Best of iThemes Plugin Roundup (July-December 2022)
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Time welcome welcome everybody Glad you're here. It is best of plugin roundup today. Lots of fun times many things
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We are about three and a half minutes away from getting started here on the best of plugging round up for July through December of 2022. Many things are happening oh, I will let you know. While we are just sitting around doing nothing waiting for the thing to start. Let me show you that. There are some webinars ready to go for next year already. Su do okay. The plug in roundups are scheduled for next year. So this I think if I did it right, question mark. I got all the plugins where if you sign up once it's for all that was not working correctly after we moved to zoom. And we changed a couple things and I think we can do that now. Oh, you got a whole ton of emails, Stacy. That shouldn't have happened. That shouldn't have happened. I don't think anyway, because they're brand new. You got a bunch of emails
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are in in the news roundups for the first quarter or half a year are in I'm working on the rest of that stuff now. So anyway, just go to training thought I ithemes.com and sign up for things. So those of you who were on I know several of you were on the YouTube live stream yesterday with Kathy Zant. And I, and me and Kathy Zant. And me. Yeah, that's correct. How'd you like that? Did you like the YouTube format? It's a little harder. To deal with the chat that way.
Anyway, alright, so
we're about two minutes away minute and a half away from getting started. If you're just joining us in Slack, a Slack cow Lee, all of the various platforms if you're just joining us in zoom, make sure you pop open the pop open the chat say hi. I am dropping in the links. Again. There's the handout and the replay link for when we wrap up today. Yeah, the chat that was the downside, right. The chat makes it harder. It's a lot harder to be interactive, like we like to be with YouTube chat. So it's nice to have the YouTube platform though. But you know, what do you do? And I'm a little blurry. For some reason my camera is not wanting to focus correctly. We'll just live with it. Alright, again, welcome. If you're just joining us, yeah, open up the chat. Say hi. Tell us where you are logging in from Chris. We're never would know I ithemes.com forward slash chat has been removed from the little RAM chip that used to power that area where I would just say it automatically. It took me a couple months to get rid of that and it's not going it's not coming back.
I mean, after
you know almost 10 years of saying you know I think he's dot com forward slash chat it took forever to get that out of my head.
Oh, I look younger Elizabeth.
It's so soft. Felt like I need all the help I can get these days.
So you know. Alright folks, it is three
minutes after which means it is officially starting time. So let me start the recording and we will begin Good afternoon everybody and welcome to the best of plugin round up for July through December of 2022 here on I iThemes Training. My name is Nathan Ingram. I am the host at I iThemes Training and I am happy to be here because it's this time twice a year where we take a look back at all of the plugin roundups over the last six months. And we pick we take your picks so you folks vote the best jobs at the end of every plugin Roundup, we take your votes. And I do tell hey, these votes count for things and so we remember the best two or three or one plugin from the roundup whatever we think and we pull all those together into a best out of every six months. And so we've got about a I think there's 11 plugins I dropped one because there was an issue, since we demoed it so there are now 11 plugins from the best job and as promised last week, it is the last plugin roundup of the year which means it is time also at the end today for the i themes holiday plugin power pack. So you can completely trashed your website. Yeah, so we will be ending with that today. But if you are just joining us in in zoom, make sure you have the chat open there in you will find the link to the handout and the replay which are there if you're watching this on the replay, click the Download handout button down below. And you can you know download the handout. Go figure. Alright, so let's get started. We've zoom all the way back we jumped like it sounds like a radio guy right let's just jump in the Wayback Machine and head way back to July 2022 Way back when it was warm and sunny and all of the places and not filled with the arctic air that many are experiencing. And we go to July 2022 And one of the top plugins of the summer I really liked this one is error log viewer by best soft. Now what we did not anticipate is just how helpful this particular plugin could be. As you are dealing with upgrading your WordPress sites to PHP 8.0. Many of you have discovered just what a problematic thing that can be. Because many themes and plugins are not yet phba compatible, even though PHP seven four reached end of life last month. So a good error log viewer can be helpful. So let's see how this one works and remind ourselves of error log viewer by best Websoft so let's go I'm having arrangement issues here. Here we go. Alright, so let's go into you know and activate our plugin which is super helpful to do. plugins do not work until activated. error log viewer right there. Alright, and what this does is it's going to give us a you I it's under other settings right here. That's very helpful. It's under. It has its own menu item right there. Okay, so here in the settings, we can say which of the various error logs do we want you to monitor with the error log viewer plugin. And what's nice here is this plugin kind of scours through, you know the various things or it knows based on what plugins you have active where some of their error files live. So for example, here's our basic WordPress Debug Log. Which is there. Here's one for restrict content Pro that it found. Here's of several for WooCommerce
WC logs that
it found so it goes and kind of looks for various things. And what you can do now is say email me if you get a notice if something happens, right, so if there's an error on the site, shoot me an email, which is kind of cool. So we can enable you can disable it if you want, which if you disable it I'm not quite sure the purpose of the plugin but so we can send email notifications to a custom email that we can enter in or we can drop down a list of users from the site and send it to whatever user is associated or what ever email address is associated with that particular user. And then this is a really cool feature down at the bottom. We can change the frequency at which these emails are sent. So it doesn't send them in real time. It sort of batches them or digests puts them into a digest, where we can say, you know, just let me know once a day, or show me once a week, the errors that I'm collecting. It just depends on what you want to do. And so do it, save it, boom done and you will get an email. That was interesting. The user is
not sticking. I'm not sure why that is. But we'll just go back to this. That's odd.
Not sure if that's a weirdness related that would be Nathan or if it's something in the plugin so just specify your email, I suppose. I don't think that turned up the last time we looked at this plugin. But yeah, email notifications pretty
helpful. Let's see.
All right, let's back up and catch some questions. Really good questions. Here. Paul is the plugin phba compatible. Great question. I'm gonna guess that it is. But I don't know you should test that right. And so let me just remind you that disclaimer that's on top of the plugin roundups now, like it's not like let me just set you know, set the record straight. It's not like we spend hours you know, vetting all these plugins fully. We spent a little time with them. They're they're kind of cool that you know, they work they do what they say they're going to do. Yeah, we'll put them in the roundup if they're interesting, but you'll want to test this one that we haven't tested to see if it's phpa compatible or not. Doesn't look like anything blew up when we activated it. So that's good. Another question here, Vern is asking what about custom SMTP? Settings? Yes. So with I mean, this is with any site. Never, in my opinion, never trust just the server to send your email. You always want some sort of transactional email delivery service. I recommend SendGrid pardon me? Wow. Banish that from my mind. I recommend postmark postmark is fantastic. We'll talk about that in other webinars. Yeah. So let's see Paul is asking, Are these true errors? So what happened? Yes, it has whenever something is added to the log that you've checked marked, it's going to drop that in an email to you. Yeah, and Chris. As we realized earlier this month I have I made the final decision this month we are going to kill dead. The current iteration of WP Nathan before the next plugin roundup and rebuild this thing from scratch because there's a lot there anyway, but this site has been has had more plugins installed and tested than any site you could ever imagine. And it is, it's just tired.
