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Okay. So welcome everyone. My name is Laura Adam Monas. I am co-hosting and being the tech person for bud.
If you have any questions while he's doing this presentation, please put him in the chat and I'll, Ask me at certain points if there's any questions and if there's something.
That's kind of relevant to what he's talking about at the moment. I might interrupt him at that point too.
So just kind of bear with us on that. Of it and, welcome. You found us on learned.
Dot word press.org or on meetup. Continue. We're gonna have some great stuff coming out for the to continue with the 6.4 and with the new 2,024 theme that's coming out also so.
Here is Bud.
Okay, thank you Laura and hello everybody. Welcome. My name is Bud Kraus. Let me, just do some housekeeping here.
In other words, turn on my screen, right? Wouldn't that be a good idea? And after I get that going.
Let's see. Okay, already we didn't take long. You don't see my screen, do you?
Laura? Okay, alright. Oh, yes, you do. Yeah, yeah. Okay, of course.
I do see your screen. Yeah, your power points up. Yeah, yeah, you're good.
And let me, and I wanna do one other thing, I wanna get this. I'd Yeah, the floating.
Okay. Alright, so now it didn't work. One other thing I've got to do, so bear with me.
It says hide. Floating. Alright, that worked. Okay, so let's get started.
I would came back again. I don't know why I just can't get rid of this thing.
All right, that's life.
Okay, so there I am and I've got somewhere Zoom UI that I want to get out of the way.
Okay.
It will get out of the way, I guess. So I'm talking to you or coming from Nutley, New Jersey.
It's 12 miles west of New York City where it's cold and beautiful today and we're in the middle of fall.
Actually, yeah, so it's pretty much peak around here, so it's really nice. My company is Joy of WP and I am an instructor.
But what I really do today is create WordPress content for WordPress businesses. So I do all kinds of things like, create how to videos and courses and Stuff like what's new in WordPress 6.4 and on it goes I work with a lot of different WordPress vendors.
So before we get going, let's, find out who's here. In other words, not so much who's here, but what do you guys know?
So we're gonna take a little Survey. I didn't tell you about this, Laura.
But everybody I want you to put in one of the following 3 entries. That is, I'm new to WordPress.
Or I use the block editor and I really like it or I don't use the black editor. If you don't know the black editor is also called Gutenberg so I'll use those terms interchangeably.
And I'm just curious, like, what do we have here? Who's here? So please enter that into the chat and Laura, you can do a quick little look for me.
Yep.
To see. Now I didn't tell Laura about this, so she's, I really put her on the spot here.
This is gonna be a tough one. 2.5. That's cheating.
Okay. We have a lot of twos. We have a 2.5 XD.
There's no 2.5. Alright.
A couple of ones, but mostly twos.
And how about any threes?
Cool. Nobody's a 3 yet.
Okay.
That's interesting. Okay, good. Alright, so
Before we get into the big picture, I do want to say that I'm a person who's visually impaired, so I may do something with my screen that looks a little weird or I don't see something as fast as you do, so just bear with me.
We'll get this done. All right, as far as the big picture goes with what's new in WordPress.
6.4. I'm a little trouble with something here. It's the third of 3 major releases this year and.
The one that was before that 6.4 came out in August. This is being led by an underrepresented gender release team.
That's the second time this has happened in the history of WordPress. There are hundreds of performance upgrades and site in hand, security enhancements and accessibility improvements with keystrokes and things like that.
Oh, also there are plenty of bug fixes. Aren't there always with any WordPress release?
But one of the things we will be looking at today is the shiny new default theme. 2024.
So we'll get into that a little bit. Now, oh, don't worry. This is not going to be, you know, a half hour, you know, PowerPoint presentation.
No, I'm actually gonna do live hands-on. Alright, a few words for you developers out there.
So. This is, 6.4 introduces the interactivity API and rather than talk about it, I'm going to show you the only 2 examples that I can show you right now of it in use.
There's also now a new Black Hooks API or a Black Hook API. And if you know how WordPress works with its.
Hooks, you'll understand that this is the ability to hook in or to insert. Code as a child block into a template or a template pattern.
I'm sorry, a template, a template part or a pattern. I'm not gonna show you an example of it.
I just want you to know that something new for developers. There's also this user block editing mode.
There's actually 3 of these different modes. One's disable mode. There's a content mode and a default mode.
Now these deal with how a developer can lock down a black.
And there's also an improvement method to script loading, which of course means faster, better performance.
And finally, there's one that I really don't really know much about. Or another least about, which is the new admin notice functionality.
