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title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;text-transform:capitalize;--fontSize:24;line-height:1.33;\">Templates</h3></div><ul style=\"--awb-line-height:27.2px;--awb-icon-width:27.2px;--awb-icon-height:27.2px;--awb-icon-margin:11.2px;--awb-content-margin:38.4px;\" class=\"fusion-checklist fusion-checklist-22 fusion-checklist-default type-icons\"><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-no\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon avada-elements-file-import-solid\" aria-hidden=\"true\"></i></span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\">\n<p><a href=\"https://avada.studio/?post=5232\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Summer Promotion Template</a></p>\n</div></li></ul><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:50px;width:100%;\"></div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-136 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-three\"><h3 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;text-transform:capitalize;--fontSize:24;line-height:1.33;\">Headers</h3></div><ul style=\"--awb-line-height:27.2px;--awb-icon-width:27.2px;--awb-icon-height:27.2px;--awb-icon-margin:11.2px;--awb-content-margin:38.4px;\" class=\"fusion-checklist fusion-checklist-23 fusion-checklist-default type-icons\"><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-no\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon avada-elements-file-import-solid\" aria-hidden=\"true\"></i></span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\">\n<p><a href=\"https://avada.studio/?type=header&amp;post=5193\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Business Header</a></p>\n</div></li></ul><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:50px;width:100%;\"></div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-137 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-three\"><h3 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;text-transform:capitalize;--fontSize:24;line-height:1.33;\">Content</h3></div><ul style=\"--awb-line-height:27.2px;--awb-icon-width:27.2px;--awb-icon-height:27.2px;--awb-icon-margin:11.2px;--awb-content-margin:38.4px;\" class=\"fusion-checklist fusion-checklist-24 fusion-checklist-default type-icons\"><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-no\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon avada-elements-file-import-solid\" aria-hidden=\"true\"></i></span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\">\n<p><a href=\"https://avada.studio/?type=content&amp;post=5258\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shop Page Content</a></p>\n</div></li><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-no\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon avada-elements-file-import-solid\" aria-hidden=\"true\"></i></span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\">\n<p><a href=\"https://avada.studio/?type=content&amp;post=5290\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Single Product Page Content</a></p>\n</div></li><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-no\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon avada-elements-file-import-solid\" aria-hidden=\"true\"></i></span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\">\n<p><a href=\"https://avada.studio/?type=content&amp;post=5295\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thank You Page Content</a></p>\n</div></li><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-no\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon avada-elements-file-import-solid\" aria-hidden=\"true\"></i></span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\">\n<p><a href=\"https://avada.studio/?type=content&amp;post=5298\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cart Page Content</a></p>\n</div></li></ul><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:50px;width:100%;\"></div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-138 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-three\"><h3 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;text-transform:capitalize;--fontSize:24;line-height:1.33;\">Containers</h3></div><ul style=\"--awb-line-height:27.2px;--awb-icon-width:27.2px;--awb-icon-height:27.2px;--awb-icon-margin:11.2px;--awb-content-margin:38.4px;\" class=\"fusion-checklist fusion-checklist-25 fusion-checklist-default type-icons\"><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-no\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon avada-elements-file-import-solid\" aria-hidden=\"true\"></i></span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\"><a href=\"https://avada.studio/?type=sections&amp;post=5201\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Business 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target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shop Products Post Card</a></p>\n</div></li></ul><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:50px;width:100%;\"></div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-140 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-three\"><h3 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;text-transform:capitalize;--fontSize:24;line-height:1.33;\">Off Canvas</h3></div><ul style=\"--awb-line-height:27.2px;--awb-icon-width:27.2px;--awb-icon-height:27.2px;--awb-icon-margin:11.2px;--awb-content-margin:38.4px;\" class=\"fusion-checklist fusion-checklist-27 fusion-checklist-default type-icons\"><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-no\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon avada-elements-file-import-solid\" aria-hidden=\"true\"></i></span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\">\n<p><a 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class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-40 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-124\"><p>Studio content is neatly organized into a range of categories making it straightforward to search through, view, and then import into your workflow.</p>\n</div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:30px;width:100%;\"></div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-142 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-two\" style=\"--awb-margin-bottom:20px;\"><h2 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;text-transform:capitalize;--fontSize:32;line-height:1.25;\">The Benefits Of Prebuilt Content</h2></div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-125\"><p>Studio content is prebuilt for anyone creating a website with the <a href=\"https://1.envato.market/AoDjqo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Avada Website Builder</a>. 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WordPress is ...\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}}s:32:\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:8:\"michaelb\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}}s:40:\"http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/\";a:1:{s:7:\"encoded\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:59682:\"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-39 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1331.2px;margin-left: calc(-4% / 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% / 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-41 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-blend:overlay;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:20px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-127\"><p>This post aims to demystify the process of quickly installing WordPress and Avada. Once set up, you can customize the website as much or as little as you need to match your marketing goals and branding. Website design can be an enjoyable and satisfying activity if you have the right tools in place.  </p>\n<p><a href=\"https://wordpress.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WordPress</a> is powerful but not complicated; however, there is a small learning curve for anyone new to this platform. If you want to build a website for your business, it can be challenging to get over that initial &#8216;hump&#8217; of familiarity with the world&#8217;s favored <a href=\"https://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/7969/what-is-a-cms-and-why-should-you-care.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Content Management System</a> (CMS).</p>\n<p>The best way to harness WordPress&#8217;s power and expand its functionality is to use a tool that brings everything together in one place. <a href=\"https://1.envato.market/jKdLZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Avada</a> is not just a WordPress theme; it is more than that. It is a <a href=\"https://1.envato.market/jKdLZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Website Builder</a> and the go-to solution for more than <strong><span class=\"fusion-cs-live-sales\">974k</span></strong> <a href=\"https://avada.com/for-beginners/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">beginners</a>, <a href=\"https://avada.com/for-marketers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">marketers</a>, and <a href=\"https://avada.com/for-professionals/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">professionals</a> when it comes to designing and maintaining world-class websites. In this post, we&#8217;ll show you how.</p>\n</div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:30px;width:100%;\"></div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-144 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-two\"><h2 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;text-transform:capitalize;--fontSize:32;line-height:1.25;\">Overview</h2></div><div class=\"awb-toc-el awb-toc-el--6\" data-awb-toc-id=\"6\" data-awb-toc-options=\"{&quot;allowed_heading_tags&quot;:{&quot;h2&quot;:0,&quot;h3&quot;:1},&quot;ignore_headings&quot;:&quot;.awb-toc-el__list.awb-toc-el__list--0 li:first-child&quot;,&quot;ignore_headings_words&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;enable_cache&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;highlight_current_heading&quot;:&quot;no&quot;,&quot;hide_hidden_titles&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;limit_container&quot;:&quot;post_content&quot;,&quot;select_custom_headings&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;icon&quot;:&quot;fa-angle-right far&quot;,&quot;counter_type&quot;:&quot;custom_icon&quot;}\" style=\"--awb-item-font-size:var(--awb-typography4-font-size);--awb-item-line-height:var(--awb-typography4-line-height);--awb-item-letter-spacing:var(--awb-typography4-letter-spacing);--awb-item-text-transform:var(--awb-typography4-text-transform);--awb-item-color:var(--awb-color8);--awb-item-color-hover:var(--awb-color5);--awb-item-bg-color-hover:rgba(101,189,125,0);--awb-counter-color:var(--awb-color6);--awb-hover-counter-color:var(--awb-color5);--awb-list-indent:15px;--awb-item-padding-top:3px;--awb-item-padding-right:0;--awb-item-padding-bottom:5px;--awb-item-padding-left:0;--awb-item-font-family:var(--awb-typography4-font-family);--awb-item-font-weight:var(--awb-typography4-font-weight);--awb-item-font-style:var(--awb-typography4-font-style);\"><div class=\"awb-toc-el__content\"></div></div>\n<div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:50px;width:100%;\"></div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-145 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-two\"><h2 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;text-transform:capitalize;--fontSize:32;line-height:1.25;\">It Is Important to Be Prepared</h2></div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-128\"><p>Being <a href=\"https://www.semrush.com/blog/website-launch-checklist/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">prepared</a> before starting a new website is paramount because it ensures a clear direction and purpose, which guides all subsequent decisions. Additionally, preparation streamlines the entire design process, making it more efficient and minimizing the likelihood of errors or delays.</p>\n<p>Here is a basic preparation checklist:</p>\n</div><ul style=\"--awb-line-height:27.2px;--awb-icon-width:27.2px;--awb-icon-height:27.2px;--awb-icon-margin:11.2px;--awb-content-margin:38.4px;\" class=\"fusion-checklist fusion-checklist-32 fusion-checklist-default type-icons\"><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-no\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa-check-circle fal\" aria-hidden=\"true\"></i></span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\">Do some preliminary online research on your competitors.</div></li><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-no\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa-check-circle fal\" aria-hidden=\"true\"></i></span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\">Clearly define the website&#8217;s purpose and goals.</div></li><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-no\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa-check-circle fal\" aria-hidden=\"true\"></i></span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\">Create a <a href=\"https://milanote.com/guide/website-design-moodboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mood board</a> using your logo, color schemes, and typography to form a cohesive look and feel that aligns with your brand&#8217;s identity.</div></li><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-no\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa-check-circle fal\" aria-hidden=\"true\"></i></span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\">Preparing your <a href=\"https://www.semrush.com/blog/seo-for-new-website/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SEO strategy</a> in advance helps integrate keywords naturally into your content, improving search engine rankings from the start.</div></li><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-no\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa-check-circle fal\" aria-hidden=\"true\"></i></span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\">A <a href=\"https://www.siteground.co.uk/tutorials/getting-started/select-domain-site/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">domain name</a> and <a href=\"https://www.siteground.com/avada?afcode=452502cf59bfef470b2806e5ba67670a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hosting service</a> with WordPress installed (most hosting providers offer one-click WordPress installations).</div></li><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-no\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa-check-circle fal\" aria-hidden=\"true\"></i></span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\"><a href=\"https://1.envato.market/jKdLZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Purchase Avada on ThemeForest</a> and download the installation files.</div></li></ul><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:30px;width:100%;\"></div><div class=\"fusion-alert alert custom alert-custom fusion-alert-left awb-alert-inherit-link-color\" style=\"--awb-background-color:#dcfce6;--awb-accent-color:#166434;--awb-border-size:0px;--awb-border-top-left-radius:5px;--awb-border-top-right-radius:5px;--awb-border-bottom-left-radius:5px;--awb-border-bottom-right-radius:5px;\" role=\"alert\"><div class=\"fusion-alert-content-wrapper\"><span class=\"fusion-alert-content\">&#8220;Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.&#8221; ― <span class=\"fusion-highlight custom-textcolor highlight1 awb-highlight-background rounded\" style=\"--awb-color:#166434;--awb-text-color:#ffffff;\">Abraham Lincoln</span></span></div></div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:10px;width:100%;\"></div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-129\"><p>From a technical perspective, preparation ensures that all necessary elements, such as hosting and domain setup, security measures, and backup solutions, are in place from the start. Furthermore, integrating a&nbsp;clear&nbsp;<a href=\"https://avada.com/blog/how-to-choose-the-best-seo-plugins-for-wordpress/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Search Engine Optimization</a> (SEO) and marketing strategy into the plan from the beginning helps&nbsp;achieve&nbsp;better results.</p>\n</div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:10px;width:100%;\"></div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-146 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-three\"><h3 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;text-transform:capitalize;--fontSize:24;line-height:1.33;\"><span class=\"fusion-highlight light highlight1 awb-highlight-background rounded\" style=\"--awb-color:var(--awb-custom_color_1);\">Step 1:</span> Download Avada From Themeforest</h3></div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-130\"><p>The first step assumes you have already <a href=\"https://1.envato.market/jKdLZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">purchased Avada</a> on the Themeforest marketplace. If you still need to, please see this detailed <a href=\"https://avada.com/documentation/how-to-purchase-avada/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">help file</a> on how to purchase Avada.</p>\n<p>To start the installation process, you must download the correct installation files and, while at it, the purchase code to register Avada, as explained in <span class=\"fusion-highlight custom-textcolor highlight1 awb-highlight-background rounded\" style=\"--awb-color:var(--awb-custom_color_1);--awb-text-color:var(--awb-color8);\"><strong>Step 3</strong></span>.</p>\n</div><div class=\"fusion-image-element \" style=\"--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-61 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1586\" alt=\"Download Avada from Themeforest\" title=\"Download Avada from Themeforest\" src=\"https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-download.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-894369\" srcset=\"https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-download-200x159.jpg 200w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-download-400x317.jpg 400w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-download-600x476.jpg 600w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-download-800x634.jpg 800w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-download-1200x952.jpg 1200w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-download.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 2000px\" /></span></div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:20px;width:100%;\"></div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-131\"><p>Log into your Themeforest marketplace account and navigate to the <a href=\"https://themeforest.net/downloads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">downloads page</a>. At this stage, you are presented with these options:</p>\n</div><div class=\"fusion-image-element \" style=\"--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-62 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1700\" height=\"550\" alt=\"Avada Download Files\" title=\"Avada Download Files\" src=\"https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-files.png\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-894370\" srcset=\"https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-files-200x65.png 200w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-files-400x129.png 400w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-files-600x194.png 600w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-files-800x259.png 800w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-files-1200x388.png 1200w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-files.png 1700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1700px\" /></span></div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:20px;width:100%;\"></div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-132\"><p>Download the &#8220;Installable WordPress file only&#8221; and a copy of the license certificate. For more information on what is included with your Avada purchase, please see this <a href=\"https://avada.com/documentation/whats-included-with-your-avada-purchase/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">help file</a>.