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When you when we get to that point, that'd be fun. All right, everybody. Welcome. Glad you're here. Come on in, find a seat. Open up the chat say hi. Tell us where you're logging in from today. Let us know what you've been working on. This week. You have a question to ask. Still a couple of slots to do that. Link is in the chat\r\n\r\nalmost finished with the captions\r\n\r\nThere we go. Right captions should now be going for everyone. Seven questions in the list today. Last is doing nonprofit websites is always fun. Hey, Eddie.\r\n\r\nOh great. Good to see local meetups happening here and that is awesome. The divvying How do you divvy a site with a machete probably right with fire if you're kidding. I didn't see that coming\r\n\r\nall right everybody. It is past time. Let me get the recording started.\r\n\r\nWell, happy Thursday everybody get his office hours here on solid Academy money. My name is Nathan Ingram, and I'm the host here at solid Academy. Having trouble with the words today hopefully something I say makes sense. We'll see how this goes. So if you have a question to ask the link is in the chat. To do so there are currently only seven questions in the list. So plenty of space to ask your questions today. Ah, well, let's just get started, shall we? A couple of questions out of the gate here from Barney. Barney, are you here? Yes. There you are. All right. Yeah, Beth, I think we'll have plenty of time to talk philosophy. If you want all right, Barney. Okay, please tell us again the reasons for using a subdomain I see that solid WP as I have, okay, so I don't know if you've noticed this, but I tend to sneeze when I get on these. Webinars. Isn't that funny? Like I never sneeze and I think I really do think I thought it was dust in the microphone, but I don't think that's it. I think it's because these lights of my little studio lights are up above there, like up here. And I've noticed that Have you ever noticed that when you look in the sun you sneeze like when there's bright light? I think it's like a psychosomatic thing. Where I don't know. Is that weird? Yes, exactly. Anyway, okay. So yes, solid WP has made that solid a p.com for our user accounts and I've also heard you say it's a good idea for LearnDash. What's the reasoning? Okay. It could be a good idea for an LMS site. The reason that you want to do a subdomain is if you have what it's it's, you know, a website on a subdomain is a whole separate website from the primary domain. They're two totally different things, right. So the reason you might want to do that is let's just say you have like my solid wp.com That doesn't there's nothing on the my solid wp.com account that would lend SEO credibility or anything like that to the primary solid WP website. So that allows the team to make adjustments and change and move around all sorts of stuff on the main marketing website or solid WP without affecting all the complex programming that is present on the member sides that makes sense. And that binding transitions and the some of the discussion you're referencing here, which is like LearnDash, or whatever, if you've got a membership site, or an LMS site, unless there is content on those things that would lend SEO weight to your main domain and the marketing website, then maybe it should be on a subdomain. The again, the reason for this is, if you ever if you need to publish a new version of the primary website, it's a whole lot easier to do that if you're not dealing with users and transitions and having to move the LMS site at the same time, it gets really complicated. So that would allow you to update the design and whatever on your LMS site separately from your primary site. Yeah. So it's, you know, now again, you have to make a call on your like this to say, for example, you have a course site, but maybe 50% of that material is accessible to the public like is a teaser or whatever. In that case, you might want to think about, you know, having that part of your main domain. You just you have to make a call, you know, which is going to be the better, you know, is it better to have some of that content out there, or is it better to be able to update the site separately. You just have to make that call. Christine has a question. About I have a separate out things like this with forms and commerce into subdomains. Is there a way to keep the headers when the menu is the same on all the sites? That's gonna get a little complicated. You can't keep the same headers and in other words, you couldn't have very, I guess, technically good. I wouldn't recommend it. It'd be a whole lot more trouble to try to have one header. That's the same across all the sites that like you update one and it updates all of them. You could technically do that, but the technical lift and how hard that would be to actually pull off. It's not worth just build your four headers, you know, and update it for places it's just it's going to be Yeah. So yeah, if you to have a similar header across those subdomains make sense? Yeah. So people don't get lost.