Matt Refghi

Transcription So this video is about the plugin “Classic Editor.” Classic Editor is an interesting plugin because as of version 5.0 of WordPress, a new default editor has existed in the product. That new editor is called Gutenberg – you can’t really see it in WordPress referred to as Gutenberg, but it looks like this. If you click it, they usually refer to it as the block editor, okay? So what you’re seeing right here is the block editor. You know, instead of seeing a title, and a body, where I can actually put in the content, you now have to interact with blocks. So I can just type whatever I want here, that works, but let’s say I want … Read more

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Related View the short version of this video. Transcription In today’s video, I’ll be showing you a plugin that allows you to impersonate other users, which I find especially helpful when it comes around to helping a user that’s encountering a certain issue, maybe they can’t see something, or something’s not – doesn’t look right to them. So in the WordPress dashboard, in the Plugins section, let’s click Add New Plugin, and here we’re gonna search for “user switching” and press enter. The first option is going to be by John Blackbourn & contributors, at least that’s the case right now. You’ll know it’s the right one if it has these contributors and the title is User Switching, so I’m … Read more

Description Here’s the Audacity post. Transcription When I record YouTube videos, these days, I always use the same Blue Yeti microphone, let me show you what it looks like. So this is the microphone I’ve been using the years, I think it looks great, it works pretty well, the only problem is, when I start a recording, and I finish my video, I actually record the whole thing, in Audacity, I can tell that there’s a persistent buzzing in beeping in the track, and even when I’m saying nothing, there’s a persistent buzzing and beeping sound. I never quite figured out how to solve this, I also didn’t really know how to search for this, because it sounds so strange … Read more

Description You can grab the batch file here. Transcription Earlier this year, I was looking at my web application and looking for ways to improve performance, which is something I do fairly regularly, and it occurred to me that was I still using JPGs and PNGs as an image format in my application where I could have adopted Google’s new WebP format. Now, Google’s WebP format is superior because with smaller sizes, which you see here, 26% smaller in size compared to PNGs, and 25-34% smaller than JPGs, I could pass those savings onto my users – it would mean they would have less to download when using my application, and thus things would just be a quicker, a better … Read more

Transcription So for today’s video, I have a plugin showcase for you. That plugin is called Activity Log, so I’m going to actually show you which one it is, it’s this one right here, Activity Log, and the author is Activity Log Team. It’s of course available in the standard WordPress repository. In my case, I’ve already activated it, so when I go back to my dashboard, you’ll notice I have an Activity Log entry on the left. What this plugin does, is it adds a feature I wish existed from the start in WordPress, you actually get to see what happened to each user as they’re using the site. You see when they logged in, when they logged out, … Read more

Transcription Hello, everybody. I’m here today to share a quick WordPress tip that will help anybody running a WordPress site. It’s becoming increasingly important on the web to have really fast performing websites because the response time is one of those signals that Google uses to determine whether your site appears above other sites. Not to mention that having a quick site is just a really good experience for users. Now there’s many ways to improve performance, but why I’m here today is to promote the use of alternate image formats. So for example, you might be familiar with JPGs and PNGs, but I’m here to talk about WebP. WebP is a Google-developed format, I’m going to show the website … Read more

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