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Hey everybody, I am not accidentally live, just suddenly live, we'll say, because I

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wasn't planning on going live for this, but I figured I'm working on the site, and I thought

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it would be fun to kind of walk through it quickly, give you a little sneak preview of

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what I'm hoping will launch next week. That's what I'm hoping. I recorded an interview yesterday,

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and that was the first time I referenced Streamline to Solopreneur, so I have a very set date

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for when the show will be rebranded now. So I thought I would just kind of go through

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what I was working on. In the last live stream, I looked at Podpage, and I talked about all

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the reasons that Podpage wouldn't work for me. So it looks like a really good service.

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I think a lot of people would probably benefit from it, but as far as what I need, it just

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doesn't fulfill those needs. So let's do this. I have my project and things here, which

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I clearly have not updated. Clone Currents site, new color scheme, wordmark. I probably

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won't do this. Update copy, cleanup plugins. So that's the stuff I need to do for the new

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website. Here's what it is. I guess I should maybe for comparisons sake go to how I built

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it so you can kind of see what they look like. They're very similar, right? I'm not in the

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business of redesigning the entire site. Actually, maybe I'll do this. Give a little bit more

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room and then put them side by side. Nope, not over there. But actually, you can see

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what this will look like when I decide to make the site go live. This little pressable

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is my host and they have a nice little plug-in that does maintenance mode. There's no way

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to customize it, so I actually modified the code. I don't recommend that. To add my playlist

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here so that people can at least access the content while the site is in maintenance mode.

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So now we'll put these side by side. I'll hide the sidebar so you can get kind of an

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idea of how they look side by side. I didn't want to change too much, but I did want to

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kind of tighten up the upper area and make it a little bit more streamlined. So I put

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the artwork next to this. This is going to be the new tagline. I think that's the one

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I'm messing with, at least a little value proposition. And then I put the buttons out

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in the open. If you click this, right, you have these colorful buttons over here. I wanted

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something a little bit more muted. And actually, all of these icons are the same and they should

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not be. So I need to fix that. Maybe we'll dive into that and I can show you that really

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quickly. I also, you can see if we look at the latest episodes, I did tighten this up

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a little bit. And I finally centered the sponsors. Like this was driving me crazy. Featured episodes

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again pretty much the same, hosted by pretty much the same. And then the opt-in is a lot

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cleaner and has a better value proposition. They are the same thing, but the value proposition,

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especially for the show, is a little better. So I think something that I probably need

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to do here is create like a new welcome sequence, I think is what I should do for people who

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sign up via the show, like create a new forum and a new welcome sequence because I have

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gotten people to join my list and they'll say something like, hey, I really like your

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podcast. Do you only talk about podcasting on your mailing list? And so I don't want

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to have a divided audience. I want everybody to know that's my main offering, but maybe

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just like an extra email to be like, by the way, I talk about like podcasting is my main

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thing, which again, they should know this by listening to the show if they're going to

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sign up now, being more not diligent, explicit about that. But I can also be like, hey, if

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you like only want the Monday emails, right? Click this. And then you'll just get no, like

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you won't get any of my other content. But I might not want to do that. I don't think

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I want to do that. Because I want people to be on my list so that I can like my, you know,

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my mailing list is designed to sell stuff. I mean, like inform people, but also, you

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know, I want to get business from that. So by the way, I didn't do like the normal live

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stream startup. So if you are coming in and watching, say hello, let me know if you have

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any questions about the redesign as it goes. I'm happy to answer those questions. Of course,

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I probably this isn't going to be as long as my normal live stream because this was just

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kind of like an accidental live stream. So I probably also won't be like diligently

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checking all of the places as often. But if you are watching on Twitch or YouTube, I will

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see the comments come through there. So anyway, that's, you know, little out of the way housekeeping

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stuff. Okay, so that's the homepage. The homepage is basically done. I'm going to tighten this

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up. I'm going to create some more space. You can't see that now because I've switched screens.

