
It's very simple. You can just, you know, title authors, you know, but I think that this is also, it's basically a first iteration.
And of course, If you click over here, you can actually view a revision. Doesn't that look familiar?
Yeah, and of course it jumped me out back to the regular WP admin So much work to come on that.
Let's just go back, but you see. That, you, you know, this is, like sort of a new way of looking at, at your pages, but that's not really the sexy part of all this.
The sexier part is when you look at templates, let's go down to templates and over here.
And I guess this is the sexy part over here. When I click on manage all templates.
Alright, and. What I can do now, so this is what they're talking about, the data views.
And we have seen if you've been around for a while, you know, the back when they first introduced the you know, the concept of black themes and, black templates.
This has really changed quite a bit. But, you know, we've always had sort of the name of the template, the description, but now what you can do, let's just go over to, here.
Actually.
Yeah, I'm gonna go right over here. So we have a table view and we have the grid view.
And the great view gives us little thumbnail looks at what our templates are now. This is great.
You know, you can click on it and start working on it and so forth. That's fine.
But what I don't like and I think this will change is that there's no ability to save this view.
So they navigate away or do anything. This is all gonna disappear and default back to that. Table view, which I don't really, you know, I want to be able to save it.
And I suspect that different users will be able to save different views, much like they do with their user accounts.
And the WP admin. So I think that will absolutely, you know, this again, first look at all this.
This is, you know, brand new stuff. Now you also have the ability to search. I think we've had that already so you can search for your template and over here you can.
And a filter not much here, let's say author. And you wanted let's say search for me.
So which themes that I which templates did I create in this theme here they are or here it is so there'll be a way if you have many people working on the site or a couple of them, you'll be able to know which.
Authors created which templates by filtering through author and I'm sure there'll be other filters coming in.
And we'll have. Yeah, let's see what we have over here. Yeah.
Reset. And one last thing over here, again, this is very early in its development, it's the first time we're actually looking at these new.
Views, we've got This down over here. Oh yeah, we have bulk at it, but that's not what I want.
I want to show you, yeah, so you can, sort these in ascending.
Where are we? They sending and descending and so forth. So a couple different filters. One that's kind of nice down here is if you have many different theme, templates.
You can say I wanna show 10, I wanna show 20 and so forth on the page. So that's, you know, a new feature enhanced.
What they call data views, I just say, you know, views. And I think that's, you know, took a little bit of engineering to get to this point, but I definitely suspect that's going to get much better.
All right, before we get into the quality of life stuff. The more sexy stuff. So anybody have any questions?
I'm saving the sexiest for the last. So. Any, questions, Laura?
Right.
The room brought up, he's running the 6.5 and under appearance I'm showing the appearance items that were there from the previous version and not the new version.
Is this the which theme?
Yeah, which themes are room? Are you on 2024?
Yeah, that's gonna make all the difference in the world.
Do we have an answer?
Any reply?
Okay, so while we're waiting for go ahead
Not yet. No. Drum would theme. Yep.
Yeah.
A WP business, okay, then. They might have different settings within their dashboard that they populate.
And that may be a, you know, that's probably a classic theme. Would be my hunch.
And that means if it's a classic theme, when you click over here to appearance. You're gonna have, you can have more, you're gonna see customizer, menu, wages, all that kind of stuff that we've seen forever.
And if you're using a blog theme, you're just gonna see stuff like this. You're gonna definitely see the word editor.
That's your absolute clue. Of course, Teams, that you can edit the entire site with just blocks and no code or very okay.
As I play around with my seat over here. Alright, now I want to take you over here to a page that I set up for our demo.
And it's on quality of life. I love the quality of life stuff because it can't make things better and easier to work with and sometimes it's just downright fun.
So one is You go over here into preferences. We go down to preferences. Again, this.
Zoom stuff keeps popping up every time somebody goes in and out of the Zoom room. I get this this change here which I don't like.
Alright, and Down over here where it says preferences. I'm going to click on this and they've done a little bit of work in this area over here The chemist and keeps popping in and out people come in and, alright, I try not tell that to distract me.
So over here you see that we have. Some of these, yeah, this is pretty much the general is cheap, pretty much, but appearance.
Has changed a little bit in that. All of these options that we've had, dot the toolbar to the top.
And just reaction free and spotlight mode and so forth. These are now in here and I suspect they're all gonna they may all leave this area over here.