I guess that's the ability to shut off all those nagging. Announcements that plug in developers and theme authors have in their in their source code, but I don't know, I'm not a hundred percent sure.
Anyway. Let's focus on end users and that work and that's pretty much what I'm going to do for most of this presentation.
And by end users I'm talking about. Content creators and and right now there's a so we have an enhanced command palette.
Now the command palette was introduced in 6.3. And it's sort of like the it's, it's a text box that you can enter in different commands.
I haven't used it all that much yet, but it's sort of like the Spotlight search on a Mac where you just can call up this little box put something in there ask a question or execute a command It's very similar to that and if somebody wants me to show you that I will but I don't really plan on doing that during my demonstrations.
And there are no more. Media attachment pages. Those useless media attachment pages. Which just was a mess for SEO.
They don't exist anymore for new installations. Now there is a way to turn them off for old installations, but You know, this can be one of those unless you ask me how to do it.
I'm not going to do it. Okay, but, you, so instead of going to a media attachment page, I think you're just going to see the media itself without the attachment page because as I've said they were pretty useless.
But Alright, now my demonstrations, what am I going to show you? All right, first.
We're gonna look at the, why is this in the way here so I can't get this.
We're gonna be looking at some of the design tool enhancements And what else do we have here?
I will show you that interactivity, API in action. Some of the site editor upgrades.
And my favorite, the quality of life improvements, what would we do without them? They're usually in every WordPress release.
And finally, as I mentioned, the 2024. Theme, it's the new theme.
Okay, that is shipping with this. Now we're not ready to do that. We're not gonna do the summing up yet.
Let's do the demonstration. So let's get out of here. And any questions so far?
There shouldn't be, but just in case, Laura.
Yep, I'm there. I'm here.
Laura, are you there? Can anybody hear me? Okay, yeah. All right, you know the old oh no don't tell me no one could hear me Alright, so.
Go ahead.
Peter was at, Petra, how, how do you turn off the attachment pages on the old installs?
Okay, alright, I will hold that to later on, okay? Cause we'll come back to that.
Well, that's a really good one, but there is a way to do it. okay, I'm still having trouble with my, Getting rid of something here.
So just give me one more second I don't understand. Wow, this doesn't work.
Okay, I'm just gonna have to live with this. Just give me Alright. Okay, so WordPress 6.4 this is I think the screen that you're likely to be seeing in a couple of days.
Now it's scheduled to come out on November, the seventh. Right now it's in what's called release candidate 3.
So it's almost ready. I've noticed there's some changes between RC 2 and RC 3.
There's very subtle, but right, you know, there isn't going to be major, there's nothing major that's gonna happen between what I'm going to show you and the final version of 6.4.
And I do want to show you this right over here in the plugins. I always like to tell people, show them like what I'm working with.
So that's it. I'm just using the WordPress beta tester, there's no focus focus.
So I'm not using the Gutenberg plugin. I shouldn't be at this point.
So you know that. You're just seeing what WordPress would be like. In a couple of days, actually.
All right. First thing I want to do is show you some of the Some of the design tool changes.
Now, and for that, I'm specifically going to focus on 2 things right now. Actually, it'll be 3, but it's 2 things.
One is the ability to add a background image to the group black and the other one is the ability to add a a Excuse me, a button into the navigation black.
Now, I'm going to show you this through the black editor. But you can do this, I'm sorry, through the site editor, but anywhere a group black appears or a navigation button appears, you can do what I'm about to show you.
I'm going to take you into appearance. I'm going to take you into the editor.
And actually, I don't want to do it that way. Sorry, I want to do it a little bit different.
So let's go out to the site. And let's do it this way. I'm gonna go into site editor.
It's just a different way to do this. And
Alright, and right over here, let's take a look at the list view. And in the header, I've got.
Just I don't know if I've got to the right place. Yeah. The group black.
Actually, this is where I want to go. No, sorry. It's not like me.
What I wanna do. To make life simpler. I was, I initially was gonna make life simpler, then I made it more complicated, and now I'm gonna make it simpler again.
I'm gonna go into patterns. And let's just let's just go right over to.
The header area right over here. Okay, right. You may know that this kind of got rearranged in 6.3.
Where all the, you know, the header, the footer got pushed into the pattern section that's new, not in 6.4, but in 6.3.
And so what I'm going to do is change the header. For all of my pages and posts and blog archives and here we go.
Okay. So this is what I want. Sorry to take you down the wrong place here. So in my group black, I said you can add a background image and I'm going to do that right by going over to the style.