</p>\n</div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:10px;width:100%;\"></div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-147 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-three\"><h3 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;text-transform:capitalize;--fontSize:24;line-height:1.33;\"><span class=\"fusion-highlight light highlight1 awb-highlight-background rounded\" style=\"--awb-color:var(--awb-custom_color_1);\">Step 2:</span> Upload Avada</h3></div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-133\"><p>The next step is to log in to your website&#8217;s Dashboard. By default, you can find your login page by adding <strong>/wp-admin/</strong> to the end of the domain where you installed WordPress (e.g.,&nbsp;<strong>http://yoursite.com/wp-admin/</strong>).</p>\n</div><div class=\"fusion-alert alert custom alert-custom fusion-alert-left awb-alert-inherit-link-color\" style=\"--awb-background-color:#ebfaff;--awb-accent-color:#005272;--awb-border-size:0px;--awb-border-top-left-radius:5px;--awb-border-top-right-radius:5px;--awb-border-bottom-left-radius:5px;--awb-border-bottom-right-radius:5px;\" role=\"alert\"><div class=\"fusion-alert-content-wrapper\"><span class=\"alert-icon\"><i class=\"fa-info-circle fal\" aria-hidden=\"true\"></i></span><span class=\"fusion-alert-content\"><strong>Step 2</strong> assumes you&#8217;ve already got WordPress up and running, but if you still need to, here&#8217;s an <a href=\"https://developer.wordpress.org/advanced-administration/before-install/howto-install/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in-depth guide</a> to help you get started.</span></div></div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-134\"><p>With each vanilla WordPress installation, a default theme is set as the active theme and will change once you upload Avada.</p>\n</div><div class=\"fusion-image-element \" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-63 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"932\" alt=\"Default WordPress Theme\" title=\"Default WordPress Theme\" src=\"https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-default-theme.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-894371\" srcset=\"https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-default-theme-200x93.jpg 200w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-default-theme-400x186.jpg 400w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-default-theme-600x280.jpg 600w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-default-theme-800x373.jpg 800w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-default-theme-1200x559.jpg 1200w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-default-theme.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 2000px\" /></span></div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:20px;width:100%;\"></div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-135\"><p>Once logged in, navigate to <strong>Themes &gt; Upload Theme</strong> and upload the&nbsp;&#8216;<strong>Avada.zip</strong>&#8216; file you downloaded from your ThemeForest marketplace account.</p>\n</div><div class=\"fusion-image-element \" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-64 hover-type-none\" style=\"border:1px solid var(--awb-color2);\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"448\" alt=\"WordPress Install a Theme\" title=\"WordPress Install a Theme\" src=\"https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-install.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-894366\" srcset=\"https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-install-200x45.jpg 200w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-install-400x90.jpg 400w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-install-600x134.jpg 600w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-install-800x179.jpg 800w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-install-1200x269.jpg 1200w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-install.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 2000px\" /></span></div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:20px;width:100%;\"></div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-136\"><p>WordPress will notify you as soon as the Avada upload is completed, giving you three choices. Choose &gt; <strong>Activate</strong>.</p>\n</div><div class=\"fusion-image-element \" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-65 hover-type-none\" style=\"border:1px solid var(--awb-color2);\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2438\" height=\"1026\" alt=\"WordPress Activate Theme\" title=\"WordPress Activate Theme\" src=\"https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-activate.png\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-894372\" srcset=\"https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-activate-200x84.png 200w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-activate-400x168.png 400w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-activate-600x253.png 600w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-activate-800x337.png 800w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-activate-1200x505.png 1200w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-activate.png 2438w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 2438px\" /></span></div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:20px;width:100%;\"></div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-137\"><p>Once activated, you will be redirected to the main Avada Dashboard page.  </p>\n</div><div class=\"fusion-image-element \" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-66 hover-type-none\" style=\"border:1px solid var(--awb-color2);\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2261\" alt=\"Avada Dashboard Page\" title=\"Avada Dashboard Page\" src=\"https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-register.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-894373\" srcset=\"https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-register-200x226.jpg 200w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-register-400x452.jpg 400w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-register-600x678.jpg 600w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-register-800x904.jpg 800w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-register-1200x1357.jpg 1200w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-register.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 2000px\" /></span></div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:20px;width:100%;\"></div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-138\"><p>At this point, you will be ready to proceed to the next step: installing the required plugins (Avada Builder, Avada Core), registering Avada, and getting started with customizing.</p>\n</div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:10px;width:100%;\"></div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-148 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-three\"><h3 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;text-transform:capitalize;--fontSize:24;line-height:1.33;\"><span class=\"fusion-highlight light highlight1 awb-highlight-background rounded\" style=\"--awb-color:var(--awb-custom_color_1);\">Step 3:</span> Register Avada</h3></div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-139\"><p>Registering Avada involves verifying your purchase. This process allows you to receive free automatic updates for life, import prebuilt websites directly from within your WordPress dashboard, and access Avada Studio prebuilt content.</p>\n<p>Log into the Themeforest marketplace account used to purchase Avada to locate your purchase code. For detailed instructions, please see this <a href=\"https://avada.com/documentation/how-to-locate-your-purchase-code-on-themeforest/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">help file</a> (Locating the purchase code is also explained in <span class=\"fusion-highlight custom-textcolor highlight1 awb-highlight-background rounded\" style=\"--awb-color:var(--awb-custom_color_1);--awb-text-color:var(--awb-color8);\"><strong>Step 1</strong></span>).</p>\n</div><div class=\"fusion-image-element \" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-67 hover-type-none\" style=\"border:1px solid var(--awb-color2);\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2262\" height=\"580\" alt=\"Register Avada With a Purchase Code\" title=\"Register Avada With a Purchase Code\" src=\"https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-register-option.png\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-894374\" srcset=\"https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-register-option-200x51.png 200w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-register-option-400x103.png 400w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-register-option-600x154.png 600w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-register-option-800x205.png 800w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-register-option-1200x308.png 1200w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-register-option.png 2262w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 2262px\" /></span></div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:30px;width:100%;\"></div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-149 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-three\"><h3 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;text-transform:capitalize;--fontSize:24;line-height:1.33;\"><span class=\"fusion-highlight light highlight1 awb-highlight-background rounded\" style=\"--awb-color:var(--awb-custom_color_1);\">Step 4:</span> Install the Required Plugins</h3></div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-140\"><p>The <strong>Avada Builder</strong> and <strong>Avada Core</strong> plugins are <a href=\"https://avada.com/documentation/avadas-required-plugins/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">required</a> and must be installed for Avada to work as intended. To install them, navigate to the <strong>Avada &gt; Plugins</strong> screen.</p>\n<p>Installation is straightforward and completed in a matter of seconds.</p>\n</div><div class=\"fusion-image-element \" style=\"--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-68 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"529\" alt=\"Install the Avada Required Plugins\" title=\"Install the Avada Required Plugins\" src=\"https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-install-plugin.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-894379\" srcset=\"https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-install-plugin-200x53.jpg 200w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-install-plugin-400x106.jpg 400w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-install-plugin-600x159.jpg 600w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-install-plugin-800x212.jpg 800w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-install-plugin-1200x317.jpg 1200w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-install-plugin.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 2000px\" /></span></div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:20px;width:100%;\"></div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-141\"><p>On the Plugins page, you will see a range of plugins divided into <span class=\"fusion-highlight custom-textcolor highlight1 awb-highlight-background rounded\" style=\"--awb-color:var(--awb-color5);--awb-text-color:var(--awb-color1);\">REQUIRED</span>, <span class=\"fusion-highlight custom-textcolor highlight1 awb-highlight-background rounded\" style=\"--awb-color:#1a80c0;--awb-text-color:var(--awb-color1);\">PREMIUM</span>, and <span class=\"fusion-highlight custom-textcolor highlight1 awb-highlight-background rounded\" style=\"--awb-color:#61b7b7;--awb-text-color:var(--awb-color1);\">RECOMMENDED</span>.</p>\n</div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:10px;width:100%;\"></div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-150 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-paragraph\"><p class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left title-heading-tag fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;text-transform:capitalize;--fontSize:16;--minFontSize:16;line-height:1.67;\"><span class=\"fusion-highlight custom-textcolor highlight1 awb-highlight-background rounded\" style=\"--awb-color:var(--awb-color5);--awb-text-color:var(--awb-color1);\">REQUIRED</span></p></div><ul style=\"--awb-line-height:27.2px;--awb-icon-width:27.2px;--awb-icon-height:27.2px;--awb-icon-margin:11.2px;--awb-content-margin:38.4px;\" class=\"fusion-checklist fusion-checklist-33 fusion-checklist-default type-icons\"><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-no\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa-plug fal\" aria-hidden=\"true\"></i></span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\"><strong>Avada Core</strong>—This is a companion plugin for the Avada Builder. It must be active for Avada Sliders, portfolio items, and FAQs to import.</div></li><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-no\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa-plug fal\" aria-hidden=\"true\"></i></span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\">\n<p><strong>Avada Builder</strong>—The <a href=\"https://avada.com/features/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Avada Builder</a> is foundational in site creation and a vital part of the Avada ecosystem. It incorporates an intuitive <a href=\"https://avada.com/feature/live-visual-builder/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Avada Live</a> drag &#8216;n&#8217; drop visual content builder, allowing for quick and intuitive customization.</p>\n</div></li></ul><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:10px;width:100%;\"></div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-151 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-paragraph\"><p class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left title-heading-tag fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;text-transform:capitalize;--fontSize:16;--minFontSize:16;line-height:1.67;\"><span class=\"fusion-highlight custom-textcolor highlight1 awb-highlight-background rounded\" style=\"--awb-color:#1a80c0;--awb-text-color:var(--awb-color1);\">PREMIUM</span></p></div><ul style=\"--awb-iconcolor:#1a80c0;--awb-line-height:27.2px;--awb-icon-width:27.2px;--awb-icon-height:27.2px;--awb-icon-margin:11.2px;--awb-content-margin:38.4px;\" class=\"fusion-checklist fusion-checklist-34 fusion-checklist-default type-icons\"><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-no\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa-plug fal\" aria-hidden=\"true\"></i></span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\"><strong>Avada Branding</strong>—This plugin allows you to totally <a href=\"https://avada.com/documentation/how-to-use-avada-custom-branding-plugin/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rebrand</a> different areas of your website, such as the WordPress Admin area, the WordPress Login Screen, and Avada itself.</div></li><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-no\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa-plug fal\" aria-hidden=\"true\"></i></span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\"><strong>Slider Revolution</strong>—Is a 3rd party plugin that allows you to create fully responsive <a href=\"https://avada.com/documentation/how-to-use-slider-revolution-with-avada/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">multi-media sliders</a> for your Avada website. Avada also includes a dedicated <a href=\"https://avada.com/element/slider-revolution/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Slider Revolution Element</a> to use for placement anywhere within your website layouts.</div></li><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-no\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa-plug fal\" aria-hidden=\"true\"></i></span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\"><strong>LayerSlider WP</strong>—Is a 3rd party plugin that allows you to create fully responsive <a href=\"https://avada.com/documentation/how-to-use-layer-slider-with-avada/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">media sliders</a> for your Avada website. Avada also includes a dedicated <a href=\"https://avada.com/element/layer-slider/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Layer Slider Element</a> to use for placement</div></li><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-no\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa-plug fal\" aria-hidden=\"true\"></i></span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\"><strong>Advanced Custom Fields (ACF)</strong>—This is a 3rd party plugin that allows you to add additional custom fields, such as repeatable blocks, WordPress edit screens, and custom field data, enabling you to <a href=\"https://avada.com/documentation/how-to-use-acf-pro-with-avada/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">do more</a> with your website data.</div></li><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-no\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa-plug fal\" aria-hidden=\"true\"></i></span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\"><strong>Convert Plus</strong>—This is a 3rd party popup plugin with three modules, Modal, Info Bar, or Slide In, that you can <a href=\"https://avada.com/documentation/convert-plus-element/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">easily add</a> to your content with custom manual triggering or inline display.</div></li><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-no\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa-plug fal\" aria-hidden=\"true\"></i></span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\"><strong>FileBird</strong>—This 3rd party plugin is a WordPress media library folder and file manager that allows you to create virtual folders and subfolders. It <a href=\"https://avada.com/documentation/how-to-use-filebird-pro-with-avada/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">helps you organize</a> your website media content more efficiently.</div></li></ul><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:10px;width:100%;\"></div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-152 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-paragraph\"><p class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left title-heading-tag fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;text-transform:capitalize;--fontSize:16;--minFontSize:16;line-height:1.67;\"><span class=\"fusion-highlight custom-textcolor highlight1 awb-highlight-background rounded\" style=\"--awb-color:#61b7b7;--awb-text-color:var(--awb-color1);\">RECOMMENDED</span></p></div><ul style=\"--awb-iconcolor:#61b7b7;--awb-line-height:27.2px;--awb-icon-width:27.2px;--awb-icon-height:27.2px;--awb-icon-margin:11.2px;--awb-content-margin:38.4px;\" class=\"fusion-checklist fusion-checklist-35 fusion-checklist-default type-icons\"><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-no\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa-plug fal\" aria-hidden=\"true\"></i></span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\"><strong>HubSpot</strong>—Is an inbound marketing and sales cloud-based software suite designed for small businesses. Their third-party plugin is <a href=\"https://avada.com/documentation/how-to-use-hubspot-with-avada/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">free to use</a> with Avada. It offers live chat, chatbots, forms, popups, email marketing, analytics, and more to turn your website into a <a href=\"https://avada.com/blog/turn-your-avada-website-into-a-marketing-powerhouse-with-hubspot/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">marketing powerhouse</a>.