It's time to retire this one.
Yes, Heather. I'm just trying to get out of being blamed. I'm just being real right? Like me right? Oh, okay. John, what you get an email even if PHP eight that one blows up the site. PHP eight that one? I mean, it depends on what you mean by blow up the site. WordPress will function under PHP 8.1 Although WordPress itself isn't fully compatible yet. Yeah. Okay. Anyway, that's that pretty cool plugin that this was like, far and away the biggest vote in July. Let's scroll on down to the next one another one from back in July, which is a it's an innovative plugin that I think in certain cases, could be super helpful and it is called admin posts grid. So let's go in here and do some things. Like first of all the activating this plugin because we just don't take anything for for granted on this version of WP Nathan. Let's see admin posts grid. So what this is going to do, it just gives you a new UI into how your posts look. And so what's really helpful with this is like when you if you've got a site that is super posts heavy, you got a lot of posts on the site, and you want to give people an easier way to kind of flip through what's there. This is all on the back end. This has nothing to do with the front end of the site. This is all an admin user interface. Change. Notice right here you've got a new admin item called posts grid, we click that and look at this. We have our posts in this nice little grid almost like a grid that you'd see on the front end of the site. But this is it here on the back end of the site and you have lots of different options. You know how many columns we want, we can apply that.
So this goes to
four columns or three columns here instead of four. We have access to all of the tools here. But the Quick Edit pops up in like a little light box so you can make changes there and update it like we can put this in a category and update it and just with Ajax it takes care of that without having to do a page reload. Pretty cool. We can also turn on other things here like if we want to see author and category we can do that hit Apply. And that'll show up here on the cards. Now you can turn on and off what appears basically, how many just set your pagination here. It also has some basic themes. This was just very simple visual themes. You know, it just changed the color basically. That's it. So, I mean, it doesn't do a lot but if you've got like a magazine site or site, whether it's a straight blog site, having this view of your posts, it's kind of cool. And that's why it was voted the best. I've back in July 2022. So that's admin posts grid. Yeah, great. Any questions or comments on that one?
It's kind of cool. All right, moving on
down to the third plugin from July. This is a plugin we're starting to use now in our bass stack. It is called Accessibility New Window warnings from equalize digital now equalised. Digital is the company that is run by Amber Hines, who we had earlier this year on our accessibility bootcamp. She's a recognized expert in the WordPress community around accessibility. And their business equalized digital has some really cool tools and this is a free plugin that helps to solve an issue when it comes to new windows. So whenever you you do a target equals blank or you set a button or something to open in a new tab. That is an accessibility problem because if a person is using a screen reader or some other sort of assistive technology, particularly if someone who's visually impaired and they're using a screen reader, when a new tab pops open they get lost like they don't know when new tab popped open. And so it's best practice not to use new tabs at all. But if you must, you need really need to mark those links appropriately. To make sure that you know people are using assistive technologies are informed that it's a new tab and really it's kind of a kind of gotten used to seeing those links. Like it's nice even for me knowing that, you know if I click this, it's going to open a new tab. So let me stop talking about it and actually activate the thing. There are no settings it just kind of works. Let's deactivate this. Let us activate new window warnings. And what you will see is now here on the homepage of WP Nathan you'll see what it does. So right here you'll notice a new little icon for open up a new tab has been added to these two links. Both of these links are a target equals blank. Right there you'll see target equals blank. And what this plugin is plugin does a couple it actually does three different things. The first thing it does is add this little icon beside any link or if it's an appropriately created button. Meaning it's a button that you know it's not like a div that with a with an A in it and not like a real button. It's an actual button here. This it adds the little icon second, you'll notice that it puts that tooltip out there. This opens in a new window which is helpful. But also it gives it an ARIA label. So the ARIA label look at this it it pulls in the actual text of the link. So ARIA is what the assistive technology is going to read. So if I was digesting this page and the screen reader, the link would say go to Google opens a new window, which is exactly what you want the screen reader to do for a person with with a visual impairment. And it's the same thing here. With this button. Do this is a button opens in a new window right? So
that's all you got to say it's
an activate now something that you do need to be aware of is that it's going to do this on any link on the site now so where I've had an issue is let's say down in the footer area, we got some social icons, well it's gonna put an A one of those new tab icons there. So you may have to go back in if you don't want that, for example, you may have to go back in with CSS and turn that off. Just at least the the icon part it will still show the tooltip and it will also put the ARIA link in there. So let's see Phoebe saying it is possible not to show that icon Yeah, exactly. So I mean, it's really simple actually. It's just it's very basic CSS that does this. So here's the I it's just an I A WW. Am N WW extra link icon. So you know you like for me in the base site where we're using this. We have some dropped in social links just there for us to use later. We have I already have CSS that's applied to the footer for those social links that makes them not show the icon now they it does get the ARIA label and it does get the tooltip and so that's good. Anyway, so that is a really fantastic plugin super light. Accessibility New Window warnings from our friends at equalised digital. Paul says the icon shows up only target equals blank links. That's correct. Yeah. So it looks at links that are target equals blank. And yeah. Ben is saying Why isn't this in core? It's a great question. There's a lot of things that we find useful that ought to be in core baby or whatever. It's a debate. WordPress core at the very basis is not opinionated about how your site ought to display things. That's what themes and plugins are for. Okay, next up down the list. is an interesting plugin called jumper. So jumper we've seen a lot of these types of plugins over the years on iThemes Training that have some sort of like a modal slide in. This one's really one of the easiest to configure and use. So let's activate jumper and jumper is going to give us a new admin link right here. And so here's a preview of what the jump the jumper little slide out looks like. We have a bunch of options. You can say I want it to you know, like you can turn off pages that you want don't want it to display on for example, or you can say I only wanting to display on these pages, only show it to logged in users. Do I want like gives there's some advanced features where you can add some stuff to the links. Is it going to disappear on escape which is really helpful. Especially if you're using if you don't have access to a mouse and you can't click that little x, then you can hit the Escape button on the keyboard if you're just navigating by keyboard and the window will close. The ability to change what is there is super helpful. So here's our button. For example. There's a horizontal button. There's also a vertical button where it goes that way. You can do an icon button with tooltip so it looks like that. How big is it? Big big. Is it square rounded? Is it a circle? Like so? You know what do we want to call it?