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The homepage is basically done. I'm going to create some space here. I'm going to update

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my bio a little bit here, maybe change the photo. But this is I'm very happy with the

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way this oh, and of course, like fix these buttons. The listen page, you know, there's

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some things I'm using WordPress with the cadence theme. So I think that's probably important

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to note. But the this basically looks exactly the same. These images, I'm like, I'm not

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going to rebrand every image. But like you can see here, I've the header is a little

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bit bigger because if we know not that one. Oh, actually. Oh, no, I set them both to 100

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so that we could see them both nicely. But if we zoom in over here, sure, I did create

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this word mark I created this my graphic designer didn't because I didn't ask him to because

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I didn't think about it. But I created like this little word mark that's also serving

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as a fave icon with the yellow background. Actually, that's just the arrows. So, you

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know, I created some other like pieces of branding, I guess, so that I can use them

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throughout the site this word mark and stuff like that. Everything else is probably like,

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you know, this is more or less going to look the same sponsor page like all I really I'm

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going to take. I'm going to be kidding in 2022. So I'm probably going to get rid of these

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two things. Most people want a custom package, right? They're like not interested in this

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other stuff. So I'm just going to update the copy on this because I haven't done that in

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a while. Contact page, I'm going to update this. So I'll probably still include these

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two things. The reason I included this is because people were filling out this form

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thinking I was how I built this by Guy Ross just recently got another request like that,

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which is wild because it came in through this form. And I went like without explicitly saying

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I'm not the NPR podcast. This page is screaming. It's this is not the NPR podcast. So I don't

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I don't know what to do. And I'm not going to have to worry about that anymore, right?

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update this. First of all, this is going to be called accelerated, right? Streamline

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solo for newer accelerated. And so, you know, just kind of update this page and these things,

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these line items. And that's really it, right? There's a search. I probably I guess if I

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make one change to the homepage, it's going to I will kind of under featured episodes,

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maybe add a search or maybe maybe above the featured episodes. Add a, you know, find an

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episode you're looking for sort of thing, like make the search more front and center.

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I have over 400 episodes now. So that'll be good. If we go and then the only other real

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page that's going to matter here is the so this is driving me crazy. I don't know if

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you could see this, but there's like a white gap here is the episode page. And so again,

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this is largely going to remain the same. I like the way it works. This will let me

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grab one with the transcript. I cloned this last week. So like before my VA got to adding

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the transcripts. But this is what it looks like. So, you know, maybe I'll style the transcript

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box a little more. But everything else is going to be the same. The sponsors are here.

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Feedback, subscribe, and then the join pro, which it looks like this one goes dynamically

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generated and these these two are really hard coded. Yeah, so and then yeah, everything

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else is basically going to be the same here. I like this form. This form tells me like

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includes the URL. So it tells me what episode people converted on, which is really important

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to me. If we go into the Oh, and then I guess, yeah, for comparison's sake. This is what

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it looks like. I got rid of the roundy thing because I decided I hate that. And I made

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this a more subtle color so that the yellow pops a little bit more. You can see that

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the player is the same color because I just changed the player and transistor. And so

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that changed it across the board. But again, everything else is going to look the same

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here. The color scheme is better. Like it's more uniform. Like I don't know where this

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maroon is. This maroon probably came from Palatin telling me like, Oh, this is a complimentary

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color to the blue you're using. And I'm like, Oh, yeah, great. So that's that's basically

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it here. One giant pain in the neck thing for my WordPress people, anybody using WordPress

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with block patterns, block patterns are not globally set. So every block pattern is different

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and is treated differently. Which means when I wanted to make this and this blue area right

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here is a block pattern. So when I wanted to make this change, I actually had to go

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into the WordPress editor, view the code and then do like a site wide find your place,

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which is wasn't my favorite thing that I had to do. So I'm going here. I have this set

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to a ridiculous color so that I know this is the staging site. In case I have both up.

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This was just like a habit I've always I got into because I didn't want to when I was doing

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client work, I didn't want to update live sites that way. So I always like the first

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thing I did when I created a staging site was make it this color. And I think like the

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dev site is blue or something like that. Just so I could know immediately what environment

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I'm in. So if you're doing WordPress, I was wrong, I recommend you do that. And then,

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okay, so what I had to do is like go into a post and then pick a post. And then this

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is where like, because I'm a coder, I know how to do this. Probably, but I went into

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code. I knew the background color was going to be like this. So I searched for this term

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in the block pattern. And then I found the color I wanted to replace it with. And then

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I used the fantastic plugin, better search replace to actually do those replacements.

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So I don't know if there's a history here. There's probably not where you where I can

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see all the searches I ran. But this is really crucial. I thought about doing this across

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the board like replacing how I built it with streamlined solopreneur. However, I don't

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have that many non episode related pages. And even fewer that explicitly mentioned

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how I built it that's not part of the template. And I don't want to update the transcripts

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and the transcripts are part our post content. So I'd have to write a pretty complicated

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query to be like replace all instances of how I built it where the content with streamlined

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solopreneur where it's in the post content, but it's only of type page or post and not

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type transcript. And I'm like, this is like the juices and worth the squeeze, right? This

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is going to be one of those things where outside of transcripts, if there's a reference to

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it, I'll probably just like handle them as I go through it, right? And so if there's

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here maybe, oh, it's not, right? There's going to be older episodes where like it explicitly

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mentions join how I built it pro like in the show notes. That would be easy enough for

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me to change if I wanted to. But everything else is fine. So what's so what's on the agenda?