\r\n\r\nOkie dokie let's see next up in the list is also body. All right. All right. Nathan, will you be conducting your optimizing a Starter Site with Kadence WP? That is the plan. Do I want to do those Starter Site webinars or trainings again this year? Those tend to be among the most popular live streams that we do. They sort of iterate a little bit every year. So by the way, if you haven't seen I have added many things to the schedule including the next few premium events. So we've got WooCommerce bootcamp coming up in a couple of weeks. We've got advanced SEO with Lindsey Halsey and the business of SEO coming up in July and August and you'll note here, I had a good discussion with Lindsey about this earlier in the year. We don't really need another basic SEO live stream there. In the archive, you can go back and look at those. And so this year and maybe kind of going forward a little bit as we tweak this. You've got we're going to deal with advanced SEO topics, things that have changed things that you need to sharpen up on changed since last year, and then the business of SEO, which would be actually the process of offering SEO services. So that's coming up and then bootcamp with David Zimmerman on the 24th and 25th of September. Yeah, so the plan is, let's see. October is still up in the air. I'm not quite sure what we're gonna do for October, but November in December, again will be the Starter Site courses. So creating your starter site in November, and then a few weeks later in December before the holidays, the optimizing the Starter Site. So that is that's the plan. Yep. So I and by the way, I am open for options on what the October course will be. Last October we did the AI course. And there may be enough change and you know, whatever to do that course again, Bonnie suggesting web foundations. Bonnie, I would I remember that we're going to redo that one for a while because the information in that that course hasn't really changed. You can certainly go back in the list here and watch the if you need to sharpen up anything. You can watch the wherever it is. It is March of last year. All that content is really hasn't changed. All right. Email marketing is interesting. Maybe we did a survey on courses. Maybe we'll do one again. I have to I need to find something for October, which I don't have yet. All right, next up is Su. Su Do you want to revise your question as you mentioned in the pre show\r\n\r\nhere's the original\r\n\r\nYeah, here's the original question. And Sue has needs to revive it. All right. So it's a Okay, well, let me just read the question. How is the dev doing the search rebuilding a small nonprofit site from Divi to block editor Kadence theme blocks few plugins to help them self edit maintain the site the original site is original Dev is MIA Can you tell me how search is done on this a? Let's see. So this is some sort of an Divi search. You want to search for something like that banking\r\n\r\nOkay, that's interesting. Yeah, so you could totally Have you figured out the answer to this Sue.\r\n\r\nSo it actually searches the content of the PDF. Really.\r\n\r\nOkay, so let me back up. If so, if you were, it seems to unless there's an admin keyword screen, okay. If I was gonna do this Sue, I would do it this way. I would create a custom post type for each of the you know, whatever these are. So these are people with their like members or whatever, right? So create a custom post type. Every post is this individual, every individual can have a resume link to download. And then you could have the post content of that could be like the summary or like their you know, their the blurb at the top of a resume that talks about who they are, where you could get keywords like banking and whatever. And then you could use one of the search plugins that we just showed yesterday on the best stop the search tools or the WP extended search to just search that post type No, I don't know of any. There is the WordPress default search I don't think searches the content of PDFs. I'm not sure how they're doing this Yeah, there may be some pro pro plugins that do. Relevancy will search the content of a PDF interesting. Oh, look what they're doing here. Okay, they actually are. They're searching the Media Library here with that search. See, it is an attachment. post type is attachment. So that this is a media library image is what this is. I've never seen that done before. I mean, it's clever. Yeah, so if the media library item is titled the person's name. Yeah, interesting. I don't know how that's built into Divi. That's That's an odd thing to have built into a theme but you know there's Ranger things that happen. That's clever.\r\n\r\nProbably do it a little differently. Like, oh, you may want like, I don't know, what didn't you really wouldn't you rather have a post instead of having to open up 8000 PDFs like I'd rather I'd rather see this on the screen. But that's just me\r\n\r\nThere you go. I don't know that I don't think actually answered the question. Oh\r\n\r\ngosh, if that's the case, though, you could search for anything in the media library there\r\n\r\nor maybe it's Can you confine the search results to PDS? I don't know that will come down to your search plugin. So su a lot of plugins, even relevancy. You can specify just a cut like you can just for example, in the WP extended search plugin we did yesterday. We featured it on Monday on Tuesdays plugin roundup and then it was in the Bestop yesterday. You can create multiple customized searches that are placed, you can place the search bar with a shortcode. And in that search instance, you can say I just wanted to search this custom post type and you have lots of control over what that instance will search. But yeah. Interesting. If you're going to search the media library, you would need like what if they up? Gosh, there's just so much other stuff that could be in the media library and therefore searchable. I don't know. Weird. Yeah. Okay. Well, does that give you a something to look at Sue or Was this helpful at all? Okay, all right. Manu is next.