You know that what's
the icon right there? So all these things are changeable. You have access to all the colors. You can add your links for social networks. Here's the place where you can actually deal with the blocks. So there's our logo block and all these things are changeable. This is leftover from the demo when we dropped in the i iThemes logo you can change the logo with you can put links. It does have responsive view. Let's say we want to put the heading block above that. It's just a simple drag and drop. That's going to update us over here in a second. See how that works really easy to deal with and use. It's just a nicely done plugin. There's our social networks block any of those social links that have a URL under this tab, get an icon so all these are pretty cool. So what does it look like on the front end? As we refresh the page, here's our Oh, I didn't save it. Oops
Alright, so there's our getting that icon for some reason. Not sure why that icon is not displaying. Oh, wait, I do know because earlier when I was tinkering around, I turned off the Font Awesome. Let's turn that back on. If you're loading font awesome else it does use the Font Awesome for these little icons. If you're loading font awesome someplace else, you don't have to load it again. There it is. Okay, so when I click this, boom, there it is. It's kind of cool, right? And I can hit escape, and it goes away. Put all kinds of stuff here. How does it look on mobile basically exactly the same. But you do have those options to deal with the viewport here. So you can see it in mobile and move things around if you want to. It's pretty cool, easy to use, easy to configure that is jumper from comm bar. Any questions or comments about this one? Over and this is a great question. So all the plugins on the plugin roundup are in the WordPress plugin directory. So you'll see the links to them right here. Many of them do have Pro versions because that's how plugin developers monetize their work, but to be in the plugin roundup it has to be a free plugin. Yeah okay, oh there's one other thing that's really cool. That I do want to show you and that is under buttons. There's a really cool so if you don't like the side button, like Jan was just saying, I agree. I'm not a big fan of this. Although this is a pretty good implementation of the strategy. Look at this, you can click Remove the trigger button, and instead put in like a an ID of a button. Now this menu item 5874 happens to be the contact link in the menu. This is leftover from last time see there are 5874 So we're going to do this. So we're going to turn off the button, that little Contact Us button that was hanging on the side. And we're going to make it instead trigger on a menu item. So if I refresh this, what you'll see is this is gone. And now when I click contact, look at that. Isn't that cool? So if you liked the idea of the sliding the slide in modal like that, but you don't like the hang off the side button. You can mean anything that you can add an ID to any you know button in content, sort of like that. It'll just make it pop in in that cool.
Yeah. All right. So
let's jump in. That's why it was on the best off list. It is quite cool and easy to use. All righty moving next down the list into August 2022. A really cool plugin we've done so y'all over the years. We started plugging roundups in 2014 and we've done one every month since I think it was July 2013. And we've had so many plugins that do something with customizing or removing or with the admin bar. This is definitely one of the best. It is called admin bar fix by cubic you activate that we will activate admin bar fix and this does some things so under Tools, I think, isn't it?
Settings, admin bar fix under Settings. All right, so here's our options. Super helpful. So hide the front end admin bar for the following roles. So if you're on a WooCommerce site, or if you have a site that has subscribers, I don't want the admin bar showing up like the black admin or who wants that right. So you can turn it off per user role. He's held these roles that are and then you can even hide certain items from the admin so the WordPress logo, the site name, the customizer link, if it's up there, comments, all the stuff that are links in the admin bar, you can choose to hide those. Now that's not by role that's on for everybody or off for everybody that can see the admin bar. You can also set let's just say, I don't want to see the admin bar if it's a mobile if it's on a mobile screen, so I could say anything that's less than 768 pixels, then don't show the admin bar. So that's kind of cool. Let's do that. Let's just show that showing. So here's the admin bar and when we get to book look at that. Now the page doesn't know that it disappeared, but if we reload,
sure why that's happening. A little issue there.
Not sure why it still thinks it's there. That's probably an issue with the site. One of the many things about the site that's broken, but you can set a threshold kind of cool. Ah, let's see. So a couple of other things that you can do is you can change the way the admin bar works. So we have the option here for making admin bar, a floating ghost and you have some various animation and settings and opacity, but when we set it for Ghost, watch what happens. It just sort of it's skinny little shadow here at the top and when I mouse over, it pops into view. That's kind of cool. There's also the option of vertical a vertical admin menu, which just kind of freaks me out completely, but it puts it over here. And then it disappears. And then there's also the option. Let's see. It could be at the center, which puts it down in the middle, like this. No, that would drive me crazy. And then there's also the icon approach, which is kind of nice. He just puts a stuck icon right there at the top, and it disappears. So it's minimal, but it's there. So it gives you some different ways to display. You know how the admin bar actually shows up. It deals with roles. Pretty cool. stuff. And that is admin bar fix by cubic. All right. Any other questions or comments about those? So that happened? The issue with the spacing at the top happened the last time you haven't know what's going on there? It's probably the site we're gonna blow the site apart, rebuild it for a brand new year of WP Nathan. The site that doesn't have 8 million rows in the database. Okay. All right, next up, we move into September 2022. And we have a really fun little plugin called Spam Jam, Spam Jam. So this has no settings so it's really you know, nothing happens really deactivate this plugin, or when you activate this plugin on the back end let's deactivate admin bar fix. Let's activate Spam Jam. Now what this does, again, no settings, but what it does is it adds a honeypot field to your comments and to your registration page. So if you're getting a bunch of spam comments, an easy way to deal with that is with some plugin that implements a honeypot technique and a honeypot
is basically
a hidden set of fields that is not visible to the user, but is visible to a bot that's you know filling out comment spam and if it fills in those fields, then the comment is automatically considered spam because a real real person wouldn't actually fill those things out. And it does that both on the WordPress comment form and on user registrations, and again no settings install activate it is super lightweight like it's not loading a bunch of JavaScript and things like that. It just drops in something to and I'll just show you what it looks like. We'll go to a blog post which has comments like this one. All right here. Okay, here's our now I'm logged in. Let me actually do this in a not logged in
view. Okay,
so here's our comment block down here at the bottom of the post. And if we jump into the inspector I realized this is really small type but it seems specter and I can't help that look right let's just Okay, so here's our form and all the things and look right down here. It's hidden. There's a display none paragraph with class required that's going to start to trick the bots and they got to deal with the need to do what's in here. There's our label, and there's three different inputs right here. And if the bot fills in any of those fields with anything, oh, this is hidden. It's this field right email right there. If anything gets put into that field then the plugin is going to dismiss that as spam. And so no real user is going to do that. That's how a honeypot works and it's super effective. And it's even, even, even with some modern spam bots. It's still really effective. And it's an it's a no, no real speed issue. And free no settings. Good to go. Sherry, do you use this only when you allow comments isn't needed otherwise no. So well. It does protect the user registration field. So that's helpful. But if you are disabling comments, like on a typical site for us anyway, comments are disabled user registration is disabled. There's no need for this plugin. But if you have a site that uses comments, or a site on which users can register, and this can be helpful. Melanie doesn't work on the WooCommerce checkout. No, at least not yet. Not that I'm aware
of. No.