Tab right over here and this is new. We can put in a background image. I'm gonna go into my media library.
And I'm going to use this image right over here. Yeah, that's fine.
Okay, and they've also given us the ability to adjust the minimum height here, which is good I'm going to use pixels.
Now, you can change the unit of measurements. You can see those over here. This is typical almost for anything now.
Is the ability to do that, but one thing you can't do. Is you can't change the focal point or the background image position.
That you can do with the cover block. So even though this is similar to the covered black, it isn't exactly or let's just say it's not as robust as the cover black, but I do suspect that over time you'll be able to insert a background image into any black in WordPress.
Or just about any black that would make sense to do a background image. And that's fine. I'm going to leave it just like this.
Now what I also want to do is go into my navigation. And I said you can now add and then they have here it is the navigation.
Just give me 1 s, the navigation block. And I said, you can add a.
Button black and I'm gonna do that right over here. I'm going to insert and this.
Wait over here. The button, okay, and now we should have it. Now you don't see it because I've got to get rid of this over here.
And now we see it. I'm going to change this so I need to add some text here.
And I'm gonna say. Log in and log out. And I need to also add.
The link, of course, and a happen to have Let me see. Yeah, I happen to have a login log out page.
If you didn't know this, there is an actual. black. That does the logging in and logging out.
It presents that or shows that kind of interface in the block, which is great with something that we didn't have in the classical version of WordPress.
Anyway, I'm going to save this. And we'll have a look. So. Those are 2 changes to design tool enhancements right off the bat and I'm going to go.
To the home to the front and you'll see okay so this headers now applying throughout the entire site and Oh yeah, I said log in.
And just to show you. You can. Oh, it's down here. I can't see it because the, but you can log in and log out right through this.
So that's really nice. Okay. Now, I said there was 2, right? Well, actually, there's a third one.
Let's have a look for design in. And right over here. Vertical text. Now if you love vertical text, you are really in luck.
So it's not my thing. Okay, I must admit it's not my, but I'm going to show you how you can do it.
So let's let's edit the page. Okay. Of course, amusing, yes.
Hey bud, before we jump into that, question is can I Can I style that button like I stuff?
Yeah. Yeah. I wish that's gonna say. Yeah, yeah, go ahead.
Go ahead. Ask me the question.
Can I style that button? Michelle is asking the way I style other buttons on the site.
Yes, yes, you can. Same. It's It's just the buttons, black.
Which contains button blocks, right? And in the example I showed you, I just had one button within the buttons black.
Thank you.
You have to be careful how you say all that stuff. Okay, but the answer is yes. All right, so Right over here, I want to, changes now to vertical.
Okay. Not really because as I've said, I'm not big for as somebody as visually impaired, vertical text, not so much.
Okay. So I'm gonna go to.
Where am I going to go? Oh yeah, to topography and see where's my topography.
Here we go. And in the settings. Right over here, the 3 dats. And I'm going to scroll down over here and this is new.
Text. Orientation. And I'm going to click on that. And if I got it right, and it's so hard sometimes to work with this.
What should happen is, let's see if I got it. Yeah, this is new. This is just added because I clicked on that text orientation.
So it shows up right over here in the interface and right over here. There you go. So you can go ahead and tilt your head to read it.
And so if you want. Now, I still find there's limitations as to positioning this. Let's say I wanted to get it closer to the bottle.
I had some trouble doing that, maybe somebody. Knows there's a better way to do it, but the way this is laid out is that it's a 2 column layout just one and 2.
So, alright, but we're gonna move on unless somebody has a question. Oh, I, yeah, I'm just going to update the page.
And that's good. Now I did say, so really those are 3 different design enhancements or tools to improve or enhance design and I did say that there was a.
Something called the interactivity API and there are 2 Examples I'm gonna show you.
Now there's only 2 because they've only This is a brand new API and I expect that developers are going to use it more and more.
And we're not even going to be aware of it, but here's here's an here are 2 examples of how it works.
One. Is here light backs. Let's see. So check this out.
So you have a gallery over here. And a single image over here. Okay. And if I click on, well look at this, you can see, oh, a lightbox effect.
Now I can't go to the next one like you would like think, right? I could go.
This one's not going to do it and this one does. Okay, now it's not broken.
I set it up this way, so don't worry. Oh, must be broken. No. And here's another example.
So anytime I hover over, you can see. Okay, got it. And then nothing over here.
And for the single image. Okay, so it works. So what's going on? How does this work?