</div></li><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-no\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa-plug fal\" aria-hidden=\"true\"></i></span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\"><strong>WooCommerce</strong>—This 3rd party plugin is design-integrated with Avada. It lets you create a customized experience for your WooCommerce users from start to finish. You can <a href=\"https://avada.com/feature/woocommerce/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">design and build</a> conditional layouts for individual WooCommerce Products and create custom Shop, Cart, Checkout, and Archive pages, all using the design flexibility and power of the <a href=\"https://avada.com/documentation/the-avada-woocommerce-builder/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Avada WooCommerce Builder</a>.</div></li><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-no\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa-plug fal\" aria-hidden=\"true\"></i></span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\"><strong>The Events Calendar</strong>—This 3rd party plugin is fully design <a href=\"https://avada.com/element/events/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">integrated with Avada</a>. You can easily display events anywhere on your Avada website. In addition, a wide array of flexible options gives you <a href=\"https://avada.com/documentation/how-to-use-the-events-calendar-with-avada/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">total creative control</a>.</div></li><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-no\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa-plug fal\" aria-hidden=\"true\"></i></span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\"><strong>Yoast SEO</strong>—This 3rd party plugin is <a href=\"https://avada.com/documentation/how-to-use-yoast-seo-with-avada/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">compatible</a> with Avada. It is a popular tool for WordPress that helps users optimize their websites to enhance their visibility and <a href=\"https://avada.com/blog/how-to-choose-the-best-seo-plugins-for-wordpress/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ranking</a> in search engine results.</div></li><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-no\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa-plug fal\" aria-hidden=\"true\"></i></span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\"><strong>bbPress</strong>—This 3rd party plugin is a streamlined discussion board <a href=\"https://avada.com/documentation/how-to-use-bbpress-with-avada/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">compatible</a> with Avada. It is easy to use and built to scale and grow your online community.</div></li><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-no\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa-plug fal\" aria-hidden=\"true\"></i></span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\"><strong>PWA</strong>—This 3rd party plugin has performance-based features that provide <a href=\"https://avada.com/documentation/how-to-use-pwa-progressive-web-apps-with-avada/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">caching and APP options</a> for Avada, allowing for an enhanced user experience.</div></li></ul><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:30px;width:100%;\"></div><div class=\"fusion-image-element \" style=\"--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-69 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1739\" height=\"2560\" alt=\"Avada Required &amp; Premium Plugins\" title=\"Avada Required &#038; Premium Plugins\" src=\"https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-install-plugins-scaled.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-894377\" srcset=\"https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-install-plugins-200x295.jpg 200w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-install-plugins-400x589.jpg 400w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-install-plugins-600x884.jpg 600w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-install-plugins-800x1178.jpg 800w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-install-plugins-1200x1767.jpg 1200w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-install-plugins-scaled.jpg 1739w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1739px\" /></span></div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:30px;width:100%;\"></div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-153 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-three\"><h3 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;text-transform:capitalize;--fontSize:24;line-height:1.33;\"><span class=\"fusion-highlight light highlight1 awb-highlight-background rounded\" style=\"--awb-color:var(--awb-custom_color_1);\">Step 5:</span> Import a Prebuilt Avada Website</h3></div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-142\"><p>An <a href=\"https://avada.com/prebuilt-websites/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Avada prebuilt website</a> is a professionally designed website template included with your purchase of Avada. These websites, also known as &#8220;demos,&#8221; are created by the in-house Avada design team and intended to showcase the versatility and functionality of Avada and WordPress. They provide a <a href=\"https://avada.com/documentation/how-to-import-a-prebuilt-avada-website/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">quick and easy</a> way for users to set up a professional-looking website without needing to design it from scratch.</p>\n<p>There are currently <strong><span class=\"fusion-cs-live-demos\">107</span></strong> websites to choose from (with new websites being added regularly), arranged into various industry categories. Before the import, you can filter by category and preview each website. You can also view all Avada prebuilt websites <a href=\"https://avada.website/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">online</a>.</p>\n</div><div class=\"fusion-image-element \" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-70 hover-type-none\" style=\"border:1px solid var(--awb-color2);\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1971\" alt=\"Avada Prebuilt Websites\" title=\"Avada Prebuilt Websites\" src=\"https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-websites.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-894397\" srcset=\"https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-websites-200x197.jpg 200w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-websites-400x394.jpg 400w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-websites-600x591.jpg 600w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-websites-800x788.jpg 800w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-websites-1200x1183.jpg 1200w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-websites.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 2000px\" /></span></div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:20px;width:100%;\"></div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-143\"><p>These <a href=\"https://avada.com/prebuilt-websites/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">prebuilt websites</a> include complete layouts, styles, and dummy content that can be imported into a WordPress installation with <a href=\"https://avada.com/documentation/how-to-import-a-prebuilt-avada-website/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">just a few clicks</a>. Each prebuilt website is tailored for specific industries or purposes, such as business, portfolio, e-commerce, blog, or landing pages, allowing users to choose a design that closely matches their needs.</p>\n<p>On the import screen, you will see options. You can import all the content, import specific content types only, or <a href=\"https://avada.com/documentation/how-to-remove-prebuilt-website-content-after-import/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">remove</a> previously imported content.</p>\n</div><div class=\"fusion-image-element \" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-71 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1255\" alt=\"Avada Website Import Screen\" title=\"Avada Website Import Screen\" src=\"https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-import-website.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-894398\" srcset=\"https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-import-website-200x126.jpg 200w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-import-website-400x251.jpg 400w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-import-website-600x377.jpg 600w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-import-website-800x502.jpg 800w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-import-website-1200x753.jpg 1200w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-import-website.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 2000px\" /></span></div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:30px;width:100%;\"></div><div class=\"fusion-alert alert custom alert-custom fusion-alert-left awb-alert-inherit-link-color\" style=\"--awb-background-color:#ebfaff;--awb-accent-color:#005272;--awb-border-size:0px;--awb-border-top-left-radius:5px;--awb-border-top-right-radius:5px;--awb-border-bottom-left-radius:5px;--awb-border-bottom-right-radius:5px;\" role=\"alert\"><div class=\"fusion-alert-content-wrapper\"><span class=\"alert-icon\"><i class=\"fa-lightbulb fal\" aria-hidden=\"true\"></i></span><span class=\"fusion-alert-content\"><span class=\"fusion-highlight custom-textcolor highlight1 awb-highlight-background rounded\" style=\"--awb-color:#005272;--awb-text-color:#ffffff;\">Top Tip:</span> One approach to designing your new Avada website is to import a prebuilt website. Alternative methods for designing and building a custom Avada website include using the <a href=\"https://avada.com/blog/a-beginners-guide-to-the-avada-website-setup-wizard/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Avada Setup Wizard</a> or simply creating one from scratch using a vanilla install of Avada.</span></div></div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-144\"><p>Importing an Avada website will give you layouts, pages, posts, forms, icons, global options, widgets, sidebars, sliders, and miscellaneous settings to replicate the original site accurately.</p>\n<p>Once imported, you can <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBbPQU9HCTGPSbMgYw5fbH1nAUBu-5TNX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">customize</a> the dummy content, layouts, and other elements to fit your unique requirements, leveraging Avada&#8217;s powerful features and flexibility to create your perfect website.</p>\n</div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:10px;width:100%;\"></div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-154 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-three\"><h3 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;text-transform:capitalize;--fontSize:24;line-height:1.33;\"><span class=\"fusion-highlight light highlight1 awb-highlight-background rounded\" style=\"--awb-color:var(--awb-custom_color_1);\">Step 6:</span> Start Customizing</h3></div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-145\"><p>There are several approaches you can take when it comes to creating your new website, and how much and how far you customize the imported website will be entirely up to you and your goals. You may want to do low-level customization and only change the core branding, such as the logo and favicon, dummy wording, and general contact information, essentially leaving all of the imported pages and layout structure intact.</p>\n</div><div class=\"fusion-image-element \" style=\"--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-72 hover-type-none\" style=\"border:1px solid var(--awb-color2);\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1469\" alt=\"Customizing Avada Website Content\" title=\"Customizing Avada Website Content\" src=\"https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-customize.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-894399\" srcset=\"https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-customize-200x147.jpg 200w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-customize-400x294.jpg 400w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-customize-600x441.jpg 600w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-customize-800x588.jpg 800w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-customize-1200x881.jpg 1200w, https://avada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/avada-website-setup-post-customize.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 2000px\" /></span></div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:20px;width:100%;\"></div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-146\"><p>Or, you may want to go the whole hog and customize everything (header, footer, layouts, content, media, images, pages, and posts). Avada gives you the flexibility and creative freedom to design any website layout, add an e-commerce online store, and more.</p>\n</div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:30px;width:100%;\"></div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-155 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-two\"><h2 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;text-transform:capitalize;--fontSize:32;line-height:1.25;\">Resources</h2></div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-147\"><p>In addition to the prebuilt websites, Avada offers a wide range of creative resources that will enhance and inspire your workflow. These include prebuilt <a href=\"https://avada.com/feature/avada-studio/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Avada Studio</a> content, tutorial videos, an advanced help center, and world-class professional support.</p>\n</div><ul style=\"--awb-line-height:27.2px;--awb-icon-width:27.2px;--awb-icon-height:27.2px;--awb-icon-margin:11.2px;--awb-content-margin:38.4px;\" class=\"fusion-checklist fusion-checklist-36 fusion-checklist-default type-icons\"><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-no\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa-badge-check fal\" aria-hidden=\"true\"></i></span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\">There are <span class=\"fusion-cs-live-demos\">107</span> <a href=\"https://avada.com/prebuilt-websites/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">prebuilt Avada websites</a> designed for beginners, marketers, and professionals alike. They focus on usability and flexibility to improve your workflow and save you time.</div></li><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-no\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa-palette fal\" aria-hidden=\"true\"></i></span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\"><a href=\"https://avada.studio/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Avada Studio</a> includes an expansive library of 548 creative content items, professionally designed to speed up your workflow. Get a head start with prebuilt headers to footers, containers to elements, and everything in between.</div></li><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-no\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa-cogs fal\" aria-hidden=\"true\"></i></span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\">The <a href=\"https://avada.com/feature/setup-wizard/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Avada Setup Wizard</a> is a step-by-step feature that guides users through setting up a new website. It makes it easier for users to get started with Avada, even if they have little to no experience designing and building sites.</div></li><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-no\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa-info-circle fal\" aria-hidden=\"true\"></i></span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\">Access to extensive and detailed documentation via the <a href=\"https://avada.com/help-center/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">help center</a>.</div></li><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-no\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa-video fal\" aria-hidden=\"true\"></i></span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\">200+ <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/@AvadaVideos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video tutorials</a> will guide you through everything Avada-related.</div></li><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-no\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa-comment-alt-edit fal\" aria-hidden=\"true\"></i></span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\">Your personal <a href=\"https://avada.com/documentation/how-to-use-my-avada/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">My Avada</a> account to manage your purchase code domain registrations, staging/test/dev subdomains, access support, and more.</div></li><li class=\"fusion-li-item\" style=\"\"><span class=\"icon-wrapper circle-no\"><i class=\"fusion-li-icon fa-hands-helping fal\" aria-hidden=\"true\"></i></span><div class=\"fusion-li-item-content\">Access to world-class <a href=\"https://avada.com/about-us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">professional support</a>. We encourage the Avada community to build a relationship with our team.</div></li></ul><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:30px;width:100%;\"></div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-156 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-two\"><h2 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;text-transform:capitalize;--fontSize:32;line-height:1.25;\">Summary</h2></div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-148\"><p>Getting a website up and running can seem intimidating, especially when switching to a new framework or using one for the first time. However, starting with <a href=\"https://1.envato.market/jKdLZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Avada</a> is much easier than you may think.</p>\n<p>Following the steps in this article, you can set up a basic website in no time. 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Here we go!&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:00:28] (Intro Music)&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">[00:00:40]&nbsp;<strong>Josepha:</strong>&nbsp;</span>Last week, we released WordPress 6.6, and I had a chance to chat with a long-time contributor and member of the Release Squad about it.&nbsp;Today, I have with me Meher, and she was, well I guess I will let her tell us what she did with the release, but at the time of this recording, yesterday we had the WordPress 6.6 release, codenamed &#8216;Dorsey,&#8217; and so Meher, welcome to the WordPress Briefing.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:01:05] <strong>Meher:</strong> Hi, thank you for inviting me. It&#8217;s nice to be here.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">[00:01:09]&nbsp;<strong>Josepha:</strong>&nbsp;Why don&#8217;t you tell us a little bit about yourself, what you do in the WordPress project, how long you&#8217;ve been contributing, and then the role that you played in our big, big mid-year release?