This Week with Taylor & Gordon

Brand new set !!! Taking Time Off – we are in Alton Towers Don’t go Groundhog Day… Working 7 days a week isn’t a great way to be productive Spent time in the Water Park, and 9 Hole, 18 Hold Mini Golf Rollercoaster Restaurant for dinner Giving yourself some time and space you can think ... Read more

2024 Child Theme Updating WordPress starter site Speeds up development by setting lots of defaults, plugins etc. Also keeps you consistent by re-using settings through sites Makes it easier to change things in the future with this consistency Starter site is updated throughout the year Updated to Sonoma Hosted and arranged the local community day ... Read more

LMS – Learning Management System Software for running websites offering for sale or for free, courses, video, audio or written Just like Udemy – https://www.udemy.com/ Moving courses from one website and LMS to a different website and LMS Tutor LMS – https://www.themeum.com/product/tutor-lms/ Giving a free course as a bonus for my deluxe party package Online ... Read more

Lots of rain this week New Tutorial – for snippet club as a one off – https://snippetclub.com/products/dynamic-template-tags/#checkout Dynamic Template Tags Watch Kyle’s video on the tutorial – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLvmzcxSo70 Supports Options pages, query params, hooks, etc. Listening to customers opinions so you can make informed business decisions Not wanting to sabotage subscription...

London for shows, Grease and Mrs Doubtfire Apple Announcements – new iPhone 15 and Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 USB connectors, including AirPods cases – watches are carbon neutral Easier to repair iPhone 15 back screen Trip to Amsterdam – 12 Months of Coffee Visited “Coffee” shops and outside of Anne Frank’s house The ... Read more

Selling things on Facebook marketplace Delivering Designs Recording a video for explanation purposes Be specific on what feedback you want Customers can get in your own way when they look at designs Link to the newsletter – https://designbread.com/mockup-mistakes/ Accounts The more you do the cheaper it will be, so create a process Planning ahead to ... Read more

Trip to Berlin – great transport system Trip to Rhodes in Greece Grasping Opportunities when they happen Take them through the stages – interest, by showing them what you do, and leading them to desire – taking your contact details Making balloon animals for the children of my car cleaners (who are very good) – ... Read more

New Photoshoot this week Up-to-date photos for publicity so they look like you ScanSnap by Richoh – https://www.scansnapit.com/uk/ Replacing an iX500 with an iX1600 Scan to PDF as a searchable, indexed file Scan direct to the cloud (Evernote) using WiFi Send to different locations, devices and applications – for example Photoshop and email on a ... Read more

Don’t forget to like, subscribe and hit the bell to be notified of new episodes. Business Telephone Numbers Separate work from friends and family Prioritising calls depending on if you are working at that time Close the number down if it isn’t needed anymore Telecoms World – https://www.telecomsworld.com/ Duel sims – physical and an eSim ... Read more

New App purchase – Retable – limited time lifetime deal – https://appsumo.8odi.net/xkZMkx Car Fuel spreadsheet – entry via Apple Shortcuts Discount Fuel Card Working out the calculation for the cost per mile Bit of a mind bender, but worth doing as it’s a one off Fuel Card Services – https://www.fuelcardservices.com/friend/ For referred business use Magical ... Read more

Short Links – needed a short domain name to customise the branding Links can be tracked API to create short links automatically Links can be smart and send people to the right platform app store Busy, End Of Term Week for Magic Shows Brian Sibley – Author – https://www.amazon.co.uk/kindle-dbs/entity/author/B000APFTWY Fixing up computers / Email etc. ... Read more

Travelling to Copenhagen for 12 months of coffee Very expensive city Getting better and enjoying travelling. Making better use of time while there Seeing different cultures Cycle lanes everywhere Security is much better out there. Enjoying flying Will try for a few extra days next time Top tip – use the long stay car park ... Read more