\r\n\r\nOkay, Manu just came across and have not tested websites on optimization. The plugin is air lift. Never heard of it\r\n\r\nokay, all right. I'm immediately suspicious of anything that says it just instantly speeds everything up with a click of a button. That's just an immediate that is an immediate red flag to me also. Isn't that somebody else's icon, that logo? Where is this? From? Okay, it is okay. It's from Yeah, it was blog vault. I think I recognize that. So it's from the full I mean, this is a reputable developer from the makers of blog, vault malcare And WP remote. I just, well, anyway, whatever. Let's keep reading tested on GT metrics that. Okay, I want to compare one website that is on Cloudflare all the basic Kadence. Like anyway, any interference with Cloudflare or other image optimizations. Okay. Does anybody use this airlift before? I've never heard of it until just now. Manu. What I will tell you is this. I don't I I've Well, okay. I have never yet seen a WordPress performance plugin that just magically fixes everything, right. There are too many options. Are there too many possibilities. And sights are so different that you can't just have a magic fix at button. So you're going to have to do configuration on whatever performance plugin that you use. Sometimes page by page because the things are different, like you know, if you I want to optimize all my JavaScript, well, great, well, now that breaks my form, right? There's you get into that sort of situation. So there is no magic plugin that's just going to make everything faster. Oh, it doesn't have any configuration options. Oof, I would not want to do that.\r\n\r\nI don't know. I mean, these are reputable developers, but I would be very cautious in evaluating this plugin. Again, it is these are reputable developers. I mean, this is these folks do good work blog. Vault malcare de p remote. Yeah, I boy. I don't know maybe they've maybe they have created a better mousetrap here. I don't know. But I've never seen a performance plugin be able to just magically fix your site. So yeah, try it. If it works awesome. That's great but\r\n\r\nyeah, I don't know. Try it out and see\r\n\r\nAll right, next up in the list is Beth books. We only have three more questions in the list. So if you have a question to ask to ask. Ask it. Link is in the chat. All right, death. Ooh, big, bitty big many, many words. In this question. Okay.\r\n\r\nOkay, please read the whole question. I just did a presentation on email marketing for one of our local merchants associations and I realized that it may be only affordable marketing channel left for small businesses. I think SEO might be dead and I would like your thoughtful opinion and others in the group based on the following you to Google's use of AI and acquisition of Reddit. Those results show long before any blog article. Some businesses may have written you will never be at the top of Google ever Google's assets will the elimination of third party cookies means death to affordable targeted online advertising. Okay. My local customers who are already or who are relatively new to small businesses are reporting that most of their leads are coming directly from the Google business profile. People never make it to the website bottom line. Google is serving up their content. First, the harder Google and Facebook make it to get organic traffic, the more businesses will need to rely on their paid advertising. It seems to me that we should be counseling our clients on How to Use Email Marketing one find a way to consistently create a list to create email sequences and funnels to target market customers already interested in your stuff. spending our time on tactics that involve organic search or social media marketing seems pointless if they keep thwarting our efforts to get exposure for small businesses, and Nathan's opinion, is the website itself becoming less important? In the grand scheme of online marketing? Okay, the first my answer to that is no. I don't think it's becoming less important. I think that the way people find your website is evolving. That being said, the vast all caps underlined, the vast majority of clients that we serve, are not trying to get leads by organic SEO. And I would guess that many of you are the same way. How many let's just do a quick panel in the chat. Yes or no? Do most of your customers want to know are they investing in organic SEO or paid ads?