That you see you know appear and you're just going to be able to access them from here. At least that's what I think.
Is gonna happen. Here's something that's a little new. Is in accessibility. Now you can toggle this on so If I did you wouldn't see any difference because I don't have the right hardware to show you this but this one I do So let's get something out of the way.
I think I can do. Yeah, hold on. Let me just Let's make sure, alright, here's my toolbar.
Alright, I, I have to show you that in order for this little demo to work here. And if I go back to.
Preferences
Yeah. Right down here. All right, now.
Go to accessibility. And I click on this. So look what happened over here. All the little icons turned into words.
And this is a big help in accessibility. And if you don't like those icons anyway, and you just read to see the words.
Well, there you go. So I kind of like that. I kind of prefer this because it just lets takes up less real estate.
But, if you want the words to show up, there you go. It's an accessibility.
So those are some changes in the preferences. Another change and it's probably really much probably one of the biggest change of all.
Is it if I go over to Here, let's go back to here. Whoops. And, right over here in the page section, and if I go to.
Here we go, template. So now it's a lot easier to access the template that you're that for which this page applies.
So it's using the page template. For the page. If you want to switch the template, this is kind of nice.
So if I switch template What's gonna happen is WordPress is going to suggest. Similar templates to handle page content and you can switch your Template over here.
I kinda think that's very interesting. It makes life a lot easier. Remember every theme as templates and every type of page or post or custom post type.
Uses one and only one template to output all the content and design of a page or a post.
That's a really important principle to understand. It's only one template that will generate what you see on a page post, custom post hyper or anything that you see on a website.
And knowing which template is in is in play whenever you see something obviously that's very important okay so if you have questions about that at the end, I'm happy to answer that stuff.
Okay. And, yeah, I really like that. Other you know create your own template and so forth all right nice so that is new or it's actually It's, it's not so much new, but certainly improved.
In addition to that, you have to quick look at my notes over here. Oh yeah. The list item. This is nice.
So watch this. So we go to list item. For this view, sorry. List view and I'm gonna just And one of the things that's nice is that you can.
It's drag and drop just got much better. If you've noticed in the past, if you had something at the bottom, like over here this FAQ section and you try to drag it up to the tap it was like I can't do it it's just like I'm going like this all day and I just can't get it now it's like this.
It's exactly the way you would expect. Alright, perfect. Alright, so they got that all ironed out.
It's really, yeah, you could see a dragon drop just got so much smoother and nicer.
Here's another thing too that changed. If you want to, for example, You know, and if you would have to, if you want to.
See what's inside or what are the operations that you can have on the group block. You always had to click on these 3 little dots.
No more. Now you could just click on the whole section this like blue area. Right click and you have All your options over here.
So you don't even need these 3 little dots anymore, but I'm sure they're not going anywhere.
And last on the list view is that you can rename a lot of the blocks. So how do you rename it? Well, group.
Now I think Brooklyn's been able to rename for a while, but all you have to do, so many blacks can be renamed.
Now some of them can't be renamed, okay? Paragraph doesn't make any sense.
You can't rename paragraph. But you can rename columns, groups, most containers can be renamed.
And let's say you just said, this would be kind of a bad name, but first group.
Alright, and, let me just do here and And if you didn't like the name, dispelled it or whatever, which would be usually be my case.
Then it'll be just very simple. You just go over here. And then go back to rename.
And they just wipe it out. Alright, just says group. I guess I didn't save it, so.
That's the reason. Anyway, it can be renamed now. Little note is when you ever you do a, a heading or a subheading.
In your page, it will automatically show the, if you typed in like this is a subheading.
Then you would see this is a subheading over here. So you don't even have to rename the headings.
It'll just be done automatically. But everything else most of the containers like galleries and group black and cover black and those can all be renamed why is it good idea so that it's easier for you to understand the construction of your page rather than just seeing these generic terms like cover and group and column and columns and stuff like that.
Okay, so you've got some nice changes in the list view. Here's a really good one.
All right, how, yeah. Sure, sure. Yeah, yeah.
Hey bud, can I interrupt you for a second? Cause we need some, we need some clarification.
Okay, how we doing on time too? Cause that, oh yeah, all right.
Okay, Kyle, you will definitely get there.
We got about 20 min. So. So there's a conversation about, themes and templates.
I knew this was coming. Okay.
And. And you you made the statement of there is one template per site.