</span></p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:01:19] <strong>Meher:</strong> So my name is Meher. I&#8217;m a front-end developer. I&#8217;m also a CEO of KDC. I&#8217;m also a codable expert in WordPress. I started with contributing into the marketing field. Then, slowly, for 5.6, I got to be on the release squad, learned about training, about how the release goes, process happens. From that time onwards, I&#8217;ve been part of marketing or, basically, I&#8217;ve been part of the marketing team for all the releases. For 6.6, I picked to do the Release Coordinator, something different, something new, wanting to know what goes into it.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:02:03] <strong>Josepha:</strong> That is a big leap from like hanging out in marketing to going to be the Release Coordinator. Before we get into the release itself, just what made you think to yourself, I would like to do that? I would like to stand up and wrangle all of these contributors across the world. Make sure we get a release out?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:02:20] <strong>Meher:</strong> I wanted to try something new. Like even in WordCamp, each role is different. So, even in the release, I wanted to try each different things. And like 5.6, I was in documentation. Then, I was in marketing. So then I got used to marketing, so I stick with my, no, I stuck with marketing. </p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:02:39] <strong>Josepha:</strong> Yeah.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:02:40] <strong>Meher:</strong> So this time, I want to try something different, and I want to see, you know, how easy was it to be a Release Coordinator because it&#8217;s a Release Coordinator, see, you know, it&#8217;s, it&#8217;s a like a big thing coordinating so many people so many different teams going on, working together, and so yeah, it was fun.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:02:58] <strong>Josepha:</strong> Great. I&#8217;m glad that you found it fun. I always worry when people make big shifts. I&#8217;m like, did we put enough documentation to make it clear? Are they going to find it easy to get started or not? And I think you did a really great job with it. So congratulations, since that happened just yesterday, less than 24 hours ago.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:03:16] <strong>Meher:</strong> Yes, less than 24 hours.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:03:21] <strong>Josepha:</strong> Yeah, yeah. So, from your position as the Release Coordinator, what are the biggest, like, one or two features that you really were excited to see get in this release?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:03:32] <strong>Meher:</strong> Oh, one of the biggest features was the style override patterns.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:03:37] <strong>Josepha:</strong> Oh, yeah.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:03:38] <strong>Meher:</strong> Which I found very useful because a lot of people are using patterns. So, you know, patterns override; if you wanna change something on a specific page, it&#8217;s really useful then just to, you know, recreate a second pattern and then to match up and all. And second, which I liked as a user, was the publish box on the post becoming very clear, very, you know, cluster-free, very minimalistic, and just so comfortable that a normal user will actually understand what is there instead of going to each dropdown and figuring out what needs to be done. So, for me, I think as a developer and user, these two are the fun features, which I like, which 6.5 had, so. There are many other features as well. These are the two great features.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:04:28] <strong>Josepha:</strong> Yeah. I mean, I don&#8217;t think that anyone can argue about the importance of making things a little easier to see, a little easier to use. It&#8217;s been a little bit since WordPress was like fall into it easy to use. I feel like we have been the easiest of the robust CMS systems for like a long time. I know I said CMS systems. That&#8217;s like saying pin number. I know that the S in CMS is systems, but anyway, that notwithstanding, we&#8217;ve been the easiest of the complex solutions for a long time, and I think it&#8217;s always great when we, when we take a moment to be like, what could we make a bit easier to just like, no instructions required you get in there and you can tell like, what any individual thing will do without necessarily, like you said, having to go into drop downs and reading a bunch of stuff a little guesswork is okay. And also, it&#8217;s clear that none of it is dangerous. And so I think that&#8217;s, I think that&#8217;s a a good change myself. So, I agree with your assessment.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:05:27] <strong>Josepha:</strong> So the style override patterns, that&#8217;s part of the suite of design tools that we&#8217;re pulling together, right?&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:05:33] <strong>Meher:</strong> Yes.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:05:34] <strong>Josepha:</strong> in your experience, you said you&#8217;re the CEO of your company, like in your experience, does that feel like something that&#8217;s super useful for agencies or particularly useful for freelancers, or should it generally be useful for everyone?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:05:47] <strong>Meher:</strong> It will be useful from a small business point to a freelancer as well because we always try, like, in each page, we always, you know, there is some bits repeated, you know, so, patterns makes it easier, and syndicate pattern makes it more easier so that you can just duplicate and have one place to change. And, like, you have ten pages, you have one pattern across ten pages. The 11th page, you want the same pattern, but little change in that. It&#8217;s easier. It&#8217;s good because you can just change on that page, one particular thing and still go in the parent and change other things to reflect in that. So it will be very helpful for freelancers, small agencies. I do see big agencies take advantage of it. So overall, it should help everyone.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:06:35] <strong>Josepha:</strong> Good. Good. I, for one, isn&#8217;t it great when we can get a feature out that mostly is going to help everyone. But I have been especially interested in the features that we&#8217;re trying to get out that help that kind of like small to medium agency area. I feel like we have a lot of folks in the WordPress community who do exactly what you&#8217;re talking about. You&#8217;re getting something together. You have a mostly what you need across your site. You have one style that&#8217;s out there, but there&#8217;s this one area that you want to have a little bit more personality or a little less personality, depending on what your client is looking for, like this one is applying for jobs, and it needs to be a little less exciting or whatever it is.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:07:13] <strong>Josepha:</strong> I think that&#8217;s great that we have that option. So you don&#8217;t have to try to, I don&#8217;t know, hack your way through that. I know that we&#8217;re not a super get-in-there-and hack-on-it sort of group anymore these days, but I love that we still have that feeling of we&#8217;re gonna, we&#8217;re going to make this a safe hacking space for you. Just get in there and make it work. So that&#8217;s excellent. Excellent. So for you, then, personally, cause you wear a lot of hats, you&#8217;ve your front-end developer; you&#8217;re running your company, you&#8217;re working, you&#8217;re a codable expert. You&#8217;ve got all these things. So from your perspective, what is the thing that got into this release that was a surprising, like a diamond in the rough for you, like a surprising good feature when you just thought it was like an important feature at some point? Was there one that seemed like it was a good idea but became a great idea by the time it was out?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:08:00] <strong>Meher:</strong> Oh, I would say style variations because I did not expect the final style variation to be what it is. A theme developer can create the theme, can add styles, can add fonts, can give different design elements to the theme as a normal user when they when someone wants to just pull up a website, but they&#8217;re not good in design, or they don&#8217;t know which font to use. They choose which font, but then it doesn&#8217;t work. So if the theme provides an easy option just to shift the different styles they&#8217;re using and combining with the fonts. It is a much bigger opportunity for everyone because a normal user can just, they have a black and white site. I want to shift to a colorful site. Just go and see what the theme art has given you and shift it. So I think that I was surprised and I like the outcome. I&#8217;m sure my blogger friends also will like it because then they don&#8217;t have to depend on a designer to you know, give them color schemes and stuff.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:09:01] <strong>Josepha:</strong> Yes. Yeah. So unrelated. It&#8217;s only, it&#8217;s kind of related. I shouldn&#8217;t say it&#8217;s unrelated. It&#8217;s all about WordPress. And now it&#8217;s about color palettes. So, I have a new design on my blog. And unfortunately I am the sort of person that does need a designer to tell me what I meant by the thing I thought. <span style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">And so, like, I had this idea of the sort of color palette that I wanted and was searching for color palettes inside themes, which I was not succeeding at.</span> And eventually I had a designer who was happy to help you figure this out and get something out there. And they got me something that&#8217;s absolutely perfect. It&#8217;s got an excellent color palette and they redid some images for me. So it looks nice and hip and feels kind of modern. I think it&#8217;s great. But the one thing that I consistently felt confident to mess with while I was in there, because I think they did some custom work in there too, is all of the stuff that&#8217;s included in style variations. Like, I&#8217;m not touching colors because I can&#8217;t put colors together to save my life. But I was pleasantly surprised also by that particular feature. It gives you a feeling of I can change the face of this through the fonts or whatever it is. And I think that&#8217;s a nice, a nice thing.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:10:06] <strong>Meher:</strong> And it&#8217;s a, it&#8217;s a perfect combination. Color and font. Because a lot of people don&#8217;t know today&#8217;s time which font is good. Or which font is needed for an industry.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:10:16] <strong>Josepha:</strong> Exactly. Fortunately, I&#8217;m a site manager of one. And so I just had to ask myself if I liked the font and moved on from there. So, oh. So, like I said, as we&#8217;re recording this, we are less than 24 hours past the release. How was your experience with this release? Was it enjoyable? Did it like expand your horizons? Were there surprises in how a release is run?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:10:43] <strong>Meher:</strong> There was no surprises because I&#8217;ve already been a part of a release. So I.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:10:47] <strong>Josepha:</strong> That&#8217;s&nbsp;fair.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:10:49] <strong>Meher:</strong> You know, it&#8217;s depends on what happens on the day.&nbsp;But yes, behind the scenes, following up, just checking in to make sure, are we on time, do we need more time, or what needs, you know, how much more time is required. It was fairly good, I was only clearly concerned about on the day of the release, because there&#8217;s a lot of things to cover.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:11:09] <strong>Josepha:</strong> Yes.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:11:10] <strong>Meher:</strong> Usually, the party of the beta and the RCs finish in less than hour or so. But the final has a lot more detailed steps and many people to ping, to get, you know, them on the day of the release.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:11:24] <strong>Josepha:</strong> Yeah, for folks who have never watched a release happen. So, I think a lot of the folks who listen to this podcast, they find it in the dashboard, they don&#8217;t necessarily contribute to WordPress. But, like, if you&#8217;ve never watched a WordPress release, we have these release parties for every beta that goes out, every release candidate that goes out, and then the general release. And I always find them so fascinating because, we have hundreds of contributors over the course of an individual release. And then we have probably 50, 60 people who show up at, for some of you all, in the middle of the night and are just being directed, like their attention is just being directed here and there.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:12:06] <strong>Josepha:</strong> And I love watching it because I, I&#8217;m always in the release channel. I&#8217;m in the core channel. All of these are in Slack. And then I&#8217;m also in the admin channel where you have to do the flipping of switches and packaging things. And it&#8217;s really interesting to see, almost like a scan of a brain where things are lighting up for various things. <span style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">Like, you do the pre-testing in the release channel, and then you do the general testing in the core channel.</span> And then we&#8217;ve got like a person who&#8217;s flipping switches in the back, in the admin area to make sure that it all gets together. And it&#8217;s just really interesting to see how it all works. And yeah, it&#8217;s a really fun thing.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear listener, if you have never, if you&#8217;ve never done this, you have another opportunity. And I think the next release is early in November or something. And even if you&#8217;re there as like a spectator, not necessarily ready to take part in the release, sometimes it&#8217;s kind of nice to see how much effort and how many people are showing up to work on any individual release.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">[00:13:01]&nbsp;<strong>Josepha:</strong>&nbsp;This was your first time to lead the release parties, though, right?</span></p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:13:06] <strong>Meher:</strong> Yes. My first time releasing a release party. Also, to the spectators who have never been a part of release, you can just come and say hi. Like, yesterday, on the day of the release, there was one participant who joined for the first time, and she did contribute.&nbsp;And she was amazed by how smooth it went through. And for me, the best part of any release is seeing the green tick when people start testing. So, you know, everything is smooth sailing.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:13:34] <strong>Josepha:</strong> Yes.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:13:34] <strong>Meher:</strong> And we&#8217;ll reach the destination.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:13:36] <strong>Josepha:</strong> Yes. It&#8217;s, it is a real testament to how well and how closely all of these folks can work together, which if you stop and think about the fact that everybody&#8217;s like all over the world, it&#8217;s all across the globe that this is happening. It is why WordPress works, right? All of these people, all of you coming together to do this on behalf of this software. How cool that you had somebody who joined for the first time and then they were able to contribute immediately.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:14:02] <strong>Meher:</strong> Yes.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:14:03] <strong>Josepha:</strong> I love that.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:14:04] <strong>Meher:</strong> Also, there are a lot of folks who&#8217;ve done it. So they&#8217;re always ready to help out. You know, if you&#8217;re stuck somewhere, as a first-time release lead, there were certain questions I had. There are a lot of people to guide you to the right direction or to say, this needs to go here, or you need to tell the audience this. A lot of support you get from the squad itself, plus the people who are not on the squad and who&#8217;ve done this.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:14:29] <strong>Josepha:</strong> Absolutely. I remember the first release that I led I was the coordinator of it and I believe it was 5.0. I believe it was the one that we put Gutenberg in core with, and it was the most terrifying thing I&#8217;d ever done. Not because I hadn&#8217;t been watching these releases happening for years, but because it&#8217;s different participating and watching and then being the person who is like you said, like making sure that things are still going on time that you understand when you need to say, like, there&#8217;s no way that this works for users right now. We have to take it out and all those things. And then, yeah, the day of, the first time that you have to run one of those global meetings, be like, &#8216;everyone, we don&#8217;t have time for this. Move on&#8217;. That&#8217;s always a really hard first time. Well, cool. That&#8217;s so exciting. So I have a last question for you, and that is, you&#8217;ve kind of let us into it, for first-time contributors to a release, especially anyone who&#8217;s thinking about joining the release squad for the first time, do you have any advice, anything that you wish you had been told when you were coming into this?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:15:32] <strong>Meher:</strong> Come with an open mind and come with a thought that there are people to help you. Ask in any channel. There will be someone or the other who will answer you immediately or a little later, depending on the time zone, and will guide you to the right person or right documentation where you can read up because there is a lot of documentation, good documentation on releases, how it handles and what team is needed, what they are supposed to do. So, you, you have a friendly bunch of people. Just ask.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:16:03] <strong>Josepha:</strong> Excellent. I love it. I love that advice. That was really good advice. Don&#8217;t be scared. Everybody has answers, and they want to give them to you. I agree. That is a real strong truth for the WordPress project. Last thoughts: anything you want to share with the WordPress community with our community of listeners here?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:16:20] <strong>Meher:</strong> Looking forward for new people joining the next release and seeing 6.7 new features, which I&#8217;m excited about, collaborative phase three coming into picture and excited about it.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:16:32] <strong>Josepha:</strong> Yeah. So you can come join us, make.WordPress.org/core, or you can join us in the Slack instance. You can go to chat.WordPress.org and get signed up for that. We coordinate all of this in the core channel, and we hope to see every new contributor that&#8217;s been on the fence. We hope you show up. There&#8217;s a new meeting every two weeks just for y&#8217;all. Meher, this has been an excellent conversation. Thank you so much for joining me today.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:16:56] <strong>Meher:</strong> Thank you for having me. It was fun.