\r\n\r\nYeah, so\r\n\r\nSo what I think how how to formulate a response. So Beth I think your observations are correct. But I don't think that leads to the conclusion that the website is becoming less important. I think we have to realize that people trying to find a website on Google is going to become more and more difficult based on content marketing. Right. So you have to do some things you have to do have some other options. The other thing I'll tell you is this. First of all, AI, search, results suck. Period. Do this. Does anybody disagree with that? Have you seen some of this? The AI search results, they're horrible. Now they're probably going to get better. But for now, I'm like I just scroll past it because it's usually not what I'm looking for. And my original Google searches were better. They're horrible. And oftentimes, they're wrong. It's just bad. So now they're probably going to make it better. But I don't know. I'm kind of up in the air and I'm ready to be wrong about this. So anyway, should we be counseling our clients on How to Use Email Marketing? Yes. And hopefully everybody's already doing that. And maybe that becomes even more important. In this new landscape of AI search. You should also it my, the way that I counsel clients about this has not changed. I don't see it changing. Number one, you need to own your real estate on the web, which means don't depend on a social profile, don't just depend on a Google business profile, et cetera, et cetera. You need to have a website that has a property that you control, so that at the whim of somebody somewhere you can't lose your you know, your social space, and now you have no online presence. Also, by collecting an email list, you are you are owning your marketing channel, right? It's your list. So you're not depending on Google to bring you customers. So I mean, I've been saying that for years. Maybe it's even more important now because the channel of organic leads is going to get more complicated. So I don't know did I answer that well enough. What do you all think?\r\n\r\nInteresting\r\n\r\nOkay, next up in the list is class, y'all. We're down to two questions left. All right class. There's always questions that come in and honestly, okay. Oh, and by the way, this will be a great question to ask Lindsey Halsey, a couple of months. Let her talk about that. I'm sure she's going to talk about that. Okay, class, getting text to scale with different browser window sizes. The design calls for large text and two lines that maintain their visual relationship. I need to see what we're talking this or this are we talking about the hero class the hero, okay. So you want roughly this space in between, okay. If I did a Texas an SVG don't do that. It can scale seamlessly. Yes. And it's image don't do that. I do it as text. Since text isn't defined by percentage and rim, I'll need to have extra breakpoints to make sure the text always fills the same space on the screen. Okay. So is the client telling you that it needs to fill exactly the same space on the screen because that's fairly unreasonable, given the number of screen sizes but CSS clamp is probably your your best option and you'll see clamp in Kadence with the small, medium large brackets. But even so, class helped me understand where this requirement is. Is this what the client is saying?\r\n\r\nSomewhere in Arkansas classes furiously typing at his keyboard, said the narrator imagining that as a much deeper Morgan Freeman voice Okay, I want the text to always have to appear big on every screen occupied, okay. So you can do it with clamp or what are you building this in Kadence or a page builder or what? Okay, so have you played around with the font size things with clamp the clamp font sizes that's the extra large, large whatever, you can do that at various viewports that's what I would do. And that just makes it easy. If I was building this in like Beaver Builder, I would just look at the different sizes and resize appropriately. I do that on every page I build, you know, build it out, and then adjust the font sizes for the three other breakpoints. Always do that. Yep. Particularly in a when you have kind of a designed text set up like this. Yeah. And sometimes depending on the text, I'll write in multiple media queries even to address certain breakpoints where it doesn't look right. The other thing I would tell you is, they'll spend a ton of time on this, because you're probably the only person that's ever going to care that it looks like that. All right. Yeah, okay. So did we get that one class Yeah, try that. Play around with it. klamp Yes. So when you look at Kadence we have anything set up here for let's just go to something with text.\r\n\r\nYeah, so this is this the CSS plan. It's just a nice, pretty visual front end to clamp, and your margins and so forth. It's all using CSS clamp All right. Also class\r\n\r\nOkay, ecommerce site SEO and one of the kind items. The majority of items on this ecommerce site are vintage and unique. So there's only one item of each Yeah, got it. So the clients SEO provider doesn't want to spend the time coming up with content for meta title meta keywords meta description on these unique items, because it would take a bunch of time and effort for each item. He will fill the info on products that will be in stock regularly. My question is, would it be better to auto fill those fields with info from the product description? Like this? product title meta title that Yes. So 100% That would work. The SEO guy says leave it blank. I mean, I think okay, so here's the thing, probably.