No, that's not correct. If I said it that right. Right, did I say that?
There's 1 theme. Yeah, that's why I wanted you to clarify
Yeah, yeah, did I say that? Well, that's because I didn't get enough sleep last night.
Yeah.
No, of course. There's 1 theme per site. Any theme can have many templates.
What I did I hope I said that each page or post or custom post type has its own unique template which is used to check.
Right. Exactly, right.
The template is the is the is the is the structure of that particular page. And the theme comes with a set of basic ones for you to use.
Right. Yeah, a theme comes with, you know, 1015 templates. You can even make your own templates.
And then assign templates to different types of content for your site, pages, posts. Whatever.
Yep.
Okay, does that I hope hopefully I if I did say your Whatever. I know I think about what I said.
Yeah.
No problem.
So, Okay, yeah, we got it right this time for sure. A theme, a site always has one and one.
Only one active theme at any one time. Okay, so now for the for the improvement in the links and boy did we need it.
So let's say I click on a word, right? And I go into my link tool over here.
So now we now have, wow, so we now have at least what WordPress is thinking that you know which which page you want to use that as a link and I'm just going to say Let's link to this page over here.
And that's fine. Okay. And of course, now though, I can also. We go over here.
I can delink. Okay, or I can actually the best way to do it is once you're once you put your link in which is so much easier now if you want to you know, change the text, you can change the text.
You wanna change the URL, you can change the URL. And you've got a couple of other options over here like no follow and stuff like that.
So that is really nice. In addition, again, I'm gonna click on this. If I want to delink it you could do it right from here I'm gonna link it again.
Let's just put up a link over here. Let's do this over here. And also it's new is.
If you want to copy this. You are and pasted somewhere else? I can paste it somewhere else.
So that's that's quality of life stuff. It's a lot easier to work with And then finally, here's another one too.
Let's so let's say I want to have a link right there, okay? And let's say I want this to link to a page on my site.
So all I have to do now is I clicked. Going into my link. Here's my link.
Let's say I want a link to the blog. Archive. And there it is. I don't even have to type the word in if I do want it or whatever the you know the title of the page if I want to make a change Here we go and of course Open this and now you can change the text right over here too.
So that's really, you know. Much smoother, much nicer, hallelujah, the link operation got much, much better for all you old-time word pressures like me.
It sort of looks like what we had a thousand years ago. Like in WordPress version 3.2 or something like that.
When it all worked, it's sort of in many ways reminds me of how that worked.
All right, so that's links. In addition to that, we have a couple more quality of life improvements that we'll get on of the font library.
Oh yeah, one more actually. And for this, I think I'll just, well, okay.
So you now have. Let's see, what is it? I should turn off my, I don't know why I still have this going here.
Yeah, yeah.
But hey bud. The templates, is that stored in the themes database?
No. Templates are files, okay, that come with the theme. And the difference now between a black theme and a classic theme, the templates were written in PHP and classic themes.
In black themes, they're actually written in HTML. Oh my god. Now it isn't just like regular, you know, HTML.
There's like stuff put in there. I wrote a really good article, like we might say so, for Go Daddy called, like Understanding Black Grammar for Not dummies, but for people like me.
That you know new HTML, no HTML, no CSS but said like what is inside of that stuff.
So I had to do a little research. It's not that difficult really. It's, if you know, it's It's really if you ever looked at black grammar, it's like, whoa, I sort of understand this.
And it is, but the files themselves. For, for, for, for black themes are written in HTML.
I actually call it WP HTML, or WPML, word price market language.
Okay, can you repeat the? The link that you mentioned so I can look it up.
Sort of a specialized way of writing HTML. Yeah. Yeah, one last thing on the link.
It's called it's go daddy article called, like understanding black grammar or black grammar for the non programmer, something like that.
Oh, I don't know if they published it yet. You know, they said they were gonna publish it.
So I'm not so sure that's online yet. So, nope, what can you say?
That's that's
Anyway, that was a interesting exercise because I had to learn a whole lot of stuff but not become a an authority on Jason notation.
Okay. You don't have to be. You really don't. It's sort of like common sense.
To at least understand what you're looking at. Oh, the other thing about, was it, TEAMS, which talked about, yeah.
Alright, one last thing that I wanted to do with the quality of life and then we'll get to the font library.