But that is Spam Jam. We talked about it back in September. Any other questions or comments on
that one? All right, Scrolling on
down the list to October 2022. This was one of my favorite plugins of the year. This is gold tracker, custom event tracking for Google Analytics for now works with Google Analytics for which we all should start moving towards because just about know what seven months it's going to add the old Universal Analytics is going to be retired and G four is not nearly as bad as it used to be. There's still some development to go but it's pretty usable. Like we're using it on new sites now. It works great. There's a lot to like about GA for if you are a member of iThemes Training, and you missed David Zimmerman in the Google Analytics bootcamp which was also in October, or September, or August. Anyway, it was earlier this year. David walked us all the way through how Google Analytics for works and it was a great training. If you missed that you should go back and rewatch it if you have a membership. By the way, if you don't have a membership, there's a 50% off of I iThemes Training deal. going on right now. They just announced this yesterday. And that you can find that ithemes.com Pretty cool stuff. Okay, so back to gold tracker, custom event tracking for GA four. Let's take a look at how this works, shall we? Gold tracker okay, it's already on. Because I was messing with this right before we got started. Alright, so here's what you do. You go in you add your measurement ID here for your Google Analytics for you can if you're using Google Tag Manager, you can put all that stuff in there. That's great. But really here's the power. It's under this click tracking area where we can start to set up some custom events. Now, if you've ever tried to do this before, you would have to use something like Google Tag Manager and find the IDs of things and make Oh in the skit he gets it gets really confusing and people quit a lot of times. This does all of that from within WordPress. So this is the click tracking section. Where we, when you add a custom event, you just give it a name. What CSS selector so a class or an ID that it's going to key off of. You can add additional properties if you want but just hit save. So here we've got a couple buttons defined and if we just look at these. So anything that has a class of dot tract button is going to fire an event name, call button one and it's a CTA property that says click this button. Same thing for button two. Now how does this look on the front end? It looks let me show you a page where we actually had these things set up. Very simple. couple buttons. These are just block editor buttons. And when we look down here under Advanced look we just have classes. There's tracked button. And over here on this one track button the second week where did we get that right here Track button the second track button. We made up those classes ourselves just right there. And now every time one of these buttons is clicked it shows up as an event in Google Analytics for only pull over GA for and here's this goes back to before we did the training. It does take about 30 minutes for these events to show up in Google Analytics for so it's not live in real time at least not yet. With GA for it takes about 30 minutes for these to update but you can note right here like we got some need to refresh this. We've got a couple of these several these events that have been tracked. Right.
So right there it shows up. So
think about how cool it would be to set up you know goals on your Contact Us button or you know, whatever your cash register button is in the top area of your header, you know, contact us schedule an appointment, you know, make, you know let's have a call that sort of thing. And it tracks just right there just fires the event. This plugin connects that button to this Google Analytics report and it works really really well. So that is gold tracker. Any questions or comments about this? One of my favorite plugins of the year makes a lot of things useful. Okay, moving on down the list to another plug in from October. This one is called Media D duper, media D duper. And so this one's really helpful. And you may have noticed years ago when WordPress back in version nine I'm sorry, that's the wrong I'm given an intro for wrong plug in. It's coming up later media Dee duper is super helpful if you have a client that keeps uploading the same file all the time. How many of you have that? Like have you ever gone into a website where you haven't been there for a while and you look at the media library, and the client has uploaded 52 versions of their logo and they're all the same. They just uploaded another one. Or you know, it's their picture and on the bottom of every post, they put their picture and they just keep uploading it every time right? You gotta love that and this is where media deeper can be super helpful because what this does me get out of this media Dee duper. Okay, now the first thing it's going to do, I just actually did it earlier. But it's going to want you to create an index and index your media. If you have a big media library. This might take a while because it's looking through all the media and finding duplicates. So we look here under duplicates. Oh look, here are some all of these are duplicates of each other. And so we have the ability to delete these. Pretty cool. So what this allows us to do is read reassigns duplicate featured image to the original image. So if this image if you delete one of these dupes, and that's actually a featured image, it will replace it with the original which is super helpful. This is what's really cool. If you just activate this plugin, it blocks the uploading of images that are duplicates. Hey, there's already one of those in the media library. Isn't that cool? BB if the media is two different sizes, yes. It calls it a duplicate because it's comparing the two with like, looking at the images. Like if you even if you look at these, this isn't showing the sizes but somewhat like this is a different site now it's not 600 by 600. It the size doesn't matter as far as the duplicates go. It's the you know how similar the images are to each other. Now, of course, you're gonna want to backup your site before you do anything. Right. Vern How does it decide on the very first scan, which is the original one, probably the date of upload, is what I'm going to guess you'd want to test that this is one of them. We haven't tested this exhaustively again. But I would take a look at that and see. I mean before you use any plugin, not just ones on this list, you're gonna want to test it and make sure you understand how it works before you roll it out to clients or roll it out on your own site. But yeah, obviously make sure you have a backup because deleting is forever especially in the media library. But this is going to be a really really helpful tool to kind of weed through a lot of those sites that have lots of duplicates
All right.
Other questions or comments about this one? After a couple of tour attempts I finally got the slides to show up again in the chat. So if you're allowed the handout if you're looking for the handout, it is now in the chat for you. Jan I don't trust WordPress to tell me whether the image is attached yet. So yeah, that does happen sometimes. Sometimes it's hard to know if this is correct or not. I agree. Melanie, if you use the plugin that adds trash to the media library, does that put it in the trash? Yes. So if you for example are from last month premium course you added the constant to your WP config that enables the media trash then this would trash it yeah it would not delete it permanently. Yep. Good point, Melanie. All right. Any other questions before we move on? That is media D duper. Moving down the next one, so this is one that everybody loved from last month. It is especially helpful for those of you developing with blocks now. It is called Find my blocks. So would it be great to know I've used these certain blocks on these certain pages on my website. That's exactly what this plugin does. It doesn't matter what family the blocks came from Kadence or you know some of the others or you know, just one off block plugins. It knows it will find all of them and tell you what pages or posts they are on. So let us activate find my blocks and this shows up I believe under Tools I left myself a note because I couldn't find it earlier. It shows up under Tools which is a good place for it to be I think and look here's a list of all the blocks used on the website. So let's see an advanced heading. A Kadence advanced heading was found in four posts. I click it and here they all are look this one it's used there three times in this page 12 times in this page. We can edit our post right from here, and we can see all the places Oh dear, why is this? Oh that's a WooCommerce product. Why is it not in the block editor? It's really weird.