Well, let's go into the page. And take a look. Though again, this is the interactivity API in in effect that's giving us the light box effect.
And if I just click on this image. Now you probably know that galleries are just nothing but collections of single image blocks.
And if I clicked on this one over here, which I did, I selected this image. And I go down to right over here, it says.
Expand to click. That's it. And if I click this one over here, you'll see.
No, that's not selected. So that's it. It's just a matter of toggling on and off.
Now you might be thinking like, oh, I have a host site that I want to use that for.
I'm gonna have to click on every one of those. Nope. You can set the global style in the, if you're using a black theme, you can go into styles and set it there so that it'll apply to all images across the site.
And then, so that's the default. And so then if you want an image not to expand on click, then you would go into that one image and just.
Selected so you would have what you'd see right over here. So that to me makes a lot of sense.
So it's a lot more useful than what you're just seeing over here, at least that is it's a lot easier to work with than what you're seeing here.
And the same thing with this over here. Again, it's just a single image and it's selected over there.
All right, so that's the that's one. Now the other example is pretty subtle, but it's there.
And I'm gonna go, it took me a little while to figure out this one. But if you go to the, let's see, I think we have it over here. Okay.
So I have a blog that has 2 different loops or 2 different query loops. One is for this category over here, which is scenes.
And then the other one is for food. And okay, fine. It looks kind of standard-ish.
Oh, by the way, since I am using 2024. And we'll look a little more into this.
Little bit you can see one of the hallmarks seems to be rounded corners for all the images okay doesn't have to be but that's sort of the default way of styling images.
2,024. Anyway, down over here. If I click on new page, now you have to watch this really carefully.
Did that reload? Laura, what do you think? Did that reload? You see a page reload there?
I did not. Because of the fact I was looking at the chat.
Now watch. Huh. Okay, and now this one over here. Let's see.
Let's take a look at that one.
Yeah, it's kinda hard to tell. Let me just take a look at what's going on here.
So for that. I am going to go into the site editor because that's where all this is taking place.
And I'm going to go over here. And I sort of forgot how I set this up. So I'm going to go.
Into this and we're going to go into I want to see the query loop for the column on the left hand side.
So that would be group. Columns on the left-hand side. And then this one over here. Okay.
And right over here. It says, let's see over here on the left hand right hand side, this is what's new.
It says force page reload. Now, interestingly enough, they just changed this because it released candidate 2.
It says, pagination enhancement. So either way. The page is not going, if, if you, the What's going to happen here is in this, in this instance the page does reload compared to, let's look at the.
Other one over here and that is well look at this other loop over here that is this is the second one the one to the right this is the Yeah, the one, this is the one.
Yeah, this is the one to the right. And what's selected over here is right over here.
So in this case, what do we have here? This is the, this is not the default behavior.
This is the browser. Browsing between the pages. Requires a full page reload.
Yeah, so that's, that is does not require. Let me, did I see that right?
Requires a full page reload. Oops, sorry. Let's see that again.
Let me see if we can actually take a better look at that and understand what's going on here.
Like I said, I had a little hard time. Understanding this, but it shouldn't be that difficult.
So like when you're in the page 8, when you're at the pageation. Yeah, when you click next page.
So. Yeah. Right here. Right.
It like reloads the whole thing, but see it's. It's more subtle now.
Exactly, exactly. But now here, right, right, but now here on the right side.
Yeah, you see, you can't see it because it's. It doesn't reload.
Yeah. Yeah, did I get that right? Anyway, so there, that's the, that's the interactivity API.
Those 2 examples, the the force page reload and the and the light box effect. Now let's have a look at some of the changes to the site editor and I think the one I'm about to show you is the most interesting.
Yes, question.
Hey bud. Before we move on, there was a question about the lightbox view. Oh, that's okay.
Yeah, go. Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry I'm not asking about the question. Sorry.
Alright.
Now stay tuned. Everybody's wait, hold on a second. Everybody will have lunch on me when this is done.
So you want to stay there. Okay.
I think everyone's very interested in everything so that there hasn't been a lot of questions. There is no we do have, 51 people, so don't make promises.
Oh, no, no, I don't. I'm not a man of my word. So go ahead.
So go ahead.
It is there a way to navigate the gallery while in the lightbox view? Cause they're saying there is no way.
To navigate the gallery while in the lightbox view.
That's right. That is right now. That's the way it is. Now, can will that change probably?
Okay, so if we go back to the light box. I think that is exactly correct. There is no way as of now.
To let's say click over here and then you would say let's say there'd be an arrow over here to cycle through the other images.
