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Using ChatGPT to optimize YouTube content for WPwatercooler
I recently started using ChatGPT to try and optimize the YouTube content for my website, WPwatercooler. In the past, I struggled with writing descriptive text for the "in the description down below" section of my videos and found the process of creating metadata for my episodes to be tedious. I hired a YouTube consultant to provide some critiques and recommendations, but I still needed a way to make the process more efficient.
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How should I indieweb?
Like most modern geeks on the internet that just saw Twitter go up in a big flame when Elon purchased it most of us out here are trying to go back to owning our own content again. We got burned by throwing all of our content of Facebook and Twitter and want to go back to having stuff on a website we own and can do what we want with.
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Mastodon, indieweb and the fediverse
In reply to https://jan.boddez.net/articles/what-indieblocks-does-and-why. I've been working on building up my skills in our post Twitter life by trying to figure out the Indieweb. Many years back I met Chris Aldrich at WordCamp OC and we got to talking about this thing called Indieweb. At the time I was looking for a way to pull in the tweets of people that were mentioning WPwatercooler on Twitter and Facebook and somehow have those mentions show up as comments on the website.
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Playing in the metaverse
Recently on WPwatercooler EP436 – A New Dimension of WordPress we had Anthony Burchell on the show to discuss with us the use of 3D in the WordPress block editor. I've been playing around with metaverse environments for the last few years with the Meta Quest 2 and found that this functionality to be quite awesome.
With Anthony's new plugin you can add the blog to your post and then upload some .
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Streaming high school sports games for others to watch
Going to your kids sports games are hard, scheduling time around your day to go to them a well as dealing with the travel to get there in time. Some of these games happen at 2pm on a Wednesday, who can leave work to go it it? I try my best to go to every game my kid is in, she plays varsity water polo in high school and I want to see every one of her games if I can.
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Some tips on taking photos of your kids before school dances
I will say if you have the ability to take a photo of your kids and their friends before a school dance, do so. Even if your have an ounce of skill in photography you are the better one to take photos of your kids and their friends than anyone else. Over the last 4 years of high school with my kid we've taking pics of them and their friends every year.
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How to delete a certificate restored from an iPhone or iPad backup when switching MDM?
I'm working on migrating my office from JAMF Now to Mosyle since Mosyle provides so much more for a cheaper price tag. Ive never used Mosyle before so I thought I'd start by asking their support after poking around in their new to me interface.
Submitting a ticket I submitted a ticket to Mosyle Support asking how to do a migration:
Can you point me in the right direction on how to go about migrating from Jamf Now to Mosyle?
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The problem with WordPress blocks, full site editing and custom fields plugins
In this post I want to share with you some of my thoughts regarding WordPress blocks custom fields plugins and the recently release full site editor in WordPress 5.9 Josephine.
For the last three years I've been using Beaver Builder as my page builder of choice and have been using the Themer functionality in Beaver Builder to allow me to use custom fields generated from Advanced Custom Fields Pro to display post custom field metadata on posts I have written and website layouts I've created.
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WordPress 5.9 - Testing before release
It's a day before release and I wrote a twitter thread this week brain dumping some of the ideas I have for 5.9, the future of WordPress and it's compatibility with my history with the software. WordPress the software has been an interesting journey for me, I've been using it very early on and before that, moveable type. The interesting part of it is its evolution and how things have been added, removed, added and changed.
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Should we replace Facebook with our personal websites?
In the era of social media should we look to take back our voice from the monetized networks of social network and go back to the roots of the internet with personal websites?
Under construction digging guy My website journey began building websites in HTML, tables and inline styles. The days of <font> tags and knowing how to craft table tags, colspan. Back when we used <b> for bold and we didn't <em> anything just italics.
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How I cleaned my MailChimp mailing list
Back in August I did a little of spring cleaning and cleaned out my mailing list for my WordPress podcast network WPwatercooler.
The idea was that the number of opens and click through's are pretty low and the number of people that were joining the show as participants was getting smaller so what I did is I took a list of all the people that were recently on the show for the last 12 months and added them to a do not remove list and then went through and removed all the folks that have never opened one of the emails and got rid of them.
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Our annual tradition, Letterboxing on January 1st
On New Year’s Day, my family and I went on our annual outing of going out to a local park and go letterboxing. What’s a Letterbox? Letterboxing is an activity that you do where you go to a website select a letterbox to find and go out and find it in the real world.
How does it work? The process goes like this, you go onto a letterboxing website (we like letterboxing.
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Applying focus to only a few personal projects this new year
Good Morning! It's Day 1 of January the first day of the new year. I've been thinking a lot about all the things I've done, started and haven't completed and have realized that I need to ditch a bunch of projects I don't have time for and only focus on the ones I do. Most of these projects have some monetary cost to me each year in the form of a domain name, here is what I'm keeping to start:
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WordCamp US in Nashville 2017 with my 12 year old daughter by my side
This past weekend November 28 - December 3rd my 12-year-old daughter Jessalyn and I flew out and attended WordCamp US in Nashville Tennessee. As I wrote in my previous post - WordCamp US through the eyes of a 12 year old Jessalyn and I were sponsored to go to WordCamp US by the kind folks at Bluehost via Women Who WP and giving us the means of flight and lodging to attend the event.
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Stepping outside of my existing workflow and trying new things
Like most people, you find what works for you and you typically stick with it, I'm looking to change that when it comes to software, hardware, and services that I pay for. I use a bunch of web development tools to get the various jobs and tasks that I do on a regular basis and I'm starting to see that some of these things I only use only because I know the people that make them or I've been using it for years.
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WordCamp US 2017 from the eyes of a 12 year old
I'm attending WordCamp US in Nashville Tennessee at the end of this month. This is the first time since WordCamp SF turned into WordCamp US that I'll be attended this event. For the last few years, aside from the local WordCamps here in California I've haven't been venturing too far from home to attend a WordCamp. WomenWhoWP wanted to send two people to WordCamp US Bluehost said they would sponsor those people. So WomenWhoWP put an application on their site, we applied, and were selected from the entries.
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Don't get caught looking at the clock during a live video stream - Video Streaming Tips
In this video, I'm going to show you a million dollar tip, one that makes it very easy to stay engaged with your live video stream without showing your viewers you are looking at the clock.
I record about 2 hours of live video each week and I have hard starts and hard stops on these shows so I need to look at the clock a lot. The best way I've found to not get caught looking at the clock is to move the time to the center of the screen so people watching me won't see me look at the time periodically.
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How to build a new WordPress website - https migrations, seo, contact forms, google analytics
This month at my local WordPress meet up I demonstrated how you can build a WordPress website and what tools you need to get started. I covered a myriad of topics and our plan is to cover this series for the next couple months. We hope that folks can figure out how to build WordPress websites themselves by combining all the info we share in this series.
Here is the video from WhittierWP, my local WordPress meet that I co-manage.
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Videos from January 2017 OC WordPress developer meetup
At the January 9th 2017 OC WordPress developer meetup Brandon Dove and Jacob Arriola did presentations that I recorded. If you are into WordPress you may enjoy and learn from these mrxuzsi.
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Live streaming with an interactive audience is hard
Bridget Willard and I started WPblab as a way for her and I to answer people's questions about WordPress and to be able to share our knowledge with our viewers. We started this show on blab.im a new yet now sunsetted live video streaming website with some new features that we couldn't find elsewhere. It reminded me of the early days of WPwatercooler and our use of Google Hangouts On Air to stream our show to the masses.