Oh, you know what? This is left. This is leftover from when we were playing around with Kadence Shotcut and it was using Kadence blocks in the WooCommerce area. So that was a terrible thing to click actually. Let's just go up to a here's something with columns. There's rows. So anyway, you see how this works. It shows you very quickly. Here's the blocks used on my site and click those and it shows you what pages or posts that they appear on. Melanie saying she'd love to see that for for page builders like beaver builder in Elementor. And
that would be cool with net. Yeah,
so that's fine. My blocks any other questions? Oh, this was by the way. This was a user submitted plugin from Ben Bradley and Karen green. Both of you found that plugin and submitted it to us last month by the way you can submit your plugins if you remember, login. Once you're logged in, click suggest a plug in and there's a little forum where you can submit your suggestion for one of the plugin roundups right there all right. Varun is asking what about its logs and history. So I don't I don't think it is logging anything. Maybe it is. See it's actually using a query. It looks like here. I don't think it's logging anything. I think it's just querying the content, which means if it's a huge site, it might be a little slow to get this page loaded. I mean, there's even a like a filter here. Where you can filter things out. It's pretty cool. Yeah, so I don't think this is writing to the database. It's a good question, Vern. But I think it's a query that's pulling everything out of the pages post, etc. Every time you load the page All righty, next up, is independent analytics. This one took everybody by storm last month. I really liked this plugin, y'all. So you know, for years. It was just kind of a given that you would add Google Analytics to your site. Like it's just part of the process. We just add Google Analytics, right without even thinking about it. Until a lot of these privacy issues started coming up. Right Google Analytics tracks a lot of personally identifiable information. And if you don't want you know, if you're in the EU, for example, where there are really strict data, user data protection laws, and it's getting more and more that way in the US as well. You know, it's a real problem to use Google Analytics. So you know, what do we do? A lot of folks have gone to alternatives like Fathom Analytics, which is a great product. It's can be a little pricey. I believe it is. It's a great product, but here is a WordPress based analytics solution. That is the free version is incredibly powerful. There is a pro version that adds like, you know, event tracking and like WooCommerce tracking that sort of things. But the free version does everything I think the typical website owner is going to want which is how many people are visiting my site in a given period, and what pages are they looking at? Like? That's what most people want to see, right? Just give me a number. And you know, that's what I want to know. If you need more advanced analytics, you know, you might want to look at the pro version or go into Google Analytics. But this is a fantastic solution, especially in privacy concerned areas, where it's not it's not tracking anything privacy, and it's reasonably good analytics on the back end. So let me stop talking about it and actually show it. Oh, it's already I have it live. So here is independent analytics. I turned it on a couple days ago just to get some more data in and take a look at this. So it's a I mean, I've only got let me back it up and see if we still have this year. See if it had any data from before. It did not keep data from before. So when we deleted it, it was gone. Let's just do the last 30 days. Or we could do the last seven days even really nice UI here.
Alright, so there's our last seven
days. I mean, it's nicely interactive. How many visitors how many views below here? We can see oh, look, what what did they actually view so seven people viewed the homepage. What is the URL involved? What is it a page product or whatever? We can sort here by the number of visitors. So what got the most visits? Oh, the homepage? What got the most views? Oh, the homepage or we can go backwards? You know what got the least views?
This one, you know so
really, really cool. Melanie? Does it do live tracking? I don't believe so. To add it is today. Today is what you get. Yeah, so not a lot happening today. Our real time is available in pro right there. Kind of cool. Our campaigns is that these are the two big features and WooCommerce campaigns is available in Pro, but super powerful. Let's see there is a nice little dashboard widget as well. That kind of drops it right there. Just overall overall view right there in the dashboard.
So you don't have to have Google Analytics if
all you want is simple tracking. It's it makes the site I mean, Google Analytics slows a site down because it's loading all that external stuff. Google Analytics for us a little better about speed. But I mean if all you need is give me the numbers of people and what they see. This is an awesome alternative. Yeah. David, does it do email reports? No, this is all WordPress based. It's an interesting question though. If that's going to be part of the pro offering. I don't know there is a deal 599 lifetime for unlimited sites with the early adopter version. My pro link isn't working but I'm sure they'll give me a pro link from within the plugin. Lifetime for unlimited sites. Oh, it's gone up. It went up a lot from when I just did it. Email support sheduled email reports are coming soon. So that is on there that is on their radar. Yeah,
good question. All right,
any other questions comments about this one? Probably one of the best plugins OF THE YEAR independent analytics. Good stuff.
All right. Moving down the list
to the big winner from last week in the December 2022 plugin roundup and that is depict her. Now I know Yes, sliders have gotten a bad name over the years for good reason. Many sliders are incorrectly used to bury important information three slides deep in the hero area of the homepage. However, that doesn't mean that sliders themselves are necessarily a bad idea. And you know, I am adamantly opposed to putting the primary call to action for your website in the middle of a bunch of sliders. But let's say you have a product or you've got you know, some events that people are going to flip through something to engage users to flip through content. They people will do that. It's just not best in a hero area. So sliders aren't awful. They're used in bad ways oftentimes and so all that to say, if you find yourself needing a great slider plugin, oh my goodness. I don't think I've ever seen a better slider plugin. Than depict her. There's a pro version but even at the free level, this plugin is absolutely amazing. So let me get this open for us. We just imported one of the demos you picked her and let's open it up. Here it is down here.
All right. So we just dropped in this one. This was a an imported pre baked slider. And you have all these, like you just it's just like, you know, using a block editor, a page builder, you just click in there and you can start typing what you see is what you get. There's lots of I mean, there's all kinds of options. Every option you can imagine. is over here. It does not take very long to get familiar with the interface. You got hover you got animation on various elements like everything can be dealt with like click things go to your you know, all sorts of things here. This is what it looks like on the front. End. On on this particular slider. It's beautiful. Now this is using a background image. Look at this. So this particular slider has three different slides and there's arrows to control them and you can click the different options here. And yeah, so we can click here and navigate with this beautiful transitions. Now these are just settings right there in the plugin your or you can just click the options here. Notice back here in the editor, you also have the ability to switch between viewport. So here's how it is on desktop, tablet, mobile. So you can define all of that and resize and restructure. So if we move this down to a whoops to a mobile size, see when
we refresh
it nicely resizes for us here on mobile.