Yeah. Yeah.
Can't do it. Not yet. Do I think it's gonna come? Probably.
Oh yeah.
I mean, you could sort, remember this is all early stuff. I mean, you're looking at things that are.
Yeah, newly minted. And they're not fully developed, but they're coming and there you can use them now.
Okay, so I want to talk about that site editor stuff because I think what I'm about to show you is like the most interesting.
Of all the changes in 6 4. Actually the first thing I wanna show you is let's jump into the site editor.
And. First thing I want to show you is. In styles okay if I click on so we open this whole thing up now which really kinda.
I mean it has a lot of potential. Oh my goodness, what am I doing? Okay, alright.
Is right over here. If you go over to the Styles icon.
Oh excuse me and you go right over here now we've had this this is the style book you're probably familiar with this And, but right over here.
This is new. This is revisions history. Now, I know what you're thinking. Oh no, don't tell me it's gonna be like revisions history like pages and posts and WordPress.
No. This is actually the future of WordPress. So if I click on revisions history, now you can see a listing starting with the oldest that is the where I started and each one of these remembers as long as you do a save it remembers and and stores the information about what The styling looked like at a particular point in time.
So I'm gonna just click on a few of these and you can see. Okay. Now I didn't do a whole lot of big changes here, but I just wanted to do this for demonstration purposes is that There are.
Now here's what's also cool too and you'll see you'll get it if people were following WordPress closely, they'll get this in a second.
So notice right over here, this isn't me, this is my son. Okay, now of course my son doesn't do this.
But that's WordPress is dad's thing. But what I'm getting at is that different users are recorded in their style changes so that you could work collaboratively.
And style changes and have them saved. And of course, you know, it's more than just the colors over here that can change.
It can change anything. And as long as you save them. It's fantastic so you could say like, hey, we did a great styling back here.
Let's apply this. Okay, and let's work with this. I just applied it to now I can make all the changes.
Based on, you know, I can go on and continue to make, I can just go and open up the style book.
And start making changes right through here. So that's, I think it's really interesting. Now why do I get so excited about this because WordPress.
The Gutenberg phase 3. Is collaboration and you could see this is opening up the door to how people are going to be able to collaborate.
And make it have some sense to it as far as saving. you know, versions of what they're doing.
I'm going to go back to history. And you can see also you can delete all changes too or you can go back to the beginning.
I'm just gonna go over here and actually just go back to here and apply. And that's fine.
Okay, so.
As long as you click the save, that's the way it works now. As long as you click save.
The revisions will be saved. And I just, I do get a little excited about this because. I can see the future of WordPress in phase 3 right through here of what's gonna happen.
Alright. Now, I want to take a look at. Something that I also think is pretty interesting and that is Let's go over to patterns.
Alright, now, 2024 comes loaded with patterns. If, if there's one thing I could say about 2,024, lots of patterns.
And I'm not going to go through all the patterns obviously, but you can see the patterns are categorized.
That's not really new. But we can now create our own patterns. Again, that's not really new, but we can also apply our own categories.
And that's definitely a new feature. So let's just create a pattern. And like I say, I'm not gonna go through all of them.
Oh, I do want to show you one rate over here. I have a tech, I wanna look for galleries.
So I have 5 patterns and galleries. And as a preview of what's coming, take a look at this.
Now you can say, wait a minute, how could you have a blank pattern? No, it's not blank.
So if I click on it, what you see is like, or over here, you see like these placeholders like images, right?
Or like with little spaces like where images could go. Oh, that's new. All right. So I want to be able to create one of these.
So if I create, let's say, a gallery pattern of my own. How do I do that?
Okay. All right, let me show you. So I'm going to go over to here. And now we've had this before, but this is new or over here, the ability to write from here import a pattern.
I'm gonna show you importing and exporting in a bit. But let's just focus in on right over here.
So I'm going to give it a name. Let's call it something fancy like buds pattern.
Okay. And I said it would be fancy. And then I could enter my own category name if I want or.
And that's so creative here. So I am going to use an existing category. And of course, it's going to be a gallery, so why not just add gallery?
So yes, can you add more than one category to the pattern? Sure. So find out right over here.
What does this mean if you're familiar with this with reusable blocks? This is exactly what this is, a synced pattern.
And that is if you make a change to this pattern anywhere on the site. It'll change whatever that pattern is being used.
Well, that's okay. I can also change this a little later on and that's what I'm gonna do.
I'm just gonna leave it right like this. And let's start. And what I'm gonna do is how we doing on time.