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:16:58] (Music interlude)&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:17:05] <strong>Josepha:</strong> Hopefully, you&#8217;ve had a chance to download the release and try it out on your own sites. As always, if you run into any bugs, let us know so that we can get them in the next point release.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that brings us now to our small list of big things. I have a moderate-sized small list. The first one is that WordPress is a reminder, actually. It&#8217;s a lot of reminders this week if I get right down to it, but this first one is a reminder that one of our big-picture goals for 2024 was getting new users into our event series. Our goal, of course, is to warmly welcome more first-time attendees and new users, and future WordPressers at all of our events, and that&#8217;s something that you can help get done. So, for all of our event organizers, or if you have not organized an event yet and would like to, just so that you can meet the fellow WordPressers in your area or, get to grow your own network a little bit. We&#8217;ve got a few best practices that can help you to make sure that you have a good experience for first time attendees. For one, you should always consider some thoughtful event design. Craft your events with some first-time attendees in mind. You have to consider their needs and interests and potential barriers to participation. Second, it helps to have some targeted messaging. Ensure that you have promotional materials that highlight the benefits of attending, but also what new knowledge, skills, or professional connections folks will gain when they come. It&#8217;s also good to share success stories of past first-time attendees. And then just kind of a final note for that on outreach strategies. You should experiment with a range of marketing channels to reach professional new attendees. You can partner with local schools, professional organizations, and online communities who can help to spread the word.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:18:52] <strong>Josepha:</strong> The second thing on our small list of big things is a reminder that the Docs Team holds an online Contributor Day every fourth Tuesday. They&#8217;ve been doing this for about a year now. And I think that it&#8217;s one of the most engaging and fun new contributor experiences we have, which I realize might sound odd for documentation, but it&#8217;s a great team. It&#8217;s got a great number of team reps in it. And they&#8217;re looking for you. They&#8217;re looking out for you to come and join for your first time on a Contributor Day. The next one is actually tomorrow, July 23rd. I&#8217;ll have a link for that in the show notes.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:19:29] <strong>Josepha:</strong> And the third thing on our list is a reminder about online workshops. These are live sessions where you can learn alongside other WordPress enthusiasts, and they&#8217;re, you know, safe spaces where you can come as you are, develop new ideas, explore issues that you&#8217;re having, ask questions, network over shared interests, exchange theories, collaborate, and honestly, thrive on a bit of problem-solving together. New workshops are happening all the time. 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And so it&#8217;s really nice to see how we have really, not only created a bunch of resources in general, if you all have not looked at learn.WordPress.org lately, it has, like, workshop outlines that you can use to do a training by yourself at your meetup group or at a school or whatever it is.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:07:08] <strong>Josepha:</strong> But then also, I want to say it was maybe two, three years ago, that you all, as a team, the Training Team, started doing these online workshops. And so, when you created the Learning Pathways, considering like how much time and research has gone into this project overall, did you all have learnings that came from those workshops that you had already done? Is this like a collection of workshops or is this something where you can do it at home and learn by yourself and then go someplace else and learn more about WordPress? Like how does that function in what we have already?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:07:45] <strong>Wes:</strong> Yeah, so maybe I should first, maybe let&#8217;s define a learning pathway. So I, I thought about this, but a learning pathway, I would say, is a route taken by learner through a range of modules, lessons, and even courses to build knowledge progressively. So it&#8217;s similar to a course, but of course usually covers like a specific topic or subject where learning pathways usually have a larger goal.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:08:11] <strong>Wes:</strong> So I wouldn&#8217;t say that the online workshops form part of the Learning Pathways project. And maybe I can also clarify that the teacher notes or the lesson plans that you refer to is something that&#8217;s also changing going forward. </p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:08:23] <strong>Josepha:</strong> Oh, good. Because I wrote some of those, and I am not an instructional designer. And so, ha!</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:08:30] <strong>Wes:</strong> We&#8217;ve actually decided to move away from having two different content types. So, we had tutorials. You know, video tutorials, and we had lesson plans, and as you said, the lesson plans were notes that somebody could use to run an online workshop or to go to a WordCamp or at their local meetup and use that to teach something. But moving forward for Learning Pathways, we are actually just going to have one content type, namely lessons. And then lessons from part of creating a course or lessons from part of creating modules and then Learning Pathways. The other exciting thing, and something we haven&#8217;t mentioned, is that at the end of this month, when we launched the Learning Pathways or the first few Learning Pathways, it actually coincides with a website redesign.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:09:18] <strong>Wes:</strong> So, yeah, beyond the lookout, hopefully, learn.WordPress.org is going to have a brand new face at the end, from the end of July or, yeah, or August. So, yeah, that&#8217;s very exciting.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:09:30] <strong>Josepha:</strong> Excellent. Excellent. So, you said that these Learning Pathways are part of a larger goal. Is that a goal for your learners or a goal for WordPress? A goal for the team?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:09:40] <strong>Wes:</strong> I would say all of the above.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:09:42] <strong>Josepha:</strong> Goals for everybody. We&#8217;re like the Oprah of goals. Don&#8217;t come get me, Oprah. That&#8217;s all I got to say about it.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:09:48] <strong>Wes:</strong> Yeah, I think for us as a team, at the end of the day, we want folks to be able to use the content and find the content and utilize all the learning material on learn.WordPress.org. And then, of course, at the end of the day, for learners, we want folks to be able to succeed in whatever they are trying to do. Is it to build their own website? Is it to maybe find a job as a developer? And. Yeah, I mean, the list can go on.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:10:21] <strong>Josepha:</strong> Yeah. So, on the subject of wanting to help people succeed, I think that as far as I hear from the majority of contributors that I have worked with over the years, like helping other people figure out how to do this and making sure that they can succeed is always something that is top of mind for contributors to open source probably in general, but definitely to WordPress. Like, we really care about helping other people figure out how to have the same sort of benefits that we&#8217;ve had in the project and with the software. So if you have somebody who is familiar with all the bits and pieces of WordPress and really, really want to like show up and help teach some things. Is it the case that they can take part in like running a Learning Pathway? Is it something where we mostly need people to help us build some content? Like if we&#8217;ve got people who are just desperate to help other people succeed in WordPress, what kinds of things can they show up and help do on this project?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:11:22] <strong>Wes:</strong> Yes, please come to the Training Team. There are many ways to get involved. If you just want to review content, you can do that. But yeah, we do have a need for content creators, folks, you know, creating a video lesson or putting their hand up and saying, I will actually create an entire module or an entire learning, a Learning Pathway. We do have some awesome contributors that&#8217;s part of the Training Team that are already doing that. Some people are writing scripts. Some folks are actually, you know, creating everything from the beginning to the end. So they are writing the script, they recording the video, publishing the video, et cetera. And then we&#8217;ve, of course, have people reviewing content. We&#8217;ve got folks running online workshops. If maybe creating video content is not their, is not their forte, they can can run online workshops. So yeah, many ways getting involved.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:12:16] <strong>Wes:</strong> But Josepha, I wanted to point something else out that I haven&#8217;t done. I think there was a real need for Learning Pathways because, at the moment, if somebody new to WordPress or new to developing with WordPress wants to find learning content. You know, where do they go? What&#8217;s the main platform to go to? I think most people probably go to YouTube, right?&nbsp;But a lot of the content there are, are scattered and fragmented. </p>\n\n\n\n<p>So a lot of learning material or learning about WordPress is all over the place. It&#8217;s not in one place. And as I said, a place where you can actually learn from A to Z, learn progressively learning in a structured way. Yes, we know there are courses available that you can pay for, but the awesome thing about this project is that we are providing these Learning Pathways, these learning resources, for free for folks to be able to work through at their own time. I know that&#8217;s something else you asked earlier on. So yes, this is a course in quotation marks; this is a Learning Pathway that somebody can start whenever it suits them, you know, in the comfort of their own home, and they can work through the Learning Pathway from the beginning to the end. Or, if they feel I actually know everything taught in module one and two, I&#8217;m going to start at module three, they can do that. They basically come in at their skill level.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:13:43] <strong>Josepha:</strong> Yes. I think it&#8217;s really important to try to meet people where they are. And I know that it&#8217;s difficult because, like, we don&#8217;t take a lot of data from our users. You don&#8217;t have to give us basically anything in order to use WordPress. And by basically, I mean you literally don&#8217;t have to give us anything to use WordPress.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:14:01] <strong>Josepha:</strong> And so we always have some difficulty in figuring out what is it that our users need the most in order to succeed the quickest. And so I agree that there was a real need for this not only because, like, there&#8217;s plenty of content for getting from, like, some knowledge to a good amount of knowledge. There&#8217;s almost no content around, like, I didn&#8217;t know CMSs existed until yesterday, and now I need to quickly learn how to do it because it&#8217;s become a thing I need to do in my job. There&#8217;s some really clear, like use cases for being able to onboard quickly and progressively.<br><br>And I understand that, like, having a clear, structured way to learn doesn&#8217;t always fit with the idea of meeting people where they are. But I do really think that, that like what you were saying, it can be as structured as you need it to be. But also, if you get into it and you think to yourself, you know, I know this information already. I can move on to the next module. I can move on to the module after that. Similar to the way we do that at WordCamps also. If you get into a session and you thought it was going to be useful for you, and you discover that it&#8217;s not once you&#8217;re there, you don&#8217;t have to stay. You can go to a different room where they&#8217;re teaching about SEO if it turns out that you don&#8217;t need to learn about JavaScript today.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:15:23] <strong>Josepha:</strong> And I think that that&#8217;s, it&#8217;s kind of the value that this is hoping to bring, like, because it is a little bit built one on top of the other when you discover that you have already learned something, you can easily try out the next step and know that it&#8217;s probably a good next step.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:15:38] <strong>Wes:</strong> Exactly. And if you maybe want to teach this to other folks. The plan is to, you know, we had lesson plans. We have a lot of lesson plans on Learn. But the plan is also to, instead of having, as I said, two different content types, is to have lessons but then add a tab where you can click on teacher notes and actually teach something as well if that is your goal. But yes, our lessons and modules also include quizzes and, hopefully, some practical activities. We&#8217;ve incorporated WordPress Playground where, where folks can actually, you know, test out what they&#8217;ve learned or test their knowledge. So yeah, I agree with you that you can basically join the Learning Pathway wherever you feel the most comfortable.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:16:28] <strong>Josepha:</strong> So we&#8217;ve been kind of in the weeds of the project itself, the program itself, and if you want to like do stuff with that and in that. Let&#8217;s switch gears a little bit and talk about just what people who are wanting to join those pathways would need to know. Do you have any advice for somebody who is just today learning about these Learning Pathways and they think to themselves, I definitely want to sign up for one of those. Like, for one, how do they get started? And for two, your like top two or three bits of advice for as they get started? </p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:17:05] <strong>Wes:</strong> So you can make your way to learn.WordPress.org, and you can basically open the, the pathway, and you can start wherever, wherever you want to. We have made it possible to actually view these pathways or our content without logging in with your dot org profile. The other thing I also wanted to mention is that our content is actually hosted on YouTube now.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So the great thing is we have these pathways within YouTube as well. So, folks can go to the, YouTube channel and see our content. And, of course, that basically reaches a very wide audience. And hopefully some of those videos will also bring people to the dot org site so that they can access the content.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:17:57] <strong>Josepha:</strong> I think it&#8217;s great that you don&#8217;t have to sign up for a profile. If you are a brand new WordPresser and ran into this in your dashboard and are listening to this podcast now. So dot org profiles are a place where you can kind of log your activity in the WordPress community and the WordPress project. You do not have to have one in order to use WordPress. You don&#8217;t have to have one in order to look at these courses or to learn from them. But I always think that it&#8217;s kind of nice to get your profile set up so that people kind of know who you are and what you&#8217;re doing. And then also your activity shows up. Like, you can see that you enrolled in the course and you get to know for yourself that you made some progress. I know that when you&#8217;re getting started, it&#8217;s hard to, like, see your progress because you don&#8217;t know how far you have to go. And so, like progress when you&#8217;re starting out is really difficult to feel is real. And so I like it just so that you have a few reminders to yourself, like, look how far I&#8217;ve come as you&#8217;re trying to figure out how far you still have to go. And so I like that a lot. </p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:18:58] <strong>Wes:</strong> You won&#8217;t be able to access all the content on Learn without your dot org profile. But one of the things we&#8217;ve made possible is to access these Learning Pathways, the new ones being launched without, you know, removing those blockers. So, of course, when you work through a Learning Pathway, you will be able to track your progress, and you will be able to see which lessons you have completed. So yeah, one of the pieces of advice I would give to somebody starting with the Learning Pathways actually to first go through the modules. And go through the lessons to see which things you know and feel comfortable with so that you don&#8217;t waste time maybe going through the first module and say, oh, I know this, and you&#8217;ve wasted time. Rather do a bit of research, a bit of reading, and then find the right place for you to start the journey.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:19:45] <strong>Josepha:</strong> That&#8217;s excellent. I also, just as a learner, I try to always learn some stuff. And also, as you get older, it&#8217;s harder and harder to learn things partially because like you&#8217;re in a set path, but also, and here&#8217;s my advice to new learners: you worry about looking foolish. Like you, you worry, you&#8217;re showing up, and you don&#8217;t know anything about anybody else in the classroom. And so there&#8217;s this feeling of like, what if I&#8217;m the only person who does not know how to make this work? What if I&#8217;m the only person who can&#8217;t figure out what Wes meant by &#8220;Playground&#8221; or whatever it is? There&#8217;s this real feeling of looking silly when you&#8217;re doing something like this.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:20:25] <strong>Josepha:</strong> I can&#8217;t control what anybody else says or does to anyone else, unfortunately. But what I can say is that I think that there&#8217;s never a bad time to start something you wish you had done, right? Like, the best time to have learned how to use your CMS, your website, make your website work was probably a year ago or something, but the second best time is today. And so, like, why not go ahead and get started and be part of that small group of adults that are learning new things every single day? I think that&#8217;s great. And so that&#8217;s my tip is to just embrace looking silly sometimes because you&#8217;re making some choices about your future, and that&#8217;s always a good choice.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:21:04] <strong>Wes:</strong> And I would also say test your knowledge. So you&#8217;ve mentioned WordPress Playground. And as I said, we&#8217;ve incorporated into the Learning Pathways, but sometimes you watch a video, or you read something, and you feel like, oh yeah, I know this, but you know, the proof is in the pudding. So go and test it out. Use a test website or use WordPress Playground and test yourself to see if you can actually implement this or do something. So yeah, that&#8217;s definitely one of the other tips I want to highlight; you know, they also say you, you learn by doing.