This will actually swipe as well. Yeah, so this
is a fantastic plugin. Obviously, with a this is really a design app for a slider it is there's lots of details that there is a learning curve, but what you can it's beautiful what you can make with this. So you know obviously you're going to want to be aware of the weight of the assets. But you know some of the things that they do that is that are interesting. Is it lazy loads as much as possible. We noticed that and it does add appropriate H tags where they are it gives you the ability to turn and make these things heading tags. So for SEO purposes, it's it's better than most sliders.
All right. So that is the picture. Pretty cool stuff. Right. Any other questions or comments about this one? Paul, it's gonna be the classic case of the demo looks nice. How come I can't make my site look that good? I mean, it's, yeah, we'll just import the demo and flip things
out, right.
Obviously, the quality of these videos makes a big difference in how the slider looks. All right, moving down the list to DC delete unscaled images. This is also from last week. This is what I started introduced earlier when I forgot it was the wrong plugin. So back in WordPress 5.3. WordPress made a bunch of changes to the way images are handled in it instituted the maximum large image size of 2560 to prevent people from uploading those 10,000 pixel images from their cameras and that 10,000 pixel image showing up on your screen. That was a great thing. However, what many of us didn't realize was the default behavior of WordPress was to still leave that 10,000 pixel wide image in the media library. So clients could still upload those giant images. And gradually our backups started to get bigger and bigger and bigger. So if you've noticed how your Site Backups are getting bigger and bigger and clients are uploading images, it's because those original gigantic site sized images are still floating out there in the media library. So what this plugin does, is it goes through and deletes all of those. There are some image image optimization plugins that have a feature like this like for example, we use E dub on the agency side. And under Tools, there's an option to do this, delete all of the unscaled images. This plugin just does that. It's the one little feature that it does, and it will go through and delete all those giant images. And if you've got a site with a lot of those, it will probably save a bunch of space on your server. So obviously, you will want to make sure you have a backup because deleting is forever in the media library usually. So make sure you're backed up but this can go through and save yourself a lot of space on your server. So there you go. Paul, if a client sends you an eight gigabyte file, and you resize it to be web friendly, who's responsible for maintaining the original photo? i If a client sends me a photo it usually goes in their client archive folder. I'll keep it but yeah.
David not sure if you answered
this last time but it only deletes large unscaled images. If you had a small image that you scaled, it won't delete that. I don't know, you'd want to test that. So again, that falls under the caveat at the beginning of the of the handout, just test it. You know, we haven't taken time to test that particular thing. Something you probably want to test though before you roll it out. Yep. Okay. That was deleted unscaled images. Any other questions or comments about that one? Drumroll please. Because what is next you folks have been waiting for all year long. I know that you have because now it is time for user toolkit. That was not what you expected. Was it me either because I forgot there was one more plugin. Let's do this one first
user Toolkit, which is
user Toolkit, which is actually one of my favorite plugins of the year one of my favorite plugins from last week. That was quite a lead up, wasn't it?
User toolkit so
again, this is a type of plugin that we've done over and over and over and over again, in plugin roundup things that do things to users and whatever. This is one of the best I really, really liked this, it is possible. Possible I might change in our stack user switching, which is the OG plugin for all, you know, switching users over to user toolkit because I just like it that much. So let's activate user toolkit so you can see what's going on.
And Alright, so
it is active, we go to our user list, and you're gonna see immediately a couple of things. The ID of the user is brought to the top that's helpful sometimes when you're trying to determine visibility of things. Also, the date and time which they registered and logged in last are shown. You can sort by these things. So show me the last user that logged in,
boom, right.
There, the lat you know, and sort by the registered date. Really helpful, right? I also right here, is this user active, active, which means let's just say I stopped liking Chris Malone, and Chris is on my naughty list. Well, I can just deactivate Chris and he can't log in to WP Nathan anymore, which he'll say Thank God But what this does is it allows you to keep the user there until you make them active and you want to delete them. So this is helpful. For example, in a situation where maybe in your base site, you want to have like a support like a plugin support user, that's an admin user, that you can you know how many times the support ask, Well, can you just give us an admin login account? Sure. You just toggle it on. And you can log in, right? And then when they're done, toggle it off. You know, there's lots of times where this active user thing could be really helpful. So the other thing this does is it gives us it gives us the user switching now, I have to apologize because when we demoed this last week, the user switching didn't work. Remember this. The user switching didn't work. It caused some problems like it wasn't showing up up here. Whatever that was because we use the user to switch to that had been WP Nathan. That's now become a verb for got really screwed up in some plugin roundup somewhere along the way, and it never got fixed. The user switching works perfectly. Right here switch to now I'm Chris Wait no, he's not active I guess it doesn't matter. Okay, that's good. I thought I maybe had just broken that would be like Ghostbusters crossing the streams. Anyway, you see it works. works correctly. I've switched to an inactive user. I'm glad that didn't break things. But the user switching works perfectly. And the nice thing here here is the developer of this plugin sent me a really nice tweet thanking me for reviewing the plugin and for featuring it and then I messed up the demo like we did it with the wrong user. So I definitely apologize to that to Derek here to fantastic plugin. We've made note of that and everything about this plugin works and I highly recommend it like it is. It is likely this is going to be part of my theme and plugin stack for every project going forward.
Pretty cool stuff. Okay,
that's user toolkit. Any questions or comments about that one?
Oh, okay. Oh, Derek.