We're getting close to the end here. So I just want to check on time. Okay, we're doing good.
We're, yeah, we're at 2 37, so we're good.
Yeah. Yeah. And any questions right now? While I'm looking at something.
Yeah, when you were showing that revisions, is there a, time? Limit on the history of that save.
Do you know anything about that? Or can you delete a saved revision item to keep the list manageable?
Is. Oh, no, not yet. Nope, but you know what? This is again, first look, right?
Yeah.
This is the first iteration released in 6.4 and do I think that's going to change? You bet.
Yep.
Okay, so what you're just talking about, you're going to see it. And not just in style revisions but in page revisions, post revisions, custom post type revisions, any kind of revisions.
You're going to see sort of a list that you can go back to. It's like, I guess it'll be a lot like Google DAX that you can go back and see.
Yeah, go ahead.
Right.
And it. Yeah, it's the whole part of the collaboration. Being able to work on a document with multiple people.
So, being able to work on a document with multiple people. So, that's just going to continue to grow.
That's right. In real time. Yeah. And also, right, this is only gonna develop.
It's really our first look at phase 3 and this is only going to grow and change as time goes on.
So, and also don't forget, we're talking about real time changes. As far as I know, okay, so.
You can't do that now, but I think that's coming. All right, so what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna start with them. Right over here, I'm going to create my own pattern here.
Let's just, Let's type in. I'm gonna make it real simple.
Because once you understand the concept, I don't have to make this complicated. And we'll do this and now I'm gonna enter.
I'm going to add, let's see. A okay, I just gonna do this over here actually.
I think that's the best way to do this. Kinds and we'll do. Columns like so, you know, get this out of the way.
And here is the here's something that's new. So I am going to Just choose an image.
Right over here.
Alright, I'm gonna insert my image. But rather than look in the media library for it, I'm just gonna go right over here.
Into the. Where are we here? Let's get out of let's go into here.
And into the image. And right over here aspect ratio, I'm going to pick. Let's say a square box.
Alright, didn't change all that much, I don't think. And now this one over here.
I'm also going to add an image. And I'm gonna do the same thing. I'm going to change the aspect ratio.
And you can see the ones that are there by default. I'm sure that, you know, different theme authors will have different dimensions put in here.
And. Let's do. Okay, something like that, alright.
And we'll save it. I'm keeping this very simple. Actually, what I also want to do before we move off is to inside the group black, I'm going to put in a background color to make it a little easier to see.
Yeah, okay. Alright, I think that'll work. Alright, so we're saving this pattern.
Perfect. What I want to do is use it and I'm going to go over to page Let's just add a new page, oops, page, new page.
And we're just gonna, now look at this. So, oops, that happens so fast that I'm gonna leave.
What happened is, and I don't like this, and I maybe they will change this, but.
Yeah, if I do this, add new. So, 2024 pops up all these.
Themes and you could probably look around for mine or or your pattern actually not a theme but a pattern.
I don't see anything. So I'm going to just close this out and then we're just going to put in the word pattern over here.
Pee. And I'm not even gonna title it. What I'm gonna do. I could just type in, let's see, slash.
There we go. So my pattern is over here. Now I could also get it right through here. I could have gone to the inserter.
Chosen pattern. And my patterns this is new okay I mean I this isn't I mean, the fact that I created a pattern.
It'll show up in there and it will also show up of course. In the gallery pattern as well.
But I just did it like this. And now you can see what's really good about this. You just click on this.
You go into the media library. And you can add your media. Now, one thing you'll want to be careful of, remember, I showed you that this is a synced pattern, meaning Right now, if I, once I get this thing going, wherever I change the pattern, whenever it's used, it would change throughout the site.
And I may not want to do that so I can unsync it and I'm gonna just do that by right over here, whoops.
There's a lot of controls, right? Detach and now it's just a regular group black over here.
All right, I'm gonna save some time by not you get the idea. I just do it real quick.
I just do one of these media. And put this in here. And so on. So that is really great.
Now, why is that great? Because before we'd have to put, we'd have to populate these with, we'd have to pop populate our patterns that we created with images.
We don't have to do that anymore. We can just put in placeholders and then populate our images.
So that is a time saver. I really like that idea. All right, we are heading down the home stretch here.
Just a couple other things I want to get in here. Oh yeah, so what is really nice in case you don't know about this, let's just save this.
What's really nice is We go into the site editor. And we go into
Right over here, patterns. Hold on, patterns. Down here, manage patterns, manage all patterns or manage my patterns.