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I actually have I just remembered like I had like the regular project here in in things,

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but I wanted to like jot down a few notes really quickly. And so I have them in bear

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notes. So let me bring that up really quick without like showing my showing all my other

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notes. Yeah. So this is it. I don't know if you could see this. Oh, cool. Yeah, so search

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bar on homepage, update the sponsor page update the join page update the thrive cart theme.

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So that it fits test search page. So I haven't done that I'll do that with y'all. And then

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like, this is more of a question mark, like, do I want a mega like a super footer, one

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of the like one of the lots of stuff across the bottom here, I think I do, because I have

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a lot of different projects. And if people are finding me through here, like I want them

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to learn more about me. But maybe not. We'll like we'll see. I really need to to I'm not

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just going to have it for the sake of having it, right? Because like I also don't want

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to distract from this. This is the thing I want people to do. So we'll see. Okay, so

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let's actually test search storytelling. Okay, so like I need this is going to get fixed

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all the way across. But yeah, this is going to look like every wolf. This is going to

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look like every other search bit. Now let's see this is I think this is the transcript.

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Yeah, so something that I should probably fix is excluding the transcript pages from search.

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the search credibility to the post it was related to. I have a video about that from

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like six years ago. But when search WP got acquired, I stopped using search WP because

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I was worried it would go downhill. And I don't want to speak ill of the purchaser.

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my dashboard. So I might find a different search plugin might just I probably don't want

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to exclude the transcript from from site search because that's that's where the text is coming

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from like if we look at if we look at the search again, right, I need to fix that icon

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storytelling. And then we have my friend Becky here, like the transcript is showing up here,

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but her episode isn't right. And so what I'd probably want to do is maybe like redirect

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this transcript to the episode it's related to somehow. That's going to require custom

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code, which is why I haven't gotten around to it. So I mean, we'll see this is something

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that not necessary for launch, but definitely something I want to consider. Because I'm

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like when and when I was using cast those I should say like, I was able to get the cast

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those player and just embed it here, programmatically. And I can't do that anymore because I'm using

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transistor so I'd have to like do more hand wavy stuff to do that. So I'd probably what

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ultimately what I would want to do is if I find a different search plugin, give the search

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engine juice from the transcripts to the post it's related to. Otherwise just like kind of

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redirect it. And there's probably a way for me to do that. Because it is the code editor

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can I see. That's the other thing like if I had built this page from scratch, there'd

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be so much technical like there's so much technical debt, right? Because this is like

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this was mostly a custom build. And so no, I don't see the post it's related to here,

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which means that that's a one way thing. If I go to, I guess now you're just getting

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like a behind the scenes look at how this site works. If you have and again if anybody

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has any questions feel free to drop them in the chat. Oh gosh, I do see questions coming

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in. Hey Ruth, thanks for being here. I don't know how the X comments are getting added.

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But that's fun. I certainly tell you pop up on Twitter when you start a live stream. Thanks

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for that. Jason, do you use Riverside? I just started checking them out this year. I do use

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Riverside. I sojourned away from Riverside last year to try Squadcast. And I like Riverside

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better. And so I started I went back to Riverside. So that's why I use my big fan. I can if you

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go to podcastworkflows.com slash tools, you'll find all the tools that I like and recommend

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and there there will be affiliate links there. But yeah, that's thanks Jason for being here

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for asking Ruth. Glad that you were able to stumble upon it. I'm glad you're enjoying

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this. So I can bigify this now. And if we look at so we're just looking at Becky's right

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so I'll go down to Becky. And when we load. So this is small file that now it's now it

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looks all crowded. Also, there we go. So this is a block pattern. Right this was like the

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bane of my existence and changing this but this makes it really easy for my VA to go

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through and like add the player without having to add these buttons and the show notes, which

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I can automatically add in the show notes if I want to which I really should start doing

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especially for this one. And then the sponsors. This is dynamically generated. I'll show

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you how in a minute. But then I'll like the rest of this. Also like the transcript is is

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pulled with a who that's custom that's custom code. So sorry, Becky, I'm like putting your

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email address here but trans so the transcript is from a drop down. You can search same thing

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with the sponsors. And so that's how the sponsors are dynamically generated. I do it this way.