\r\n\r\nSo Meta Keywords doesn't mean anything for SEO. Like you don't tell Google what your keywords are. Meta Keywords are. What Yoast SEO uses to give you the dumb green, yellow red lights. So don't need to worry about that. We're only concerned about Google search engine right? So probably without doing anything, unless something is broken on your website. The meta title will be the product title right? The short description will be the excerpt or the first scraped bit of text. Now it's this one though, that I would be the most concerned about. Because the meta description for a product it doesn't help your SEO it helps with conversion. So Google is not looking really at the meta description. Oh, it's not a WordPress site. So I don't know what what kind of site is it? Is it Shopify or something else?\r\n\r\nOh, it's not ecommerce. No, not what is not commerce. Is that a name of something I've never heard about or was that a typo? No. nopcommerce is a thing It sure is. Oh my lord. It's based on Microsoft ASP dotnet framework. Oof. Okay, well that sounds fun No, nopcommerce is a thing\r\n\r\nwe would probably call this nope commerce. That was just too easy. You know that they have heard that before. Wow, okay. I've never heard of this. Which doesn't mean anything. I live in WordPress. So that doesn't change my answer, though. So the meta description is about conversions. That's the piece where it really needs to be done by human. Ideally, the meta description is what shows up under the search result that people might read to help. Give give them the nudge to click that link is the meta description class the way it's happening now? Is the meta description that appears actually the first bit of text in the product description\r\n\r\nor is it because sometimes those does well yeah, check that because sometimes the meta description that Google scrapes will have like some menu items or if there's any other text like above the content, it'll scrape that in and it's just not great. So the meta description is really the key because it's about conversion. Not about ranking. Yeah. He words don't matter. Meta description doesn't matter. Probably your product title is going to pull in correctly. What I would be careful of is making sure that nope, commerce doesn't pull in like the title of site title, a product or whatever. You always want the product title to be the first thing that they see. And so that's probably a global setting in there somewhere. Yeah, and you're right, exactly right. It's what Google scrapes Do you want to Well, anyway, we could look at it, but meta description is where I would be concerned. Long answer to a medium sized question.\r\n\r\nAll right, one question left. Nope. Learn something every day. All right, folks. Ask a question. If you've got it. This comes down to the end. Billy Alright, Billy. Okay, Billy changed the URL of a site World Oceans Day dot s CCA dot. Wow. That's I'm glad you changed that it moved it to Sun Coast ocean festival.ca. Much better title. Okay. The site is cloned at a new URL location. As the new site went live. I enabled redirects from all the pages and posts that discourage search engines and web settings. Redirect logs are very big, so I'm not sure if there's anything else I should do. Okay, Billy. So what you're saying is, there's still a WordPress site live on this domain, right? And you have all the content redirected to this is every single thing on this first domain like name of page is it exactly the same? On the other domain? Like this isn't a mirror image other than the domain name? minor change or still because what I would do is I would I would probably pull down the WordPress site here and just do htaccess redirects. I'm sure the redirects are working. But it's better not to have that site live at all. It's just going to be confusing. Like you don't need WordPress to do a WordPress, you essentially have WordPress only doing redirects at this point. I would pull all that down and just make them htaccess redirects. Are you is the HTTPS redirect. Domain? I don't understand that question. Billy, I'm sorry.\r\n\r\nHTTPS audit. So what it's like what you can do and I'm virtually certain you can do this well, let me ask you answer your question. First. Is the HTTP s. Domain. redirect the same thing? Well, in HT I'm not sure I understand the question. The HTTPS redirect is. That means if traffic is coming in, for whatever reason, on HTTP, it's going to automatically redirect to HTTPS. But I would create an htaccess file with htaccess redirects that do this redirecting for you and pull away all this whole WordPress site. Is HTTP s redirect the same thing as domain redirect? No. HTTPS is just getting traffic from from HTTP, HTTPS on that same domain. But I bet you what you could do, Billy, is you could export are your redirects in the redirection plugin.\r\n\r\nTheir 301 redirects Yes, but are they did you use the redirection plug in to create those or something else? Okay, yep, so it's in the redirection plug in. Let me just see what we can do\r\n\r\nmany All right. Okay, let's do this. Alright, so I'm going to click Export. This is our this is everything, all everything and a Oh, look at this. I didn't know this did that and I really don't want to show this on the screen Mmm hmm. Is redirection work. I don't think we have that going on though up Nathan. I'm sure we know. Okay, but we'll just let me let's just install this really quick. I just saw something that I didn't know this did. This is really cool. Some of you may be smarter than me and you knew this already. But if you didn't, then you'll like this maybe. So we're just going to install