Revisiting Spotify Integration Mentoring Pedro and updating the integration Showing what they are listening to on their website Moved to Apple Music – No API available Fluent Forms updates – changing hook names Refactoring old code with new APIs V1CE Cards – https://v1ce.co/?ref=GORDONDRAYSON Smart Business Cards QR Code & NFC inbuilt Setting up multiple profiles ... Read more

Re-purposing systems Secondary machines Backup, migrate data files across to new machine, re-install applications Test, and re-test before formatting. Then repeat with the secondary machine, and the previous primary machine Then prepare for sale and sell old secondary machine Or… give it away to friends, family, or those in need Bose Headphones QC45 Amazon Price ... Read more

Report of Wordcamp 2023 Met up with WP Umbrella – https://wp-umbrella.com/ Product Hunt – https://www.producthunt.com/ Next years Wordcamp 2024 is in Torino, Italy – https://europe.wordcamp.org/2024/ New Podcast – Family and Childrens Entertainers, The Podcast – https://www.facethepodcast.com All about and for children’s entertainers – now launched Interviews of entertainers as well as a round-tab...

Taylor is in Athens at Wordcamp – https://europe.wordcamp.org/2023/ Contributors day Talks on subject all about WordPress Meeting up with other WordPress professionals Month 2 of 12 Months of Coffee Computer problems still on-going. New computer is being set up M3 Pro chip, so the software needed re-installing to get the correct version Data and settings ... Read more

Trix in the Stix Magic Convention Talking to other industry colleagues Computer decided not to boot Apple Support is great, even for older devices After the second time of not being able to boot in three weeks, took it to AmSys to be repaired – https://amsys.co.uk/ Transferring Data UK Consumer Law – 6 years for ... Read more

Business telephone and internet was down this week 12 Months of Coffee – first trip to Milan Starbucks Roastery everyday Enjoyed coffee and working in a new environment A new location every month, drinking coffee and taking in the atmosphere Collecting Starbucks Coffee mugs, special one for the Roasteries Getting inspired by new cultures Visiting ... Read more

Stressful week, as Gordon’s main computer wouldn’t restart after an update. Apple support is the best – you can ring them any time during your ownership of their product 1Password – Password Manager – https://1password.com/ Mange all your passwords and sensitive information Master password unlocks all the others Classic version which was licensed, is slowly ... Read more

The day before the Coronation of King Charles III Hard Drive Issues NAS failed on me Company Drobo has gone out of business Software wasn’t updated to current OS which was an issue I knew about Purchased a Synology DS1522+ to replace it – but the hard drives need the data rescuing first which is ... Read more

News: Jonathan from the USA came to visit I was asked to be a judge at The Magic Circle Close Up Magician of the Year competition Upright Go 2 – correct your posture – https://store.uprightpose.com/products/upright-go2 People who work on computers hunch over it and need to be aware of their posture Gadgets to sense and ... Read more

Quote Builder for a customer who runs a boiler installation company A form that lets the customer answer some questions and gives a recommendation and price Lots of variables depending on the size of the house, type of boiler and so on. Hooks for Fluent Forms – https://fluentforms.com Extending the functionality is a great way ... Read more

The State of AI New AI tool that creates video chapters for our episodes in Happy Scribe Added chapters to episodes going back to #100 AI Prompts – text writing Trained on models – lots of content that it has found and been fed Fact checking is essential with anything that AI gives you Dall-e, ... Read more

WordPress 6.2 update is coming – https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-6-2/ Clean Out – checking what you have before moving things from one car to another Have I used things in the last 12 months, if not, are they essential? This led to the Office Cleanup Look through things once a year to check if they are still being ... Read more

News – ChatGPT4 and Midjourney 5 both released Catching up and planning Keeping a note of what needed doing when I returned home after the trip Invoicing, quoting, dealing with enquiries, emails etc. Inbox Zero – it’s more of an aim than a reality for Gordon Lots of websites rebuild enquiries coming in Making old ... Read more