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:21:38] <strong>Josepha:</strong> Yeah, absolutely. And also, like if you have gotten to a point you&#8217;ve done the learning, you&#8217;ve done some practicing, you think you&#8217;ve got it and want to like try to figure out what other things can be done with it. I recommend this is how I did a lot of my early WordPress learning to organize an event with your local meetup.<br><br>Like, I did not know enough about WordPress when I started organizing WordPress meetups. I literally knew nothing. And I basically brought people in and was like, hey, we need people to teach us about this, us being half me. Come in and teach us. And, and that can be a really good thing, partially because, like, you get to know your local folks and see what&#8217;s going on and get a sense for, like, what is out there, especially if you&#8217;re learning this in order to run a business or to accomplish something for your job that you already have, like knowing what&#8217;s out there is super helpful. But then I find that once you embrace the fact that sometimes you will look silly, and that&#8217;s the only way that we can know we&#8217;re learning something. Like once you&#8217;ve embraced it, having some people who are willing to look a little silly with you is kind of, kind of fun, kind of nice. Also, like we&#8217;re all going to look at this problem that we definitely don&#8217;t understand and hopefully look like, at the end, we know what we&#8217;re doing, but between looking at it the first time and at the end of this meetup, we&#8217;re all going to look a little bit silly, ask silly questions. And I think that that&#8217;s a really helpful thing, too. But yeah, knowing some basic information is a great place to start before you do that, especially if you get anxious about looking silly. And I think these pathways are going to really help to get folks a little bit of a leg up on those big questions that they have as you&#8217;re starting to learn how to use WordPress.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:23:18] <strong>Josepha:</strong> So we talked about, like, tips and tricks for learners in general. But if you had something that you wanted to share with us that, like, you&#8217;re really excited about for either the Training Team or for the Learning Pathways in general, I think the Learning Pathways are slated to be shipped by, like, end of September or something. So, like, a lot of them are coming quite quickly.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:23:38] <strong>Wes:</strong> So I am most excited about the website redesign and the new look and feel of the website. And also, you know, one of the goals for us as a Training Team is for learn.WordPress.org to be one of the places people come to and learn about WordPress. And I feel these Learning Pathways and the new website redesign and all the hard work that&#8217;s gone into this project is hopefully going to, make that happen. As I said, our content is also available on YouTube. So we&#8217;ve really tried to make it easy for folks to find our content and also now to digest our content in a progressive and in a structured way. Because, you know, learning is hard. And hopefully, these Learning Pathways have made it easier for folks to, as you said, to build on your knowledge. You know, a lot of times, there&#8217;s knowledge gaps. And I think that&#8217;s what makes learning so hard. And hopefully with these pathways, you can build that knowledge one step at a time.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:24:44] <strong>Josepha:</strong> Yeah. And as is the way with open source, like we can only make these pieces of content better if you all show up and help us like try it out, learn some stuff, and tell us what was confusing. Tell us what was too big a step. Cause yeah, you&#8217;re right. There are some knowledge gaps and when you&#8217;re on the other side of knowing something, it is so hard to tell how big a step is, you know?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:25:11] <strong>Wes:</strong> Exactly.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:25:12] <strong>Josepha:</strong> And so we need y&#8217;all to come in here and tell us very plainly as a new learner like that was eventually what I needed, but this part here was especially confusing. This part over here was too like too many little steps like we just we&#8217;re trying to make sure that it works for you WordPressers, future WordPressers of the world. And so yeah, come build some learning with us over here on the Training Team.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:25:35] <strong>Wes:</strong> And yes, please, we want feedback because, as you say, as we iterate, we want to improve. So there will be a place where you can provide feedback, and at the end of the pathway where there will also be a satisfaction survey for folks to to complete.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:25:50] <strong>Josepha:</strong> Great. Well, folks, we&#8217;re gonna have a bunch of links in the show notes. There&#8217;s so much stuff out here to learn with and about WordPress. Wes, thank you so much for joining me today.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:26:01] <strong>Wes:</strong> Thank you for having me. And I will see you all on Learn.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:26:05] (Music interlude)</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:26:12] <strong>Josepha:</strong> That brings us now to our small list of big things. Although I have to say we have a bunch of links that we&#8217;re going to share in the show notes. If you&#8217;re listening to this in a place where there are not show notes, you can head over to WordPress.org/news. That&#8217;s where we keep all of those. If you are lucky, we also will help you find it on Twitter/X, but I think that it&#8217;s hard to find things over there these days. So WordPress.org/news is your best bet. Now, it is time for the small list of big things.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, first up on my list is that WordPress 6.5.5 is now available. It&#8217;s got a few fixes in it, some maintenance things and some security fixes as well. I recommend that you update your sites immediately. You can download it from WordPress.org/download, or you can just visit your WordPress dashboard. If you&#8217;re on a managed host, they may have already done this for you, too. But auto-updates, manual updates, CLI updates. However, you want to get it done, get it done. But it is recommended to do this as soon as possible. 6.5.5.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:27:16] <strong>Josepha:</strong> The second thing on my list is that the WordPress Contributor Mentorship program has a call for interest out. This is a program that we launched about a year ago as well. And we had such a good bit of success at the end of the first round in February that there was significant interest in doing another cohort. So, that program connects seasoned WordPress contribution experts with folks who are new to contributing and offer a fantastic opportunity for mentees to gain hands-on experience contributing to WordPress while their mentors share their expertise and improve their leadership skills. So, most of the time, what you are going to be contributing to is probably a release of WordPress, but there are also a lot of opportunities to contribute to things like the Training Team that we&#8217;ve been talking about today and other teams as well. Not everything is focused all around our release cycle. We have things happening in the WordPress project literally all the time. It is a project that never sleeps.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[00:28:17] <strong>Josepha:</strong> Speaking of projects that never sleep, our next official release, our second release of the year, is coming out. WordPress 6.6 is coming out just about a week from now. It is the second major release of 2024 and has a lot of things in it that you will want to check out. If you have not yet seen the hallway hangout where we take a look at what was happening in the release, what we intended to get into the release, take a look at it. And if you haven&#8217;t tested it yet, if you are one of our plugin developers, if you are building something on top of WordPress core, now is the time to check that out and test it against your products.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then the final thing is that it&#8217;s a new month, my friends. Here we are in July, and we have a ton of things happening in the project. That&#8217;s the theme of my small list of big things: the project that never sleeps. 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Most of the FAANG companies, they do have hundreds of thousands of employees. Amazon I believe is probably the largest out of the tech at least. They used to pick at about 1.5 million staff members and now they’re at 1.3, 1.4. But we are talking about tens, hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions of team members, which of course, if you can imagine org chart, it gets to lots of different C levels and VPs and senior VPs and then directors and supervisors and all these kind of trailing down. So the difference between a small startup project and an enterprise, I usually speak to more people. You have to take more decisions, you have to deal with data privacy, security, scalability, and lots of other different considerations that you may not necessarily be dealing with in a small team environment. How about you, Brad?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brad:<br />Yeah, I kind of go back to how Tom simplifies it, like big WordPress, that’s how I’ve always described it. Big WordPress, big challenges, big goals, big needs. When I say big, it may not be that what they might need is necessarily a big lift to build, but when you build something in the enterprise for a big conglomerate or big company, things take a lot more work to do, even simple tasks. So I think big, it’s not always this massively complex customized system. It just means building things in that are going to scale in the enterprise. They’re going to handle the traffic, they’re going to meet all those really strict security requirements, accessibility requirements, all these things that every company out there is important to them. But they need agencies like ours to help them through that, navigate through that, especially when it comes to WordPress. But yeah, I love to hear, I think most people think when you hear enterprise, it’s like Microsoft or it’s just these biggest of the biggest, the whatever, the s and p 100. But it could</p>\n\n\n\n<p>be quite a bit bigger than that. 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So I think that kind of helps summarize it too, but it’s really big WordPress big needs.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So why is enterprise and WordPress so important? Why are we talking about it? Especially when I say we, I mean not just the three of us on the show, but agencies that really help build WordPress at scale within the enterprise. Obviously this is important to us, but why is it important for the larger community within WordPress? Why is enterprise, why are we focused so much on it? Why are we spending so much time? I almost try to help grow WordPress within the enterprise, help corporations realize that it’s a great product that can compete with anything that they’re using, but why is it because the majority of people that use WordPress could care less about the enterprise, right? This is a very small percentage of WordPress builders and users that would be considered in this space. So the big question is why is it important for WordPress that we’re actually talking about the enterprise and trying to get more people to adopt WordPress within the enterprise? I’ll just open it up, whoever wants to jump in.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mario:<br />Well, so from where I stand, one of the reasons is the versatility of WordPress as a platform. So when we take a look at different software applications or tools or so, we do have a pretty broad spectrum of a single creator or a solopreneur type of systems and very high scale enterprise solutions out there. And WordPress is one of the very few platforms that is able to serve both at the same time. There are certain, and I’m probably not going to name specific names or so, but just the Indie hacker solopreneur tools that are one personality. They don’t have a team plan. You cannot add more members. There’s no security data, privacy support and stuff. It’s just one single person can use that. All the freelancers or single individual people. And then there’s the Adobes, the sales forces and all the other corporations building pretty hardcore tools, think of SAP, you cannot deploy an SAP as an ERP for any organization that has fewer than I would say, 500 people probably if you’re 200, maybe you can use it and not spend the 20 people’s time, full-time operating DRP.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But for the most part, you need to be a massive conglomerate to be able to use that. And unlike all of these, WordPress is probably the one, and if not one and only one of the very few ones, Drupal may probably fall in the same camp, but the one that’s super suitable for starting out being a freelancer or photographer or a journalist or blogger or so, but then at the same time serving universities and NASA and the White House and all the other different segments covering the enterprise. So the reason it’s so important is historically speaking in 2003, when WordPress started, it started as a blogging platform. It wasn’t supposed to be the go-to enterprise tool, while other players in the market were, that’s how they started. This was the pivot, this was the goal. And now we are managing, what is it, 43.5% or so of the web, but our enterprise coverage is still limited because we’re not talking enough about all the capabilities and opportunities of WordPress, which is why lots of enterprise are just not considering WordPress as one of the suitable tools to use, which is a shame. And that’s essentially why we have to talk more about that.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tom:<br />I mean, that probably speaks to the opportunity and challenge for WordPress and why it’s so important. In some ways, as you said, Brad, the majority of users aren’t enterprise users. It’s a fairly small user base, but actually as an economic segment of the WordPress economy or something, enterprise is actually huge. I dunno what the stats would be, but I imagine it’s up there, maybe hosting and e-commerce or something is larger, but probably after that, the enterprise part of the ecosystem is probably the third largest or something. And so the amount of money and resources that bring into the ecosystem is pretty large. And we see that the number of enterprise agencies that contribute means core or something. Again, it’s fairly sizable. So I think that’s just one factor. I think part of its importance is just the outside influence it has and the outside role it has to play.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think in WordPress, I think also just the fact that these well-known brands, sure, maybe you’re just moving one website to WordPress when you’re doing NASA, but it’s such a well-known brand, it has this huge impact actually out in the market in terms of WordPress being taken seriously. I mean, one of the things I love about WordPress is that NASA are using WordPress core. You as a freelance photographer can go and download WordPress core and you get the same thing. That’s actually really not true. SAP is a good example. You wouldn’t want to use SAP if you were a freelance photographer, but you couldn’t even if you wanted to. There’s not that many products actually where that’s true, where you really get the same product. And so I think that’s another reason why it’s important. All of the innovation that happens at the enterprise tier can flow down and be available to everybody, which is really cool.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brad:<br />Yeah, I mean that’s a great point. The innovation, and especially from open source, the more we contribute, we as a community within the WordPress project, the more anyone contributes, the better the project’s going to be, the better the software. And so the enterprise is bringing where we see those contributions, which many of these large organizations are starting to get into more, which is awesome. But we’re starting to see where they’re more focused on these areas that smaller sites would never even maybe run into those problems. Like the scalability side of it, right? The site’s going to have a million posts in one month, is that going to scale? So being able to contribute, you can go in there and actually help WordPress if there are bottlenecks, of course we know it can scale and can handle that, right? Especially if you have the right host and server setup.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But understanding if there are bottlenecks, I can think of a specific one. This was back, I don’t know, eight, 10 years ago. But as multi-site was starting to get more popular, networks were getting bigger, and WordPress was having a real challenge handling large networks. So if you imagine you have a thousand sites in your network and you got a network dropdown list, it would just bomb because it was trying to load all these sites. And same with users. If you had a million users, WordPress would just break because you couldn’t load a million. It would just break trying to pull that data back. These sites that were basically pushing WordPress to its limits, expose those limits. And now we have as a community worked on that and made it so it does scale. You can have an unlimited amount of users, unlimited amount of sites in the network, and it’s not just going to blow up, it’s going to work. And that all came from these larger builds, kind of pushing the limits and then discovering, Hey, we got to fix this. This isn’t going to scale if we don’t do something about it. And now it’s like I said, we’ve all seen it at scale on these massive networks or massive sites. So I love that idea of just those larger problems trickling down and hopefully being fixed within the enterprise teams and contributing back. That’s the number one thing. If they’re not contributing back then open source isn’t going to work anyways, right?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tom:<br />I mean, I think we’ve seen that play out right where it used to be. I mean, I think probably one of the reasons why Enterprise WordPress is kind of synonymous with just big WordPress is actually it was quite hard to do big WordPress back in the day. And so a lot of the stuff we were solving then as enterprise-like service providers was just scale and performance. But actually a lot of that has been solved. Now it’s not particularly hard to run WordPress at scale. And that’s thanks to that work trickling down being fed back directly and now we can focus on other stuff, which is cool.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brad:<br />And going back to another point, I think, Tom, you might’ve made around kind of validating WordPress, you mentioned NASA, Whitehouse.gov, probably the number one, probably the most targeted government website in the world, probably one of ‘em at least, if not number one, is running WordPress. So being able to say that with full confidence as an agency owner trying to validate WordPress to an enterprise, there’s a lot of value behind</p>\n\n\n\n<p>that, right? No, we didn’t build that site, but somebody did it. It’s amazing. And it’s on WordPress, right? NASA is doing it. Whitehouse.gov is doing it. You can do it. Microsoft’s running it. Their whole security team does an annual audit of WordPress. If Microsoft says it’s okay to run it, it’s probably okay for you. So it helps validate and make these conversations easier, especially as we’re trying to bring WordPress to the table for a lot of these organizations.