redirection. This is the one that we've always recommended by John Godley. Oh, it's 301 redirects. Ah, okay. Don't know if that's going to work for this\r\n\r\nis it simple 301 redirects this one. Whereas this one oh. This one here, the web developer Okay, let's install this take a quick look\r\n\r\nwas the first one in the list? This one Okay, now we have 8000 redirect plugins, but that's okay. Because we are experts here. Let me just make sure I don't have multiple ones of these activated. Alright 301 redirects. Let's deactivate that one. And redirect. Okay, let's take a look. At the one that you're working with. Oh I bet go away okay. Redirect from LA\r\n\r\nOkay, so you've got your a bunch of redirects set up like this, right? By the way, what I'm telling you is the these guys are up. The reason we recommend the redirection plugin by John godly is because it gives you all the stuff these guys are up charging. It gives it to you for free. It's just a better plugin, but that doesn't matter. Let's see if these guys let you export. Import Export redirect rules. Let's see what this looks like. Okay they do give you a CSV so and for whatever reason, Excel Okay, so it's pretty straightforward. You get this CSV. So you could Billy for example, export your entire all the redirects into a CSV like this. And then you can go into chat GPT and you can say this is a CSV of redirects.\r\n\r\nIt was being column being\r\n\r\non say is target URL make me.\r\n\r\nThen we'll just drop this on here. Betcha this'll work.\r\n\r\nOkay, I didn't like that. file for whatever reason.\r\n\r\nYeah, no header. Row.\r\n\r\nMaybe we can say this.\r\n\r\nYeah, it is a CSV but this is correct. So, what this would do is it will make a htaccess statement for you read his question this was Billy and then you can just paste that in your htaccess. Yes, and exactly this is what would allow you to do that. So, you, you would put this in your htaccess file. So, let's just open up htaccess here, actually, let's do it from Nova one second. Up All right. So, looking at the WP Nathan htaccess file, there'll be a bunch I think solid security stuff here. You can put it anywhere. You know, just put it down here at the end. And what you would do, this is gonna give you a whole list of stuff. Just hit copy code. Go to the very bottom and paste it. And that's it. So this the redirects Billy, go on. The site that you're not using anymore. So you would put the redirects here. Because this site doesn't need to exist anymore, right? Because you've moved all the content to the new domain where the content is going to live for now and forever. Right. So you can delete WordPress off of this site, paste in your htaccess redirects, and then traffic coming to that old site will be correctly redirected to the new link. Yeah, I'll be happy to paste this in. But just actually, I can save it. Rate link. Here is the link. If for whatever reason in this chat GBT conversation I had to describe the content of the rows. You could probably get around that by deleting these other columns and putting a header row that says source and target and that would probably be fine. But Chad TPT didn't know what to do with this until I told it what was what manner you could redirect the domain name from the registrar but they want to like old domain slash contact needs to automatically go to new domain slash contact. So you can't just do a simple domain redirection in this case now this is something I just noticed. If Yeah, exactly. Billy, that should be that should be the easiest thing to do put a header row across the top. I bet you drop it in and it just works. So for those of you, we move back to using the redirection plugin if you're doing that, let's activate this one. Look what redirection does. It will actually I didn't know it did this. I just happen to see it as I was looking at it a second ago. Let's we got to run through the quick setup process. And it's ash lawn. Dun dun dun. Okay. All right. Let's just do a quick redirection like this. Blah, blah to whatever okay, just so we have something in there. Now look at this. In redirection Under Import Export. Look at this. You can actually export it as an htaccess file. Isn't that cool? So we can just export that download? This. And here's what that looks like. And you just paste this. And technically, by the way, this rule is the same as this. All that works, but yeah, just I did not realize redirection did that. And if you're on an nginx server, it'll do that. Or you can export it to CSV or JSON. Pretty darn cool. I was not aware of that and I've been using redirection for many many years. Okay, let's see. Good my belly. I think that it should be pretty straightforward to do that. And then once the redirects are set up, you can wipe the wipe the site by and by the way, as far as an order goes, I would not delete your WordPress site until all the htaccess is working. And you can test that by deactivating the redirects plug in on that original site. And after you've put in the stuff in htaccess, and all your redirect should continue to work. Once those redirects are working, you can wipe the WordPress site just don't delete the htaccess file. All right. Next up is Doug.