Is, oh yeah, drop shadows. I'm just gonna tell you real quick. I don't really, I'm crazy about this, but I'll show it to you.
So there are. Yeah, it's certainly I think the group lot the columns blog supports
Drop shadow. Again, this is sort of an infancy, but, so here I have, highlighted a columns block different than a column black as we all know.
And. So if I go into your style and down here. Let me get this out of the way.
We can see. No, we can't. I have to click on here.
Alright. Hmm. Something's in my way.
What are you trying to find?
Okay.
I'm trying to find, here we go. Right over, let me get this thing. It's still in my way.
So it's kind of, you know, it's 1 thing to be visually impaired.
It's another thing. To have stuff on top of stuff. Okay. Hmm, here we go.
So, okay, I guess it's not supported here. I thought it was. Anyway.
Trust me, IS. I know I spend any more time. Let's just try it over here.
Here's columns. Let's try. Should be over here. Click on the 3 dots over here.
How are you looking for the shadow? Okay.
Okay.
Yeah, shadow. Yeah, okay, only the shadow knows and you click on this over here and you can see, you get some, you know.
Possibilities like that. Well, I have one more quality of life. I've forgot something here. And then you've got different, there you go.
Not a lot of weight to control all this stuff, but at least some possibilities here. Yeah, I'm just gonna leave it over here.
One way has quality of life. This is a good one and I almost left out. And I would have really kicked myself.
So you know that you can drop images into your, you know, design area over here, but watch this.
So I've got 2 images ready to go somewhere. And I'm just gonna drop this one in here.
Oh yeah. So. Now come on. Oh, I know what it is.
Sorry. Put this one over here. And I'm gonna take this one over here. And I'm just gonna put it in, let's say over here.
So I've created a gallery without even opening up a block. And how do I know it's a gallery?
Well. Here it is, says gallery down here and if I open this up I should see But I have two, right over here in my gallery.
And how good was that? Of course, like when I renamed the gallery to Italy, images, whatever, I can rename it.
So that's kind of nice. You can just start and then you can start it very simply by dragging images in and then of course.
Arranging it like you would. You know, images or how you would do any gallery. Alright, last thing to do and like the best thing to do maybe and that is the long long long, right?
I mean, how many years did we wait for this? Font library. So back to the, now again, this is only gonna work.
Font library, if you're using a classic theme, forget it. You can't use it.
You know, you still have to use plugins and tricks and all kinds of stuff to get different kinds of code.
Different kinds of ways to get your custom fonts into the site. But now, if you're using a Classic.
A black theme, I'm sorry. Like 2024 if I go into Styles.
Alright. And let's just open this up over here. And now we have. Over here.
And I know it's a bit of a, you know, you've got it. You have little ways to go, right?
So I'm in the topography section of the styles section. And right over here now you see these fonts every year came with the theme.
And you actually have some like system files over here and then these 2 finds came with the 2024 thing but you say like oh I don't want any of those okay here's what's new Click on this over here.
It's modal pops up and it's the font library. And so it always gives you sort of the, you know, library overview.
Now they say that this is like the media library. I don't get it. I don't think it is.
But here's where it is like the Media Library. Any fonts that you're using here.
Our fonts that are downloaded to your WordPress installation. Okay, these are not streamed fonts or whatever.
These are all actual font files. That you're gonna bring into your site. So even if you're not aware of it and they're all gonna be stored, I think they're all stored.
In a folder called fonts, which is located in the uploads folder in the WP content area.
Now, you know, there was a lot of debate about all that. But. That's where it is.
Okay.
Okay. It is called the font yeah, it's the font library as opposed to the media library which takes care of your images and stuff so Yeah.
Yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah, it's definitely not the media library. Yeah, I know, but they were always like all the people that were working on this.
We're always saying, let's just like the media library. Not really. At least I don't see it.
Okay, so 2 ways. One. Is you can use Google Finds. All right.
And the first time you do that, you're gonna first time you use this, you're gonna see this.
And all you have to do is just click on this and you're done. I don't know why they just don't start with this, but okay.
And you can then search the 600 Google fonts over here. Alright. And you might say like, I wanna use, oh, now if you don't know which one you, you know, to use, one way you could do this is just go to Google Finds and pick one out, I guess, but let's say you know about Right?
And here's your photo. And then all the different variations of you can click on all these and use them.
I would only use the ones that you wanna actually use. Okay. Don't, you know, if you're not gonna use a mob, don't use them all.