Derek is here everybody. Say hi to Derek. Derek is the developer this plugin? Derek. This is such excellent work. Really, really cool stuff. Everybody say hi to Derek. Derek, where are you located? Sir. Where do you find yourself? glad you joined us, Derek. Big fan. Big fan of the plugin. Really good stuff. Okay. So now from a we're gonna turn the page from a really well developed plugin to some that are maybe not so well developed, right? It is the time that all of you had been waiting for. No more tricks, No more delays. It is time for the iThemes Training. Plugin round up. Holiday plug in power pack now Vern, it is two o'clock Central. But we we will always have time for the holiday. Plug in. Power Pack. Drumroll please. Just like Mark Griswold is connecting the lights. We begin with WP snow effect. WP snow effects so if you would like to celebrate the holidays, and you with that celebration, we'd like to add snowflakes on your WordPress site. You can use this plugin which we have given a mere Griswald level of three. So if you're not familiar with this, this is from Christmas vacation Chevy Chase is Clark W Griswald, who completely you know covers his house with Christmas lights. And we have thus dubbed the award here as the Grizz Walden level. You know just how Grizz Wald is this plugin and we're gonna start with AP snow effect which is just just a minor just minor Grizz Walden effect of three we will activate WP snow effect. And this made me laugh because left over from last year settings is yellow snow. I'm gonna say that it was Paul Taubman. Last year and I think I'm right on this. He said can we make yellow snow? And I said sure. Why not? Because we have settings right because if you're gonna put snow on your site, you want settings and it right here in the flight color you too can choose whatever color you want. I'm going to make that I'm going to put that back to white. Just because there are the pro version for this plugin. You can change the number of flakes and make it just as snowy as you would like. Yeah, there we go. That's not distracting at all. Right.
So that is the only piece no effect.
I guess you know this really if we're being real here. This should really be a range of gridwall shouldn't it should really be like from a three to maybe a seven? Right because with 999 flakes. That's pretty gross wall right here. We'll go back to just a modest 30 Because this is this is just a cute this is you know you can change the speed and so forth. Um, I'll just a modest you know, modest level. That's that's pretty it's nice, right? Okay.
All right. So
moving down the list. Then we're gonna bump up a little bit we're gonna notch up our Griswold level from three to five. And this is Xmas lights now many of you many of you, in the chat, have talked about the Christmas lights plug in. And I hate to be the bearer of bad news. But this year, the Christmas lights plugin was removed from the plugin or directory because of a security issue or something happened it is no longer there. It's no longer available to download. It isn't. I mean, Paul says it's not PHP eight compatible I'll be surprised if it was PHP seven compatible. Anyway, there is something like it. It is called Xmas lights and we give it the Griswold level of five. Let's activate that plugin. Xmas lights. Now by the way to get the full effect the admin bar gets in the way. So let's do it incognito. And here's our delightful little string of Christmas lights right there. Doesn't make the page title hard to view at all. You know, big deal headings to read your page title anyway. You know, there it is. It just hangs right off the header. And it's our old school bulb type Christmas lights right there. Xmas lights Griswald level of five. Isn't that great? Okay. Very cool stuff. All right. So let's go back in I need to turn these off because, you know, who knows how many issues we're gonna have with things bumping heads. Not there explosion, of course. But the next one, which is called Christmas panda.
Christmas Panda,
a longtime favorite of the iThemes Training community. Christmas panda a gridwall. A well deserved Grizz wild level of eight. Christmas panda I give you says I find it. Christmas panda. Okay, Christmas panda is moderately absurd. It is under here is Christmas panda. Where does it hide itself? Oh, it's right here. Okay, of course it gives itself a top level menu because why not? If you're a Christmas Merry Christmas panda. You deserve a top level menu. So what do we get? We get to choose as some holiday garnish across the top. So let's refresh our page and just see how delightful Isn't that beautiful? Just puts itself right there on top of your page. Forget about your header and we're just going to take that priority. We're going to get right up there at the top because if you have a Christmas panda boy it ought to be right there right across and you have several different options for that. You could also you know do something like this top and is it going to be at the bottom, save it and then it just drops down at the footer. If you want to do that. That's kind of cool, actually. Okay. Now this one also has snowfall. So not to be outdone by just simply WP snow. Christmas panda says we got our own snow here. We're going to take care of this ourselves. So we're going to turn on
snow.
Think? Yep, okay, so no options. Really. It's just you get snow or you don't and the flakes are quite big but they're pretty late and then they move they move like this. So it's a little bit of an upgrade on your snowfall. What else you get here are popups because he doesn't want a pop up on your site, or your pop ups are great for all these things. So let's do a pop up of oh, I don't know how about a a I don't know this one just because why not? bottom right corner. And it's it's really subtle that that this pop up down there at the bottom corner. Yeah, there it is right there. I mean, you barely even notice that right? It's just it's just subtle. Subtle right there. Yeah, natural. It's just right there. And on mobile. It doesn't care about mobile. It doesn't care about mobile. Because if you have Christmas Panda, you don't need anything else, right? Yes, Tammy is classy. Classy. Yes. Christmas panda everyone. Yeah, delightful. And if you want their other plugins, there's a link there's a link there. Okay. Now moving down. This is a new plugin for this year. A new plugin for this year. It is called him for my site, Christmas edition. Now there are some things that don't go together. My site and Christmas those things don't go together. Now. Oh, I forgot happy snowman. We'll come back to happy snowmen. My site and Christmas Now I will tell you earlier today Chris Malone and I were talking about pimp my site Christmas edition. And here's what Chris said he goes, does it move Santa across your sleigh in the low rider with low bass notes playing like man, that would have been the way to do this right like a low rider sleigh with like some thumping bass behind jingle bells going on in the background. That Yeah, somebody should totally do that Derrick, man. I mean, if you want to if you really want to make the plug in, round up, that's what you should do for next year. Derek's probably left us by now. He's got better more important things to do. Okay, so PIP my site Christmas edition I give you I give you pet my site Christmas edition. Oh my where is it? Here it is. Okay, let's activate this and by the way, yes, there is a pro version. Okay, pump my site Christmas edition. Now I will say this. They did have the decency to put it in a submenu of settings. Pimp my site, Christmas edition. Okay. Now, here's the thing. It's, it's really not that bad of a plugin. So here's our default. And we'll refresh the page. And it just kind of oh, we have snow still happening. Oh, it gives this plugin gifts. No, it's different snow. It also gives us a little hollybush as our cursor, which is you know, I mean, why not? Right. There's other presets. And by the way, it does other. Like you can put my site Halloween edition down here too, but that's the pro version. Because why not? Why not? Right. Here's the frozen version right? There if you you know, if you want frozen. There it is. And we can refresh. It just kind of put stuff at the corners and on the center and it floats little things down. I'm cursor is now an ice crystal. There's a bunch of different options here. You can choose the one that you liked the best. Let's go to this one.
And then we'll move on. So it's kind of cute, right?
How does it work on mobile you say because I know everybody's going to try this. It just makes things smaller. It also gives us a colored scrollbar because why not? Okay, next up, the one I skipped which is actually my favorite one here. This is what would happen if Microsoft Clippy and Olaf from Frozen had a baby. It is happy snowman. Happy snowman is absolutely fantastic. It is the most useful holiday plugin of the year I think and I'm so happy that it is still in the WordPress plugin directory still secure as always. This is happy snowman. Again, it's very subtle like you barely even notice that it's here. And yeah, there's our happy snowman. I think this is a must. I think everybody should put happy snowman on their site. Look at that. It's just great. This is this is what would happen again if Microsoft Clippy and Olaf from Frozen how to baby happy snowman I give you with a strong and I think well deserved Griswald level of nine right there for you. Nick Great. All right folks, and topping the list reaching the full level 10 of the Griswald scale is Christmas Ify.