\r\n\r\nAh is AI still exciting you still problem solving with AI chat TP versus call Claude copilot sucks. Okay, so 100% AI is still exciting to me. I use it daily. Well, if I'm doing work and he's gonna take it, by the way in many aspects of my life, like I use AI for a lot of different things that aren't just work related. Yeah, I'm gonna come back to Apple's news in a minute. So what about chat GPT versus Claude? I like Claude, for content creation. I think it's a little bit better by nose than chat. GPT it is. It is pretty good. As Phil for example, when we're doing article summaries for the news roundup, or my weekly post status column, we use Claude and it it's just it's a better Chris is not here anymore. Yeah, Chris. would tell you it's a little better output. It just, it's, it's, it's better enough that we use we use that. And by the way we're using for all of our news type prep we use may guy that I recommended to you in the AI course. Last year. Really, really like may guy. Why it's like it's weird with my Chrome's I guess anyway, this is like a front end UI for all of the AI engines out there. So you can you can save prompts. You can choose which AI engine you want it to run on. It's really good. We're only paying like 10 bucks a month. And it's totally worth it. Pretty neat. And you don't have to have any other light like you don't have to pay chat TPT premium if you're using this and but but this one is throttled to the number of words. I still do pay for a chat GPT subscription because I don't use may guy for like code or other things. We exclusively use may guy for content creation. So like, I mean, I'll just I'll just show you. It's pretty cool actually.\r\n\r\nLike, here's just today when we were working on my post status column, you see here we use Claude, and here's this article and gave us our summary and whatever. We've got all these personas defined based on the workflow that we're doing. We've got one for news round up here at post status news summaries plug in round up all of that. So pretty neat. Really, really liked that one. In Marsha, you're right, we we real quick ran out of limit. We gobbled up all of our characters. Or our words, using Claude opus on accident. Opus is the latest version of Claude. It is very very good. But it is they so the way may guy does it. You have so many words per month. And if you use one of the advanced AI engines like plod Opus, it's like a 3x multiple. So three, one word is actually three against your total. And we gobbled it gobbled up all of our words. I had to buy more credit that month when we realized what we did. So yep, I did the same thing, Marcia that's Marcia, right. Yeah, sorry. Yep. And look, how many of you are using the chat TPT app. Does anybody have access to that? Right, we really like it. This is the Mac App. It's just pretty. You can choose your here's your engine here. Yeah, pretty cool. It does really nice. with voice commands. So yeah. And yes, the for those of you that are Apple people. Apple's WWDC was this week, the worldwide developer conference, and they have a lot of AI stuff coming. Now, by the way, you do have to the app is a it's an invitation. So you if you are a paid chat GBT user it took me like Chris had it for like three weeks before I did. I don't know what criteria they use. But one day I logged in and there was a button there that said, hey, download the app. So I downloaded the app. It just took a while. So they're rolling it out slowly.\r\n\r\nBeth, I haven't heard any controversy over Apple AI. From what I saw, it's going to be on device. So it's going to be a more privacy focused AI\r\n\r\nYeah, Apple, one of their that's been one of their hilltops lately is that they they're very careful about privacy for them all right. We are at time everybody. Let's see if any other questions came in. Nope. All right. That is going to do it for today. We are right at two o'clock Central. Thanks for hanging out with me for the last hour. Next week. We have things coming on the open up the calendar. I've forgotten what we're doing next week. All right, next week. All right. News RoundUp is Tuesday. Oh, this is going to be good. So mentioned David Zimmerman earlier. David is going to be with us on Wednesday, talking about this whole third party cookie situation that actually came up today and one of the questions. So David will be with us on Wednesday talking about the privacy sandbox, these third party cookies, and of course office hours on Thursday. Then WooCommerce bootcamp is scheduled for the following week, Monday, Tuesday. And of course, office hours. All right. Well, oh, by the way, June ends this quarter of office hours. So make sure that you have Skype or that you sign up for the next quarter of office hours. It's now up and ready for you. If you're a member, you remember you not a member you wouldn't be here. Anyway. Notice that we did make a small schedule adjustment for the week of the Fourth of July here in the States. That's Independence Day. So office hours is pushed to a Friday. Otherwise it's Thursday as usual so you can sign up for those now for the next quarter. And that'll do it. I'll see you back here Tuesday for news round up here on the solid Academy, where we go further together.\r\n\r\nTranscribed by https:\/\/otter.ai\r\n","livestream_vimeo_video_id":957950426}},"postCountOnPage":1,"postCountTotal":1,"postID":448509,"postFormat":"standard","geoCloudflareCountryCode":"US"}; dataLayer.push( dataLayer_content );
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