Let's say I want a heavier weight. Roboto, so 700. And I'm going to install.
And that's it. I think I'm done. It's go to the library and you can see I now have in my library.
Another way to do this. Is if you don't like Google, let's say you're using Adobe Fonts or let's say you have a favorite font foundry, you know, or you can get free fonts on the internet, right?
So, And I did, so I'm going to just click over here. And let's hope this works because this better work.
I'm going to go over here. Let's see what's new. And here we go.
And I have a No, no, I'm sorry. It must be on my
Where is it? Here we go, fonts, okay. So I have. Got in 5 different finds.
Well.
Notice that, that there's the WO the W the Wolf the WFF or TTF or there's a bunch of supported.
I don't know, I'm not certainly not an expert on this. But let's say I want.
Hey.
They're listed on that page when you clicked on upload. Yeah, so just to as a reminder to make sure that those are.
Yeah, yeah, thanks, Yeah, true. Okay, so I'm gonna pick one. I suppose I can multi select all of these, but I just wanted to take one.
And there it is. It actually worked. Go back over here and now you can see I have this one over here and I've got the Roboto.
And okay, fine. Now how do you, oops. How do you? Goodness, let's go back to where I was.
Yep.
And you're a 5 min bud. 5 min.
Yeah. And how do I? We'll be done. At least I will be done in in 2 min actually.
So how do you use these? Okay, so I'm gonna get out of here. And so now you see over here, look at this.
We've got these new fonts to use. Let's just say I want to just change this paragraph over here.
Now you can use the fonts to apply across the entire, you know, globally across the entire site.
Or you can use them for a specific block on a specific page. So that's really nice. Of course, if you're good designers, you know that you're not going to use 15 different finds on your website.
Let us hope not. But let's say I wanted to change this one over here. So all I'm gonna do is use this one over here and let's see if this will, huh.
Yeah, I don't know why this isn't working.
Yeah, yeah, right.
Yeah, what do
You're trying to go back into the, the library. You just need. So what you want to do is scroll down a little bit more to elements.
And then you have your text and your headings and stuff, right? You can paint globally.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm sorry. Thank you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, you're right.
So I'm gonna go into text. Right. Thank you. And, down over here.
So now look at this, where you have all the fonts. Well, I can just say.
Thank you, Laura. You saved me. Yeah, and you could just save it and then you can see there's a difference over here or if you want to just do another one over here just go over here where it says Okay, and you can just change this.
Okay, so what's nice is that this feature again, you can set your fonts across the entire site.
Well, you only have 3 min, so. One last thing.
Of course, one way to do this is the last thing I will do. I hope it's not the last thing I do, but So, alright, so let's say, alright, so let's say I'm gonna go into the style book, right?
And let's say for all the headings I want to change the text, right? Oops, not the color, but the toography and for all the headings I want to use.
Roboto. How good is that? So now it's set across the entire site. All the headings now take And if there's a certain page.
The certain heading, I wanna change that, then I can just change it on that one instance. So there's a way that you can set your topography with new with the funds and the font library and apply it to the, like I just did over here with the style book.
And with that, I think, wait a minute. We have, what about the, can I give away the prize?
Yep, give away the prize.
Alright, so you I'm not even gonna do the wrap up because you know, but I am gonna give you for being such good attendees and do we have any questions while I'm fumbling around here?
Okay.
Pretty much, but I did.
No, I. We were kind of answering them that. Cause we didn't have enough time to do everything and, so that, yeah, patterns is still there.
You can create your own patterns. You can create your own templates. So go play and have fun.
Explore.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Well, that's the way you explore.
You know, we. We play and we learn and Oops, I have this, you know, I'm not used to this, but I have a level your microphone on me and I probably enact it a hundred times already.
But what I just did was I gave you a link. Free podcasts, okay, of my new series called Seriously Bud and, I think you'll enjoy it because you'll see a whole bunch of people in there that you may know.
And maybe you'll subscribe and it's all free, there's no sponsors, so that's it.
Alright, if you, and if you need to reach me by the way, I've been give out my email address, but it's bud at.
Joy of wp.com. So I hope you all learned something new. And found it, you know, value that's the important thing, you know, that you find it useful.
Any, any questions before we say goodbye?
No, just lots of thank yous and thank you, bud, for taking the time to share this with us.
Well, thank you. Okay.
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