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because I think, Mario, you mentioned earlier about Adobe, AEM. I can remember sales pitches where I’m sitting there in a boardroom of Viacom pitching WordPress and why all their sites should be on WordPress and some weren’t, and they’re trying to figure out what they wanted to go all in on. And then right behind us was Adobe with about 30 people, multiple professors of data science coming up there showing all, and I’m like, versus my much smaller team, I’m like, how do we compete? And that was where it was really eyeopening that we need to collectively within this community, those of us that are in the WordPress space, we need to work together. We need to put our voices together, our thoughts together and help lift WordPress into the enterprise base, which is exactly what we’re doing here, right? Exactly what Scale Consortium is doing, what we’re doing here, working with the WordPress core team and contributors, because now we’re working on the WordPress dot org slash enterprise page.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you didn’t know that exists, go check it out. Not a ton to look at yet, but I promise you we’re working on it. And so it’s nice to see that things are happening because even just a couple of years ago, none of this, there wasn’t an enterprise page. We were all on our own trying to pitch WordPress and realizing that’s not going to get us where we need to go. So that’s why it’s important because WordPress actually grows because of the enterprise, just like it grows from small businesses using it. So it is a good thing for all of us.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I want to mention a little bit about the state of the Enterprise WordPress survey. So this has gone around and it was from 2023, so obviously we’re a little past the halfway mark of 2024, but I think it’s interesting to look at it retrospectively, but also I wanted to also highlight the fact that the 2024 survey is also live. So if you have not seen it, definitely go. It’s SOEWP.com, state of enterprise WordPress. SOEPW.com is where you can take the 2024 survey, but you can also view the results of last year’s survey. This is really spearheaded by a number of agencies. I think Big Bite and Human Made, you guys were pretty involved in this, and I know a lot of us were helping promote it because it’s getting data back, but essentially they interviewed approximately over a hundred corporations enterprise what would be considered enterprise level companies, enterprise brands, I should say Macy’s, NewsCorp. These are big, these are enterprise, right? Big WordPress the Times, and it got some really interesting data back. So if you guys have any data points that stand out, there are a few that stood out to me that I thought we should touch on, but if there’s any other data points you want to talk about, please, let’s do it because it’s interesting. I love this type of data. I haven’t seen this before specifically on WordPress and Enterprise, so just having anything to talk about and look at it I think is really interesting. Yeah,</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tom:<br />I mean that’s the first thing. I think before we get to the actual results, I think that this is such a great example of something that doesn’t happen unless we all get together and do it right, that we actually have a real lack of data underpinning what we’re doing and pooling our resources to put something like this together. It’s not actually a huge amount of work and it can bring a lot of value even though this one is a few months past now, it’s the first one. So actually we can learn a lot from it.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brad:<br />In the next one. I would expect now that people know it’s there, I’m sure some people missed it. And now on the WordPress dot org slash enterprise page, they have linked it up with a nice banner at the bottom. So I would expect we’ll have quite a bit more data points for the next one. So definitely share it. If you listen to the show, check it out, share it with anyone, especially corporations that might actively want to fill this out. It can really help shape some of the future of WordPress, especially at the enterprise side.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tom:<br />What stood out to you from the actual results?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brad:<br />So the one that stood out to me, I think really just like the important factors of choosing WordPress. This is something, as an agency owner, I like to know this. Why did they choose WordPress? What were the items that kind of pushed them over the edge? I think cost is always going to be one of those things that’s always going to be a bit of a factor. But when you’re in the enterprise, WordPress is probably one of the cheaper options when you really think about licensing and costs and Adobe and Sitecore and some others versus WordPress. WordPress is generally going to come out on top, probably almost in every case. It’s going to come out on top from a cost perspective. But the number one thing on this list in terms of what was the most important was functionality followed by scalability, extensibility, and usability.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So it’s really about the flexibility of WordPress, which I guess that makes sense. That’s probably what I would assume too, but the WordPress is so flexible, scalable that they can really extend it to do what they need to do. And that is the core of enterprise because WordPress is not going to just install it and it’s ready for the enterprise. There is a lot you have to do to kind of get it ready. And a lot of that is customizations. And a lot of that’s really specific to the organization you’re working with because again, they have such unique setups and unique systems, and most of them, they may be on a WP engine or WordPressVIP, but many of them are not. A lot of them are still hosting their own stack or maybe they have their own hardware, which I know sounds crazy, but some of these organizations do because how they can control everything about what’s on that and who has control over that data, which is important to them. But on the flip side, something that caught my attention was the fact that multilingual capabilities were not as important, which I thought was kind of surprising. Every larger corporation I worked with, multilingual capabilities were important. Having localized content, especially in any region, there’s a global presence, an office or something of that company, but I’m really surprised it was over 57% said it’s not important. Over half said it’s not important. Yeah.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tom:<br />Well, what’s your take on that, Mario? I wonder if that gels with what you would assume the importance of multilingual would be?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mario:<br />Well, and that’s something that made an impression on me as well. So my personal way I’m interpreting this at least is first off, we do have a pretty sizable percentage of publishers here in that specific survey. So I would say that when we’re considering national publishers, particularly in, let’s say, the States or the UK or post-Australia, they wouldn’t be focusing that much on multilingual. That’s kind of one thing that stands out. We’ve been working with different, again, enterprises primarily in North America, they don’t care that much about multilingual. And again, as someone who lived in Europe, and my language, I’m not a native English speaker, I can totally understand how important this may be in certain scenarios. Again, you guys have worked with Microsoft or some of the other top orgs that have 12 languages in the dropdown by default. So for some that’s important, but this may not necessarily be the most integral factor here.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other thing that stands in mind that kind of stuck up here is I believe that they fully realize the power of workplace multi-site and the ability to launch different instances for different regions for sites because it’s pretty common in enterprise. Most if you go to Nike or the Louis Vuitton brand, you land on the landing page with lots of flags and say, Hey, which country? And then it leads you to some form of a localized website. So these are completely different standalone instances. And I think this is also pretty important to recognize enterprise are not afraid of maintaining 20 different websites, even though they may look alike and just run a DevOps tooling to upgrade all this at the same time, unlike what we do ourselves. But a couple of other things that stood out in the survey, first off, and Brad kind of briefly touched on that, but functionality like 70% of the IS functionality was very important.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was the leading factor. 70% said WordPress is there for functionality. And I think we are not talking about this enough when I think of what are the options for an enterprise, they can go with a hosted kind of CMS through show, which of course it is hosted. It has a limited finite number of integrations, modules, developers through show. They can do bespoke, build a team and build something for three years and spend like $12 million just building a bespoke system and then still don’t have integrations or they can go open source. And when I think of open source, I just can’t think of any better solution that has, again, the flexibility</p>\n\n\n\n<p>, versatility, integration, feature set number of plugins or API integrations, we show it to WordPress. So I think this is pretty important. And last but not least, or actually two things, but I’ll try to do it real quick. First off is build cost. So 22% of the service that they build their enterprise MVP, like less than 50 grand. I challenge any enterprise to do the same with any other platform whatsoever.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brad:<br />Is that a one-pager?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mario:<br />Well, yeah, maybe just a mockup. Maybe just a mockup. If their creative team doesn’t waste four times on charting a log or something.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brad:<br />It’s just a strategy phase</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mario:<br />And hosting costs. We get lots of enterprises migrating to us because they say, Hey, we find it better to pay, let’s say 10 grand a month retainer for you to changes because we pay more for hosting. So we are paying 15 grand, 20 grand or so for just keeping the lights on, no custom development or changes or human contact whatsoever. And we believe we can bring our hosting down to 2 to 5k a month and spend the other 10k and to essentially incur zero costs whatsoever and actually get professional development behind. So comparing that with what it actually costs, maintaining an enterprise system once it’s already there is something that is a place where WordPress really shines.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brad:<br />Yeah, I mean they’re all good points for sure. I did pick up on the cost thing and it’s hard to say less than 50,000, whatever that was, but there are smaller projects within Enterprise. But yeah, like you said, there’s usually a lot more hoops you have to jump through. So even a simple website turns into a much larger lift and build. The one area I think we really as a community need to work on or maybe as an enterprise we need to work on is contributing. So if you look at does your organization contribute to open source, 62% said no, just flat out, nope, we do not contribute. Now I do think you should take that with a grain of salt because that holds true if they’re not working with an agency, if they’re not working with outside partners, if it’s just their development team within their organization, they’re not contributing.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>That’s a flat no. However, I bet this is a little bit mixed bag, right? Where the no is, no, we don’t. But we work with DevriX or we work with Human Made, may work with WebDevStudios and they do. It’s like indirectly by them hiring us and letting us build their sites and investing in not only their site but in us as an agency, we’re able to roll that forward into our five for the future efforts and our contribution efforts. I know of our agencies contribute to WordPress. I know that for a fact and we would not do that if we didn’t have an agency or did not have good clients that could allow us the time to do that. So I do think we should take that grain of salt. I’ve worked with a lot of enterprise companies that don’t contribute, but the agencies and companies that work with do.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tom:<br />I think it’s something we could do quite a bit more around actually as a space, like you say, I think a lot of those companies don’t really realize that’s the case. We are probably not doing a good enough job of making that part of the pitch. I think it’s pretty common these days more and more common for this open source contribution stuff to fit quite nicely into goals or other initiatives that are happening in the enterprise. Again, there are dots that are probably not being connected. Even some kind of five for the Future Rep program that could extend to enterprise users of WordPress I think would be pretty interesting to think about.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brad:<br />Yeah, the great way to look at it too is if your team, your developers are contributing. It’s not just putting things on the void and your corporation organization gets nothing out of it, right? Yes, they’re contributing to WordPress, which of course you’re going to directly benefit from, but you’re also leveling up your developers. They’re a hundred percent getting better at WordPress and understanding how WordPress works and getting into the core software and understanding how to read the code and how to work with Track and how to interact with the community. So your developers are going to level up, which means you’re going to get more out of them. The value is going to increase out of the salary versus benefits that you’re getting from them and work that you’re getting. So there are just a lot of advantages to it. But I think organizations, it’s a bit of a mindset shift.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>They need to be working on our stuff. Why are they working over there? Well, they are working on your stuff by working over there and you can also prioritize initiatives within contributing that are important to your organization. It’s still contributing. It’s still helping. Even if you’re saying, I really want you to contribute to this thing, we kind of need it. It still helps everybody. So I don’t think that’s a bad thing. If you want to contribute one thing, if you’re looking for an easy ticket, get featured images automatically added into RSS feeds, that’s still out there. But if that’s important to your organization, your team could do that and it could probably get in the next release of WordPress. So that’s probably, like you say, there’s an educational component to it too of they just look at it as time they’re not spending on the business, but they actually kind of are. So that’s something we’re working on we&#8217;ll continue to work on because we love contributing to WordPress all of us. So it’s just working with these organizations and helping them understand how they can do it and how that benefits them.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tom:<br />Something that jumped out to me in the survey that I’ll just mention at the end was the demographic of the respondents. I think something like 40, maybe slightly higher percent were leadership positions, which again, we’ve not been doing this survey before, but I would think that reflects a change compared to five, six years ago when actually WordPress was usually coming in bottom up. It wasn’t leadership led as I think that’s the stat I’ll be keeping an eye on over the surveys as we run them year on year. I think that for me tracks one of the major threads of enterprise WordPress as evolution. How do we go from bottom-up champion to leadership led?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brad:<br />Yeah, that’s actually a great point. You’re not wrong. It used to stubble up from it, the tech people that worked with it and kind of liked it and they were like, Hey, we should look at this. Or maybe even marketing had an angle on it too because they were familiar with it from a marketing angle. But yeah, seeing it from the top down, that is a bit of a shift and that’s a good shift. And then of course just around this one is very encouraging too, and we’ll wrap up the survey here, but around the block editor, right, we’re always talking about what is the adoption, who’s using the block editor? Are they on the old classic WYSIWYG editor? And by and large, it seems like they are adopting it. There’s only about 19% that said they’re still on classic. And I think I was thinking about this.<br />I’m like, I’m sure this is largely impacted by the fact that corporations and enterprise have budgets. They have money they can invest to say we need to upgrade. This is the new thing, we got to get on it. Whereas smaller and medium businesses, if they just rebuilt their site a couple of years ago, they’re not going to reinvest to do it just to get blocks right now, if you’re a media site, you should because the value you’re bringing to your editors is going to be worth it. But a lot of sites, it’s just not there. So I would imagine that’s part of it. But just to see the adoption with the block editor being so high, and to be fair, about 27% is both so kind of a mixed bag, but at least they are using some blocks and then 54%, so over half is they’re all in on the block editor in Gutenberg. So that’s nice to see.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tom:<br />Yeah, it’d be interesting to compare that to the broader, I dunno how that compares to broader usage of block editor, but I did that. I think that also connects back to the previous point where actually a lot of us who are doing enterprise work, were involved in the block editor because we are part of the project. 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And the reason it never really got adopted was because it only worked with that one theme. It was too much to actually get it to work with many themes. We would&#8217;ve needed to write so much code to add compatibility. Now with block themes and blocks, this opens a whole lot of potential. We haven&#8217;t done the testing with other themes yet, but I imagine that things are going to work pretty or better than ever they ever did in the past. So we&#8217;ve been looking at how I was just to unpack a little bit more about the tour operator plugin is it&#8217;s got three core post types with four or five taxonomies.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So you can imagine those are quite a number of templates. So these templates are needed to map out the block-based templates. They can&#8217;t all just run off essential all archives templates. They each need their own one because they have a host of custom fields. 