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the homepage easily. Just by looking at the latest episodes sponsors. So that is, you

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know, that's been something really good too. So all of this here this is like these are

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the custom fields associated with ACF. And so there is a transcript ID is what this is.

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related to, which like if we look at, gosh, is this a good idea? I'm pretty sure this

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plug in is open source. I think it's up on GitHub. But this is like, I don't know, I'm

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really nervous about this. Yeah, like I mean, I would I really need to like update this,

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and you Oh, hey, I did update this. When I moved from when I moved from castos to transistor.

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So I think all of this stuff is going to be in like functions and maybe output. I did

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a decent job of documenting this to be honest, but like I'm really rust I haven't my friends

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I haven't written appreciable code in a long time. Like since I left my agency job basically.

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So I'm definitely a little rusty in that regard. I'm not so rusty that I can't tell when chat

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gpt is lying to me, which is good. But I'm definitely probably more rusty than I'd like

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to be. So if I let's see, I'm going to go over to Twitter, check things out. Yeah, so

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is there like a is there a comment section on this video? Like I'm so confused by how

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you all are like commenting on this live stream. Because I don't I mean maybe it's because

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I'm me. And so I don't need to but I'm like I'm not seeing the comments at all except

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for through the live stream, which is bananas. It's really like something that low key plagues

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me. Like because it happened last time too and I'm like how is this happening. But anyway,

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so let's go back here. So there's probably some stuff in here and like this is I don't

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have a force balance tags. This is from like when I was copying and pasting I think from

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some other thing into this might have been like pre block editor this code. But any who

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I have you know custom widgets and functions and all that fun stuff and this is pretty

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well engineered because I was really good at what I did for a while. But you know I

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think like if I'm going to modify the transcripts I'd probably do it this way. That's probably

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what's happening is I'm like looking to see if I get the episode like so this is get transcript.

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Yeah so I don't know. I guess all of this is to say I'm not quite sure how I want to

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handle this. I don't think it is crucial for launch. You guys are mowing the lawn. I don't

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know if you can hear that if you can't hear it wonderful that's great. But I just I just

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wanted to give a quick update on this. Oh I guess so I can show you to I guess the last

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thing I'll show you here leaving the land of code and go back to my kids are really excited

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about the lawnmower going back to the home page here. So these are just block editor

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buttons. I was using the second line themes buttons like subscribe buttons but man I was

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unhappy with oh I know what happened. I was like unhappy with the general layout. And

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like the fact that I couldn't make them like uniform or anything like that and it was just

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like I don't know I'm really lukewarm on the second line theme stuff. I think what he's

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doing is cool and definitely serving a niche that I think is important. But also I can't

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talk and do this at the same time. But also like I just I don't feel like it's I don't

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feel like a lot of it is super well executed. And like I've given this feedback to him before

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his pocket casts in here because that's like an automatic joint. And so like I tried to

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do something and it was just like a very frustrating experience. And so I was like you know what

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I'll just use I tried to make them all the same color. And it just like it wasn't working

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the way I would have liked. And so that was frustrating. Sure. I guess the other thing

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that I could do because I this isn't happening is on hover and a box shadow. Yeah. Do that

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great. Love that. Yes. I'll do that. So anyway suffice to say these are all just straight

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block editor buttons. I think it's that's a really nice part of. Oh well. I'm not paying

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attention here. It's my fault. I only want it on hover. Doot. Doot. I should also mention

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that this is mostly cadence blocks. It's the cadence theme with cadence blocks. Every time

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I have tried to use full site editing with like a full site editing theme. It's made me

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want to rip my hair out. And I know it's not. They're all like themes by Anders Niren who's

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excellent like best in class as far as WordPress theme design goes. And I know it's just like

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the full site editor and me and like maybe it's just because like I'm old. I've been

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using WordPress since it was like six months old. And so maybe I'm like this is too different

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and I don't like it but it's too different and I don't like it. So anyway I think that's

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this is about this is this feels like a good place to wrap. Jackie Delia. Hey thanks for

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being here. You're always good at whatever you did. I appreciate that. Those kind words

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I loved loved doing web development for a long time. I still low key do I just don't

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do it as often as I'd like. And Ruth can't hear the lawnmower over the sirens here. Yeah.

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I'll take the lawnmower over sirens. Though I do live close enough to the train station

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here that the Amtrak goes by and I hear that so yeah but that's it. I'll give it like 30

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more seconds if anybody has any questions about what I've done here but that's a quick update.