Christmas defy this
one is Griswold in a box. It's got snowfall. It's got a moving Santa's sled. It's got decorations, it's got music, and it's even got a holiday font, which I don't think it's holiday but they call it that. So let's get let's get rid of happy snowman. And let's turn on Christmas to
FBI cyber
Fox Christmas FYI. Because if you develop this plugin, you want your branding all over it and that's what I would say, right? Christmas fi Of course it gets its own top level menu item.
Okay,
so let's make sure we are clear here. I love the settings of this plugin. You want snowflakes? I want snowflakes. I want medium snowflakes. Right? That's what we all want is medium snowflakes.
Oh, no.
Oh, there it is. It just took a minute. Medium snowflakes take a minute to get started. Then they start blowing around like that. But I mean look if you're going to do Christmas apply we want beyond insanity don't we? Of course we make it we want it beyond insanity. So let's take a look here oh my Yeah, it beyond insanity. We love it. We absolutely love this right but you know this this this be this snow which is beyond insanity is just not classy enough for me so I prefer my snow more classy. So let's turn that on. So we want we want classy snow here. We don't want just regular snow. We want classy snow. So apparently classy snow is round and fading out. So that's what classy is it yakka like that. Okay, so moving down the list. Would you would you like a jingle in the background of your site? Would you like that? I think we wish you a merry Christmas. How about that let's let's start with that one. And I don't believe I'm going to be able to turn on the sound because this microphone but you will need you just will need to go to WP nathan.com and turn this on because gonna come through my headphones miss it. I can turn that to desktop speakers here.
The one thing about this background music is that now I think Google Chrome puts it a player at the bottom because it doesn't allow automatic Yeah. Doesn't automatic music
so there you have it, right. It's an eight bit This is We wish you an eight bit MIDI Christmas is what this is yeah. As I recall the Jingle Bells was slightly better so furnace asking is it pretty lightweight music I mean let's put it this way if you're putting Christmas Nephi on your site, you don't care about the way to the music. You want insane snowfall right yeah, sorry the it's the audio is not going to happen really well here but yeah, lightweight music I don't know isn't in the public domain. I mean, if you have Christmas a file on your site, you don't care about that. Would you like a flying Santa? Why yes. A flying Santa would be awesome. I think here's our flying Santa. Where is he? Oh look. There he is right there. Here he comes. He's waving. Isn't that great? How about that? How about this? Would you like Christmas decorations? Sure. Would you like Christmas decorations on your site? Of course we want Christmas decoration
look at all the images it puts at the top. Now I didn't work on these because they're like in a loop. And it didn't work on this for some reason. But on a typical image dropped on the page. It gives us a little decoration on the top. Isn't that interesting? I also would you like Christmas he headings. This is the Christmas font, which for some reason, I guess this kind of a scrolly type font, which doesn't always work and because of the block editor it I mean I guess that's Christmas. I don't know. But that is our Christmas if I absolute Griswold level 10 You can very much Grunewald, your site with Christmas a phi. And there it is. All right, folks, who's ready to see all of them happening at the same time because that's what you all came for, is to see all the plugins active together, right. So why you've stayed for an extra 17 minutes you'll never get the 17 minutes back there mind forever. But you chose it. And now I'm having trouble finding all the plugins. Let's see there's one and vice versa, the other ones? It's no fact. Christmas lights. Okay. Here we go. This might make things explode Here we go. What could possibly go wrong now? As everything Oh, it's gorgeous, isn't it? It's beautiful. We really should have had yellow snow Wait let's let's get some yellow snow let's get our yellow snow back. Oh, I had to after had to look up what yellow was let me find yellow. There's yellow. So we'll have some yellow snow. Just so that next year we put snow back on it'll still be yellow. All right. So here we go. Now we have some classy snow and some regular snow and now we will also have some yellow snow mixed in just for Paul Taubman right there. Isn't that delightful? Aren't you ready for the holidays now?
Really, really good stuff. Yeah,
it's the music that really does it. So if you're watching this on your own, make sure you turn on the music and hit play. Because I mean it just doesn't get any better than this. Nothing says Happy holidays like a WordPress site with yellow snow.
You can quote me on that. Oh, I
forgot. By the way. I'm wearing my Christmas. My ugly Christmas sweater. I'm really happy with this one actually. So this is my Christmas sweater. If you can see it. This is the Christmas story fight. And it's like Street Fighter with Ralphie and Farkas and there's shorts with his tongue stuck to the pole. And yeah, so with that, I bid you a happy holidays. A Merry Christmas, a Happy Hanukkah, happy whatever it is that you happen to celebrate this time of year. Wasn't that so much fun? Oh, yes. There we have it. The I iThemes Training annual plugin round up holiday plug in power pack and with that we are going to wrap things up. All right, folks, thanks for hanging out with me today. We are back tomorrow with something here what that is. Oh, it's news roundup. Tomorrow news roundup is early this year, this month because of holidays. So new news roundup is tomorrow. If you haven't registered for that, make sure you do and we do by the way, have the plugin roundups and news roundups ready to go for next year. They are on the i iThemes Training page here so just make sure you've logged in and you've registered for those. The plugin roundup for 2023 starts on January 3, and this is a register once attend them all kind of thing. I got that back set up again with Zoom. We had some issues with that. Yeah. So if you register for a plugin Roundup, it keeps you on the list for every month following the same for the news roundup. And for the question. Let's see Vern is asking about replay. You can watch the replays today's replay I just dropped the link back in the chat. You can also let me see what I can get once I log out of here. Okay, so if you go to if there are limited replays if you're not a member and can't log in, you can go to the free library. And let's see that we put pageant Yeah, we put pagination back on there. So just go back and you can scroll back. Like if you want to see the December plugin round up there's November right there. December is right here you can rewatch these the video is there the handout for their transcript chat log everything is there. So you can go back and and rewatch. All right, Derek, thanks for hanging out with us. Thanks for your great plugin. Thank you everybody for being here for another plug in Roundup. These best styles are always fun. We've gone way over today. Hopefully you've had some fun. I will see you back here tomorrow for a news roundup. We have some really good stories actually. We're going to cover tomorrow, backyard iThemes Training where we go further together.