My patterns. And you can see my patterns over here, right? The one I created, but I can export this as a JSON file.
I'm not going to do that. You probably know how to do that. But I'm going to add a pattern.
So, or imported pattern. So. For that, that's not what I want to do, is it?
No, I don't want, I don't think I want to do it that way. Hold on.
I want to do a new pattern. I want it. All right, well, there's a couple of ways to import.
I'm going to do it like this. Let's go back. I'm gonna try something I haven't really tried yet, but this won't take long.
Right over here, I showed you this a minute ago. And that is import and it should right and then right over here.
I have, I have a pattern. That I created with another. From another site using a different theme.
Now it was a block theme. All right, like this one. And if I go over here now to my patterns.
I have this pattern in over here. So it's just that simple. And of course, one last look over here.
We go over here, it's in there now and you can manage it and you can edit the patterns right from here.
If I click on edit pattern it'll just take you to a regular page and you could just.
Edit the pattern. Remember, got to be careful if it's a synced pattern or it's not a sync pattern.
You have to always know that. Lester, we're just getting to the air. Oh, we're not quite there.
Any questions? Well, I'm fumbling around here, Laura.
Okay. Okay.
We, we're just having a little discussion about that. The, the, the, the revision, thing is something new.
There are plugins out there that can manage your revisions. So just clarifying some things for people.
Okay. Yeah. Right. Okay, okay.
We're good.
What I want, we're almost done. I want to do, Excuse me, a couple of those little quality of life improvements as they say and
Yeah, so for here, when you go into that lightbox example. And when you go over here, and I'm gonna show you a list view.
Oops, I'm sorry, list view. Now look at this, list view has, images.
Now I really, you know, personally I don't find much value to this. That's a little editorial there.
But every image now has a little thumbnail. It's pretty small. Of what the image looks like.
So, you know, fine. If you like that idea. But here's something I think is a little more useful, quite frankly, is that if you have Hmm.
Let's do. Let's put every, this is not, Let's do, let me get out of here and show you real quick.
I thought I had something in there to show you, but just give me 1 s here. And right over here.
Back to patterns. And we're going to go. My patterns. And yeah, I could do it this way.
Because this one uses the group block. Now watch this. You can now go over here and change or rename the group block.
And let's just call this, oh, we'll just call this. Pattern, pattern block.
Okay, now it's not a very imaginative name. You'll see what happens is And now shows up as pattern black.
Now I think eventually you're going to be able to rename all of the items in the list view.
So that they'll be a little more, well, you know, so columns can't rename it yet, but maybe, you know, that's coming that will be able to rename that.
All right, last is, 2,024. Sure.
Quick. Hey bud, I have a question.
Oh yeah, sure, go ahead.
From the chat, could you save a template as a pattern in order to export and import into a different Full site editing theme.
Alright, let me read that. Say that again. I think the answer is yes, but go ahead.
Say that one more time.
Could you save? Could you save a template? As a pattern in order to export. Export and import into a different theme.
Same, Oh, to export it. Right, right. Yeah, as long as you're saving it as a pattern.
Yes. But I, I, you know, oh that, let me just take a quick look at that one, because I don't think that would work.
So I Templates. Manage all tablets. Right over here. I don't know or if I knew I forgot.
So. Yeah, I know what you're saying.
Tremi in the in the chat says yes that is possible so
Yeah, okay, it would make sense that that's possible. Thanks for the help on that. So again, you can create a pattern.
And then. Or you could create a template. And push that into pattern or save it as a pattern, right?
And then export that into another website. As long as you can export, the answer is yes. So.
That would make sense that you can do that. Alright, one last thing it's 2024 and and then I'll answer any questions and I know somebody wanted to see how do you change the get rid of the media attachments.
Yay, you can get rid of media attachments. I can't move my, I have some.
You have about 10 min.
You I in the middle over here. Okay. Okay, we're good. We're very good.
Okay, so I got as much as I could. Yeah, I want to do this. I want to do a summary and then question.
So. Here it is, 2024. This is the demo site of the, the theme and it will of course be Now if you want to get it right now, go to GitHub and do a search for 2024.
You can download the code and that's that. But, Cause that's, I think the only way you can get it.
And you've seen quite a bit of this already, actually. The one thing I want to show you here right here, even though this is a very flexible default theme.
And that's true, you could really use this thing for anything and a lot of people think this is the best WordPress stock theme ever.
I don't know. That's not for me to say, but initially, or it's going to be marketed and geared.
