Tech Tips

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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Transcription So the Excel sheet in front of you acts like a phone book. You enter a name and then you’re provided with a phone number. And this works because I have formulas within this cell, we’ll take a look at that shortly. But I also added another feature that lets you lookup by number, not just by name. And if you do this, you can see the result is “Nothing found” because there’s no phone number that’s called “Sawyer, Allen”. So we’re going to delete this, and instead we’re going to search for “Sawyer, Allen”‘s phone number, so in this case it’s 999-174-5493, press ENTER, and there you go, it finds a name. That’s great and all, but let’s … Read more

Transcription Excel is capable of drawing arrows that show you how cells relate to one another. I’ll show you how it works. So in front of you is kind of a phonebook type application – you can see that I can type a value, in this case I typed “Armstrong, Audrey”, and that it actually pulls up Audrey’s phone number, and if you look here, it also highlights it in green on the side. But what we’re going to be focusing on is this cell right here, we’re going to leave it selected and we’re going to go up to the formulas tab in the ribbon, and in the “Formula Auditing” section we’re going to click “Trace precedents.” What this … Read more