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So just to give you an idea, a single tour, we will have a couple of the main fields. It&#8217;s got its normal WordPress fields, title, excerpts, body, but then we&#8217;ve also got a, there&#8217;s a featured image, which is standard, but then we also have a hero image that could be a wide image that isn&#8217;t very tall or high. And then a host of values like price and day-by-day itineraries are repeatable groups of fields. So day one or day one to day three, we&#8217;ll then have a number of fields. We solved those in the past using CMB2, which is a good framework. It worked well for us. Have you guys got experience?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carl:<br />That&#8217;s old? I&#8217;ve used it before. It&#8217;s been around.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ash:<br />Yeah.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carl:<br />I feel like I saw it almost 10 years ago.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ash:<br />So we can bypass a lot of that. 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I think that&#8217;s way better than a lot of stuff that we had to do early on, like you said, iframes or I feel like that&#8217;s a nice change of the development landscape in the last 10 years as people are just like, now let me just do an API for this. And then they just let you pull the data and then you get it yourself.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ash:<br />So much better. It does become somewhat unwieldy because imagine that you have 500 accommodation listings attached to 50 tours or a hundred tours and all of the images attached to that, and then the people who load the accommodation data, they don&#8217;t necessarily know that images need to be resized and whatnot. So we over the years had to develop methods to resize images on import scale things. And with the day-by-day itineraries, there aren&#8217;t actually images attached to an individual day. So we managed to create a way for it to automatically assign a random image to the day, for example. 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You were describing your data model earlier and I was like, oh, I wonder how you were saying, I mean, you&#8217;ll have issues like scaling with anything with WordPress. You were talking about 500 accommodations and 80 tours, and that can have an impact as well on performance.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ash:<br />With the importer, it does in time. So you can imagine the number of images that get imported into the database for each listing and all of that. So that&#8217;s something where we&#8217;ve learned how to manage the larger sites. Most smaller sites, it&#8217;s not an issue on the larger sites. We manage those on a case-by-case basis. But yeah, the post-to-post really helped us create the relationships. So for example, if you import a tour, you&#8217;ll have those accommodation items connected. You&#8217;ll also connect destinations. Destinations are hierarchical, like pages are hierarchical where you&#8217;ve got a top level and a sub-level. So a destination is to the top level is a country and the sub-level is a region. And those have different templates. So if you were on a country, you don&#8217;t display accommodation, but you do display featured tours. Tours move through a country, they also move through a region, but accommodation would only display on a region template, for example.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So yeah, one of the next things that we&#8217;ve got planned is obviously with all of this kind of data, searching for the information for the end user is critical. And we&#8217;ve used FacetWP for a long time and sometimes SearchWP, although I&#8217;m not sure that that helps the performance very much. It does sometimes help having a search engine. But FacetWP is a great plugin for our needs. So we built a little integration to the classic plugin. Now they have a block. It&#8217;s just really for short codes. It&#8217;s not really a true block, and we do some styling around that. Ideally, what I want to be doing with in the future, and it&#8217;s on our roadmap, is something like Woo filters where you&#8217;ve got your active filters, your price slider, filter by post type, filter by taxonomy, filter by featured, and something that we have that filtering on archives being your top level or category top level for a post type being all tours or a category archive.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And those filters can be relevant to that post type or that category. But then what happens when you search globally, because a lot of people want to search the site globally. So then we&#8217;ve come up with a solution using Facet WP where one of the filters will be content type. So say that user does a search in the header for Cape Town where I&#8217;m from, and it comes up with blog posts, pages, destinations, tours, accommodation reviews, special offers, and maybe a team members even attached to mentions Cape Town. So then that filtering allows you to filter by content type. So that&#8217;s something we haven&#8217;t started with that yet, but I mapped everything out for it today actually while I was chatting about things with my developer.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then the checkout block is something I want to start pulling apart as an inquiry because I would like customers in the future, or not customers, but users of the plugin in the future, not to have to depend on a form plugin. And I was thinking that if we could do something like a checkout block, but an inquiry block where I drop it into either a section on the page or a mode or something like that, that would be really great to post that information to a post type like orders, but it would be inquiries. 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So it&#8217;s been a really fun journey and amazing to push the limits of the site editor.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carl:<br />Yeah, because that&#8217;s all relatively new too.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ash:<br />Yeah, exactly.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carl:<br />Do you feel it&#8217;s stable enough? Like you worry that they&#8217;ll, one of the things that with the Gutenberg experiment is that things have not been always that stable.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ash:<br />So one of the things that I&#8217;m a little bit worried about now, we&#8217;ve looked into it, and again, my worry has a plan for that, but that is the change of the theme to theme JSON 3, where there are now defined spacing values that are within the theme JSON and or name spaces. I&#8217;m not sure what the correct terminology is. And also for font sizes or font names, should I say the sizes? You can decide because when we started last year, I was in discussion with Carolina who had done an audit of a hundred block themes, and she had taken the average of different naming for both spacing and for font sizes. So they&#8217;ve changed a few things from what the average in the community was, and that is going to probably cause HAC because then those changes, either we are going to do a find and replace in the database or I&#8217;m interested to see how we do that. And I just redeveloped my company website, so I spent a lot of time setting font sizes and setting spacing and using our own theme JSON values. So I imagine that&#8217;s going to take some time to refactor.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zach:<br />So it&#8217;s my understanding that it only uses the new defaults if there&#8217;s nothing set in the theme already. So it shouldn&#8217;t override anything.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ash:<br />No, it won&#8217;t. 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And the ability to set patterns in your theme JSON for your theme and share patterns that you&#8217;ve created in the pattern library is huge, right? That gives us new design capability. It doesn&#8217;t relegate us to only being able to use the things that are available inside the available blocks. We now have these groupings of patterns that are also available. And it looks like in your theme, you have a number of patterns. They actually look really great, and you have all of these available to make sure that people have all the building blocks they need, plus all of these design templates to start from as they&#8217;re building.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ash:<br />Yeah, the patterns were an interesting journey for us when we started. We didn&#8217;t know what to do to be quite honest. Now we have a much better concept of how we could use patterns and what we need to use them for. So the patterns that are in our C1 WordPress dot org are quite literally following what a lot of people in last year were doing. Frost wp, for example, was our inspiration. So then we made some changes to our color scheme and the patterns aren&#8217;t looking great at the moment, so I&#8217;m busy working on some patent changes for next week&#8217;s release and we&#8217;re going to be sorting out colors and that sort of thing. As we were talking about earlier, the learning i dopamine hits, well, it was a bit of a light bulb moment when I started creating some patterns for our own company website in the most recent rebuild. And now I know what full page patterns I want to create, and those full page patterns are going to be made up of useful smaller patterns, not just random team patterns and random testimonial patterns and things like that. I know what I want now. I just need to finish building them.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zach:<br />I think the other really cool thing I saw that you&#8217;ve done is you&#8217;ve actually released a Figma design system document that fits alongside your plugin and it&#8217;s a design system in general. You have a style guide, but you&#8217;ve made extensive use of Figma variables. And I think that&#8217;s huge because I&#8217;ve been digging further and further into Figma lately. I had a baseline knowledge, but I&#8217;m really digging into components and how creating components with variants works and being able to build a library of interactive things that you can build your prototypes with. And the power is just so deep in what Figma can do. So seeing that you&#8217;ve built a toolkit that&#8217;s built very similarly to the way that I&#8217;m trying to do the work that I do right now in Figma is pretty cool.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ash:<br />That was an interesting journey as well, because we started the Figma file last year and we created three separate files, a style guide file, a WordPress file, and a WooCommerce file because we thought that was a good idea to separate them. It would be if you were in a large organization doing a large design system for IBM or something like that, or Uber, A lot of them do these separate files, and that&#8217;s where I took some of my inspiration from. But then this year we decided when we did a radical upgrade on the design system to merge everything into a single file, and we started with the LSX design theme, and we called it the LSX design system.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And there we created two sections within it, major sections other than the style guide and the cover, and that was for the WordPress pages and elements. And we broke those down by components and then blocks and then patterns and template parts and full page layouts and templates. And then we did a WooCommerce section in a similar structure. And then recently after WordCamp Europe, as I mentioned, they really liked what we were doing. So I got the idea to showcase what we&#8217;re doing with WooCommerce in a prototype. And my teammate, Zared, has done the most incredible prototype. The Woo prototype actually allows you to add to cart and you can add up to four products to your mini cart. You can view the mini cart, you can empty the mini cart, you can search. It&#8217;s insane. And we really pushed the limits of variables.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And last year, none of that was actually possible because what we were researching was the lead designer, I forget his name right now, the lead designer from GitHub was working on design tokens and it was a separate system. And we stumbled, I stumbled upon it through the WordPress vip.com websites and their blog where they were doing stuff in Figma and then exporting to theme JSON and pretty much populating the theme JSON with the colors and fonts and values that you would need or that you were working on in Figma. That was really powerful. But now this year, Figma has next leveled it. And when we started on the LSX tour operator design system, we put so much work into the variables and the naming conventions and all of that, we forked the file on the LSX design file, and we came up with that as a basis for the tour operator plugin came up with new colors because it has a different color scheme. 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My teammate, Zared, has in the space of four months, gone from zero Figma knowledge to advanced Figma design. He wasn&#8217;t even a designer before.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carl:<br />That&#8217;s awesome. That&#8217;s awesome. Now I want to be an advanced Figma person. All I&#8217;ve had is Figma stuff shared with me. And then I just look at it a bit and it&#8217;s like that&#8217;s the extent of my interaction is with Figma. I&#8217;m kind of hyped up just hearing you talk about it.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ash:<br />It&#8217;s really, it&#8217;s amazing. And their videos on the YouTube channel, their own videos are incredible. They all come with Figma files, workspace files, you can learn so much. And unfortunately, they made a radical interface change this week. I think it was this week. I opened it up on Monday I think it was, and I was like, what&#8217;s happening? Where is everything? My teammates had the same thing. We needed to get stuff done, and the two of us were faffing trying to figure out, oh, where&#8217;s this? And where&#8217;s now we&#8217;ve got it. But it was the most radical interface change I&#8217;ve seen in an application in ages.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zach:<br />Yeah, they announced all of that at Config that they were going to be changing the UI considerably. And just to bring this full circle to where we started today with talking about history, I have known Sho Kuwamoto, who is the VP of product at Figma, and I&#8217;ve known him for a very long time. He was the senior director of engineering at Adobe for the tools portion of Flex and was very responsible for the creation of Flash Catalyst, which was a design tool for the Flex framework. And so he&#8217;s been at Figma now for nine years. And so a lot of the beauty of what Figma is came out of learnings that happened in the Flash world. And so very, very cool stuff. And we are now seeing the benefit of all of that history. And so if you are interested in any way in learning a little bit about that history, there was a session during Config, which is Figma&#8217;s conference for those of you who are listening who don&#8217;t know about the impact of Flash on Figma and in general on the world. And so if you want to see where all of this stuff that we&#8217;re doing now came from back in the final days of we were innovating very quickly, and all of those innovations JavaScript has finally caught up to. So there&#8217;s been a very large gap in time that the things that we used to do in Flash have not been possible, or at least not as easy to do by any means. And so now we&#8217;ve gotten to a point where it&#8217;s all come full circle and tools like Figma exist because of that history. So really, really cool stuff. So I think that&#8217;s a really good spot to start to wrap up here today. It&#8217;s been really great getting to know some of your processes here. And I&#8217;m sure we could probably talk for another hour or two, but I think that Bob would give us trouble.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carl:<br />We never got to the questions I have from pre-show. So definitely.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ash:<br />I think that Bob might get in trouble if we keep him much longer. So I&#8217;m trying to not hashtag Bug Bob too much. I&#8217;m still trying. It&#8217;s going to happen. So if you&#8217;re listening to this and you want to help me make Bob smile, just post something with hashtag Bug Bob, and let&#8217;s see if we can get a whole bunch of things in his inbox. Go ahead and tag him in too @BobWP and let&#8217;s have some fun with that. But it&#8217;s really a remarkable thing that you&#8217;ve built so much on the new functionality that&#8217;s</p>\n\n\n\n<p>in the block editor, the block bindings API is very new. A lot of these things are cutting edge, and it&#8217;s really cool to see some of that happening. And so I think it would be great to have another conversation at some point in the future. But before we do that, let&#8217;s go ahead and wrap today up. So Ash, where do people go to find you on this collection of tubes we call the internet?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ash:<br />So our company website would be a good place. We&#8217;ve got LightspeedWP Agency, that&#8217;s for more agency-related things, or our product website, which is LSX design on the web. Generally, our social profiles are Lightspeedwp. So if you look at GitHub, YouTube, Twitter, those three are all LightspeedWP and Facebook and Instagram are LightspeedWPdev.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zach:<br />Very cool. And before we close up here, I just generally ask Carl if he has a final question.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carl:<br />We got to save Bob today. 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In today&#8217;s episode, we will talk about Gutenberg 18.9, a little bit of block themes, WooCommerce, and more. I&#8217;m your host, Birgit Pauli-Haack, curator at the Gutenberg Times and a full-time core contributor for the WordPress Open Source project sponsored by Automattic.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>My special guest today is the wonderful Ellen Bauer, early adopter of blocks and block themes with themes from ElmaStudio, from New Zealand, temporarily from Bangkok, Thailand. Thank you so much for joining me today. How are you, Ellen?</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ellen Bauer: </em>Thank you very much. I&#8217;m happy to be here. Yes, I&#8217;m in Bangkok right now, so I&#8217;m very good. Thank you. How are you, Birgit?</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> I&#8217;m good. I&#8217;m good. Munich&#8217;s getting really summer temperatures, so we&#8217;re 33 degrees already early in the morning. Well, not that early, but it&#8217;s really hot. And with apartments without air conditioning, we have fans.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ellen Bauer:</em> Oh, that is great. I think that&#8217;s even hotter than Bangkok right now because here it&#8217;s the rainy season, so it&#8217;s coolish for Bangkok terms, maybe 29 or 30 degrees.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> Yeah, it&#8217;s similar.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ellen Bauer:</em> Quite nice.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>: It&#8217;s probably humid too.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ellen Bauer:</em> It is. It is, yeah. But compared to two months ago, it&#8217;s actually really nice. So yeah, we are enjoying it. Another two weeks, then we will be back in New Zealand. Winter in New Zealand. So a change is coming up.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> Yeah, you need some warm clothes there.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ellen Bauer:</em> Yeah, I already ordered fleece sweaters. 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