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Again I hope to have this out next week which I guess means the rebrand will happen in the

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next two weeks. Jackie saying I've been using WordPress way too long to deal with the site

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editor. I agree with you 100% right. And this is the thing right. I want to thanks for letting

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me. Thanks for giving me this in Jackie. If it was good I'd be like great let's do it right

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but I feel like if I want to change like the header of the site I have to go into the site

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editor and then click on the header template and then click on like some other template

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like it's not just straightforward. Here's what your site looks like. Click on this to

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edit it. It's like a weird rat's nest of templates and patterns. And maybe it's because I haven't

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given like I will assign myself some of the blame here but I've been out of WordPress

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long enough that I didn't even know 6.5 was coming out until like I saw some random tweet

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about it. I haven't been paying that much that close attention and I've been using

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cadence for a lot of my stuff. So I'm no longer and this was my design. I'm no longer a WordPress

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power user. When I moved into podcasting I didn't want to be a WordPress power user anymore

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because I wanted to use WordPress the way that my clients would use WordPress. And like

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I still have the expertise and I know my way around but now I can't be like oh well you

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just do this like 400 things right. And so approaching it from like a new user point

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of view it's just not good. It takes me too long to figure out things. Too much technical

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debt now right. Like Jackie you were there Ruth you might have been there too. So this

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is WordPress talk now everybody I'm really sorry for a minute. You were both there when

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like I think you were both there when like I got a call from before WordPress 5.0 came

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out. I got a call from Matt Mullenweg like asking my opinion about the launch and this

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and I'm like you know from an enterprise standpoint this is really soon and sudden and like I

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don't think it's ready and he's like thanks for your feedback and then like two days later

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he's like 5.0 is out and I'm like we rushed this for no apparent reason. And maybe there

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was reasons right. I'm like I will give I've been trying to give the benefit of the doubt

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more but just like I don't see how the site editor is better or more user friendly than

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the competition likes Squarespace or Wix or some of these other things that hosting companies

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have built themselves. It just feels it feels like a front end development like a front

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end builder built by developers and that's not that's not user friendly. And so you know

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when when when I was looking at pod page last week it was it was an honest go at hey is

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this going to be better for WordPress better than me better for me then can we I'm going

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to clap my hands and start that over this is live I can't do that when I was looking

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at pod page it was an I was giving it an honest shake is this going to be better for me than

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WordPress is will it make my life easier will it make my VA's life easier because like what

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she does now my VA what she does now is publishes the podcast on transistor copies the transistor

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code and publishes it on WordPress too. And it's because I have this design that I really

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want to use and I thought well if I can get close enough on pod page maybe it's fine.

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I can't write and it's but you know it's I all of us here in active in the chat Ruth

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just posted you know hand coding designs before WordPress so the classic editor with the HTML

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view was great for me yeah. And like the the block editors fine for some things but then

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like awful for you know I like I have like a recurring it well it's not recurring it's

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very few and far between because I again I try not to tweet about WordPress and I try

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not to complain about much much Jackie thanks for joining us. I'm glad you were able to

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pop in you definitely set me on a rant in the best way possible so thanks for joining

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us have a good rest of your day. It's like good for some people on Twitter I'll say like

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hey I really wish the block editor could do advanced things like copy and paste text

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right or like I said I want a three by three grid or three by two grid with six images

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and it made like just the weirdest shape and it's because there's it's not I it's not the

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abilities of the developers whose abilities far exceed mine they're trying to do hard

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things at a large scale project but if our goal was to make WordPress easier for the

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everyday user I think we failed we they I'm not there anymore that said because I can

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code I have that ability and I'm using a really good tool in cadence my site's gonna remain

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on WordPress and I'm really pleased with the way everything looks right now so there you

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go all right well that was fun thanks for letting me rant and reminisce and show you

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what I'm working on I'm really excited I guess what I will say is I never know if I have

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a good idea I'm gonna go deeper into this I think for my members they get everything

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first more or less and I cover different and deeper topics so if you want to become a

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member and get access to a members only podcast feed you can do so over at how I built diet

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slash join or soon streamlined dot FM slash join the main thing I'll talk about for members

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is the redirects because I'm concerned about that so I'll probably talk through that and

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how I solved it for the members that's like that feels like not really a live streaming

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thing so yeah there we go I figured it out on the fly I mean I've always planned this

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so yeah if you want to become a member you can do so over at how I built it dot it slash

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join thanks to everybody you tuned in thanks to Jackie and Ruth and Jason for chiming

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in I always appreciate your feedback thanks so much for watching and until next time I'll

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see you out there.