For entrepreneurs, photographers or artists and bloggers. And so for example, I think this one's kind of interesting here.
Again, these are just examples. Doesn't mean you're locked into this style and anything like that.
I thought what was kind of interesting is, oh, sidebars are back. You know, they were gone and now they're back.
So maybe so, maybe not, but you get the idea. Now, it comes, most of the style variations have, The 2, there are 2 different fonts of note that come with it.
But a little disappointing here was the fact that the font library is probably a lot of people here may know, was not as they say the technical term it was punted.
2, 2, word press 6.5. So, hopefully we'll see the font library once and for all.
Now, if you got to see any of the font library, it's really great. Okay, and everybody's gonna like it.
I think it's the ability really to use easily use. Any any font with their site. Right now it's not that easy to do.
But in 6.5, it's gonna be pretty easy to use. I thought it was really cool the way I was very disappointed that it's not in this version but it's gonna come.
All right, last thing is really to sum it all up. And for that, I will go over to my PowerPoint for a slider 2.
And let's go over to. Here and we'll just go down to here. Okay, and I'm gonna move this out of the way.
And that is, if you haven't noticed, this is definitely a smaller release, okay? There were not really those showstopping.
You know, can't miss, heart throbbing, whatever, features in 6 point.
. and that one, and the primary reason was we had a very short release cycle. 6.3 came out in August.
And there wasn't time to really do more than what was done. But still, I think there's some significant improvements in the experience of working with WordPress without a whole lot of real fancy stuff going on.
Yeah, as I said, we did see changes to design tools in the site editor.
And is it the end of phase 2, whether, in a way it was phase 2 was supposed to have already ended.
I guess phase 2 will really never end. But they will always be making improvements to the site editor. And of course, you know, stay tuned for 6.5, which I think is gonna be a biggie.
And with that, I will be, oh, one last thing. Oh, yeah, where to reach me.
So you can take a picture of. This right now, get your cell phones out. And it's budded joy of WP.
Dot com and oh yeah if you use that thing called Twitter or X or whatever it's called. I guess it's always gonna be called both.
I'm at Joy of WP and please follow me because I only have a thousand 8 followers as of today and I need to get to 2,000 like in a week or so.
No, I then that's not gonna happen. And that's really it. So I'm Hopefully that you learned something that you didn't know already.
And you found it worth your time and you know I'm happy to answer any questions. Oh Should I answer that question that somebody asked at the top that dealt with how to get rid of that media attachments page?
Sure. Yeah.
Let's do that one, okay? I said I would. So let's get that one done.
You can actually for that there isn't a plug-in yet for that, but you know, you can figure it will be.
But you don't have to wait for the plugin. You can actually, you can go into your, database and make a change in the options table or You can do this.
So I didn't know you could do this until recently. This is like what I learned. The other day.
Shame on me for not even knowing this, but You know, you can't know everything. I'm gonna get out of there and we're gonna go into so in my URL and the WP admin, I'm gonna type in.
Options that pH p okay And yeah, I'm gonna leave this. And of course, this is really direct access into your.
Database and right over here somewhere it says attachment WP, I don't know where it is.
But if you scroll down here somewhere, you know. Trust me, it says something like WP attachment disable or something like that.
You have to change the value. Let me just see if I can find it real quick.
You know, there's a lot of stuff going on here. I think it's right here.
No. Anyway, the value has to be changed from one to 0 or 0 to one. I forgot which one.
And, and that's it. And then you just can save it. Of course, you want to be careful with this.
You gotta back up and all that because you know you're playing with the database here. And that's it.
And I haven't tried it myself, so I'm not gonna guarantee. Now, fresh new WordPress installs.
Of, 6.4. There will be no media attachments. This is only for people who want to get rid of media attachment pages altogether, which I think is a good thing because it's just wrecks up your seat or it doesn't help SEO at all.
Okay, I hope that helped. Next. Any other questions?
No questions.
Okay.
Really? That's scary. Anybody still here?
Yes, we have 41 people still here.
Wow! Alright, so we're all coming over for lunch, is that it?
Yeah.
I don't think so. Well, you know where to reach me and I do respond to email and I do respond to DMs and Twitter and stuff like that.
So if you have any questions about anything. Let me know. And Laura, thank you.
Yeah.
And yes, this is being recorded. So the link will be on. In, the, learn WordPress or WordPress TV.
Give us a day or so since I'm still new at the transcribing and all that, setting that all up.
And thank you, Laura.
Thank you everyone. Appreciate that. Yep, you're welcome.
Take care.
Alright, bye everyone.